With Southeast Asia’s home-grown ride hailing app, you now can explore a region full of surprises in a safer, more convenient and affordable way. When travelling abroad, transportation in cities can potentially be one of the main headaches that you have to deal with. Listing your destinations from the airport, harbour or trains station to your hotel and later to your choses restaurant seems already challenging.
Some of the challenges that you might face are overcharged rates for a motorbike, taxi, tuk tuk, or minibus; safety and security are big factors, as you are new to town and you don’t know the local habits, routes, or languages to talk to your driver.
Nowadays, modern Southeast Asian travelers can overcome these challenges and board into an exciting but safe adventure when traveling with the Grab app. The on-demand ride-hailing platform, which is now available in 196 cities across Southeast Asia countries such as Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
With the Grab app on your smartphone, you do not need to worry about the need to haggle the fare with the driver who might try to overcharge you, as it appears in the app for you to make decision once you fill in your pick-up point and destination. In addition, you do not have to tell direction to the driver, as he or she can follow the fastest route in map shown on the driver’s app.
You can travel with more peace of mind knowing your trip is tracked on the app’s GPS. With Share My Ride feature, you can share your real-time location with driver’s detail to your loved ones. All Grab rides in Southeast Asia is also covered with personal accident insurance for both passengers and drivers.
Alternatively if you want to drive your own tuk tuk around Northern Thailand, read Tuk Tuk Travels with Jen and Friends for further inspiration.
In addition, the payment can be made easier for you with GrabPay, as you do not need to exchange to local currency to pay the bill and carry it around. Right after you completed your ride, the app will automatically deduce the fare from your registered credit or debit card.
Experience the local way of life is also possible with the Grab app as it provides hyper-local services. From the fast traditional motorbike in the Mekong countries to pick-up truck in the north of Thailand or tuk-tuk in Cambodia – with the Grab app on your smart phone, local taste can now go beyond food.
Visiting Chiang Mai? Hail Grab RodDaeng to travel like the locals do in Thailand. RodDaeng or in Thai “Songthaew” is a converted pick-up truck with two rows of back benches. Visiting the Philippines? GrabTrike lets you hail tricycle, a three-wheeled gasoline-run motorized vehicle, to explore the city of Angeles. Going to Indonesia? You may want to hail GrabBetor, a motorized rickshaw, in the north of Sumatra province, Medan City, Indonesia. In Cambodia, Grab has also launched GrabTukTuk in Phnom Penh and GrabRemorque in Siem Reap.
Your points from every ride you made will be automatically collected in your GrabRewards account on the Grab app and you can use those points to redeem for discounts or free rides in Cambodia.
For more information about Grab, please visit: https://www.grab.com/kh/
