We arrived in Athens at 3AM and took a handy 95X bus to the City Center to avoid a 45 Euro cab charge (cabs are double between midnight and 5AM). We thought it would be a quick short taxi ride from the center to our hotel room, and so we grabbed a cab, but no sooner had we done so we knew we had been duped. No meter visible in the cab was a good clue! The guy tells us it would be 15-18 Euro to our hotel because cab rates are double at night (which is true), still we later figured the ride should have been somewhere around 10 Euro (5 in the daytime). After he charges us 25 Euro for the ride, I am so confused and upset because I'm finding out at the
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