Most NYC cabs are the Ford Crown Victoria. www.fordusa.com One passenger in front, 3 adults in the back. The boot is pretty large. It is called a 3 body trunk. Movies have been made about the misadventures and driving habits of NYC cabbies.

The Honda minivan taxis never quite took off.

Either way, wait in the line and the dispacher will put you in the right cab and decide if you need 2 cabs. On the street, NYC cabbies drive away from people with lotsa luggage.

I will be in NYC in late April and May for different affairs.

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Originally posted by PamM:
Weird question.. but we have to get a cab from the NYPST to the hotel. Do they have mpv sized ones, ie big enough for 4 plus baggage? or will we end up having to get 2?
Pam

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Originally posted by desirod7:
Either way, wait in the line and the dispacher will put you in the right cab and decide if you need 2 cabs. On the street, NYC cabbies drive away from people with lotsa luggage.

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You should also be aware that the cab rank and system at the pier in New York is chaotic - so bad, in fact, that the last two times we have been there we have walked over to Eleventh Avenue to pick up a cab on the street. With the amount of baggae you have, you might want to use Cunard's (horribly overpriced) White Star limo service!

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Originally posted by mec1:
With the amount of baggae you have, you might want to use Cunard's (horribly overpriced) White Star limo service!

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Pam -
With the amount of baggae you have, you might want to use Cunard's (horribly overpriced) White Star limo service!

Mike

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Geez! They used to offer a free shuttle bus to Penn and Grand Central Stations. Of course you had to book it in advance and be able to handle all your luggage since it left the pier 2 hours after docking and didn't wait for stragglers.

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Originally posted by PamM:

All seems quite ludicrous for 10 blocks or so,

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Whether or not walking is advisable depends what direction your hotel is from the PST. A policeman at the pier told me I was crazy to walk from the PST to my hotel when I asked for some directions, not because of the distance involved (a mere 21 blocks) but because of the neighbourhoods I would have to walk through. I walked anyways and I am still here 26 years later.

What hotel will you be staying at?

As to the cab.. well, it had seen better days Driver sat reading his paper at each set of lights, not noticing the traffic moving once. All 4 of us sat in the back as he couldn't be bothered to move his bag in the front. No seatbelts. Miserable blighter too.

But we went in a number during the time in NYC, so cheap compared to here, even with tipping the 'bellboys' to get you one; they don't seem to mind rushing out into the middle of the road to stop a cab for you, then the traffic while you run across and jump in! Saves a lot of time faffing about with buses/subway etc when time is short. We certainly had 'fun' speeding at 80mph+ through red lights, squeezing out other vehicles, while the cabbie camly tells us there are few if any accidents in yellow cabs... only to see one the following morning booted up the rear end, trunk open, abandoned for an hour until it could be moved.. we had fun, pity we couldn't have stayed longer.

What a view from the hotel, from the room down Broadway to Times Square, and out the elevator lobby area QM2! Weird feeling, still swaying at sea, 21 floors up!

Sometimes these very banal practicalities get forgotten when preparing a voyage.µ

Still 5USD compared to 2OOUSD... there is an unaccountable difference here.

I am paying $54Cn, each way for HAL transfer to and from LaGuardia. Highway robbery. I can get a Limo for that price from home to the airport, in fact even less ($50.00 w. tip). I was going to take a cab to the airport then was warned that the lines would be long - originally I had an early flight - now it's not until 3:30pm, so I could have made it.