Their drivers may want to know a little more about your life than is really comfortable -- and they always seem to have just taken someone really famous for a ride -- but it seems London's taxis are still the best in the world.

Hotels.com -- one of the world's leading providers of online accommodation bookings -- released its annual taxi report August 23 and the results show that despite being voted as the world's most expensive, London's cabs were also voted the best -- pulling in 28 percent of the votes to leave their rivals stalling in the shade.

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