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Originally Posted by straightflushin
I'd say Asoke and Nana are the only areas where the tuk tuk & taxi mafia has a stronghold.
Elsewhere ez game if you spend less than 1h to learn how to say street numbers in thai, unless you want to take really long rides (drivers will straight up refuse taking you).
I'm hardly ever around khao san, but I never had issues with taxis there. The drivers however tend to have problems with the cops there that try to find reasons to shake them down.
Drivers sometimes can be jelly though if you're with a non thai azn girl and drive to wrong locations to make you look bad infront of the girl for your alleged ****ty thai abilities (only reason I can think of for this recurring theme).
At asoke there are so many metered taxis, same as Nana.... I assume you're talking about the bunch of dicks right in front of soi cowboy? If so then simply ignore them and take the next taxi that's driving towards you. Shouldn't be more than 10 seconds.
At Nana I don't even know what you're talking about? Most taxi's will turn on the meter when asked. Sometimes they try to get 100b. If that's the case then take the next one.
I have noticed a rigged meter, but it's so subtle that you hardly notice on shorter rides.
I mostly use uber now. So far ive done around 10 trips and all 10 were good, but two needed directions from me. That could have been problematic if you are new to BKK.