Any cab corporation accepting credit cards in Abu Dhabi and Dubai?
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Abu Dhabi / Yas Island
According to my recent experience, confirmed by information obtained at hotel desk and among few taxi drivers -- there is no way to pay for taxi via credit card in Abu Dhabi. At least not among taxis serving my place, i.e. Yas Island.
The same area wasn't covered by Uber in the moment of writing this (March 2017).
The only way to use credit card in this case is to withdrawn money from ATM machine as taxi drivers accepts cash only.
Dubai / Knowledge Village
According to Laurent's answer such problems should not exist in Dubai, as per article cited by him, at least 8000 taxis should be equipped with credit card terminal in Dubai.
However, I wasn't manage to verify this, as I decided to use Uber on my return trip (coverage of Uber in Dubai is significant).
Summary
When deciding to travel between Dubai and Abu Dhabi via taxi / Uber consider above and:
Uber comes fairly more expensive than taxis! On average route between these two cities expect Uber prices to be even 40% higher than taxi services.
Every Abu Dhabi taxi driver must handle you a printed confirmation receipt, if you travel by taxi-meter. If you decide on fixed price you will receive a hand-written few sentences on a piece of paper ripped-off from some old notebook in most cases. Consider this when planning company-like trips where you need a receipt for getting money back.
Fixed-price tariffs may come better on short hops. On 100-like kilometers travels like between Abu Dhabi and Dubai they usually comes much more expensive (up to 30% more expensive).
Upvote:2
According to this post, most of the taxis should be equipped with a credit card terminal : http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/transport/8-000-dubai-taxis-are-nol-ready-1.1680090
Then, based on my recent experience, it is pretty random. While most taxis should be equipped, I found that credit card is randomly accepted. I haven't checked why, maybe they fear fraud or maybe they prefer cash...
For a taxi company accepting credit card for sure, just Google "taxi dubai credit card" and you'll find some. Can't really promote any here.
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