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Posted by Hati Hati on Wednesday, 22. September 2010 at 15:46 Bali Time:

Have been home for about 3 hours LOL, 3rd trip this year and had a great time with the partner and 2 boys for 10 days, this holiday was mainly about family time, we didn't shop much, ate every meal at our accom (KTH) and just hung out together as a family unit (not a family of units...)
The day we did decide to go for a bit of a shop had a run in with a Ngurah Rai taxi driver, as follows:
We went to Galleria and when we came out there was only those dodgy Ngurah Rai taxi's and I told them no, then every time a Blue Bird taxi drove past they wouldn't let them stop to get us.. This seemingly helpful bloke sidles up to me.... That should've been my first warning... He goes 'I'll take you Kuta for Rp 50000' I said bugger it ok then, he walks us over to a Ngurah Rai taxi!!! EXACTLY who I didn't wanna go with!!! So we get in and I said to him put your meter on, he says ok then. So 1.) he was supposed to take us to the hotel(KTH) and decides he is gonna drop us off at Bemo corner and 2.) we get to bemo corner and the meter reads Rp 20750 so I gave him Rp 30000, well he went off his head, every single english swear word he knew he give it to me LOL, partner 15y/o & 16m/o son stood there not knowing what the hell to do. I said to him, you're a rip off artist I gave you MORE than the meter said so deal with it, he went off again so I walked off.... He misrepresented himself and led us to believe he was a bemo operator NOT a taxi driver AND I asked him to turn the meter on HELLO... This Balinese bloke was sitting on the corner and he goes to me, you ok with a beautiful big Bali grin on his face LOL I said fine he goes 'next time Blue Bird' DEFINATELY. I know 20000Rp is a miniscule amount of money in the big picture and I would've happily handed over more than 50000Rp had he taken us to the hotel as negotiated but he didn't so as far as I was concerned he didn't fulfill his verbal contract. Funny the reaction you get when the tables are turned back the other way huh.


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