Practical guides to getting to Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport: routes, terminals, fares and travel tips.
12 Oct 2019 · 6 min read
Races against the clock, forgotten belongings, confessions in the early hours and tourists with a slip of paper in their hand: the stories that come up again and again in any taxi.
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21 Sep 2019 · 4 min read
With a fixed fare, you pay for the airport taxi per car, not per person. We explain how it splits between several people, how many of you fit and how to organise it without any fuss.
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20 Sep 2019 · 4 min read
Barajas is one of the main gateways for tourism in Spain. Why it is, what it means for travellers and where to find the official figures.
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17 Aug 2019 · 5 min read
A work dinner, a wedding at a country estate or New Year's Eve: how you get home is decided before you go out, not at three in the morning. The options, and how to arrange a taxi when everyone wants one.
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30 Jul 2019 · 10 min read
A tele taxi is a taxi you order by phone, message or online and that picks you up at your door. How it works, what services you can request in Madrid and the situations in which it gets you out of a fix.
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25 Jul 2019 · 5 min read
Studies of London taxi drivers showed that memorising a city changes the brain. What was discovered, what it means and what it has to do with Madrid's taxi drivers.
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28 Jun 2019 · 6 min read
Official ranks, meter or fixed price, tipping by country and little tricks for getting around by taxi on holiday without paying over the odds.
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23 May 2019 · 6 min read
To work as a taxi driver you need the municipal driver's permit: a category B licence, a medical certificate, no criminal record and a pass in the City Council exam. We explain each requirement.
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22 May 2019 · 6 min read
Falcons guarding the runways, an award-winning bamboo ceiling, a train under the runway and a historic garden very close to the terminals: the side of Barajas you do not see.
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17 May 2019 · 6 min read
Swords, carts and Napoleon: the most common explanations for why almost the whole world drives on the right, who still drives on the left and what changes when you take a taxi.
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18 Apr 2019 · 7 min read
Appearance, transparency about the price and the route, calm driving and good manners: the tips that make a passenger trust their taxi driver and call them again.
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29 Mar 2019 · 7 min read
Barajas handles well over a hundred thousand passengers a day on average, with much higher peaks in summer and on long weekends. How it is calculated, where to see the official data and which times to avoid.
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