{"id":126,"date":"2020-02-27T13:07:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T13:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site44.blogs.americavip.com\/2020\/02\/27\/taxi\/"},"modified":"2020-02-27T13:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T13:15:05","slug":"taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contents.dubai-vip.com\/en\/2020\/02\/27\/taxi\/","title":{"rendered":"TAXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_123\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123\" class=\"wp-image-123 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/site44.blogs.americavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/45\/files\/sites\/45\/2020\/02\/na27-taxis-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Taxi\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contents.dubai-vip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/45\/files\/sites\/45\/2020\/02\/na27-taxis-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/contents.dubai-vip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/45\/files\/sites\/45\/2020\/02\/na27-taxis-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/contents.dubai-vip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/45\/files\/sites\/45\/2020\/02\/na27-taxis-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/contents.dubai-vip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/45\/files\/sites\/45\/2020\/02\/na27-taxis.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxi<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Official taxis are well maintained, air conditioned and metered. Fares are Dhs1.6 per kilometre (0.3 miles), with Dhs3-3.50 cover charge depending on the time of day. Taxis don\u2019t have to pay Salik (tolls). The biggest taxi companies are Dubai Transport (04 208 0808) and National Taxis (04 339 0002). Taxi drivers usually have a reasonable grasp of English, and it\u2019s best to identify your destination by a particular landmark rather than the street address.<\/p>\n<p>Expats rarely trust booking a taxi, but if you do, as a rule of thumb, if your cab hasn\u2019t arrived within 15 minutes, it isn\u2019t coming. If you\u2019re a regular taxi user, you might find it useful to take down the phone numbers from a couple of drivers. Many will be happy to make an arrangement with you, for example, if you need a ride to and from work on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>To hail cabs from the street, raise your arm. Vacant taxis have their yellow light on and must stop if free. However, many don\u2019t, and if they do, will ask where you\u2019re going before letting you in the car. Again, they\u2019re not allowed to do this, and can be reported to the RTA (800 9090). To ensure you actually get in, you could tell them you\u2019re heading somewhere that\u2019s an appealing fare (long distance, limited traffic) and then \u2018change your mind\u2019 once in. Where hotels and malls have long taxi lines, you\u2019re often better off walking for 15 minutes to a roadside spot. The other negative is that taxi drivers can be very aggressive on the roads. Don\u2019t be afraid to ask them to slow down, and if they refuse, take down their taxi number and report them.<\/p>\n<p>Water taxis<\/p>\n<p>If you are by Dubai Creek, you can take an abra across for the bargain price of Dhs1. These tiny, noisy boats run from 5am to midnight, carrying about 20 people across the water from various stations along each side. They\u2019re the quickest and most atmospheric way to enjoy the creek, and get from Bur Dubai to Deira and vice versa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official taxis are well maintained, air conditioned and metered. Fares are Dhs1.6 per kilometre (0.3 miles), with Dhs3-3.50 cover charge depending on the time of day. Taxis don\u2019t have to pay Salik (tolls). The biggest taxi companies are Dubai Transport (04 208 0808) and National Taxis (04 339 0002). Taxi drivers usually have a reasonable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.dubai-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.dubai-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.dubai-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.dubai-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.dubai-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/contents.dubai-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/contents.dubai-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents.dubai-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.dubai-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents.dubai-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}