Shanghai Taxis
Shanghai Taxis Reviews
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1 / 1 TravBuddies found this review helpful
 Mar 16, 2007
Usually when you jump into a taxi in a big city you never know where the trip is going to take and especially all the sites you are going to see on the longest way to your destination:-)
Here are the Shanghai taxis something completely different - nice and friendly sometimes doing extreme action to bring you to the destination fast and with the use of their horn constantly. These guys can play music with their horns - just sit down and enjoy. We ended up counting how many time they did it on every trip - I think the record was 13 times on one short trip. The fun par of it is that everybody does it and all day and night:-) The taxis are cheap - really cheap - the first 3 km is like 1,10€ and then 15 €cent pr. km. Remember to have the address in Chinese - or find an address/site in The Lonely Planet that is close - they have the addresses in Chinese - its a must. If you have time read the rules that the driver have to act under in order to be able to ask for a fare. These are so funny: They cannot litter They cannot spit They cannot talk in their own GSM They cannot play music that is disturbing for the customer. They cannot ..... it goes on and on.  Part of the Shanghai March 2007 travel blog Part of the list Transportation around the world
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 Taxi in Shanghai Mar 15, 2009
Taxi are very hard to get in Shangahi. if taxi weren't hired at the hotel, usually it would take approximately 30 minutes to get one. it is quite scary standing on the street waving them down while try not to get run over by on coming traffic, people, bikes... especially when it is raining
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Shanghai Taxis Blogs
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Aug 10, 2007
we got off the train and were bombarded by taxi drivers wanting to take us. Instantly I was wondering why all these taxi drivers could speak quite good english and soon realised they were gonna rip us off if we were to go in any of those ones, so we walked a block, to b harrased… Im in Shanghai!!! |
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Oct 13, 2007
When we got into the city Nelson told our driver that he was going to get into a local taxi, assuming that he’d surely know where the PSB was, and that the driver should follow him. When I started to get out of the car too Nelson told me to stay with the driver. As Nelson sped off in another taxi… a little relief |
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Jul 01, 2006
The mixture of humidity and hot exhaust fumes from the taxi depot under the station welcomed me to Shanghai. We grabbed three or four taxi's to our hotel, as our taxi dodged the Shanghai traffic it stuck me that Shanghai very different to Beijing. The traffic was more organised, everything was more organised… Showers In Shanghai |
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Jul 17, 2008
… After the failed attempt to work the Chinese washing machine in our hotel room, Jason and I took at taxi across the Huangpu River to Pudong. Pudong, previously the poorest quarter of Shanghai, acquired the status of Special Economic Zone in 1990, and it is now a forest of skyscrapers located across from the Bund. Our taxi driver dropped us off in front of the Oriental… Police Incident! |
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Mar 20, 2006
walked past a dead rat on the pavement and got a taxi, pointing to a bilboard for the `Number One Garden Hotel`, thinking they would speak english. 10 mintues later we pulled up at a rather smart looking luxery resort. mmm. the receptionists still couldnt speak english so the manager was called, who sat us down… xian-shangai-pang xiang-nanning |
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