Mytaxi Portugal

Tips for cabbies in Portugal

About is available in Portugal, but it is not the only cab application you can use here. Now there are several other cab applications like Taxify, MyTaxi and Cabify, and more and more cab applications are starting all the while. Over can be costly, especially if the price increase starts.

When it rains, it is a good idea to have another cab application at your fingertips. A lot of taxis offer you the possibility to take your first free trip when you register. Register with other applications and let your spouse and your friend do the same, and you can take a free cab trip - for a while anyway.

See below for the free travel applications and the corresponding rebate code. There'?s no need to imagine. It is the most popular cab application, and this means that it usually also has the most driver. When you are in the center of Lisbon, you should be able to take a cab with Uber, Cabify, Taxify or any of the other cabs.

However, if you are just outside the downtown area, your next Cabify or Taxify rider may be 10-15 min away. Often there are no riders around and you don't even have to be so far from the center to get there. Compared to this, because they have so many riders, an over-driver can be less than 5 mins away.

Well, that doesn't mean Uber's perfectly good. If it begins to raine in Portugal and it comes to high prices, Uber can be high. If that happens, you will definitely want to have some of the other cab applications at your fingertips. With respect to getting a drive, and getting a drive quickly, however, Uber is definitely the best.

It is available in Lisbon, Porto, Madeira and the Algarve and will hopefully soon be available in other towns such as Coimbra and Braga. Estimate (Praça do Comércio to Lisbon Airport): 9-13 ? with UberX (no extra charge). Taxiify is one of the latest taxibook applications. They also offer 10 free euros of credits for new clients, so it's rewarding to try them out while you're in Portugal.

The Cabify is basically about the Spanishspeaking and Portuguese-speaking worlds. The company has a large footprint in Spain, Mexico and Brazil and is expanding in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Colombia. It is also available in Portugal, but only in Lisbon, Porto and Madeira. Cabify seems to differ in that it is the upscale cabbing.

The MyTaxi is one of the most favourite hair styling cabs out there, up there with over and under. On the other hand, it links passenger with licensed cabs, as opposed to over for example, where anyone can become an over-rider. My own personal experiences are that a licensed cab in Portugal does not mean that your trip is safe.

I got into cabs that don't have functioning seat belts and where the drivers did silly things like driving through traffic light. There are some folks who like the safety of getting into a cab that is actually a cab, and if you are, this is the best application for you.

Please note: MyTaxi is currently only available in Lisbon. Quotation (Praça do Comércio to Lisbon Airport): 11. 99 is a Brasilian taxicab application that has a small footprint in Lisbon and Porto. However, there seemed to be some riders in Lisbon and Porto. The MEOTaxi is a cab application from MEO, one of the most important ISPs in Portugal.

Among the features that make this application stand out is that you can define your own specification for your favorite cab. Among the choices is a rider who can speak English (or French, German, French or Italian), whether you want to turn the A/C on or off, and which channel you want to hear while driving.

You should tip your cabbie ( or over-driver )? There is no tip policy in Portugal, and there are no regulations on how much to tip in a restaurant. The use of a cab application means that you will not pay the cab fare in money, so it can make the tip a little more unpleasant (here is one euro for your problems).

A few applications, like Uber, allow you to do it through the application, so you can do it this way if you like. Did you use one of those cab-apps to explore Portugal?