r/bali • u/ADYWOD24 • 3d ago

Trip Report Are Grab taxis to cheap?

I’ve been on holiday in Bali for the last 4 days & have used the Grab app to organise a couple of taxis.

However, the prices seem far too cheap?

For example a taxi from Canggu to Medewi came out to 400k IDR.

This is a 2 hour (+) drive & the driver can’t guarantee a job back to Canggu. He rang before the journey and said he would do the journey for 600k which seemed much fairer so i gladly accepted.

How are the drivers able to earn a living that allows them to support a family with these Grab prices? The costs in Bali close to the tourists areas must have risen significantly & running a car isn’t particularly cheap.

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u/joeyali26 3d ago

The bikes are worse man, they earn like 15-20k for a 20 min bike ride, daily they’re averaging about 300-400k on a really good day (I asked a driver)

I would tip what the journey cost 9/10 times

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u/Ok_Object7636 3d ago

If they really make 200k a day, that’s a lot. More than many others earn. But there’s a cut of I think 30 or 40%, and there’s a cut even for tips, so better to in cash.

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u/joeyali26 3d ago

The app will get a % of anything we pay via the app, I would tip 20k cash 9/10 times

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u/Ok_Object7636 3d ago

Ah, you are right. Looks like they changed it. I just searched for it and a Grab driver in 2019 said there was a 10% cut. But it seems now at least in Indonesia, there’s no cut for tips in Gojek and Grab, as Indonesian drivers posted.

This summer, there were plans by the government to restrict the promotion fee (for the ride, not tips) to 15%, but I don’t know if that went through.