JReb wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 10:59 am I would never let a passap type bunch have my bank card..not having any cash on you sounds much more dangerous..
In SR..passap has the wrong location in it's system for Angkor Market national 6...takes you several blocks away... One time I got in an argument with the driver..he said he was taking me to where his phone told him...he slowed down..I jumped out..cancelled him.. happened again a driver was so close and he abruptly took a left... happened a few days ago ..he turned the wrong way and headed in the wrong direction with the store in sight...
This penchant for aba seems hackable..
I had a guy in PP on Wednesday say he arrived...I saw him drive past...I walked to a guy asleep...told him Khmer where to drop me off...I showed him on his phone... never out late at my age...be alert...had drunks drive me miles from my place before I could snap them out of their stupor...been wasted and drivers got me home safe...

JReb wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 10:59 am I would never let a passap type bunch have my bank card..not having any cash on you sounds much more dangerous..
In SR..passap has the wrong location in it's system for Angkor Market national 6...takes you several blocks away...One time I got in an argument with the driver..he said he was taking me to where his phone told him...he slowed down..I jumped out..cancelled him.. happened again a driver was so close and he abruptly took a left... happened a few days ago ..he turned the wrong way and headed in the wrong direction with the store in sight...
This penchant for aba seems hackable..
I had a guy in PP on Wednesday say he arrived...I saw him drive past...I walked to a guy asleep...told him Khmer where to drop me off...I showed him on his phone... never out late at my age...be alert...had drunks drive me miles from my place before I could snap them out of their stupor...been wasted and drivers got me home safe...

BR549 wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 7:50 pm Hey WildA...that sounds great...I will go check it out.
I was in the hospitality industry over 30 years and I tip anybody I fucking want to....hotel maids...street food joints...cab drivers....I even tip the kid at Angkor Market who carries my groceries to my tuk tuk even though I could carry them with 1 fucking finger. I tip my tuk tuk guys...especially now when Siem Reap is empty...I tip some kid in a hotel for rolling my suitcases down a hall and turning on the AC..
It is just the way things are done in my fucking world.
I don't give a shit if other people don't tip.
In some countries I have been the gratuity was already included in the bill. In many places the tip goes to the restaurant and divided up with the kitchen and all the staff...So, if you want to tip some hot server you must slip it to her on the sly as if it goes in the guest check book it is turned into the manager.
The slight on Americans and their math skills is the typical little cunt jab I have come to love on this site.
My pop taught me the 15% rule in 1965...
Take the total ...take 10% simple and half the 10% and add it to the first number voi-fucking-la 15%.
I tip what I feel like...15% is 1965 ....
Plus, most humanoids carry a smart phone and can figure the tip in a jiffy...
If the place sucks or the tuk tuk guy is a clod who doesn't listen...oh well...no tip....
Thanks WildA for the restaurant tip...
I usually eat at home but it sounds like a good place and is about 5 minutes from my apartment ..
Perhaps, I could buy you lunch there sometime.

mikeukt wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 9:24 pm Tuk tuk scams - ABA vs cash

Tuktuk scam is a lot harder if paying by cash when the app has been used. You put in your destination, see the price, go there, pay that. Done.

Don't wanna mess with change? How quickly life has changed. Wasn't so long ago everything was cash. Maybe some of you sweet young things don't remember that, don't even know what a coin is (I know Cambodia don't have, but most of us would have come from somewhere that does).

Lesson 1, surviving in Cambodia taking tuk tuks with cash. Get pile of 1,000 Riel notes from money changer. Think, how many needed today. Take that amount. Get the tuk tuk, get the fare ready in the tuk tuk just before reaching location. Pay. Leave. QED kids (means Quite Easily Done I believe - unless you're into Latin)

Freightdog wrote: ↑Sat Jun 24, 2023 12:07 pm The other half can’t pick out a place on the app map any better than an average tuktuk can*, so she often just goes by distance covered equals X-amount, which the tuktuk driver asks for. Within a couple of hundred riels, it’s what the app sets as a fare if you set start and end points as I do.

Flagging a tuktuk down often has a different rate altogether, inflated between half and up to one dollar more. They price themselves out of work.
So, the app rate is the standard and accepted by locals and drivers alike. Artificially increasing the rate out of convenience/apathy skews things.
There is a small group of tuktuk owners who socialise, whom we’ve been using for ages for other runs. By and large, they agree with the rate set by the app, and I generally round up to the next 500. I just don’t want loads of r100.

*adding to which, the app maps seem out of date, and many of the TukTuks seem to get lost between left and right if they don’t orient the map correctly.