Talking about car parking, usually we also must talk about the parking fee. Parking fee is widely known in all country. In Bali, same thing is applied. So, when you are in Bali and decide to rent a car, whether self driver or with driver, please prepare for some small cash to pay your parking fee.
When driving a car in Bali you will at least have 3 kinds of different car parking place. In the island the car parking fee is vary depend on where and how long you will park your car. So check out these information of Bali car parking:
If you receive your car rental directly in the Ngurah Rai Bali International Airport on your arrival, when you go out from the airport, you must pay for the parking fee at IDR 12.000 (twelve thousands Rupiah). This is equivalent with US Dollar 0.75 roughly.
Please be noted this is for the first hour charge (less then an hour parking at the airport).
For each additional one hour, you will be charge another IDR 5.000. So, for example, if you leave your car at the airport for total 3 hours, you must pay for IDR 22.000.
In Bali airport car parking they have a multi level car parking (MLCP) system which is made for the airport visitors to park their car closer to the departure and arrival terminal building. The fee of car parking there is included in the whole time of car parking.
While you leave the Bali airport MLCP building the automatic crossbar will ask your airport entrance ticket and you need to just patch it on the screen.
How about if you need to parking your car overnight at Bali airport? Yes it can do. Anybody can just park their car overnigh at the airport. It is very safe and convenience. The fee for Bali airport parking overnight is as described above.
What is the conditions that make the tourist can park their car at Bali airport? There are few answers..
The first thing is they already rented the car from a car rental company in Bali. Then maybe they want to pick up for his / her friend at airport, who is arrive in a different arrival flight, another day. Or, maybe he needs to send his other family member to go back in their country earlier from the schedule, so he need to drive the family to the airport.
Another reason is the tourist needs to buy for the return ticket. Although they can buy the return ticket before they leave for Bali, or buy it at the travel agent near their hotel, or just buy it online, but sometime they want to just buy it by their self, all together to see the airport condition to preparing for their departure.
Most of the street side in Bali is available for car parking. It's easy to find it every where in the island. But of course you still need to pay attention whether the street is too small or not. If you thing the street is wide enough than it is OK to park your car rental there.
When you are visiting a restaurant, this will be usually will be free of charge, as long as long the restaurant has their own parking area. If (for some reason) you cannot park inside restaurant parking area, and must parking the car outside of restaurant (at the side of public street), sometime there will be a parking officer charge you at IDR 5.000 - IDR 10.000.
The same of IDR 5.000 will be applied if you entering a mall, or department store for shopping.
For example, if you want to shop at Supermarket in Bali, they will charge you for IDR 5.000 - IDR 10.000. Some of the street side car parking is free of charge, but some of them is paid. Some of them is authorized and some of them is not.
How to know whether that street side car parking is the authorized one or not?
If that street is an authorized one usually there is an officer who ask for the parking payment.
He wears a blue color uniform with text PARKIR (means PARKING) at his back. Beside that he will give you a ticket written on it how much you should pay for your car parking: Rp 5.000.
Those IDR 2.000 is the amount you have to pay for fix rate. That's mean no matter how long you park the car there you will only pay IDR 5.000.
On an unauthorized street side parking area they will not give you ticket and no wearing no uniform. But the fee should be the same IDR 5.000.
Be careful with the parking scam; if the person ask you more than IDR 5.000 you can debate him by telling him "I know the fee is only 5.000 Rupiah! I've got parking everywhere in Bali!!" and usually he will just silence.
Bali's street side car parking have the same condition at other places such as car parking at convenience store, small Warung or at money changer or ATM corner.
There are many places of interest in Bali that you must be visited. From the south side to the north side. From the east side to the west one. Bali is one place for everything tourism needs. Despite on that how about the car parking policy on that Bali's placec of interest?
Car parking policy at interest places in Bali is quiet different from car parking at Bali airport or at the street side. The differences are mostly on the parking fee and how to pay.
Please note some of places of interest will include the parking fee along with the entrance fee of the place. At many places of interest in Bali the car parking fee must be paid at the same time when buying the entrance fee. This will be done at the entrance gate of the actual interest place.
For example when you will visit the most popular tourism destination Tanah Lot, Bedugul, or Dreamland Beach and Padang-Padang Beach at Uluwatu. The entrance fee at Tanah Lot for adult is IDR 75.000 Rupiah (roughly around US Dollar 5 per person. If you have 4 adults in your group than you must pay 300.000 Rupiah. IDR 40.000 for per child (5 - 10 years old).
When you will pay for your car rental parking fee? You pay it at the same time you pay for those entrance fee. The car parking fee at Tanah Lot Bali is 20.000 Rupiah. So in total you will pay for 320.000 Rupiah, for 4 adults.
You can see the differences when you pay the car parking at Tanah Lot or at any place of interest in Bali. The first one it is more expensive than street side parking and the second one is it must be paid at the first time you park the car, and not at the end when you will leave the place.
Note: The car parking and entrance fee at place of interest in Bali, in this case is in Tanah Lot can change any time without prior notice.
To ending this car parking Bali information just to remind parking your car rental at your hotel is of course, Free of Charge!
The payment of every car parking place in Bali (at Bali airport, at public street side or at places of interest) is by Cash. No need any card (not yet). Be sure to bring some cash in Rupiah when you get the car with you in Bali.
So, to make you easy to make payment for the parking fee in Bali, always bring some small cash of Rupiah every day in your trip to pay for car parking any where in Bali.
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