On 05/03/2016 01:14 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > I arrived as well. I foolishly chose to ignore this thread and assumed > taking the taxi from the airport to the hotel is a proper choice. So I > hop on the taxi and ask if he takes credit. He says no taxi at the > airport does. So I walk to an ATM and get some Euros, then hop back in > the cab. There's no driver/car identification displayed inside and I see > no meter. I ask where the meter is, he says it's on the left (where I > can't see what it shows). > > We get to the hotel, he says it's 76 Euros. I'm like, Jesus this is > high. He goes, yeah Tegel is far away from this hotel, next time try to > book the other airport. I ask for a receipt, he handwrites me one on a > standard form with no stamp and no identification. > > As I walk to the reception I ask the receptionist what's the usual taxi > price to the airport and sure enough I paid twice the usual. I mention > what I paid and to her credit she makes an effort to call the number on > the receipt and tries to figure out what happened. They say they can't > do anything without a stamp on the receipt so she suggests I call the > police and try to get his plates off of some security cameras. I figure > life is too short to press on, but this is quite the bummer - Germany > was really the last place where I assumed this kind of stuff cannot > happen. In fact it was the reason for which I didn't heed the > non-visible meter warning; something similar did happen to me in > Romania, in a very different era. > > > Andrei
As it was already mentioned, Berlin is the least german city in the whole Germany - but this sounds like some very bad luck even for Berlin :(
