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Taxi Service
Sri Lanka provides best taxi service for local people and tourists. Colombo is at its best for to provide taxi service where you can get motor taxis by giving a call to the taxi service provider. Tourists to Sri Lanka can find taxi service provided by their star hotels or the staff at the front desk of the hotel will provide a call taxi within minutes as they use to wait out side of the hotel.
Some three wheel transport companies use to call their service as taxi and use to advertise at roads and in front of shops. These are cheap ones but they can't protect you from the road dust, rain or high day time temperatures. Some time the three wheeler you are travelling may have to stop in traffic next to a heavy smoke from the exhaust pipe of a bus or big lorry. Three wheelers are popularly called as "auto" and "three wheel".
Most of the Taxis that are running in Sri Lanka are branded Japanese cars with A/C and good sound system for your listening pleasure, if you like. Some of these taxis are latest Japanese hybrid models which you can travel in comfort. Mean while recently Indian Nano cars are introduced as Nano cabs and can be called through phones around the Colombo city to provide you the taxi service.
All the taxis are marked and come with tariff meter and you can pay to the diver according to the meter. If you like you can give some extra cash for the driver as a fine gesture and it is not compulsory. You can carry enough bags as a passenger and there is no charge for the extra luggage.
These call taxis are available 24 hours a day through different companies and nearly all of them charge the same rate for the same distance.
So far there are no complaints by the general public to the police about the taxi drivers as these drivers are very polite and nearly all of them speak good English too.
These taxis allow only 4 passengers to travel at a time as one in the front next to the driver and 3 in the behind seats. When you call for a call taxi from a friend's home, they may take 15 to 20 minutes to reach your place in Towns. So give enough time to reach your place.
