Bucharest Taxis

Everyday scenes of Bucharest Life…

by Craig Turp March 18, 2010 Bucharest

 Took the kids into Lipscani yesterday for a St. Patrick’s Day Guinness (it’s good for them), and just happened to have – for once – the camera with us. A couple of things caught our eye. Firstly, the overhead power/internet/TV/telephone cable situation is clearly getting worse. We took this picture at Piata Universitatii: Ignore the [...]

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Bucharest Otopeni Airport Taxis (Part 2: Getting to town)

by Craig Turp February 15, 2010 Bucharest

 As we discovered on Saturday morning, the difference between getting a taxi at Bucharest’s Otopeni Airport now and getting one before the rules changed on February 1st is that there is no difference. At least not in any real sense. The information we publish about arriving at Bucharest’s airports in Bucharest In Your Pocket and [...]

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When good taxis go bad

by Craig Turp May 19, 2009 Bucharest

 We got an email at Bucharest In Your Pocket this morning from the Finnish Embassy, claiming that drivers at one of the capital’s (until now) more trusted taxi companies, Leone, have begun employing some underhand tactics. Here’s the mail: “I would like to inform you about taxis of Bucharest. Your list of trusted taxi companies [...]

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Dodgy Bucharest Taxis

by Craig Turp September 23, 2008 Bucharest

 We recently decided to try and document as many rip-off taxis as we could find. Camera at the ready we are stalking the streets on the lookout for any taxi charging over the odds. Here’s the first: Pimex Taxi? Never heard of it. The fact that is a ‘Partener Orient Taxi’ starts alarm bells ringing: [...]

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