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How To Drive Well On the Strip: Just Back Off The Tires In Front
Vegas driving: dontcha just love it? Freeways with about eight different lanes marked on top of each other, cars stopping randomly on the Strip to catch the Bellagio fountains, and, um, taxis that think that being able to see their tires is a mark of good driving.
Surely if you can’t see their rear tires, that’d be because you’re pretty much touching bumpers with him? So yeah, we were aware that that would be unsafe. But we'd hope for a little more with 'safe' driving.
(And yes, we’re mainly bitter because we failed our Nevada relocation driving test yesterday. Possibly because we were staying too far back from the car in front.)
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How to Use Twitter To Bypass The Endless Taxi Line At McCarran
Did you hear the news? Conferences and tourists are returning to Vegas. Well, they never really left, however as the economy begins to improve you can bet that the trade shows and tourists will make sure your arrival into McCarran International Airport is crowded and chaotic.
Once you have dealt with the monorail, and once you have made it to the bottom of the escalator and retrieved your bag you must deal with the dreaded Vegas cab line. During midweek, and for that matter during this down economy, the cab line has not been much of an issue, but on Friday nights and during conventions that line can be over half an hour long. How do you beat it? Easy.
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Hey, Taxi! What You Should Know About Cabbies in Vegas
Cabs are a tricky thing. In Vegas, at least. We get so distracted by ogling the...er...beauty of the Strip, we forget to pay attention to the fare meter. That's why you need to know before you go. Here are our must-know tips about taxis in Las Vegas.
· Automatic $3.30 Fee
Whenever you get into a cab in Las Vegas, the meter automatically begins at $3.30. This is the drop fee for the initial activation of the meter. Ugh. If you hop into a cab at McCarren airport, there is another automatic fee of $1.80. This is usually tacked on by the meter at the end of the ride. After that, each mile is $2.40. A four-minute wait time is $3.00 more. The slow airport shuttles that cost $11 round-trip are starting to look pretty good right now, huh?
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Ways To Bypass the Endless Taxi Line At McCarran
As anyone who has arrived at McCarran International Airport on a Friday evening or the day before a giant convention like CES knows, the taxi lines can be frighteningly long.
There's no bigger buzz kill than arriving in Sin City only have to wait in a never-ending queue, lugging your suitcase behind you and listening to other people's annoying conversations. And we do mean that it's a buzz kill, literally, because by the time you get yourself into a cab that in-flight buzz you tied on has no doubt worn off.
That might change if the Las Vegas Monorail ever gets its rail to from the Strip to the airport built, but that’s unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future. Fortunately, in the meantime, there are other options to waiting in the endless Vegas cabbie queue.
