Prentiss Riddle
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Português and/or Francés in 2023
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You ask about ride share services and I am going to reply about taxi services. The app that I would use is called Siri. Siri, find taxi gets me local taxi phone numbers, and in my (limited) experience they come from wherever they are to pick me up.It would have been great to have an app to call a ride, even if it was an expensive one.
Whenever you see a taxi number posted take a picture of it, because you never know if you might need it.Often at the major interections of the path the local taxi service posts their number.
And I take daily pictures of these numbers so I have them if needed and at the end of the day just delete and start over the next day. Many places you stay have a board with taxi cards on them.Often at the major interections of the path the local taxi service posts their number.
Yes, good idea to delete them periodically so that you don't have the taxi number for Estella when you are in Hontanas!And I take daily pictures of these numbers so I have them if needed and at the end of the day just delete and start over the next day. Many places you stay have a board with taxi cards on them.
I've never tried a rideshare on the CF. The last time I hitched on the CF, it was long before any of the services existed. I did, however, use BlaBlaCar to get me from SdC to Porto after my last Camino. I wouldn't be surprised if the service operated between the larger towns (Pamplona - Logroño - Burgos - Leon etc.). You might be able to arrange a ride from a larger town to a smaller town or village with someone who is passing through. From a smaller town or village would be a lot harder, I'd expect. Probably much easier just to call a taxi.Which rideshare services operate along the Camino Francés?
I've heard that Uber and Lyft operate in Madrid (or have when they're not in legal hot water), and I've heard of other services in Spain like Cabify, Free Now, and BlaBlaCar.
But my question is which of these services operate along the Francés, either in the bigger cities or in smaller towns and in between.
I'm partly asking in order to arrange transport to and from airports/train stations, but also because of one time we got stranded with a leg injury in a town that had no bus service or cab stand. We got out of that with a combo of hitchhiking (quite pleasant) and walking on the injury (not so fun). It would have been great to have an app to call a ride, even if it was an expensive one.
I took a Blablacar from Santiago to Porto.Which rideshare services operate along the Camino Francés?
I've heard that Uber and Lyft operate in Madrid (or have when they're not in legal hot water), and I've heard of other services in Spain like Cabify, Free Now, and BlaBlaCar.
But my question is which of these services operate along the Francés, either in the bigger cities or in smaller towns and in between.
I'm partly asking in order to arrange transport to and from airports/train stations, but also because of one time we got stranded with a leg injury in a town that had no bus service or cab stand. We got out of that with a combo of hitchhiking (quite pleasant) and walking on the injury (not so fun). It would have been great to have an app to call a ride, even if it was an expensive one.
BlaBlaCar is a viable way to get around. I know one person who "did the entire pilgrimage" by BlaBlaCar. (This is not an invitation to debate the merits of a "pilgrimage" by car).Which rideshare services operate along the Camino Francés?
Within the cities? No peer-to-peer rideshare services (like BlaBlaCar) would work. Nobody wants to pick up passengers on their way to the supermarket.Thanks, all. Maybe I should have been more specific: mostly I want to know which rideshare services would work in (say) Pamplona, Burgos, León, maybe Logroño, etc.
Well, Uber was alive and well in Porto the last time I was there. So I think rideshare can work in Iberian cities. (Whether that's a good or bad thing is a matter of opinion.)Within the cities? No rideshare services would work. Nobody wants to pick up passengers on their way to the supermarket.
Within the cities? No rideshare services would work. Nobody wants to pick up passengers on their way to the supermarket.
Between those cities? Blablacar.
I think that it depends on your definition of "rideshare."Well, Uber was alive and well in Porto the last time I was there. So I think rideshare can work in Iberian cities
Thanks Trecile. After checking definitions to this vague and abstract inquiry I see that rideshare is used to describe commercial platforms that match vehicles for hire with passengers. In that definition, Uber is ride share.I think that it depends on your definition of "rideshare."
Yeah, "rideshare" is a terribly generous term for Uber, Lyft, etc. But it is the standard industry term used in journalism, policy, and travel writing, at least in my country. Cf Wikipedia.I think that it depends on your definition of "rideshare."
I see "rideshare" commonly used for services like Uber. Maybe at one point, Uber actually was a platform for people sharing rides, getting others to share the car and the cost of gas. I don't think it has been that way for quite some time. Now Uber, Lyft, and other similar platforms are essentially taxi services that call themselves ride sharing to avoid the regulations that other transportation companies operate under.I think that it depends on your definition of "rideshare."
No. From Wikipedia -Maybe at one point, Uber actually was a platform for people sharing rides, getting others to share the car and the cost of gas.
call themselves ride sharing to avoid the regulations that other transportation companies operate under.
That's why I started with "Maybe".No. From Wikipedia -
"Uber was founded in 2009 as "Ubercab," by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick... Originally, the application only allowed users to hail a black luxury car and the price was 1.5 times that of a taxi.... In 2011, the company changed its name from UberCab to Uber after complaints from San Francisco taxicab operators.
Bingo.
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