New taxi payment card

New taxi payment card for The Regent Singapore guests

Guests staying at The Regent Singapore will no longer need to fork out cash for their taxi rides.

Instead, all they have to do is flash a card to the taxi driver and wait to receive the bill at the end of their hotel stay.

Called the Hotel Cabcharge card, the new offering by ComfortDelGro is a world's first.

Hotel guests are given the option of applying for the card when they check in.

Guests then present it at the end of any Comfort or CityCab taxi trip and the fare details will be sent electronically to the hotel billing system.

Guests then pay the taxi fares as part of the final hotel bill when they check out.

They pay a 10 per cent administrative fee on top of the metered fare.

This will be shared between ComfortDelGro and the hotel to defray operating costs.

ComfortDelGro said it took about three months to integrate its Cabcharge card system to The Regent's reservation and billing system.

It says it's in discussion with close to a dozen other hotels on the system.

-News courtesy of Channel Newsasia-