{"id":6150,"date":"2023-09-10T07:29:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T00:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farparents.com\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2023-09-14T00:29:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:29:11","slug":"agencys-transfer-vs-public-taxi-pro-and-contra-which-one-suits-you-the-best-for-your-personal-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farparents.com\/?p=6150","title":{"rendered":"Agency\u2019s transfer vs. public taxi: \u00a0pros and contras. Which one suits you the best for your personal style? [farparents tip]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<div id=\"gap-428985303\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-428985303 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you have a timely plan of when to leave for the pier or airport<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">With a normal taxi, it might be for you more difficult, to estimate when should you leave the hotel for the airport. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">OK, you can ask the local or the hotel staffs for a better idea. But if some mistakes happen on the way and you come to the airport late.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The person who timely guided you will not take responsibility for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">With the agency\u2019s transfer, the time is carefully set and matched with your flight under consideration of traffic jams and events on the road on an individual day. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Wrong pier or hotel drive possibility\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">In Samui, there are boat companies operating their boats at many different piers (at least 2 piers). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Clients have to do more homework about which pier their boat is. Actually, it can very little happen that the taxi brings you to the wrong pier. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">But not 100% (it can still happen) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unlike the hotel. It happens quite much more often that the taxi brings clients to another hotel because the familiar name sounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Samui, there are many hotels that have partially the same name. You have to tell the driver the full name of the hotel and repeat the difference again to the driver to eliminate this highly possible mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It helps a lot to mention the area name where your hotel is located.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Example:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">You want to head to the hotel called \u201cThe Rockstar Bophut Spa and Resort\u201d which is located in Bophut, Samui <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">There is another hotel that is more famous to everyone knows, it called \u201cRockstar Resort\u201d but it is in Lamai, Samui <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">It can easily happen the taxi driver automatically assumes the more famous one \u201cRockstar Resort\u201d and brings you there. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Once you arrive there, make a check-in then realize that you are wrong here and the taxi is gone. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">So, it is fine to take a public taxi but just have to make sure, you tell him the very correct name of the pier or hotel. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">With the agency\u2019s transfer, you can get in the car, sleep for a while, and wake up when arrive at your (correct) hotel. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;style&quot;:101,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Who is cheaper <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The public taxi is about 20-30% cheaper compared to the agency&#8217;s transfer. But in amount, it can be just a little difference. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For example, the agency&#8217;s transfer from Chaweng to the airport will cost 350 Baths, then the taxi should cost 250 Baths also 100 Bath difference. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But if your hotel is at the bottom of Lamai where the transfer costs 600 while the taxi costs 500 Bath, the difference is 200 Bath. Hmm, 2 meals of local food.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;style&quot;:3,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Taxi price varies with daytime and event <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Taxi price is not stable but can change during the daytime and varies with the individual taxi driver. In the daytime, it will be the normal price. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the evening the price start going slightly higher. While the price of the agency\u2019s transfer stays at all times the flat price.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;style&quot;:101,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Price negotiation <\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">The price of the public taxi is negotiable. You need to be a good negotiator when taking a taxi. They will offer you only a flat price. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Before you get in the car, you should negotiate the price with the driver first. With agency, as mentioned it is a flat price, no need to negotiate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you make a good negotiation with the taxi, you can even save more money for a local lunch.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;style&quot;:101,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Time management, how early or late do you want to be driven<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is the big advantage of using the public taxi. Normally the transfer from agencies is a timely plan with spare time for about 40 min in case of traffic jams. (Here, we used 40 min. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">just for example). Sometimes the agency&#8217;s transfer can come to you late for 10 &#8211; 15 minutes due to the traffic. #<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/farparents.com\/?p=6128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In case of this how to react?<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If there is no traffic jam, you will come to the airport very early and have to wait for the departure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With the public taxi, you can manage your time as you want. The same to the boat crossing islands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">If you are in Koh Phangan and have a flight to Koh Samui on the same day, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">your agency will pick the safest boat schedule for you that makes you come early to the airport. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But if you did not book it in advance and want to buy the ticket on the spot the risk is that there is no seat more for you. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Especially during the full moon party. And no one will be responsible for you. <\/span># <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/farparents.com\/?p=6031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">how to choose the timely right ferry across the islands\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-with-transfers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Agency\u2019s transfer vs. public taxi: \u00a0pros and contras. Which one suits you the best for your personal style? 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