TAXI fare from Phnom Penh airport to Holiday Villa Hotel ...

Hi,

I%26#39;ll be in Phnom Penh on 6/3/09. How much I should expect to pay a taxi from the Phnom Airport to Holiday Villa Hotel (location at city centre close to Central Market). Also, how much if I were to rent a mini van as there are 5 of us for 2 days, mainly for city driving only.

Thanks!

TAXI fare from Phnom Penh airport to Holiday Villa Hotel ...

Car form the airport to teh ciy center shouldn%26#39;t be more than $7. For inner-city transport, hire a couple of tuk-tuks. (They usually only seat 4) To hire one for most of the day would be around $10. You might get asked more if you%26#39;ll be going to places a bit far from the center such as the Killing Fields.

Do know that the tuk-tuk guys are willing to negotiate, and if the first price quote seems unreasoanble (as they often do!) try and bargain the guy down, or go to the next guy.

TAXI fare from Phnom Penh airport to Holiday Villa Hotel ...

Hi all dear travelers if there is one thing I don鈥檛 like its comments on how much to pay a driver to

Pick you up from the airport so what if they ask you for 9 or 10 dollars if you can鈥檛 afford it then stay home.

A bus Fare in the euro or the USA cost more so please stop the penny saving.

As for the tuk-tuk all day is $10 do you thing when oil was 150 dollars鈥?it was sold to the Cambodians cheaper.

If the first price quote seems unreasonable (as they often do!) try and bargain the guy down,

Is this how you ride the underground back home or is this how you get into a taxi at home?

You would end up on the side walk with a broken arm.

Remember the people of Cambodia are nice and are poor we don鈥檛 need cheap comments like the above.

Respect is the best price

Where as it is true that Cambodia is a poor country and should avoid penny pinching but Yanzz%26#39;s inquire is valid to know the prevailing rates. In this state of world wide economy the travelling crowd has been hard hit and want make the best use of the limited cash. No hard feelings

My above comment was not meant to hurt anyone feeling weather you pay 7usd 8usd or 9usd to be pick up from the airport i do not consider this money.

My comment was that you should bugging to bring the tuk tuk driver down to what you think is the reasonable price. Just as you don%26#39;t bagging to get the bus or the train or the under ground in any western country, we all know the price and any experience traveller know how much to pay a tuk tuk. If you don%26#39;t know even if you pay 10usd it%26#39;s still a bagging in today economy, especially when you pay 8 to 10euro for a package of cigaret. The world crises has also hit Cambodia, people traveling to Cambodia must realize that Cambodian do not and will not be slave to any other race for a few bucks. The days of traveling to Asia with limited funds are over but it is still 60% cheaper than Europe and the USA. Once again no hard feeling, this is a free and open forum.

';My comment was that you should bugging to bring the tuk tuk driver down to what you think is the reasonable price.';

My dear, this is a technique known in the western world as ';negotiating';, and it is a very common practice in Cambodia as in the rest of Southeast Asia. If I approach a tuk-tuk driver and ask him to take me to Psar Russei and he says ';OK, $20!'; should I just accept that? Nonsense! It is up to us, the tourists, to decide what is acceptable, and if that price is acceptable to the tuk-tuk driver, then we are both fine. No respectble tuk-tuk driver is going to accept anything less than what his time and gas costs him, believe me! And if you think my advice is bullocks, than read all the guidebooks, which state similar information regarding basic costs of fares to/from the airport and around town. And my advice wasn%26#39;t about ';penny-saving';, it was about how things are normally done in Cambodia. Have a nice day.

Aqua , your comments on this forum , to me and others , are way out of line , to even attempt to bring costs up to Euro/USA levels or even close , is absolutely preposterous . Travellers come to SE Asia specifically for lower costs , with your type of advice they would be as well to stay at home , posters here give advise and have been giving advise , for a long time to ENCOURAGE travellers to choose Cambodia , you are following practises copied from Thailand which has driven many away .Please do not introduce the same greed here in Cambodia , you continue to do and I will advise TA I will no longer post on this forum , I work with many tuk-tuk men who are happy with the buisiness I have aquired for them on an ongoing basis .

Ive totally agree with Maneki-neko and odball.Odball has been great with his advise and help to may on this forum.

I concur everything you say, Odball! It%26#39;s funny, this person joined the forum in hopes of promoting his/her new hotel and is now telling travelers to stay away from Cambodia????

Maneki , it was not a hotel but a guest-house , when I checked the price of rooms I could see why he/she was flaming about cost of transport , they are prices I could get in Canada , food the same thing .