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bases_loaded

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Sep 8, 2010 3:45 PM
Anyone ever take a cab from Dublin to campus?

Just got a hotel for Saturday and planning on getting wrecked, so don't want to drive to campus. How much should I set aside for cab fair?
Sep 8, 2010 3:45pm
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Sep 8, 2010 6:48 PM
About $2.75 for the first tenth of a mile, then about $2.00 per mile. It's about 15 miles to the stadium from most of the hotels in Dublin, so you'll need about 1,336,500 Somali schillings each way (based on today's exchange rate), plus a tip.

It might be difficult to get a cab back to the hotel with the traffic conditions.

Does your hotel have a van service? A lot of the places that do will run you back and forth to OSU events.
Sep 8, 2010 6:48pm
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Sep 8, 2010 6:49 PM
Cat Food Flambe';476236 wrote:About $2.75 for the first tenth of a mile, then about $2.00 per mile. It's about 15 miles to the stadium from most of the hotels in Dublin, so you'll need about 1,336,500 Somali schillings each way (based on today's exchange rate), plus a tip.

It might be difficult to get a cab home with the traffic conditions.

Being gameday they may charge a $5 fee on top of that to begin with as well.
Sep 8, 2010 6:49pm
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Sep 8, 2010 6:52 PM
I would be willing to bet your ride will be around $45-$50
Sep 8, 2010 6:52pm
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Sep 8, 2010 6:53 PM
LJ;476238 wrote:Being gameday they may charge a $5 fee on top of that to begin with as well.

Getting the Courtyard Inn for $79 is still cheaper than paying the $150-200 around campus then. Albeit close ha
Sep 8, 2010 6:53pm
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Sep 8, 2010 6:54 PM
wildcats20;476242 wrote:I would be willing to bet your ride will be around $45-$50

Maybe I'll just drop the bags off, park at the house we own on campus then sober up and drive back haha
Sep 8, 2010 6:54pm
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Sep 8, 2010 6:54 PM
LJ;476238 wrote:Being gameday they may charge a $5 fee on top of that to begin with as well.
True. Especially getting back, the city-regulated rate might go out the window. It's still cheaper than a DUI or new grill, though!
Sep 8, 2010 6:54pm
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Sep 8, 2010 6:55 PM
bases_loaded;476246 wrote:Maybe I'll just drop the bags off, park at the house we own on campus then sober up and drive back haha

Shit, why not just stay at the house? lol
Sep 8, 2010 6:55pm
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Sep 8, 2010 6:56 PM
wildcats20;476247 wrote:Shit, why not just stay at the house? lol

Its rented out to dumb college kids ha
Sep 8, 2010 6:56pm
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Sep 8, 2010 6:57 PM
Just tell them you're the owner and you need to inspect or something. Then just pass out on a couch, just take your shoes off
Sep 8, 2010 6:57pm
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Cat Food Flambe'

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Sep 8, 2010 7:08 PM
Just find a nice grassy lawn someplace and crash there. Happened all the time when I lived on East 11th - our place had the first front lawn east of High Street. :)
Sep 8, 2010 7:08pm
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Sep 8, 2010 7:23 PM
wildcats20;476249 wrote:Just tell them you're the owner and you need to inspect or something. Then just pass out on a couch, just take your shoes off

I lived there when I was in school haha, many a poor soul forgot to take their shoes off. Good times
Sep 8, 2010 7:23pm
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Sep 8, 2010 7:26 PM
Cat Food Flambe';476245 wrote:True. Especially getting back, the city-regulated rate might go out the window. It's still cheaper than a DUI or new grill, though!

They've always allowed special fees for certain things, just like the BS $7.50 airport fee.
Sep 8, 2010 7:26pm
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Sep 8, 2010 7:28 PM
Theres a fee if I stay by the airport? I was just looking at hotels there thinking it would be cheaper since its about 4 miles closer lol...FML
Sep 8, 2010 7:28pm
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Sep 8, 2010 7:37 PM
bases_loaded;476276 wrote:Theres a fee if I stay by the airport? I was just looking at hotels there thinking it would be cheaper since its about 4 miles closer lol...FML

a cab fee. I think it is only if you leave from the airport. When I worked at DSCC I had left my car in long term parking on the base and decided I would just take a cab from the airport to the base. From the terminal to the front gate of DSCC (mind you, the airport and DSCC are across 5th ave from each other) cost $18 because of the $7.50 fee plus the $2.50 for the first whatever distance.
Sep 8, 2010 7:37pm
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Sep 8, 2010 9:09 PM
The fee is paid to the airport - it pays for the taxi facilities, security, and general shepherding of the cabbies. It's also a nice little cash cow for the port authority since it usually screws over visitors.
Sep 8, 2010 9:09pm
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Sep 8, 2010 9:22 PM
Cat Food Flambe';476257 wrote:Just find a nice grassy lawn someplace and crash there. Happened all the time when I lived on East 11th - our place had the first front lawn east of High Street. :)

There was one week back in 1999 or so when I slept two nights out of three in one week in someones yard lol. I just crawled up in the bushes where nobody would see me. I lived off of Bethel back then. Fuck going to campus now tho, I'm too old.
Sep 8, 2010 9:22pm
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Sep 8, 2010 9:31 PM
Steel Valley Football;476398 wrote:I'm too old.

Indeed.
Sep 8, 2010 9:31pm
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Sep 8, 2010 11:27 PM
justincredible;476412 wrote:Indeed.


Leroy Powell told me you hit on him after we left that night.
Sep 8, 2010 11:27pm
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Sep 9, 2010 1:51 AM
Got a taxi from Westerville to the corner of high st. and nationwide this morning. Fare was $27
Sep 9, 2010 1:51am
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bases_loaded

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Sep 9, 2010 7:15 AM
Thank you. Got a room at the courtyard in Worthington for $40. So the cab us back on
Sep 9, 2010 7:15am
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Sep 9, 2010 8:17 AM
with no traffic its 35 bucks......when you get close to campus you shoudl just get out and walk cuz if not you re gonna get killed on the meter.
Sep 9, 2010 8:17am
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Gblock

Sep 9, 2010 8:17 AM
u could take the cota for 1.50
Sep 9, 2010 8:17am
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Sep 9, 2010 8:28 AM
You should have booked the red roof inn on ackerman and olentangy last year for 60.
Sep 9, 2010 8:28am
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Sep 9, 2010 8:50 AM
OneBuckeye;476719 wrote:You should have booked the red roof inn on ackerman and olentangy last year for 60.
They require a 2 night state @ $240 a night.

I'm planning on walking once I get to campus area wanna show the lady the campus
Sep 9, 2010 8:50am