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Old 04-08-2008, 01:54 PM
SuziQ2708
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Arrow Taxi

Whilst staying in El Gouna we took a taxi from the Movenpick to Hurghada New Downtown which cost standard 100 LE (£10 GBP) one way. The return cost is 150 LE (£15) with an additional charge of 30 LE (£3) per hour waiting fee. We wanted to stay in Hurghada for three hours and the driver wanted to charge us five hours waiting fee!! I argued that we shouldn't have to pay the waiting fee from the time he picked us up to the time he dropped us back at hotel, but he was having none of it, besides which this would have been four hours as it is only half hour car drive each way not one hour each way as he was trying to claim! We paid him the 100 LE fee for one way and took a Hurghada (blue & orange) taxi back for which we paid another 100 LE. Although there is a bus to Hurghada from El Gouna Downtown, we never actually saw one and didn't feel confident to risk catching the bus back to El Gouna, I don't doubt it would have been a lot cheaper though even with 4 of us travelling.
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