Why aren't there any real taxis in Sihanoukville?
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Re: Why aren't there any real taxis in Sihanoukville?
I would be very surprised if the number of foreign tourists outnumbered the local tourists.Jamie_Lambo wrote:not really most tourists and backpackers that come to sihanoukville now just go straight to koh rong, sihanoukvilles been very quiet this year and last year
If I was visiting SHV with my wife and kids, and staying at the far end of Ocheteal, without a car or motorbike of my/our own, I can think of plenty of times when a taxi-meter would be very handy.Jamie_Lambo wrote:where are you going to need to go in a meter taxi in sihanoukville? other than maybe otres
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Re: Why aren't there any real taxis in Sihanoukville?
local tourists walk, they dont mind walking, or they jump in the back of the car that brought them down here, and most of the guesthouses/hotels they stay in are just behind ocheteal/serendipity beach, walking distance, they eat on the beach at night, they drink on the beach at night, why would they need a taxi?Username Taken wrote:I would be very surprised if the number of foreign tourists outnumbered the local tourists.Jamie_Lambo wrote:not really most tourists and backpackers that come to sihanoukville now just go straight to koh rong, sihanoukvilles been very quiet this year and last year
If I was visiting SHV with my wife and kids, and staying at the far end of Ocheteal, without a car or motorbike of my/our own, I can think of plenty of times when a taxi-meter would be very handy.Jamie_Lambo wrote:where are you going to need to go in a meter taxi in sihanoukville? other than maybe otres
and where would you need a meter taxi to go to? maybe if that location is that inconvenient there is plenty more hotels more centrally located...
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Re: Why aren't there any real taxis in Sihanoukville?
member blockhead reports elsewhere direct flights with silkair from singapore start next month!
already had a flight June 6
only charter
http://www.ttgasia.com/article.php?article_id=25268
already had a flight June 6
only charter
http://www.ttgasia.com/article.php?article_id=25268
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Re: Why aren't there any real taxis in Sihanoukville?
@Jamie, As I said, myself plus wife and 3 kids, no transport, decide that we want to go to Victory Hill or somewhere for dinner or something. It's pissing down a monsoonal rain.
You and your mates can walk there from Ocheteal, but I want a taxi!
You and your mates can walk there from Ocheteal, but I want a taxi!
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Re: Why aren't there any real taxis in Sihanoukville?
if it was pissing down with rain id eat somewhere closer and wait an hour for it to stop
so you demanding a taxi service just on the off chance you want to eat up victory in the rain?
tuk tuks have side covers, its only the driver that gets wet you can get a tuk tuk from serendipity to victory hill for $3 if you have good bargain skills
so you demanding a taxi service just on the off chance you want to eat up victory in the rain?
tuk tuks have side covers, its only the driver that gets wet you can get a tuk tuk from serendipity to victory hill for $3 if you have good bargain skills
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Re: Why aren't there any real taxis in Sihanoukville?
Honestly, do you think if that there was a market for AC taxis that not one mothahfukah in SV would be doing it ? Do you think that drivers love running up to PNH and sleeping in their cabs for a day or two rather than jumping around town in SV ? If it is not easy to find a cab in other more well healed SEA beach towns like Pattaya or Patong why would it be easier in cheap-assed SV ?
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Re: Why aren't there any real taxis in Sihanoukville?
? Possibly on the backpacker market ?Jamie_Lambo wrote:not really most tourists and backpackers that come to sihanoukville now just go straight to koh rong, sihanoukvilles been very quiet this year and last year
where are you going to need to go in a meter taxi in sihanoukville? other than maybe otres
All my friends running well established mid range to high end hotels have been doing great for 2 high seasons and are even more satisfied when taking the low season into account.
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Great fucking news !frank lee bent wrote:member blockhead reports elsewhere direct flights with silkair from singapore start next month!
already had a flight June 6
only charter
http://www.ttgasia.com/article.php?article_id=25268
(Especially being silk air)
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Re: Why aren't there any real taxis in Sihanoukville?
where i have noticed a decline in backpackers due to them all going to koh rong, there have seemed to have been replaced by a large number of asian tourists ive noticed, serendipity has been that dead with backpackers over the past month that i know dolphin shack have stopped handing out fliers on the beach as its a waste of time as no ones there, and their promo staff dont start work untill 11pm now instead of 7pm as there is no one to flier on beach road eitherBarang_doa_slae wrote:? Possibly on the backpacker market ?Jamie_Lambo wrote:not really most tourists and backpackers that come to sihanoukville now just go straight to koh rong, sihanoukvilles been very quiet this year and last year
where are you going to need to go in a meter taxi in sihanoukville? other than maybe otres
All my friends running well established mid range to high end hotels have been doing great for 2 high seasons and are even more satisfied when taking the low season into account.
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Re: Why aren't there any real taxis in Sihanoukville?
I was talking to the manager of a hotel on beach road a while ago. It was one of the larger concrete one's owned by some Russians. 80 rooms or so. The manager himself was Russian. He was telling me that a couple of years ago Thomas Cook had SNVL as one a possible 7 locations around the world to promote, only one would get the push. SNVL didn't win it that year. When the cheating stops being so bad then the Cambodians can start to make some real money. IMO. Part of that is allowing the international domestic flights and smashing all the monopolies. One can only wonder why they haven't done it already. maybe it is also the druggy , sex tourist nature of the place, but that never stopped Thailand. Anyhow moves seem to be being made in some new direction according to the fora.Sailorman wrote:Baht bus's like in Pattaya, with a route from victory hill to the beach downtown via Independence beach would be a winner, then during high season add Otres, but you would have to have an extra rider with an AK-47 to deal with the tuk-tuk mafia, and/or be run by the police.
Meter-cab? Its going to be a few years, first you have to get a real airlines to be able to fly into Snookyville and not Vietnamese owned Angkor Air or the new one flying Chinese turboprops that are copies of a shit Russian design. An airlines that actually flies somewhere like Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumper or even PP direct with real airplanes.
Snookyville will be an also ran in the tourist industry and not attract real tourists (except Korean/Chinese gambler/package tours, & backpackets), until it: Get a real airlines, cleans up the trash and the beach's, gets a real hospital, and develops an infrastructure like good roads, sewers, trash collection, street cleaning, etc.
A real 4-star casino would help also instead of the little mom & pop style casinos that are now all over the place.
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