Gah. It's quite a leap, I know, but I was really annoyed with the service of my last taxi…read more Basically, I've used these guys many a time since the last review, their being the easiest and often cheapest taxi home for me, but on my last journey home this was far from the case. To begin with, it can sometimes be a touch intimidating catching the cab late at night from their rank as the take away next door tends to attract the drunken rowdy lot you'll often bump into on a weekend night, it's not a major problem as I'm not too worried, but it's sometimes a little much. Especially when hoards of 'rude-boys' decide to jump the queue so you go from 3rd to 9th and no one seems to stop that.
In any case. Last time I hopped in, we were dropping my friend at the top of the road literally en route to my house (so it was literally just stopping for a second) and then I needed to grab some cash. Again, this was no more than two minutes literally en route to my house. As we pulled up to my door, I realised he'd not stuck the meter on. Yes, it was Friday night, but I jumped in at the rank, not randomly off the street. (And when you grab a cab from the street a price is agreed, not when you go from the rank, as I understand it.)
In any case, he plucked £9.00 out of the air. It costs me less than that on a Saturday night to go from Duncan Street in a Black and White cab, let alone just off new Briggate. In fact, it costs less than that from the station. I know as I have the receipts. I told him this and he refuted that, saying that with two stops it would be £9. Again, waiting time for those stops couldn't have been more than two and a half minutes. Maybe three at a push. I argued him down to £8, which still felt like a little much and I'll probably avoid getting their taxis again for a while. The taxi before that also took me a much longer route home, as he'd not listened to where I wanted to be, so all in all it's not good. Being a pretty loyal customer I'm a little miffed.