Taxi with a Pet

What It Costs

Nothing. A pet under 12 kg does not move the fare on any route, in any of the vehicles that take one. The number the booking form quotes you is the number you hand the driver at the end, exactly as it would be if you were travelling on your own. No cleaning fee, and nothing added to the return leg.

What a pet does decide is the car. You pay the Family SUV fare or a minivan fare instead of the sedan fare. On every route the SUV costs more than the sedan, by up to ฿500. A minivan, which three or more of you with a pet need, costs more than that: between Pattaya or Jomtien and Bangkok or its airports it is ฿900⁠–⁠1,100 over the sedan, and the VIP Minivan ฿1,300⁠–⁠1,500. That difference is the vehicle, not the animal, and you can see what each route costs by vehicle before you commit to anything.

Which Vehicle You Need

The sedan is out. It seats 3 and its boot is shut off from the cabin, so a carrier either takes one of the passenger seats or rides somewhere nobody can see it. We do not offer it with an animal on board at all.

That leaves the Family SUV and the two minivans. The SUV is listed at 4 passengers everywhere else on this site, and that is what it holds with luggage and no animal in the car. With a pet it holds two. The carrier is belted onto a seat in the back rather than wedged into a footwell, which accounts for one of the places, and the room around it plus the bags accounts for the other. This is a condition of bringing a pet, not a change to the vehicle: book the same SUV without one and it still carries 4.

Three or more people travelling with a pet take a minivan. We have not put a fixed passenger number on the minivan with an animal aboard, because it depends on the carrier and on how much luggage comes with you. A cabin-sized carrier and two bags is a different van from a large crate and six. Put the head count and the pet in the notes when you book and we confirm what fits before a driver is assigned.

The VIP Minivan carries a pet on the same terms as the regular one. It is the newer van, with individual reclining seats instead of bench rows and an aisle between them, and it costs ฿400⁠–⁠1,000 more than the regular minivan, depending on the route. A carrier belts onto a VIP seat as readily as onto a bench, so nothing about the pet rules changes. If you would rather see the VIP cabin before you decide, the photographs are on that page.

The Carrier Rule

The pet stays in its carrier from the moment the doors shut until you are out of the car at the other end. Not on a lap, and not loose in the back. This is the one thing we do not bend on, and a driver who turns up to find a dog with no carrier is entitled to refuse the trip.

Two reasons, both practical. A loose animal in a car at motorway speed is a hazard to itself and to whoever is driving, and the traffic police here take a dim view of it. The other is that the car goes out on somebody else's booking after yours, and a carrier is what keeps the hair and the claw marks off the upholstery.

Bring your own. We do not stock carriers, and we do not insist on a particular type beyond the animal being able to stand up and turn round inside it. Hard-sided and soft-sided both travel fine.

Pets Over 12 kg

12 kg is the line. Under it, book the trip yourself and there is nothing to arrange with us beforehand. Over it we still carry animals, but ask us first rather than booking blind and finding at the kerb that the crate does not go in.

Message WhatsApp on +66 95 540 7084 before you book. Send the weight, the breed if it is a dog, the outside dimensions of the crate, the route and how many of you are travelling. We take these one at a time and come back with whether a minivan handles it and whether anything is added to the fare. Somebody answers around the clock.

How to Tell Us When You Book

Use the form at the top of this page. Fill in the route, the date and the pickup time, then choose the Family SUV, the Minivan or the VIP Minivan on the vehicle step. That step comes before the contact step, and it is the one that matters here, because the Standard Sedan is not an option with an animal on board.

The contact step has a box labelled Notes (flight no., hotel, child seats…). Write the pet in there. What it is, roughly what it weighs, that it will be in a carrier, and how many people are travelling with it. Three lines is plenty.

Say it explicitly. There is no pet checkbox in the booking form and we are not going to guess it from a hotel name, so a booking that never mentions an animal is dispatched as an ordinary transfer and the driver finds out at the kerb. We read every booking by hand and message you back, and that reply is where a pet that will not fit gets sorted out instead of at pickup. Bookings need at least 12 hours' notice. If a child is travelling too, how child seats work is on its own page; put both in the same notes box.

Travelling with a Pet: Frequently Asked Questions