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Originally Posted by SheldonXX
Anyway, I'll just address your question about how much I saved. From driver tip, I'm here for 4 nights. Disregarding your recommended tip to your recommended driver, I saved at least 400k. Over these 4 nights, my total travelling expenses is not more than 150k.
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This post is to clarify a statement that I made (see above in bold red) due to some misunderstanding. This shall be my last post that I make on the topic of using a driver and the issue of tipping so as not to be misunderstood as promoting certain driver.
Anyone who had requested for driver contact probably would have been given the contact of Mr K. And, in the same pm, an X rp amount is mentioned as a suggested tipping amount for Mr K. This is where the misunderstanding is.
Being a frequently traveller to Batam, I knew that the usual arrangement is X rp per day for taxi booking. Hence, I took it to mean that the recommended X rp as tipping amount for Mr K to be a per day basis. Hence, you see the 400K rp savings that I wrongly wrote in my post above. I was corrected in a pm saying that the X rp recommended is for the whole trip, which then make the tip to be a very negligible amount, for example, in my recent trip. I could have tipped a driver 200k and still it feel cheap over a 5S4N period.
Consider this.. In today's context, cewe booking could easily have cost us $80 - $120. What's another $10 for convenience and having a local to help you around in case you run into any issue. In fact, Mr K personally escorted my to the point where I'm supposed to enter to board the domestic ferry on my first trip.
Where commission is concerned, I had sort of ascertained that Silver River do not pay out commission through the first 2 night that I dine there, once without driver and once with driver. The price per head don't differ by a lot, although that's not to say that they are not expensive. LOL.
Where commission for cewe is concerned, most of us go there on weekend where it's the seller market. We already have our brothers from Malaysia to compete with, how much more savings can we gain? Of course, this don't apply to those who travel to Balai on weekdays where you gain more milege where savings is concerned.
I'm not trying to play senior here. Please don't be misunderstood. Just like a bro wrote 2 posts above in my defence, I'm, too, writing a post here to correct a mistake.
Thanks for reading.