Travelled in September. Many trips previously but second trip for kids (5&7). Early on miss 7 reminds me only Bluebird taxi's mum. We had a discussion and in my wisdom I said perhaps we should give the others a chance?? We should make our own judgements on our own experience I explain. Co - indidentally we experienced the last week of hols for rammadan. During this time took every color of taxi imaginable. No problem. Come the following Monday we got two different colors and experienced issues both times. One tried to charge us RP 80 000 for a RP 20 000 trip! So we decide bluebird is the way to go.
Each time we get into a taxi now Miss 5 reads out the taxi nnumber. This is the drivers number mum and the phone number to ring his boss if he goes the wrong way is ......... Those stickers on the door were a great source of entertainment and needless to say we never had another issue! "He's a good boy mum he won't rip us off."
Miss 7 would also be asking the driver where is your village? What is your name? We had two well trained little monkey's by the time our three week stay was up. Miss 7 shopping rule (not sure why/) Never pay more than 50 000 bucks for anything!