drivers and/or transfers

[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

Hello, there.
>Do any of you have recommendations of how best to get from and to =
>Sheremetevo-2? Feeling a bit squeamish about taxis and taxi drivers in =
>Moscow, I feel reluctant to take chances with that mode of transport. =
>Does anyone know of a reliable agency that offers pick-up and drop-off =
>services between downtown Moscow and the airport? Has anyone had =
>experience with a transfer service called "go-to.ru"? I'm most thankful =
>for any and all advice you may offer me on this subject.

Only the taxis from Sheremetievo are extremely expensive and have
odious reputation. Others are all right.
You have three choices:
    1. cheapest: use an ordinary bus (8 or 10 roubles to the tube station
            Rechnoj Vokzal). Overseas visitors are rare. If you
      are not in a hurry, you can kill time watching people in the bus.
    2. standard: use an express bus (15 or 20 roubles to tube stations --
          Rechnoj Vokzal, Planernaja, Vojkovskaja, Kievskaja; the one to
          Rechnoj Vokzal is easiest to find and most frequent).
       Most well-to-do Russians (those who are not too rich) use this.
    3. expensive: contact your host or your hotel and ask them to send
       their tax driver to pick you up. The going rate is $25, but you
       may need a bit more.

At any event, do not try to find a "reliable" taxi at the airport (I don't
recommend even the Intourist office there!). No sane Russians do so.
Everyone knows that the airports are the domains of mafioso (the complex of
security service, police, civil servants and the criminals): ordinary, honest
taxi drivers are forbidden to operate there, except when they put their car
in the car park, meet people at the way out, and drive them to the town.

Cheers,
Tsuji

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