Dublin taxis keep top ten spot

DUBLIN taxis
have been ranked the ninth best in the world in a taxi report compiled by a
leading hotel booking website.

Taxis in the
capital recived four per cent of the vote in the annual taxi report compiled by
Hotels.com.

The report is
based on a survey of almost 5,000 travellers from 23 countries around the world
who were asked for their views on various aspects of travelling by taxi.

Dublin slipped
one place from last year when they were ranked eight in the survey.

The best place
to get a taxi according to the report is London. The English capital’s iconic
black cabs are a big hit with holiday makers and received 28 per cent of the
vote.

London cabbies
were also placed top in five out of the seven categories including safety,
friendliness, cleanliness, quality of driving and knowledge of the area.

Despite also
being named the most expensive (with 20 per cent of the vote), London’s taxis
beat off competition from New York (favourite amongst nine per cent of
travellers) and Hong Kong (third with seven per cent of the vote).

Tokyo and
Singapore completed the global top five both receiving seven per cent and six
per cent of the vote respectively, displacing the German city of Berlin and
capital of Thailand, Bangkok from last year’s top five.

New York’s
famous yellow taxi cabs won the best availability accolade with 32 per cent of
the vote, despite being perceived to have the worst knowledge of the area (11
per cent voting them worst).

Almost a third
(30 per cent), of travellers thought Bangkok’s infamous Tuk Tuk represented the
best value for money; although it was also voted worst in the world for

‘quality of driving’ with 32 per cent of the vote, along with having the worst
cleanliness and safety, gaining an unimpressive 22 per cent and 36 per cent
share of the vote respectively.