#pinkyandblue

[pinkyandblue]

“I Speak Uber”

Our very first time in an Uber... exciting!

A few days ago we wanted to go to the Pavlovsk & Catherine Palace. We were looking into our options and we only had 2 options: public transport or taxi/uber. As the public transportation system would take at least two hours transit time, we went for the uber system.

Installing the app and creating a profile was easy, and attaching my paypal account was easy as well. However when we tried requesting the car for the first ride, it went wrong. We got the following detailed error message: “something went wrong” :-). Turns out: attaching my visa card to my profile fixed the problem.

It works like this: you indicate where you want to be picked up or you indicate “my location” and your destination place. You immediately see a number of cars pop up on your screen and a few minutes later you get a proposal. For the first ride (1h drive) we got a quote of around 900 rubles (+- 15 euros), what seemed too cheap to be true. It’s very convenient that you can see the rating of the driver they propose, how much experience he have, the price and how long it will take before the car is there to pick you up. It’s almost unbelievable how fast a driver can be there to pick you up. We really had to hurry to escape our hotel from the second floor to catch our driver that would be at the front gate in 5 minutes. Another advantage is that when you confirm the booking you can see the license plate and the car brand although for a women like Pinky it would be easier to know the colour of the car instead of the brand :-)

Driving style? Well you have “ to keep calm, carry on and think happy thoughts” as sometimes they make sharp turns, squeeze in the traffic but generally speaking you feel safe (mainly because this is the driving style of everyone in Russia).

For us this experience was extra adventurous as we do not speak Russian and we were wondering how that would work out… Quite well we have to admit, the driver can perfectly perform his assignment without any verbal communication. Of course we just had to try it anyway with following results:

Ride 1: Me: Do you speak English? Driver: Nods no  - Silence for remainder of ride -

Ride 2: Me: Do you speak English? Driver: Yes  - Silence for remainder of ride -

Ride 3: Me: Do you speak English? Driver: I only speak Uber  - Silence for remainder of ride -

Overall we were very happy with the Uber experience, although we are a little flabbergasted about the low fares. We can only hope the drivers still earn enough money to make a descent living.

[pinkyandbluebudapest-blog]

Ready for departure at the airport

[pinkyandblueusa]

Je kan al zien waar Pinky het meeste mee bezig is...

[a-feneked-az-en-igazi-gyengem]

amugy mik ezek a kerdesek? omfg:')

FIGYELJ FOGALMAM NINCS. de nem bírom tovább

[pinkyandblueusa]

Ook al het papierwerk wordt grondig gecontroleerd!

[pinkyandblueusa]

Alles moet perfect verlopen! Gelukkig inspecteren onze helden zeer intensief onze valiezen.

[pinkyandblueusa]

Ontmoet Pinky (rechts) en Blue (links).

Deze avontuurlijke eendjes hebben besloten een reis naar de USA te maken en omdat ze ons zo graag hebben mogen wij (An & John) mee!

Om iedereen (die dat wil) een beetje op de hoogte te houden van het reilen en zeilen van de tour in “The Wild Wild West” hebben Pinky & Blue ons de taak opgelegd om een blog bij te houden.

Je zit hier dus officieel op de juiste plaats om onze reis te volgen!