In Reply to: NNOOO! posted by LynneeD on Sunday, 8. April 2007 at 06:21 Bali Time:
When we were in Seminyak, they tried this trick on us.
Would be something like 12k down.
Then we noticed when we were walking home and ran out of legs etc. we would ask how much to seminyak and suddenly it had gone up to 20k! was that for our shopping as extra?
Now, before you ask, we never went the long way, we only went up to the skinny one way lane near Bintang Supermarket, and walked along that back to Villa Rumah Manis.
We used to offer only a bit higher than what the morning trip was and they were all happy with that.
I wonder if some of them get a bit cheeky?
Or have I missed your point?
I do that a lot.
These days, we book a driver for the entire time and for a set fee each day he runsus around. Now, whether that be a few trips in and out of shops, photo places etc. or a long trip, say to Ubud, he still gets his 250k or whatever. (Thats what he wanted last year, even though we thought it was a bit cheap so we always tipped him and made sure he had drinks etc. when we did.)