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| - I've taken a fair amount of cabs in Vegas and in LA and never had a big issue. Sure, they're not the nicest people sometimes, but as long as I get to where I need to go, I don't really care. This experience with Vegas Western Cab was disappointing.
When we got in the cab at Paris Hotel, we told him that we needed to be taken to our Air B'N'B that was 10 minutes away from The Strip. He didn't know where it was so I had to pull out my GPS to help him get there. While crossing over the highway on Flamingo, he started driving very very slowly and I asked him why. He told us that he was considering dropping us off at Rio because he "wasn't allowed to go into the Charleston area". We told him the address, told him the cross streets, told him it was literally a mile down the road from where we were, but that we were not locals so we didn't know if was in the "Charleston area". We talked him out of dropping us off at Rio (which in hindsight, we probably should have and hailed a safer cab) and then he started threatening us, saying that if we got even close to Charleston, he'd drop us off on the side of the road. 4 girls. Just abandon them on the side of the road at 2am. My friend started writing down his cab number and he noticed, and he said "Go ahead! Call my supervisor! They'll tell you I'm not allowed to go to Charleston!"... if your not allowed to go to Charleston, how come you don't know where Charleston IS?
Also, the entire time this was happening, he was talking on the phone with someone else. It was a headpiece, but still.
He did end up taking us to our house and when we got out, he got out of the car and started yelling at us about slamming his car door. To be fair, my friend was very upset about being threatened, so she did exit the cab a little rudely, but I don't know if that justifies screaming at us all the way to our doorstep.
What a way to kill, what so far, had been the perfect vegas trip.
The reason I give them 2 STARS is because I just got off the phone with a supervisor and she was awesome. I called just to ask if it was true if some cab drivers were not allowed to drive into residential areas, because if that WERE true, then he should have been up front about it when we got into the cab and told him where we needed to go. She was very reasonable, told me that there was no way that was the case, apologized for his rudeness, and said she'd talk to his direct supervisor.
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