Its been almost a month since the taxi's in Marbella have changed to the metered system. With this has also come a massive increase in the prices charged

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Its been almost a month since the taxi's in Marbella have changed to the metered system. With this has also come a massive increase in the prices charged and a lack in consistency. For example a trip that I would have done by taxi from time to time, would have cost €5 during the day or a little over €6 at night, Now with the meter system the cost has varied from €8 to over €10. I took a taxi into town on Saturday afternoon which I had called to my apartment, when he arrived the meter was already on and was at €4.70 instead of the standard starting rate of €3.75. the driver claimed that he is allowed to start the meter from when he gets the call from the central office to come to my apartment, because he is not allowed to pick up anybody else along the way. But he reluctantly reset the meter, then I discovered that he had started the meter at rate 2, which is for night time and holidays(Saturday was not a holiday). Of course all the way into town he crawls along hoping for the lights to change so that he will get delayed and the meter would continue to go up while sitting at the lights. Has anybody else had experience of the taxi rip off recently?

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