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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I have a semi-off topic question about mumbai: is it physically possible to walk from the airport to a train station? In real life I will surely take a taxi but I have some deep paranoid fear of getting stranded when I travel and airports seem really random on if they are physically things you can walk to or if they have some terrible street layout with only non pedestrian roads. Usually I'd look on google street view to give myself peace of mind that even if I lose all my money as long as I have my plane ticket I can get home at the end but no street view for that area. I don't even strictly care if it's safe since whatever dumb mental hypothetical I'm coming up with won't happen and I won't need to do it, but I'd want to know if one can walk to it or if it's like heathrow where there simply isn't a way for pedestrians to enter. Domestic or international terminal? It's like 1km for the domestic terminal to Vile Parle station which can get you to either Victoria or CST (forget which one exactly). Full of touts etc. and you can't trust any of these guys to give you accurate directions. Rickshaw should be really cheap though, especially outside the airport (but as always in India, haggle it down, the real price is less than $1). I took the rickshaw from Vile Parle to the airport because it was raining like hell when I was there last. Roads were not massive highways, rather quite small roads. You can walk on the side (good luck crossing the road though), as long as it's not raining.
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tekz posted:I would recommend getting a registered cab from the airport. The prices are fixed and there's less of a chance of getting robbed/ripped off by the driver because their names, addresses and the date and time they picked you up are on file. I had trouble getting them to run the meter. Usually meant 3-4 cabs would refuse until once accepted. It's fine, I walked and took trains everywhere, even in the rainy season. Anyway, the guy was asking about the train even though he said he probably would take a taxi.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:I don't want to be too mean about this but a guy did a totally unscientific nonsense test of your car then told you he needed to do work that you didn't know you needed? You may have been more scammed than you think. Maybe not completely relevant for this case but the reason these guys are annoy the hell out of everyone is because "it's only $2" and "$2 is half a day's pay for 20 minutes work" are a dangerous combo.
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