Barang rates for tuk tuks in Phnom Penh?
I don't enjoy haggling with tuktuk drivers. I only use ones I know and trust.
I use Exnet a lot. From the centre to Norodom Pencil I am always quoted $2 (or more) by tuktuks. It is $1.50 on Exnet. It was brilliant over the holidays, a car always came quickly. I must admit I quite enjoy saying repeated no thanks to the tuktuks, who probably figure they will get me in the end because I have no alternative - and then a nice car pulls up and I hop in.
I used Exnet to go to the airport (from Norodom Pencil) on Friday afternoon. The ride took 18 minutes and cost $7.50. Last week, the same ride took 70 minutes and cost $9.50. A tuktuk would have done it for $5 but the comfort levels in all that traffic would have been different.
I use Exnet a lot. From the centre to Norodom Pencil I am always quoted $2 (or more) by tuktuks. It is $1.50 on Exnet. It was brilliant over the holidays, a car always came quickly. I must admit I quite enjoy saying repeated no thanks to the tuktuks, who probably figure they will get me in the end because I have no alternative - and then a nice car pulls up and I hop in.
I used Exnet to go to the airport (from Norodom Pencil) on Friday afternoon. The ride took 18 minutes and cost $7.50. Last week, the same ride took 70 minutes and cost $9.50. A tuktuk would have done it for $5 but the comfort levels in all that traffic would have been different.
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chkwoot wrote:From street 19, behind the royal palace, a tuk tuk to Aeon is 5000R. Exnet shows just under 8000R for a taxi.
OP: do you have the Exnet app yet? Even if you don't use their taxis, it's a great way to get pricing estimates. Tuk tuks should always be cheaper than airconned Prii (Toyota actually issued a press release regarding the plural of "Prius").
There's also the go tuk tuk app http://www.go-tuk-tuk.com, but I haven't tried it yet.
Edit: I just installed the go-tuk-tuk app, which is still in development, and it doesn't work for me at all.
i don't seem to be able to get a random tuk tuk to accept anything like 5000 riel going anywhere. Im' hard pushed to get them to accept 6000. Mostly I just pay $2 and avoid the failure. The only time I get a good rate is through the tuk tuk driver who sees me as a possession
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Sounds like those drivers levy a surcharge for women in addition to the surcharge for barangs. Why am I not surprised to learn that they are sexist?violet wrote:chkwoot wrote:From street 19, behind the royal palace, a tuk tuk to Aeon is 5000R. Exnet shows just under 8000R for a taxi.
OP: do you have the Exnet app yet? Even if you don't use their taxis, it's a great way to get pricing estimates. Tuk tuks should always be cheaper than airconned Prii (Toyota actually issued a press release regarding the plural of "Prius").
There's also the go tuk tuk app http://www.go-tuk-tuk.com, but I haven't tried it yet.
Edit: I just installed the go-tuk-tuk app, which is still in development, and it doesn't work for me at all.
i don't seem to be able to get a random tuk tuk to accept anything like 5000 riel going anywhere. Im' hard pushed to get them to accept 6000. Mostly I just pay $2 and avoid the failure. The only time I get a good rate is through the tuk tuk driver who sees me as a possession
Why not use Exnet?
BTW, my brother-in-law drives a tuktuk. He has some regular Khmer customers and is always busy. He cannot speak English and rarely takes barangs. His fares for the Khmer are very near what I would pay for a tuktuk. He borrowed $1000 to buy a new rig and paid it back in double quick time. The fares are quite high so if they can keep busy, they make really good money. Of course the guys who hang outside the hotels and restaurants are working on the basis that they will be playing cards for 95% of the day, so they want a high fare when they go.
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Possession? Stop flirting with tuk drivers violet, no good will come from that...violet wrote:chkwoot wrote:From street 19, behind the royal palace, a tuk tuk to Aeon is 5000R. Exnet shows just under 8000R for a taxi.
OP: do you have the Exnet app yet? Even if you don't use their taxis, it's a great way to get pricing estimates. Tuk tuks should always be cheaper than airconned Prii (Toyota actually issued a press release regarding the plural of "Prius").
There's also the go tuk tuk app http://www.go-tuk-tuk.com, but I haven't tried it yet.
Edit: I just installed the go-tuk-tuk app, which is still in development, and it doesn't work for me at all.
i don't seem to be able to get a random tuk tuk to accept anything like 5000 riel going anywhere. Im' hard pushed to get them to accept 6000. Mostly I just pay $2 and avoid the failure. The only time I get a good rate is through the tuk tuk driver who sees me as a possession
Never mind
This is interesting. I haven't been to PP in a few years, but back then it was always $1 anywhere
Oh FFsS - you are the guy asking about the shorts. Are you going to ask the price of everything you intend buying here? Just factor in:
- cost of Tuk Tuk;
- interest on loan taken out at 30%+;
- cost of adding bars etc. to the side because idiot tourists insist on sitting in the tuk tuk with their handbags sticking out over the edge;
- fuel;
- medical costs due to inhaling exhaust fumes all day every day;
- medical costs as a result of insect bites got from sleeping in the TT at night
- hours spend waiting for a ride;
- hours spent driving around looking for a ride;
- mental cost of having to deal with idiot foreigners who have no idea where they are going;
- what your daily rate is back in County Cork
and pay what you think might be reasonable.
And people who even try and pay KHR 6,000 are pathetic cheapskates. I can only presume that they are Australian.
- cost of Tuk Tuk;
- interest on loan taken out at 30%+;
- cost of adding bars etc. to the side because idiot tourists insist on sitting in the tuk tuk with their handbags sticking out over the edge;
- fuel;
- medical costs due to inhaling exhaust fumes all day every day;
- medical costs as a result of insect bites got from sleeping in the TT at night
- hours spend waiting for a ride;
- hours spent driving around looking for a ride;
- mental cost of having to deal with idiot foreigners who have no idea where they are going;
- what your daily rate is back in County Cork
and pay what you think might be reasonable.
And people who even try and pay KHR 6,000 are pathetic cheapskates. I can only presume that they are Australian.
whilst getting a tuk tuk to the airport over the new year $6.5 from the night market , I noticed an Indian rickshaw advertising rates at 1200 riel per km which would equate to around $3 for the same journey.
Has anybody used these ?
Has anybody used these ?
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Rickshaw or LPG tuktuk?104 wrote:whilst getting a tuk tuk to the airport over the new year $6.5 from the night market , I noticed an Indian rickshaw advertising rates at 1200 riel per km which would equate to around $3 for the same journey.
Has anybody used these ?
A rickshaw is a cyclo & wouldn't be a fantastic journey. The LPG Tuktuk's are grand and cheap. Book it through PassApp or if you hail one make sure they put it on the meter.
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Got one more mate ;RBD wrote:Oh FFsS - you are the guy asking about the shorts. Are you going to ask the price of everything you intend buying here? Just factor in:
- cost of Tuk Tuk;
- interest on loan taken out at 30%+;
- cost of adding bars etc. to the side because idiot tourists insist on sitting in the tuk tuk with their handbags sticking out over the edge;
- fuel;
- medical costs due to inhaling exhaust fumes all day every day;
- medical costs as a result of insect bites got from sleeping in the TT at night
- hours spend waiting for a ride;
- hours spent driving around looking for a ride;
- mental cost of having to deal with idiot foreigners who have no idea where they are going;
- what your daily rate is back in County Cork
- Playing cards whilst drinking cans of Klang with the gang by the side of the road.
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No not a cyclo , an auto rickshaws as in India similar to these but a bit more spaceផោមក្លិនស្អុយ wrote:Rickshaw or LPG tuktuk?104 wrote:whilst getting a tuk tuk to the airport over the new year $6.5 from the night market , I noticed an Indian rickshaw advertising rates at 1200 riel per km which would equate to around $3 for the same journey.
Has anybody used these ?
A rickshaw is a cyclo & wouldn't be a fantastic journey. The LPG Tuktuk's are grand and cheap. Book it through PassApp or if you hail one make sure they put it on the meter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_rickshaw
I guess they are known as LPG tuk tuks here as you say
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It was never $1 to go anywhere.loafie wrote:This is interesting. I haven't been to PP in a few years, but back then it was always $1 anywhere
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Motor bike (moto dop) taxis were 2,000 riel in 1997. There were no tuk-tuks back then.
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