Why aren't there any real taxis in Sihanoukville?

Post by **Username Taken** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:03 pm

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

I would be very surprised if the number of foreign tourists outnumbered the local tourists.

Jamie_Lambo wrote:where are you going to need to go in a meter taxi in sihanoukville? other than maybe otres

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.

Post by **Jamie_Lambo** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:09 pm

Username Taken wrote:
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
I would be very surprised if the number of foreign tourists outnumbered the local tourists.

Jamie_Lambo wrote:where are you going to need to go in a meter taxi in sihanoukville? other than maybe otres
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.

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?

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...

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:13 pm

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

Post by **Username Taken** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:18 pm

@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!

Post by **Jamie_Lambo** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:23 pm

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

wackyjacky · Post by **wackyjacky** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:48 pm

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 ?

Barang_doa_slae · Post by **Barang_doa_slae** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:54 pm

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

? Possibly on the backpacker market ?
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.

Barang_doa_slae · Post by **Barang_doa_slae** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:57 pm

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

Great fucking news !
(Especially being silk air)

Post by **Jamie_Lambo** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:02 pm

Barang_doa_slae wrote:
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
? Possibly on the backpacker market ?
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.

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 either

juansweetpotato · Post by **juansweetpotato** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:49 pm

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.

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.

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