{"id":1786,"date":"2013-05-04T11:19:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T05:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2013-05-06T11:45:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T06:15:27","slug":"bali-budget-hotels-car-rental-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/bali-budget-hotels-car-rental-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Bali &#8211; FAQs: budget, airlines, best time, hotels, car rental, tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After posting the <a title=\"4 night \/ 5 day itinerary for Bali\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/bali-4n5d-trip-itinerary\/\" target=\"_blank\">itinerary<\/a> for Bali and our <a title=\"Vacation notes &amp; overall experience\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/bali-5-day-vacation-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\">experience<\/a>, I have received a lot of emails with questions &#8211; primarily &#8211; around the budget, airlines, hotels, car rentals and general tips. I&#8217;ve put them as a FAQ below; hope this helps fellow travelers.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">What was your budget?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Honestly, we were traveling on budget. We had planned about Rs.70,000 per head and wanted to make the most out of it. We did.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is there a split?<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Approximate split across categories\" alt=\"Approximate split across categories\" 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width=\"307\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is naturally going to differ, but here is an idea.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Airfare &#8211; 40%<\/li>\n<li>Visa &amp; entrance fees &#8211; 10%<\/li>\n<li>Stay &#8211; 15%<\/li>\n<li>Local transport &#8211; 15%<\/li>\n<li>Shopping &#8211; 10%<\/li>\n<li>Meals &#8211; 10%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Good idea for my first overseas vacation?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Absolutely! There is always a first time for everything. Just plan well. Here are <a title=\"10 international air travel tips\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/10-international-air-travel-tips\/\">10 great tips for international travel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is February a good time?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of the forums said Feb wasn&#8217;t a great time to be in Bali, but I think that&#8217;s more applicable to surfers.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Transit Bangkok or Singapore?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Bangkok was an option <!--more-->with visa on arrival for Indians, low-cost carriers had been moved to the old Don Muang Airport. Getting there would require passing through immigration and it would be difficult to plan a connecting flight given Bangkok traffic. Singapore seemed a better option and we planned a short stay there on the return.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Which airlines did you fly?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We were on budget and flew Indigo to\/fro Singapore, and Air Asia Indonesia onward to Bali. As of this writing, Indigo has discontinued direct flights to SIN. I hope Air Asia, Tiger Airways or Silk Air start operations from Mumbai. These 3 airlines are the best options for Bangalore, Chennai &amp; Hyderabad folks.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Which hotels did you book?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Again, the idea was to live lavish on budget. We booked Guest Villas in Kuta and Mumbul Guest House in Lovina. Both were furnished private villas, decently priced &amp; quite in the center of where we wanted to be.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Can you share your itinerary?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course, here it is the complete <a title=\"4 night \/ 5 day itinerary for Bali\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/bali-4n5d-trip-itinerary\/\" target=\"_blank\">4 night \/ 5 day itinerary for Bali<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">How did you travel within Bali?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the first 3 days we Krishna take us around Bali in his Suzuki APV van. For the next 2 days we rented a motor bike, the most inexpensive way to get around Bali with fuel at Rs.27 per liter.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">How was the overall experience?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wonderful. Here are my vacation notes on the <a title=\"Vacation notes &amp; overall experience\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/bali-5-day-vacation-experience\/\">overall experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><br \/>\nThis is post #3 of the Bali vacation series: <a title=\"4 night \/ 5 day itinerary for Bali\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/bali-4n5d-trip-itinerary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Itinerary<\/a> | <a title=\"Vacation notes &amp; overall experience\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/bali-5-day-vacation-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\">Experience<\/a> | <a title=\"FAQs: airlines, hotels, car rental, budget\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/bali-budget-hotels-car-rental-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAQs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After posting the itinerary for Bali and our experience, I have received a lot of emails with questions &#8211; primarily &#8211; around the budget, airlines, hotels, car rentals and general tips. I&#8217;ve put them as a FAQ below; hope this helps fellow travelers. What was your budget? Honestly, we were traveling on budget. We had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/bali-budget-hotels-car-rental-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bali &#8211; FAQs: budget, airlines, best time, hotels, car rental, tips<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[838,829,833,841,831,840,816,839,392,1035,832,830],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-airline","tag-bali","tag-budget","tag-car-rental","tag-honeymoon","tag-hotels","tag-international-travel","tag-itinerary","tag-review","tag-travel","tag-trip","tag-vacation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}