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Re: How do you get around town?

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pczz wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:30 pm I am almost feeling sorry for tuk tuks. If you pay $1 from 51 to riverside how much do you save waiting for "an app" to turn up? if your negotiating skill are good its going to be $1.50. Average $20. Sumbass fesh of the boat tourist $3-$5. For longer regular trips they make sense, saves me enough for 2 beers going into town and back, but for short hops I have yet to be convinced.
I think the price that the apps charge is what the TukTuk guys should have been charging. If there wasn't such a difference then people wouldn't bother with the app. Also 200 riel goes to the Childrens hospital when using Itsumo

If you can be arsed to stand there negotiating with them then you wont save much money by using the app. minimum fare of 300 riel compared to $1. However, it means I can sit and finish my beer while waiting and then just get up go without the unnecessary "TukTuk...Where you go... $4...$3...$2...$1" conversation

Wait times are very short around the popular areas so you wont save much time in getting the TukTuk either. Unless I have no internet connection, I cannot see myself using a normal TukTuk again in PP

For short trips I would just walk.
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pczz wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:30 pm I am almost feeling sorry for tuk tuks. If you pay $1 from 51 to riverside how much do you save waiting for "an app" to turn up? if your negotiating skill are good its going to be $1.50. Average $20. Sumbass fesh of the boat tourist $3-$5. For longer regular trips they make sense, saves me enough for 2 beers going into town and back, but for short hops I have yet to be convinced.
When they ask me 5$ from Naga to Riverside I just lose the will to bargain :cry:
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Kayve wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:16 am
pczz wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:30 pm I am almost feeling sorry for tuk tuks. If you pay $1 from 51 to riverside how much do you save waiting for "an app" to turn up? if your negotiating skill are good its going to be $1.50. Average $20. Sumbass fesh of the boat tourist $3-$5. For longer regular trips they make sense, saves me enough for 2 beers going into town and back, but for short hops I have yet to be convinced.
When they ask me 5$ from Naga to Riverside I just lose the will to bargain :cry:
and smash them in the face?
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SockPuppet wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:24 am
Kayve wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:16 am
pczz wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:30 pm I am almost feeling sorry for tuk tuks. If you pay $1 from 51 to riverside how much do you save waiting for "an app" to turn up? if your negotiating skill are good its going to be $1.50. Average $20. Sumbass fesh of the boat tourist $3-$5. For longer regular trips they make sense, saves me enough for 2 beers going into town and back, but for short hops I have yet to be convinced.
When they ask me 5$ from Naga to Riverside I just lose the will to bargain :cry:
and smash them in the face?
:lol: *sending from custody*
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cautious colin wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:50 pm
pczz wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:30 pm I am almost feeling sorry for tuk tuks. If you pay $1 from 51 to riverside how much do you save waiting for "an app" to turn up? if your negotiating skill are good its going to be $1.50. Average $20. Sumbass fesh of the boat tourist $3-$5. For longer regular trips they make sense, saves me enough for 2 beers going into town and back, but for short hops I have yet to be convinced.
I think the price that the apps charge is what the TukTuk guys should have been charging. If there wasn't such a difference then people wouldn't bother with the app. Also 200 riel goes to the Childrens hospital when using Itsumo

If you can be arsed to stand there negotiating with them then you wont save much money by using the app. minimum fare of 300 riel compared to $1. However, it means I can sit and finish my beer while waiting and then just get up go without the unnecessary "TukTuk...Where you go... $4...$3...$2...$1" conversation

Wait times are very short around the popular areas so you wont save much time in getting the TukTuk either. Unless I have no internet connection, I cannot see myself using a normal TukTuk again in PP

For short trips I would just walk.
The app tuk tuks run on LPG so are much cheaper to run. Hard for the old tuk tuks to compete with that - except they are bigger, and can fit more people and baggage/cargo so there will still be some business for them. For singles and couples though the app tuk tuks will win more and more business.
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Re: How do you get around town?

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timmydownawell wrote:
cautious colin wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:50 pm
pczz wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:30 pm I am almost feeling sorry for tuk tuks. If you pay $1 from 51 to riverside how much do you save waiting for "an app" to turn up? if your negotiating skill are good its going to be $1.50. Average $20. Sumbass fesh of the boat tourist $3-$5. For longer regular trips they make sense, saves me enough for 2 beers going into town and back, but for short hops I have yet to be convinced.
I think the price that the apps charge is what the TukTuk guys should have been charging. If there wasn't such a difference then people wouldn't bother with the app. Also 200 riel goes to the Childrens hospital when using Itsumo

If you can be arsed to stand there negotiating with them then you wont save much money by using the app. minimum fare of 300 riel compared to $1. However, it means I can sit and finish my beer while waiting and then just get up go without the unnecessary "TukTuk...Where you go... $4...$3...$2...$1" conversation

Wait times are very short around the popular areas so you wont save much time in getting the TukTuk either. Unless I have no internet connection, I cannot see myself using a normal TukTuk again in PP

For short trips I would just walk.
The app tuk tuks run on LPG so are much cheaper to run. Hard for the old tuk tuks to compete with that - except they are bigger, and can fit more people and baggage/cargo so there will still be some business for them. For singles and couples though the app tuk tuks will win more and more business.
So are taxis that are cheaper and less hassle than tuktuks, so i doubt there is much business will be left for them soon (well at least in the transportation field lol)
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Re: How do you get around town?

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tucks will carry on, same as cyclos. They transport goods as well as people. thise silly little indian tuks are too small. A tuk can take 4 people so can be cheaper fr groups. And of course Khmer do not pay tuks anything like as much as passsp costs. so passap is a luxury for non-tourists
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pczz wrote:tucks will carry on, same as cyclos. They transport goods as well as people. thise silly little indian tuks are too small. A tuk can take 4 people so can be cheaper fr groups. And of course Khmer do not pay tuks anything like as much as passsp costs. so passap is a luxury for non-tourists
I call bs on Khmer not getting ripped off by the tuk tuks. Fresh from the province Khmer are treated exactly the same as tourists. Several friends of mine from the provinces have told me some horrendous stories about getting ripped off for months before finding an honest driver.
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Gardiguy wrote: Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:50 am
pczz wrote:tucks will carry on, same as cyclos. They transport goods as well as people. thise silly little indian tuks are too small. A tuk can take 4 people so can be cheaper fr groups. And of course Khmer do not pay tuks anything like as much as passsp costs. so passap is a luxury for non-tourists
I call bs on Khmer not getting ripped off by the tuk tuks. Fresh from the province Khmer are treated exactly the same as tourists. Several friends of mine from the provinces have told me some horrendous stories about getting ripped off for months before finding an honest driver.
Yep, this is what I have seen and heard too. Even the locals who live in city and do not have the regular tuktuk, goes through the same haggling process and still end up paying more than the passapp prices would be. That why many locals actually use now days tuktuk apps too.
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Re: How do you get around town?

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All Cambodians I work with use passapp
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