John Bingham wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2017 4:50 pm Yeah, fair enough, most are pretty clueless.

ExPenhMan wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2017 4:22 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2017 2:52 pm To be fair the OP sounds a bit clueless. Obviously speaking Khmer helps a lot. Locals tend to use pagodas, markets and other landmarks for navigation, street numbers not so much and they are highly unlikely to know many western bars/ restaurants. The Mobitel HQ isn't a big tower either, it's about 4 stories high.

I thought the story of the taxi driver with a GPS app would at least know how to use it. To say nothing of the hotel tuktuk who doesn't know Sihanouk. I'm used to guiding taxis around Cambodia and Vietnam by all the methods you list. But these drivers went beyond. But really, if you provide public transport, you might learn a thing or two about the city you work in, local or foreigner haunts. It seems they don't and most of the posters in this thread have been similarly underwhelmed.

aei wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2017 1:58 am no matter how much you negotiate, a 6 KM tuk tuk ride in PP won't be under 5 dollars.
while in Bangkok I just paid 77baht (less than 3USD) for more than a 7KM ride, in a taxi.

willyhilly wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2017 3:20 pm Mobitel building a tower? Speaking enough Khmer to direct a tuk tuk is not that difficult. We are supposed to be the clever ones, aren't we? Phrase books are quite handy in Bangkok and Phnom Penh.