What I found was best on holiday there was to get a taxi home first (rather than a taxi out) and tell the driver you want picking up whenever at whatever time for your next one. Even if he doesn't speak English he'll at least know where to come - thus not costing you expensive minutes trying to explain on the phone - and let him know your first name.
Our taxi driver way back in the days when we holidayed there only knew two English words (and one of those was Migros
) - but I could phone him say "Keith, Taxi" and soon enough he was outside. Many notepad sketches of clocks at certain times from him, but never more than 20 seconds on the blower for me
