When you book a cruise, you know exactly how you are getting from home to your destination of choice, but what about when you’re actually there? Whether it’s a tram or a bicycle in Amsterdam, a tuk-tuk in Bangkok or the metro in New York, you need to find a way to get around.
As soon as you disembark your cruise ship, you’re going to want to explore and soak up as much of your destination as possible. But while a taxi might well be the quickest way to get from A to B in some cities, it can also be the most expensive.
Carpsring has released its 2017 Taxi Price Index revealing the cheapest and most expensive places to get a taxi around the world. The index includes the cost of hailing a taxi, the cost per kilometre and the waiting time cost.
The figures revealed that Cairo in Egypt was the cheapest place to get a taxi, with the cost of a 3-kilometre fare costing just £0.42. In all, the usual initial cost was £0.17, the cost per km was £0.08 and the waiting cost per hour worked out at £0.86.
Elsewhere, Mumbai in India came in as the second cheapest place to get a taxi with a fee of £1.06 for 3 kilometres, followed by Bucharest at £1.12, Jakarta at £1.12 and Mexico City at £1.16 to make up the top five.
On the other end of the spectrum came Zurich. The beautiful city in Switzerland was the most expensive place to get a taxi with an eye-watering cost of £19.18 for a 3-kilometre fare. Zurich actually came out as the most expensive across most of the barometers, with the waiting cost per hour coming at a staggering £63.00.
Europe featured prominently in the most expensive taxi journeys, with another Swiss city in Geneva coming second to Zurich at a cost of £13.31 for 3 kilometres. This was followed by the only non-European country in the 20 priciest cities - Tokyo - where it would cost you £12.12, then Copenhagen with £12.12 and £10.46 in Helsinki.
