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/sitdowndisco 3d ago

Sounds like they’re making bank at over 6th/month.

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u/joeyali26 3d ago

In theory, but when a drive is 20-30 minutes (canggu, ubud, uluwatu) it’ll easily take much longer cus of traffic, I doubt a driver would do anymore than 2 journeys in an hour