Is this the norm now, that a taxi driver in Dublin would have no clue at all about how to get from A to B?
We spent a weekend in Dublin. On Saturday night, around 10.30 we got in a taxi on Dame Street to take us back to our hotel, Bewleys in Ballsbridge. Taxi driver #1 asked us where to, we told him and he shook his head and said he didn't know where that was! We told him "near the RDS, next to the British Embassy" still, not a clue. His excuse "sorry, I am not from here" ( have to state now he was nigerian by the sound of it) Rather than try to direct him we jumped out of the cab. Taxi #2, more of the same, except at least this one had a sat nav but we jumped out all the same. Only on our third attempt did we get a driver who knew where to go! I could understand if we were going to or from some obscure place or housing estate but from a city centre to a landmark hotel! Do drivers not have to show some basic knowledge of a place to get licenced?
( We never use cabs where we live and on our trips to Dublin we normally use the car so maybe we missed something! - don't pay a bit of notice to the taxi driver issues!)
We spent a weekend in Dublin. On Saturday night, around 10.30 we got in a taxi on Dame Street to take us back to our hotel, Bewleys in Ballsbridge. Taxi driver #1 asked us where to, we told him and he shook his head and said he didn't know where that was! We told him "near the RDS, next to the British Embassy" still, not a clue. His excuse "sorry, I am not from here" ( have to state now he was nigerian by the sound of it) Rather than try to direct him we jumped out of the cab. Taxi #2, more of the same, except at least this one had a sat nav but we jumped out all the same. Only on our third attempt did we get a driver who knew where to go! I could understand if we were going to or from some obscure place or housing estate but from a city centre to a landmark hotel! Do drivers not have to show some basic knowledge of a place to get licenced?
( We never use cabs where we live and on our trips to Dublin we normally use the car so maybe we missed something! - don't pay a bit of notice to the taxi driver issues!)