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

Shumon Huque <shuque@gmail.com> Mon, 13 July 2015 20:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [93attendees] Taxi and car services in Prague
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> 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 taxi.prague@hilton.com 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.