They had friendly flight engineers to help them!
Yep and they were bloody good too - never knew a FE who led me up the garden path.
In any case when on final (if you can get a word in) just ask the TWR for the next taxiway expected after you intend to vacate the runway via (name). I do it a lot in BKK and SIN, both places where one doesn't have the foggiest idea where one will be instructed to taxy.