Thank You Rob, we have been using the same driver since 2006, but have never had friends join us. So that would be $20 to $30 one way or round trip?
Thank You Rob, we have been using the same driver since 2006, but have never had friends join us. So that would be $20 to $30 one way or round trip?
Butch and Heater,
That was purely an example for simplicity. I said IF the going rate is us$15, not that the going rate IS us$15. Here is what I wrote in another thread about what happened to Hussyband and why not to use route taxis:
The new route taxi price has settled at j$130 per leg.
Let's take an example of going from the beach to cliffs by a normal route taxi, and not chartering a ride. For a couple, the cost to get from the beach, lets say from the Coco La Palm area to the roundabout would be j$260 and the driver has to stop and pick up other passengers and let them off where they desire. Once at the roundabout, you now have to get out of that taxi and look for a different route taxi that will run up the West End. The cost from the roundabout to a place on the West End, lets say Jenny's would be another j$260. This makes the one way trip j$520.
To return it would be another j$520, and you have had to change taxis twice now and have been in 4 different taxis total with an unknown number of different passengers. The total cost would be j$1060, or about us$11. This is how route taxis operate and it is the cost that Jamaicans pay every single day.
You can charter that same roundtrip ride from anyone in our transportation section or on any of other numerous websites or even from the red plated driver parked outside your hotel, as has been pointed out above, for between us$15 and $20 per couple.
You do not have to change taxis, you are the only ones in that single vehicle and you are using a single driver.
Considering the cost to get the airport or parking your car in long term parking, the roundtrip airfare, the cost to get to Negril and back to the airport and the cost of your hotel while you are here, only you can make the judgement on how important that us$4 to $9 is to you and your partner's sense of well being.
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Prices make sense....thanks
So is it still okay to use a taxi if it has a red plate?
Heater,
Please read this thread in its entirety (link below). And ALL taxis have red license plates. Any other color plate means that the are NOT a taxi at all...
http://negril.com/forum/showthread.p...d-to-Hussyband
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I pay $10 max for a private ride each way from cliff to beach and vise versa. Route taxis are a different story. When the route was $100J each leg, and the beach to cliff is two legs, I offer up $500J for a route taxi. That's $400J for the both routes for two people and $100J extra for not making me get out after the first route and secure a ride for the second route. The vast majority of the time the driver is good, sometimes they counter with $600J. If you do not like the price, vibe, etc just walk away. Another taxi will be by really quick and you can start the process over.
We travel with our daughter, so we always use the same driver or the free shuttle from wherever our destination is. We have three people meeting us in Negril this year, so I was just curious as to what we should expect to be paying. I will just ask our driver when he gets us from the airport.
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