Re: [93attendees] Taxi and car services in Prague

[Alexandre PETRESCU <[e-mail]>]

The AAA booth was there at Arrivals but she indicated to just go outside 
and take a taxi.

In the taxi I asked for "whyphy" and I was not understood, so I 
pronounced French "ouifi" and he understood.  He then took his LG 
smartphone, launched an app.  The ESSID was "Alpha541".  He then called 
a dispatcher, asked for a wifi key, and gave me that key verbally - 
"aaa14014".  I got an IPv4 address only (192.smthing) and no IPv6 
address.  54mbit/s.

I am not happy he manipulated the smartphone while driving - this is a 
huge security risk.

google was unfortunately not reachable, as no other Internet site.  I 
guess the app on the LG phone had some problem.

But I am happy WiFi is at least advertised to work in this taxi company.

Alex

Le 15/07/2015 14:40, Christer Holmberg a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> The following company offers shared shuttles and private transports:
>
> http://www.prague-airport-transfers.co.uk/
>
> The price for a private car from the airport to the Hilton is CZK 550, 
> about 20 EUR, per car. When you book, you can chose whether you’ll pay 
> to the driver, or on-line (using credit card or PayPal).
>
> According to their website, all drivers speak English - AND they 
> provide Wi-Fi in the cars (I could not find any information about 
> whether it’s IPv6, though :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Christer
>
> *From:*93attendees [mailto:[e-mail]] *On Behalf Of 
> *Robert Moskowitz
> *Sent:* 14. heinäkuuta 2015 0:07
> *To:* [e-mail]; Randy Bush
> *Cc:* Randall Gellens; attendees
> *Subject:* Re: [93attendees] Taxi and car services in Prague
>
> On 07/13/2015 10:57 AM, Shumon Huque wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Shumon Huque <[e-mail]
>     <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Randy Bush <[e-mail]
>     <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>     > On 07/13/2015 07:48 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
>     >>> Note that this is the hotel's taxi service, which can be
>     charged to
>     >>> your room folio.  Depending on how it's coded, this usually earns
>     >>> Hilton points.
>     >>>>   Folks, you can send an e-mail to [e-mail]
>     <mailto:[e-mail]> with your
>     >>>>   flight info and they will meet you at the airport for 900
>     CZK or US
>     >>>>   $36 EUR 33. Well worth it if you have luggage.
>     >> it takes considerable effort to find a higher priced way to get
>     >> to town.
>     >
>     > Meaning, there are a number of lower priced ways???
>
>     hotel taxis are expensive, often the most expensive, transport. 
>     take a
>     metered taxi.  or, if you are happy to rip off drivers in the
>     'sharing'
>     exonomy, praha has a local uber clone.
>
>     You can check prices at AAA taxi's website (the company others
>     have mentioned). I typed in Vaclav Havel Airport and Hilton
>     Prague, and it quotes me a price of 401 CZK, which is about US
>     $16.32 at today's exchange rate. If true, that's less than 1/2 of
>     the Hilton rate mentioned earlier.
>
>     http://www.aaataxi.cz/en/
>
>     Shumon Huque.
>
>     Although, I just noticed, there is additional fine print about
>     19,90 CZK/km ...
>
>
> And how far is it?
>
> I remember at the last Prague meeting, that my driver took the 'short 
> cut' through town back to the airport, as the highway loop was totally 
> backed up.  He claimed that all the taxis had this route programmed 
> into their GPS systems, and there WERE a lot of other taxis, both 
> ways, along this route.  Did get a quick view of a lot of Prague on 
> that drive!  Also did make my flight.
>
>
>
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