$3 Surcharge for Resort World Sentosa

Poolman SG

VISITORS to Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) will have to pay a premium to take a taxi from the integrated resort when it opens next week.

Four taxi companies have confirmed that they will impose a $3 surcharge for trips that begin at the IR.

Premier Taxis will be the first - it will start charging on Jan 18 - followed by SMRT on Jan 20 and Prime Taxis on Jan 28.

Trans-Cab will follow suit, but has not confirmed a start date. Smart Cabs said it will join in, if most of the other companies impose the surcharge.

The lone exception: ComfortDelgro, which is far and away the largest taxi company in Singapore.

The companies that are imposing the surcharge say they are doing it to ensure taxi drivers will find it worth their while to cross into Sentosa.

Poolman SG

Comfort ? Fuck la , Sonata drivers , fuck la , join TransCab la , Sentosa will have surcharge for us , Comfort can only smell .

Poolman SG

Comfort are trying to tell their drivers ....

Want surcharge ? Take call !!! $3.50 extra .

But ........... they earn $0.50 commission .

If they allowed $3 RWS surcharge , they will lose that $0.50 commissions .

For Comfort , $0.50 big deal as i've said .

Poolman SG

Anyway ...... Now Smart , Premier , TransCab and SMRT all follow .

Prime will eventually follow .

Left Comfort .......

Looked like now Big Brother must listen to all the 5 small brothers .

Interesting to see what will happen .

likeyou SG

It is meant for foreigners, not for locals.

$3 surcharge? Killing off the taxi drivers earning only.

Poolman SG

Locals or tourist , once u got onboard a cab inside RWS , $3 .

Killing the cabby ?

No la .

If no surcharge , who the fuck want to cross the fucking bridge and go into RWS and pick up business ?

Vivo pleny liao .... No need RWS .

CBD just 5 minutes away , got $3 City surcharge .

$3 can really save their asses .

Tell you what . Sentosa is one place in Singapore , ON Call also no taxi wanna go in .

Believe me .

^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~ SG

Locals or tourist , once u got onboard a cab inside RWS , $3 .

Killing the cabby ?

No la .

If no surcharge , who the fuck want to cross the fucking bridge and go into RWS and pick up business ?

Vivo pleny liao .... No need RWS .

CBD just 5 minutes away , got $3 City surcharge .

$3 can really save their asses .

Tell you what . Sentosa is one place in Singapore , ON Call also no taxi wanna go in .

Believe me .

tuas no taxi wanna go... go also get lost...

sbst275 SG

in the long run, surcharges wun work esp if Sentosa general areas would not have surcharges in the long run.

as I've mentioned before long ago, the current fare structure has to be simplified. It's sad only Singapore has a complex system of surcharges

komade SG

hehe who say 1 tuas call i nber reject 1 easy to go lar.

tuas my playground last time.... :P

caleb_chiang SG

$ makes the world go round...

Aetheling SG

YOU GUYS SUCK BIG TIME !!! It is a really small Island. You guys have to grow up.we are not saying it is an easy job. but your bickering never stops. And your surcharges grows like a restaurant bill $3 for this and $2 for that .Soon you guys will be losing out.

sinicker SG

If no surcharge , who the fuck want to cross the fucking bridge and go into RWS and pick up business ?

cross bridge at 40km/h.

Teolk SG

the rest of sentosa will have a tough time getting a cab liao with tis surcharge

ALN SG

wa if comfort no $3, on call me also dun wan…. slow to go in and high chance no show…

btw, empty taxi go in sentosa no need to pay entrance fee?

Insg SG

in the long run, surcharges wun work esp if Sentosa general areas would not have surcharges in the long run.

as I've mentioned before long ago, the current fare structure has to be simplified. It's sad only Singapore has a complex system of surcharges

you think so easy to simplify?

the high cost of cabby, large fleet of taxi and few pax after midnight make it difficult to have a simple fare structure.

Poolman SG

Cool it .

We don't fixed it , the taxi companies fixed it !

If u have $1000 to gamble and throw into the resort , $3 is nothing lar , what the f**k !

Poolman SG

the rest of sentosa will have a tough time getting a cab liao with tis surcharge

tat is why Comfort hold on to it .

If the rest dun have surcharge , so u have to call .

Tat's what they wanted , u to call for a cab .