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Bali's Rental Car Rates to Increase? .
Customer Demand and Higher Car Prices Driving Increased Rates from Rental Operators.
(2/17/2008) Bali Post states that the Island's car rental operators are likely to increase their tariffs by approximately 10% for vehicles produced after 2007.
Quoting a Sanur-based car rental agency, the increase in price is a function of the higher prices paid for new cars and the growing demand for late models by customers visiting Bali. Car rentals involving vehicles built prior to 2007 are expected to undergo more modest price increases.
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How To Rent a Car In Bali .
Renting a car in Bali can be a lot less informal than in westernized countries. The office of a car rental place may be nothing more than a 10ft by 10ft street side room with a wooden desk. The choice of vehicle limited to the 2 or 3 in the curb, plus ones that aren’t being used by the owner’s relatives. Very often you will be told a car is on its way. What is happening is a friend or relative has a car and after draining the fuel, it will be delivered. Many of the local street side car rental places open at 9am. If you rent a car it is for 24 hours and you might prefer to pick it up the morning of your trip, rather than the night before. You can arrange this in advance and on occasion the renter has given me the keys the night before, telling me he would bill me as if I picked it up the next morning.
• Some of the cars a few years old have a few dings. Sometimes much can be made of these. Before you drive off, walk around the car and check the dings and dents. Better still, photograph the car from all angles. In my experience a couple of things that can make a trip unpleasant are seats that don’t stay upright and air conditioning that doesn’t work. Remember to check these too.
• In Bali all foreign drivers are expected to have an International Driving License. The renter doesn’t care if you don’t, and actually doesn’t care if you have a license at all, he just wants the car rented. Filling out the rental form you can get away without having ID or a passport. Just write your name, address, passport number and say ‘can’t remember’ to the other stuff. You can pay extra for insurance, which might cost 45,000rp a day. I have rented cars without the insurance, and have never been in an accident, so don’t know the process that ‘actually’ occurs.