Mika Tuupola

The most amusing taxi ride yet ends in being slighty ripped off in Tallinn…

Taxi rides in Tallinn can vary a lot. Sometimes they are hazardous. Maybe because the driver can be ambulance driver having two jobs. Sometimes the driver can get lost. With Tulika Takso I have always had good service and fast non-hazardous rides in clean cars. Tulika drivers I always tip by paying to the closest 20 kroons.

My first encounter with another taxi company was a bit different. Took a cab in front of D-terminal. Inside of the cab everything was red. I mean everything. Dashboard was covered with tens of different bouncing toys – all in colour red. It vaquely reminded me of the decorated taxicabs in india. The experience was spiced up with loud russian KAAALINKA KALINKA style music and the driver constantly honking to slower cars. This all got me in a good mood…

... until we were there. Taxi ride from central Tallinn to my place usually costs around 75 to 85 kroons. When the taxi stopped the driver just said 100 kroons and I could not see the taximeter anywhere. 15 kroons is not a big deal. I was going to pay the driver 100 kroons as I usually do anyway. There is no need to try to rip me off. The only difference to me was to become pissed off and not using the same company again.

From now on I’ll just use Tulika Takso.