Leaving Amman yesterday (to head for the land King Hussein Bridge land border crossing back to Israel via Palestine), I opted to use Uber rather than try and negotiate with the local/yellow taxi. Left later than planned (wasn't in a rush) so got surge pricing. All good. Wanted to use the remainder of my cash....... made the booking, and forgot to change from card to cash. Won't let you do it once the ride has been accepted which is annoying. Cancelled, booked again and this time surge pricing went from 1.3 to 1.4. Doh.
It gets better - we get about half way and the Uber driver says he's not licensed/authorised to do drop offs there (not sure why Uber offers the drop off point then.......), so pulls over in the middle of nowhere. Oops. This could go bad....... fortunately he was actually quite friendly, he helped us book another car (funnily enough it was
not a local/yellow taxi!) and the overall price with the split journey actually ended up being 2 JOD cheaper than the standard fare, and 6-7 JOD than what the Uber was going to cost us. All's well that ends well