Comments on: Royal Caribbean to “sail past” Bahrain http://www.bahtaxi.com/royal-caribbean-to-sail-past-bahrain/ Find online the nearest/available taxi to your location Sat, 23 Oct 2010 06:47:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ahmed http://www.bahtaxi.com/royal-caribbean-to-sail-past-bahrain/comment-page-1/#comment-247 Ahmed Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:38:31 +0000 http://www.bahtaxi.com/?p=25#comment-247 I am an expat in Bahrain and I am not surprised at all by this. Bahrain Taxi drivers are really letting there country down. I have recently been to Abu Dhabi and the Taxi from Airport to the Abu Dhabi city centre (the distance is about 50 km) cost me 50 UAE Dirhams which equates roughly to 5 Bahrain Dinars. On my back to the Airport to fly out of Ab Dhabi it cost a slightly less (47 UAE Dirhams). When I came back to Bahrain to go back to work, I took a Taxi from Bahrain International Airport to Juffair (the distance is about 5 km), where I live, the Taxi driver wanted 7 Bahrain Dinars despite the fact that the meter was showing 5 BD. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to work out the difference. Without going too much about it to call them unscrupulous is under-statement. they are greedy and dishonest. I remember one day, before the meter was introduced, when a taxi driver wanted to charge an American friend of mine 20 BD from Juffair to Manama Souk. Disgrace! Thank you. I am an expat in Bahrain and I am not surprised at all by this.

Bahrain Taxi drivers are really letting there country down. I have recently been to Abu Dhabi and the Taxi from Airport to the Abu Dhabi city centre (the distance is about 50 km) cost me 50 UAE Dirhams which equates roughly to 5 Bahrain Dinars. On my back to the Airport to fly out of Ab Dhabi it cost a slightly less (47 UAE Dirhams).

When I came back to Bahrain to go back to work, I took a Taxi from Bahrain International Airport to Juffair (the distance is about 5 km), where I live, the Taxi driver wanted 7 Bahrain Dinars despite the fact that the meter was showing 5 BD. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to work out the difference.

Without going too much about it to call them unscrupulous is under-statement. they are greedy and dishonest. I remember one day, before the meter was introduced, when a taxi driver wanted to charge an American friend of mine 20 BD from Juffair to Manama Souk.

Disgrace!

Thank you.

]]> By: Waleed http://www.bahtaxi.com/royal-caribbean-to-sail-past-bahrain/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Waleed Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:18:34 +0000 http://www.bahtaxi.com/?p=25#comment-4 Well .. Coming to the "unscrupulous taxi driver's" thing that mentioned in the article above lets have this little comparison ! . The average fare of 6/hours country site tour that the local taxi drivers charge in Bahrain is about 80-100 Euro for 4-7 passengers ( depends on the cab capacity ) . While Mathias Tourism company ( Royal Caribbean`s partner in Bahrain ) charge 80 Euro/each passenger on their hired shuttle Buses. ( B.S: they hire 50 passenger's bus for 300 Euro with the driver ) Well ..
Coming to the “unscrupulous taxi driver’s” thing that mentioned in the article above lets have this little comparison ! .

The average fare of 6/hours country site tour that the local taxi drivers charge in Bahrain is about 80-100 Euro for 4-7 passengers ( depends on the cab capacity ) . While Mathias Tourism company ( Royal Caribbean`s partner in Bahrain ) charge 80 Euro/each passenger on their hired shuttle Buses. ( B.S: they hire 50 passenger’s bus for 300 Euro with the driver )

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