{"id":2976,"date":"2011-05-24T23:08:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T07:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2011-05-25T03:08:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T11:08:57","slug":"flat-rate-commuting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/flat-rate-commuting\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat Rate Commuting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to a friend who was trying to think of the best way to travel from an airport to the main city area in a place that she is not too familiar with.  Of course, cost is a factor.  When the mention of a taxi came up, the automatic response was how that is probably the most expensive option.<\/p>\n<p>That then got me into the mindset that if you are looking to save money in these cases that you should always try to find solutions that have a flat rate fee.  While this would normally be things like the public transportation system, funny enough this can even be like a limousine.  That&#8217;s not a joke either as it looked like to get to the airport to the main city area, on a taxi that could be like $40 for a less than an hour ride.  On a flat rate limo it could be the same if not less.<\/p>\n<p>That then lead to other options such as a flat rate shuttle bus which looked like a good option as well for people that were traveling in larger groups with a lot of luggage.  Always better to know exactly how much you are paying as you never know what kind of bill you can end up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to a friend who was trying to think of the best way to travel from an airport to the main city area in a place that she is not too familiar with. Of course, cost is a factor. When the mention of a taxi came up, the automatic response was how that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[3067,3068,3069,1162,3009],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-flat-rate","tag-limo","tag-shuttle","tag-taxi","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMAG1042.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-M0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}