How do you get around town?
- cautious colin
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Re: How do you get around town?
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 Itsumopczz 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.
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...$1" conversation
Wait times are very short around the popular areas so you wont save much time in getting the TukTuk either. Unless I have no internet connection, I cannot see myself using a normal TukTuk again in PP
For short trips I would just walk.
Re: How do you get around town?
When they ask me 5$ from Naga to Riverside I just lose the will to bargainpczz 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-$5. For longer regular trips they make sense, saves me enough for 2 beers going into town and back, but for short hops I have yet to be convinced.
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Re: How do you get around town?
and smash them in the face?Kayve wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:16 amWhen they ask me 5$ from Naga to Riverside I just lose the will to bargainpczz 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-$5. For longer regular trips they make sense, saves me enough for 2 beers going into town and back, but for short hops I have yet to be convinced.
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Re: How do you get around town?
*sending from custody*SockPuppet wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:24 amand smash them in the face?Kayve wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:16 amWhen they ask me 5$ from Naga to Riverside I just lose the will to bargainpczz 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.
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Re: How do you get around town?
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.cautious colin wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:50 pmI 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 Itsumopczz 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.
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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Re: How do you get around town?
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)timmydownawell wrote: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.cautious colin wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:50 pmI 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 Itsumopczz 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.
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.
Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticise them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes
Re: How do you get around town?
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
Re: How do you get around town?
I call 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.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
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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.Gardiguy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:50 amI call 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.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
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Re: How do you get around town?
All Cambodians I work with use passapp
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