Compared to Britain (not London; I have no experience there), I find taxis in Germany very expensive.
I would often take a taxi for £3 or £4 half way across a city in the UK, which would cost more like 15€ in Germany.
I would often take a taxi for £3 or £4 half way across a city in the UK, which would cost more like 15€ in Germany.
The average earning per km in Berlin is somewhere around or below 1,50 EUR before costs (anecdotal evidences but from a credible source). Nobody really gets rich from that - not even the cab company.
Just giving my opinion that I find taxis far more expensive in Germany than I did when living in the UK.
Here's a big list. Even allowing for the inherent unreliability of the internet (and some of those prices look a bit suspicious), just which city is it that costs three pounds to cross in a taxi?
http://www.numbeo.com/taxi-fare/country_result.jsp?country=U...
I just entered a journey I made often (home in north-west Glasgow to the central station) and that website came up with £13.50. I clearly remember paying £5 with tip for that journey from a local taxi company.
Even with the dominant black cab company, I don't remember going home from the city centre late night for as much as that.
In Paisley, which is a bit smaller, I took taxis to the airport for £3 or £4.