tom_kat wrote:
UBer isn't perfect especially in downtown SJ. Sometimes they will tell you to walk to a pickup point but I have no idea where the pickup is and you can't get a person on the phone and when the driver calls you he can't find you. I need crutches to get around and it is difficult to get around looking for the Uber, but 90% of the time they come right to you. Also with the new tax they are no cheaper than the taxis. And the taxis use the old addresses so it is less easy to find a complicated place.
"No cheaper than the taxis"...Saywhuttt?
I use them all the time and I typically experience 50% to 75% of taxi expense the vast majority of time, I'm in Escazu and it's always 1/2 of what a taxi is to go downtown.
I do see they are about the same as short rides, mainly with few or no turns, and on Christmas Eve Uber was double what they normally are and I caught a cab for a short ride and paid 1/2 of what they were asking, but that's an exception.
When you get into distances of a couple miles or more it really adds up and they can't play any bs games to clip you for more money...