Tours & taxis · Bali
Private drivers across Bali. Fixed prices, no meter.
Airport transfers, day tours with a driver, multi-day itineraries, and hourly or full-day car hire. Every price is per car and agreed before you book.
What we do
Four ways to use a driver
Airport transfers
Your driver waits at arrivals with your name on a card, at the price we agreed.
from IDR 175,000per car, one way to Kuta
Day tours with a driver
8–10 hours, pickup anywhere in the south or Ubud, the route decided with you.
from IDR 700,000per car, full day
Multi-day itineraries
Three to seven days across the island, built around your hotels and your pace.
from IDR 650,000per car, per day
Hourly & full-day hire
Same driver all day, waiting while you're inside. Dinner, shopping, a wedding.
from IDR 400,000per car, half day
Prices are set and charged in Indonesian rupiah. Other currencies are an approximate guide and move with the exchange rate. Every price is per car, not per person, and is a “from” price for a standard 4-seat car (Avanza or similar): a 6–7 seat MPV runs roughly 30–50% more, an 8-seat HiAce van roughly double.
The drivers
You're hiring a person, not an app
Every driver is Balinese and lives here. They know which road the ceremony closes, when Uluwatu clogs up, and which warung is worth the stop. You get the same driver all day, and we tell you his name before you land.
The five cards below are placeholders. Replace each name, village, year count, language list and sentence with the driver's own words.
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- Home village
- [DRIVER_1_VILLAGE]
- Driving since
- [DRIVER_1_YEARS]
- Languages
- [DRIVER_1_LANGUAGES]
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- Driving since
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Day tours
Six routes we drive every week
The Ubud day
- Tegenungan or Tibumana waterfall
- Tirta Empul
- a coffee plantation
- Tegallalang or the quieter Juwuk Manis walk
- Monkey Forest
- Campuhan ridge at the end
8–10 hours
from IDR 700,000per car, all day
Best first full day on the island.
East Bali
- Lempuyang and the Gates of Heaven at opening
- Tirta Gangga water palace
- lunch in Sidemen valley
- Bukit Cinta for Mount Agung
- back along the coast
10–12 hours
from IDR 850,000per car, all day
Leaves at 4am if you want Lempuyang without a two-hour queue. We'll say so honestly when you book.
North Bali and the lakes
- Ulun Danu Beratan on the water
- Handara gate
- Wanagiri viewpoint
- Aling-Aling or Sekumpul waterfall
- Banjar hot springs
- Brahmavihara-Arama monastery
10–12 hours
from IDR 850,000per car, all day
Cool, green, and 8°C below the coast.
The Bukit
- Padang Padang
- Green Bowl down the 300 steps
- Uluwatu temple
- the Kecak dance at sunset
- grilled fish on the sand at Jimbaran
8–10 hours
from IDR 700,000per car, all day
Half day works too if you skip the beaches.
West and the rice terraces
- Taman Ayun
- Jatiluwih UNESCO terraces
- Batukaru temple in the forest
- Tanah Lot for sunset
8–10 hours
from IDR 700,000per car, all day
The least crowded of the classic routes.
Kintamani and the old villages
- Penglipuran before 8am
- Pura Kehen
- Mount Batur and the lake
- Toya Devasya hot springs
- back through Sidemen
8–10 hours
from IDR 700,000per car, all day
Add the 2am start for the Batur sunrise trek if you want it.
Two more on request
Nusa Penida — fast boat from Sanur, Kelingking, Angel's Billabong, Crystal Bay. A long, hot, genuinely tiring day, and we'll tell you that before you book. Amed — the coastal snorkelling and the Japanese wreck. Both are priced separately because they include a boat.
Prices are set and charged in Indonesian rupiah. Other currencies are an approximate guide and move with the exchange rate. Every price is per car, not per person, and is a “from” price for a standard 4-seat car (Avanza or similar): a 6–7 seat MPV runs roughly 30–50% more, an 8-seat HiAce van roughly double.
The quieter version
Where we'd take you instead
Everyone goes to
Tegallalang rice terraces
We'd take you to
Belimbing terraces in Tabanan, or the Subak Juwuk Manis walk just outside Ubud
Same view, no entry gate, no queue for the swing.
Everyone goes to
Tegenungan waterfall
We'd take you to
Tibumana, or Gembleng in Karangasem
Smaller, quieter, and you can actually swim.
Everyone goes to
Besakih, the mother temple
We'd take you to
Pura Kehen in Bangli
Ancient, carved, almost empty, and no compulsory guide at the gate.
Everyone goes to
Canggu
We'd take you to
Seseh, ten minutes up the coast
Black sand, warungs, no queue for a table.
Everyone goes to
Ubud for a coffee with a rice view
We'd take you to
The family warungs on the lanes through Junjungan and Payangan
Same paddies, local prices, nobody filming.
Everyone goes to
A hotel pool
We'd take you to
Banjar hot springs near Lovina, early
Stone dragon spouts, mostly Balinese families at that hour.
Everyone goes to
Kuta sunset
We'd take you to
Balian on the west coast
Surfers, driftwood, and the road out is empty.
Many of our drivers grew up in these villages. Tell us what kind of day you want and we'll build the route around it.
Multi-day
A route we build together
Three days, two sides of Bali
- Day 1 — south coast and Tanah Lot into Ubud.
- Day 2 — Ubud, waterfalls and Tirta Empul.
- Day 3 — east through Sidemen to the coast at Padang Bai or Amed.
from IDR 650,000per car, per day
Five days, the full loop
- Day 1 — south into Ubud.
- Day 2 — Ubud and the waterfalls.
- Day 3 — Sidemen and the east.
- Day 4 — Munduk and the lakes.
- Day 5 — Pemuteran on the north-west coast, then back down the west side.
- Sleeps in a different place most nights. We can suggest the guesthouses we'd send our own families to.
from IDR 650,000per car, per day
Seven days, the loop plus an island
- The same five-day route, at a slower pace in the middle.
- Two nights added for Nusa Penida or Menjangan.
- Boat tickets priced separately, always quoted before you book.
from IDR 650,000per car, per day
Prices are set and charged in Indonesian rupiah. Other currencies are an approximate guide and move with the exchange rate. Every price is per car, not per person, and is a “from” price for a standard 4-seat car (Avanza or similar): a 6–7 seat MPV runs roughly 30–50% more, an 8-seat HiAce van roughly double.
Airport transfers
From Ngurah Rai (DPS), one way
| To | From, per car | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Kuta, Legian, Tuban | from IDR 175,000 | 20–30 min |
| Jimbaran | from IDR 200,000 | 25–35 min |
| Sanur | from IDR 225,000 | 25–40 min |
| Nusa Dua | from IDR 250,000 | 30–45 min |
| Seminyak | from IDR 275,000 | 30–45 min |
| Canggu, Berawa, Pererenan | from IDR 350,000 | 45–75 min |
| Uluwatu, Bingin, Pecatu | from IDR 375,000 | 45–60 min |
| Ubud | from IDR 500,000 | 60–90 min |
| Sidemen, Amed, Lovina, Pemuteran | from IDR 900,000 | 2.5–4 hrs |
Arrivals between midnight and 6am carry a night fee of IDR 100,000. It is stated in your quote, never added afterwards.
If a quote you see elsewhere is far below these numbers, something has been left out of it — usually petrol, the hours, or the driver's lunch.
Prices are set and charged in Indonesian rupiah. Other currencies are an approximate guide and move with the exchange rate. Every price is per car, not per person, and is a “from” price for a standard 4-seat car (Avanza or similar): a 6–7 seat MPV runs roughly 30–50% more, an 8-seat HiAce van roughly double.
Hourly & full-day hire
Same driver, waiting while you're inside
Half day, 4–5 hours
from IDR 400,000per car
Full day, 10 hours, inside one area
from IDR 650,000per car
Overtime beyond the agreed finish is IDR 100,000 per hour, charged in half hours.
Prices are set and charged in Indonesian rupiah. Other currencies are an approximate guide and move with the exchange rate. Every price is per car, not per person, and is a “from” price for a standard 4-seat car (Avanza or similar): a 6–7 seat MPV runs roughly 30–50% more, an 8-seat HiAce van roughly double.
How it works
Three steps, in order
- 1
Message us with your dates
WhatsApp is fastest. Tell us your flight, your hotel, and roughly what you want to do.
- 2
We confirm a fixed price and a named driver
One number, per car, in rupiah. Nothing is booked until you agree to it.
- 3
He meets you at arrivals with a sign
Your name on a card, past the crowd, at the time we agreed.
- Price agreed before you book.
- Air-conditioned car with a seatbelt for everyone.
- English-speaking driver.
Included
What's included, and what isn't
Included
- Fuel
- Parking
- Tolls
- The driver's own meal
- Cold water
- Air conditioning
Not included
- Attraction entrance tickets, paid in cash at each gate, typically IDR 20,000–150,000 per person per site
- Your own meals
- The tourist levy, IDR 150,000 per person per entry
Overtime beyond the agreed finish is IDR 100,000 per hour, charged in half hours. We say so at the time, not on the invoice afterwards.
Before you land
Four things worth knowing
Grab and Gojek can't collect you at the airport.
Ride-hailing pickups aren't permitted at Ngurah Rai arrivals, which is why the walk out of the terminal turns into a wall of people shouting “transport, boss.” Book ahead and your driver is standing there with your name on a card.
Pay the tourist levy before you fly.
Every foreign visitor pays IDR 150,000 per person, once per entry, including children. Pay on the official Love Bali portal, save the QR code as a screenshot, and don't use the lookalike sites that charge more. It's separate from your visa.
Traffic is a timing problem, not a distance problem.
Canggu between 5 and 7pm, the single road on and off the Bukit before the Kecak dance, Ubud centre at midday. Nothing on the map explains it. Our drivers just leave earlier.
Ceremonies close roads, sometimes with no notice.
A procession can shut a village for an hour. That isn't a delay in your day, it's the reason you came — and your driver will know the way round it, or when it's better to stop and watch.
Nyepi is [NEXT_NYEPI_DATE], if your dates are close.
The whole island shuts down for 24 hours. The airport closes, and nobody drives. If your trip touches that date, tell us early and we'll plan around it.
Who you're dealing with
A small company with names
[OWNER_NAME] is Belgian, lives in Bali, and answers the messages: fixed prices agreed up front, fast replies in fluent English, no haggling at the airport, and a proper invoice if you need one. The driving is Balinese, and that's the service — the roads, the ceremonies that close them, the warung worth stopping at, the hour when Uluwatu clogs up. The drivers are named and pictured above.
Reviews
What people say
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Booking
WhatsApp is fastest
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