Most hotels offer either pick up or drop off as part of your booking. We had chosen an airport pick up. We usually always prefer airport pick up as part of our booking, even though it may cost more than taking an airport taxi or Uber. Arriving tired in a new city, sometimes at night or very early morning, we have no intention of navigating the intricacies of fares and maps and always being alert about fare/ route cheating (more commonplace than you think, even in Europe).
In Siem Reap, we were very amused to find our
pickup was a tuktuk (the larger version of the rickshaws so much part of an
Indian’s life). Had all our bags arrived with us, one wonders how we would have
accommodated us and the bags in the tuktuk! But the driver, Bannu, was nice (he
was with us all through our stay in Siem Reap). The road into the city was
empty- no traffic at all! – and the city itself was quiet and dozing off in the
afternoon. It woke up in the evening and early morning, of course, but the afternoon
was strangely quiet.
And even more amusing, four days later, our
airport drop was in a full 20-seater minibus, only for us! This was charged
separately, of course.
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