An honest cab driver is hard to find:

So cab drivers in Thailand are kind of like tailors in Vietnam. They don’t really listen to the location you want to go to, but instead take you to where they think you should go. If you tell them to take you to a specific shopping mall, they just hear the word “shoppeeng” and take you to what they think the best mall is. We learned this lesson the hard way. We left the palace and had a bitch of a time trying to find a cab to take us back to the part of town we wanted to explore next. So we picked a place that had a shopping mall so we could just use that as a point of reference for the driver. We finally found one that would take us, but we had to negotiate a price first. We told him the mall and showed it to him on a map. He nodded “yes” he knew the place. Remember we only picked this place because it was in the part of town we wanted to get to, and it was an easy frame of reference. But the cab driver took us to a different mall in a completely different location because it was “much better shoppeeng.” I guess it’s our fault for telling him the name, the address, pointing to it on the map, and paying him almost double what we would have by the meter. So we decided to just call an end to the day. We found another cab to take us to our hotel, and this time we were even more clear that we wanted this specific hotel, not a hotel that he thinks we’d enjoy more. Then we ate dinner at this restaurant. We both ordered pad Thai. The next day we caught a flight to the beach. We are so ready for the beach. Please no more walking. What’s that Angelica? You can’t wait to take long walks on the beach?