In Reply to: need help posted by lsm on Tuesday, 30. May 2006 at 13:57 Bali Time:
my advise to you is that is FAR too much. you can hire a driver and car for 300,000 and LESS per DAY, take you any where, from 8.30am to 7.30pm. Also you can use the BLUE taxis,make shure they put meter on immediatly and you will find it would be even cheaper by taxi, however, if you follow good advise on this forum you will find many good drivers are reccomended and make comtact with them, negotiate with them, barter with them and then have the one meet you at the airport to take you to hotel, if you like him and he sticks to his price, then use him for the other trips. he will fall over himself to get that business.. If you dont like him, there are 99,999 others that will do the job and at even better prices. BUT if they think that they can get that sort of money out of you, then they will try. .If you were in the same situation, you probably would do the same. Its a bartering game over there, " he who hangs out longest, gets the best deal " !!!!! No driver will do it for less thgat the fuel plus a certain minimum ammount for time, but their minimum and ours, are worlds apart. best of luck, you will learn like the rest of us, but those that listen more gets more !!!!!!! Doug5369