Uber Approved in Quintana Roo

[JFS]

Had a customer take taxi ( we recommended UBER) from their resort to the Punta Sam Marina in Cancun
( under 15 min ride) cost was $25usd. They took an UBER back to their resort, cost was $5.

 

[ggunn]

Had a customer take taxi ( we recommended UBER) from their resort to the Punta Sam Marina in Cancun
( under 15 min ride) cost was $25usd. They took an UBER back to their resort, cost was $5.

Uber and taxi rides are not necessarily symmetrical in cost, and Uber rides change price for different times of day and varying demand here in Austin.

 

[JFS]

Uber and taxi rides are not necessarily symmetrical in cost, and Uber rides change price for different times of day and varying demand here in Austin.

doesnt seem to apply here. Always way much cheaper than taxi

 

[lionfish-eater]

Quintana Roo taking steps to stop aggressive taxi drivers from working in other states - Riviera Maya News

Riviera Maya, Q.R. -- The State of Quintana Roo is taking steps to prevent aggressive taxi drivers from working in other states.

riviera-maya-news.com

 

[Chrisk919]

I was just in Play Del Carmen at the end of July. I couldn't find any drivers using Uber, so yeah, ended up spending 300p/$15USD for a ride I know should have been about $5, but it was 11pm and a long walk back.

I kind of got a sense from talking to my dive guide later that Taxi drivers sort of make life hard for any freelance rideshare drivers (or for that fact dive guides picking up guests in personal vehicles near the hotel zone)

 

[gopbroek]

Cancun taxi driver arrested after attacking vehicle he mistook for Uber - Riviera Maya News

Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo Mexico English news today. Your reliable online newspaper.

riviera-maya-news.com

 

[L13]

It's not a big deal. If the exchange rate were 16.41:1, you wouldn't expect the cab driver to get out a calculator and tell you that the 85 peso cab ride will be US$5.18 and give you US$4.82 in change for your 10 dollar bill. By the same token you can't expect the driver to charge you US$5 and take the loss.

The fares are set in pesos; cab drivers figure, and rightly so, that if you are going to pay in US dollars, rounding the fare up to a convenient number for them isn't going to be a hardship for you. If you are feeling "ripped off" by this, pay in pesos.

I just spent a week in Cozumel, and used taxis exclusively. 100% of the drivers quoted the official rate in pesos. The dollar rate was approximately: round (typical, not bank) pesos/USD in favor of driver, calculate dollars, round to whole USD in favor of driver. Which I found very fair.

This was different than my trip about 10 months ago, when it was not uncommon to be quoted wildly inflated rates. As far as I am concerned as a customer, Uber has done the taxi drivers a favor. Taxi's are so ubiquitous that they are more convenient than Uber and, now that the rates are honest due to the competition, I think they might be cheaper (in any case, they are definitely reasonable now).

 

[berndo]

I don't know why anyone uses BS companies like uber and amazon. These companies take money away from working people and funnel it to some already rich a$$holes from some 'tech' corporation.
Super low paying jobs are created by killing normal, semi decent jobs and small businesses... only so people can save a few dollars or get 1 day faster shipping.
Don't use uber or amazon or starbucks... support people who actually work instead of shareholders, even if it costs you 2 bucks more. The world would be better for it.

 

[ggunn]

I just spent a week in Cozumel, and used taxis exclusively. 100% of the drivers quoted the official rate in pesos. The dollar rate was approximately: round (typical, not bank) pesos/USD in favor of driver, calculate dollars, round to whole USD in favor of driver. Which I found very fair.

This was different than my trip about 10 months ago, when it was not uncommon to be quoted wildly inflated rates. As far as I am concerned as a customer, Uber has done the taxi drivers a favor. Taxi's are so ubiquitous that they are more convenient than Uber and, now that the rates are honest due to the competition, I think they might be cheaper (in any case, they are definitely reasonable now).

FWIW I think it is likely more due to the luck of the draw than to any direct effect of incoming Uber if indeed it is on the island now. I have always found the majority of cab drivers to be honest.

 

[L13]

I don't why anyone uses BS companies like uber and amazon. These companies take money away from working people and funnel it to some already rich a$$holes from some 'tech' corporation.
Super low paying jobs are created by killing normal, semi decent jobs and small businesses... only so people can save a few dollars or get 1 day faster shipping.
Don't use uber or amazon or starbucks... support people who actually work instead of shareholders, even if it costs you 2 bucks more. The world would be better for it.

If the "rich a$$holes" are taking money away from the working people, then the working people should be able to charge the same amount in their local stores and pocket that profit themselves. It shouldn't cost 2 bucks more.

Uber would never have existed if taxi companies had provided a convenient internet interface and competitive prices from the beginning. Even after it came to be, if they had responded quickly with that same convenience and pricing, Uber would have died almost at birth. Same thing with with Amazon vs. Sears: Sears already had all the infrastructure to kill Amazon from their catalog business, stores, and distribution systems. But Sears ignored the competition and died instead.

The taxi drivers in Cozumel are responding competitively, and so Uber isn't competitive there (at least for me).