"Taxi Watch"

doofus

Have recently been following a thread about 'taxis'. A lot of confusion and bad feeling being generated. So sad.

Maybe we should keep an active thread about taxis. If we have done recent taxi journeys then it would be a good idea to let us all know how much the fare was. that will benefit us all, and , in the long run, be of benefit to the 'honest' taxi driver. Perhaps we could include auto-rickshaws in this. The better that we, tourists/travellers, are informed, the better it will be for all. I have heard of so many unsuspecting older tourists getting ripped off. So sad.

I was in Goa back in December and my wife and I are going again in a few weeks time for our 25th anniversary. We will be based in Colva. I am going to start this off by stating how much I paid last december for a taxi. If we all do this then it will be helpful. We could include tips on how to get a better deal. costs for waiting time and return journeys- stuff like that. I hope you all agree.

Margao to Colva Cirlcle=== 70 rupees.

Bus to Margao from Colva== 7 rupees.

auto-rickshaw from Colva Circle to Hotel Oceanique(about 1m)== 30 rupees.

hope all this info will take off and lead to a better informed tourist/traveller.

regards, Pete

doofus

Ooops. Auto-rickshaw should read 30 rupees for 1km NOT 1 mile!! sorry

alonig

We paid 650 rupees from baga to Goa airport.
also cost us 1200 rupees for the driver if we wanted him all day from 8am til we wanted to come home, he took us wherever we wanted to go. Most days we had him from 8am to 8pm, we thought this excellent value, especially if there were 4 of us as we then could share the costs. Was mostly two of us and we still thoguht good value. we didnt pay any extra for fuel. we found it a great way to get about and see places we didnt even know were there as he would take us off the beaten track etc.

goangoangone

That's cheap. Are you sure?

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