{"id":341,"date":"2010-07-04T14:53:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T14:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2010-09-11T04:45:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T04:45:22","slug":"look-for-the-official-and-reliable-taxis-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/beijing-travel\/beijing-tourist-traps\/look-for-the-official-and-reliable-taxis-in-beijing","title":{"rendered":"Look for the official and reliable taxis in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Once you are in the city of Beijing for sightseeing, you are advised not to use the taxis that are parked or outside some big tourist places.\u00a0\u00a0These are where the taxi scammers will wait for you!\u00a0It &#8216;s better to walk a few blocks away, and hail a cab.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">There are many illegal taxis in Beijing. These black taxis are disguised\u00a0as official ones with fake signs and meter. Fake taxi drivers cheat passengers in various ways. They detour or don&#8217;t use meters. Instead, they bargain with you for a taxi ride. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Then how to recognise a black taxi and find an official one? Please find below some tips:<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">1) The official taxi plaque number starts with the number &#8220;B&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">2) Fake Cloning &#8220;Beijing B&#8221; brand of taxis in the night have no taxi light<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">3) On the dashboard is a placard with the drivers registration number. If this placard is missing then avoid it.<br \/>\n4) The official taxi should be equippped with the light on the top and meter measuring.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">5) THe official taxi driver will give you\u00a0a computerized printed\u00a0receipt (Fapiao) after you have paid the taxi ride instead of a hand-written receipt.\u00a0 In the computerized printed\u00a0receipt,\u00a0you can find the taxi company&#8217;s phone number while a black driver only offers you a hand-written receipt with which\u00a0 you will never find him!<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_346\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-346\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/taxi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-346\" title=\"taxi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/taxi-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/taxi-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/taxi.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beijing&#39;s traffic congestion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Once you are in the city of Beijing for sightseeing, you are advised not to use the taxis that are parked or outside some big tourist places.\u00a0\u00a0These are where the taxi scammers will wait for you!\u00a0It &#8216;s better to walk a few blocks away, and hail a cab. \u00a0 There are many illegal taxis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18,31,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing-tour-reviews","category-beijing-tourist-traps","category-beijing-transportation","category-beijing-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}