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Had a great day at Larga except for the local taxis. Waited an hour for a taxi to come, so we called one from Zihua. The hotel does this all the time when the local ones are busy. Never had a problem.
Our Zihua driver arrived and two local taxis pulled up. One claimed that he had been there for 2 hours. BS.
Ended up having to go give a local taxi 50 pesos (#0007 Augustine the driver). Last time we used him, he charged us 180 pesos for a 110 peso ride. Claimed that he had no change so it ended up costing 200 pesos. Will never use him again.
Our Zihua driver felt bad and knocked off 50 pesos for the ride home.

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Hola
Had a great day at Larga except for the local taxis. Waited an hour for a taxi to come, so we called one from Zihua. The hotel does this all the time when the local ones are busy. Never had a problem.
Our Zihua driver arrived and two local taxis pulled up. One claimed that he had been there for 2 hours. BS.
Ended up having to go give a local taxi 50 pesos (#0007 Augustine the driver). Last time we used him, he charged us 180 pesos for a 110 peso ride. Claimed that he had no change so it ended up costing 200 pesos. Will never use him again.
Our Zihua driver felt bad and knocked off 50 pesos for the ride home.

You shouldn't have paid their extortion and instead you should've called the police and made a video to post. They have no right to insist you do business with them.

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That's what I would do. Spend more of my time, making a video and hanging around while waiting for the police who may or may not eventually show up. All over a couple bucks.

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That's what I would do. Spend more of my time, making a video and hanging around while waiting for the police who may or may not eventually show up. All over a couple bucks.

I'm so glad you take our local problems with extortionist taxis so lightly and even find it humorous. You don't have to make a living here, so it's just more "local color" to folks like you, and yeah, what's a couple of bucks? YOU AREN'T THE ONE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE LIKE TOO MANY OF MY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. You aren't affected in the least when tourists stop coming because of this type of treatment.

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Oh don't be so dramatic. People aren't going to stop coming to Zihua because one taxi driver tries to get an extra 50 pesos out of someone. Most of the taxi drivers there are fair and honest, and an isolated incident isn't an overall reflection of destination and it's taxi drivers.

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Oh don't be so dramatic. People aren't going to stop coming to Zihua because one taxi driver tries to get an extra 50 pesos out of someone. Most of the taxi drivers there are fair and honest, and an isolated incident isn't an overall reflection of destination and it's taxi drivers.

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This was not an isolated incident. Last year the same larga taxis blocked the road as we tried to leave and gave our driver a warning before allowing us to leave. Since the hotel routinely calls outside taxis when none are available locally we didn't think it was such a big deal.

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Oh don't be so dramatic. People aren't going to stop coming to Zihua because one taxi driver tries to get an extra 50 pesos out of someone. Most of the taxi drivers there are fair and honest, and an isolated incident isn't an overall reflection of destination and it's taxi drivers.

Hola
This was not an isolated incident. Last year the same larga taxis blocked the road as we tried to leave and gave our driver a warning before allowing us to leave. Since the hotel routinely calls outside taxis when none are available locally we didn't think it was such a big deal.

Right you are, amigo. Taxis unions extorting riders using taxis from competing unions is an old unresolved problem here that has indeed scared off hundreds of tourists who swore they would never return. Catlover hasn't a friggin clue what they're talking about. Zihuatanejo is not a community of retirees and Wall Street players.

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LOL, I'm guessing those "hundreds" of tourist who don't return because of the taxi situation are the same ones who don't come back because Rover isn't welcome on the beach. FYI, many accommodations are already booked for next high season. I've talked to a number of regulars who have had to make other arrangements because their usually digs are already reserved.

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LOL, I'm guessing those "hundreds" of tourist who don't return because of the taxi situation are the same ones who don't come back because Rover isn't welcome on the beach. FYI, many accommodations are already booked for next high season. I've talked to a number of regulars who have had to make other arrangements because their usually digs are already reserved.

Feel free to spend some time looking up news articles on this problem. They're in Spanish. They go back decades. You'll obviously need help. I won't waste any more of my time on the matter with you.

BTW, you don't even speak the language of the majority of our tourists, so there's that.

I really couldn't care less what you believe. I'm confident in my take on things versus yours. Enjoy your vacation. Don't get too sunburned. Come back soon.

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The taxi drivers are a real problem. I am not saying that all of them are bad but enough of them are that it creates a problem for many of our guests. They involve tourists in their politics and bad practices in a way that affects the experience of many of our guests. They don't follow the rules about rates, charging unsuspecting tourists more then they should, and abuse their monopoly for situations like that described by the original poster.

On top of all of that their monopoly has allowed them to continue delivering sub-par service in many respects. Our B&B is clearly located on Google maps but I can't tell you how many times we have had issues with taxis not being able to find us because we aren't on the usual path or well known by them or their friends. We had one guest who was ferried around for over an hour trying to find us because they couldn't or wouldn't look us up to call or find us on the map. Not to mention some of the obtuse but very clear threats we have received because we decided to make other arrangements for getting our guests to and from the airport due to the incompetence of many of the taxis here on La Ropa.

I completely understand their desire/need to make money and feed their families and I believe that the majority of taxi drivers are honest people trying to do right by their customers while trying to make a living for themselves. Unfortunately there seems to be significant number of them that are more interested in perpetuating their monopoly and serving only their own interests to the point of creating negative experiences for the people who pay all of our bills, the tourists.

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Humberto Romero
www.casaarcoiriszihuatanejo.com

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Totally agree with all the comments about the Zihua taxi drivers and their shady tactics with no change,overcharging etc etc.We went to Hualtuco a couple of years ago to switch things up and honestly what I remember most was the honest, decent taxi drivers.Rates are posted on street signs and whenever I tipped them(Always) I was always offered change.Such a refreshing change from the continuous scams from some of the Zihua drivers.But it still was not Zihuatenejo....Taking a taxi should be a simple act,Not a source of anxiety.

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Totally agree with all the comments about the Zihua taxi drivers and their shady tactics with no change,overcharging etc etc.We went to Hualtuco a couple of years ago to switch things up and honestly what I remember most was the honest, decent taxi drivers.Rates are posted on street signs and whenever I tipped them(Always) I was always offered change.Such a refreshing change from the continuous scams from some of the Zihua drivers.But it still was not Zihuatenejo....Taking a taxi should be a simple act,Not a source of anxiety.

The taxi drivers were one of our high factors to get a car here.

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Hola.
A good taxi story. A few months ago we were going home from centro. It was after midnight. We usually pay 50 pesos after midnight. Our driver said he had no change. We gave him 100 pesos and wrote it off as a loss. A week later, we were going home again after midnight and this taxi driver insisted that we come with him. Got in and realized it was the same driver with no change a week earlier. No charge. We gave him a tip anyway.

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Unless it is after 7 pm, I normally drive, or take combis , but I did have several good taxi experiences in Zihua this past season. The change or cambio issue does come up and its best to have plenty of it before getting in the cab along with confirming the fare. I think most of the cabbies I have used in Zihua in recent years are decent hard working folks struggling to make it where there are just too many.

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..... reminded me of the time around Christmas 2010, a group of 9 of us bussed it to Los Achotes and then were invited to get in the back of a parked pasajara for the rest of the trip to Barra De Potosi.

As we were leaving Los Achotes, another pasajara overtook us and forced our driver off the road and after some arguing between the drivers and wanting us to board the pasajara that forced us off the road, our driver paid money to the other pasajara driver and then we continued on to La Barra where we remunerated our driver quite generously.

On our return trip, the driver of the pasajara who forced us off the road was waiting and tried to coax us into using him but we waited for another pasajara for the return trip.

My son-in-law put a video together called Pasajara Wars about the incident and here is a link to it on you Tube;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2hsYLFQxjA

Roberto!

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That first pasajero trip is exactly that - a trip.

We opted not to take the pasajero while visiting this past October or while in Z two weeks ago - darn COVID!

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Love it! :megusta:

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