I wouldn't know anything about Kunming taxis... Couldn't get any to stop for me the entire time that I was there last summer, so I had to walk everywhere. I thought it was just a broad 'I will not stop for evil foreigners' thing, but maybe it was just me.
Yeah, I ran into that last summer while visiting my girlfriend in the city. She actually had to tell them that we were married, before they would give her a room. I forget the name of the place though.
