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Your trip estimate
Your Indonesia trip.
What you can refuse to pay in Indonesia.
Real money, shown as amounts
Your own bank's foreign fees
A no-foreign-fee card takes the card percentage to $0; the ATM operator's own flat fee is separate and still applies.
Most US cards add a percentage on what you buy and on the cash you pull, plus a few dollars per ATM withdrawal. Nothing about that is a cost of the trip; it is a cost of the card you happened to bring.
Paying in dollars at the terminal$0 to $0
Choose IDR every time, at a till and at an ATM.
Dynamic currency conversion lets the machine set its own rate on top of any fee, and it runs about 3 to 8 percent on whatever you put on the card. It is the single easiest charge on this page to refuse, and it costs nothing to say no.
Prepare aheadGet ready before you go.
Traveling with a pet
You can't just fly a pet in and out. Most countries need a microchip, a current rabies shot and a health certificate, and bringing your pet back into the US has its own rules. Start the vet paperwork weeks ahead: miss it and your pet can be refused at the border.
We haven't finished checking pet entry requirements for Indonesia, and we won't guess. We only tell you a country's specifics when we are 100 percent sure and current. Still working on this one. Want us to tell you the moment it's done?
Sales tax on what you buy
A health condition while traveling
Your US health plan likely won't cover you abroad, and a condition that needs attention needs a plan: carry enough medication, know it may have a different name in Indonesia, and confirm your travel insurance covers a pre-existing condition, since many don't by default.
Your hotel price, mapped
Already inside the rate you paid
You booked through a site, so its cut is buried in the rate, invisible on your bill. Booking the same room direct can bring that out, worth a two-minute check, not a rule that always wins.
Still landing on top
Resort fee, where charged: about $25 to $55 a night. Most hotels charge none. This is the typical range to check your own rate against, not a figure for your booking.
Parking, where charged: about $15 to $70 a night. Often free, often skippable. A range to check, not a cost we can read from your room rate.
A refundable deposit hold. Not a cost, but your card can feel it for a few days. Varies by property.
We put a dollar figure only where we can stand behind it: the tax, because it follows from what you paid. The rest we name as typical ranges, because they swing too much by property to state as yours. That is the honest line, not a limitation.
Your hotel price, mapped
Still landing on top
Resort fee, where charged: about $25 to $55 a night. Most hotels charge none. This is the typical range to check your own rate against, not a figure for your booking.
Parking, where charged: about $15 to $70 a night. Often free, often skippable. A range to check, not a cost we can read from your room rate.
A refundable deposit hold. Not a cost, but your card can feel it for a few days. Varies by property.
We put a dollar figure only where we can stand behind it: the tax, because it follows from what you paid. The rest we name as typical ranges, because they swing too much by property to state as yours. That is the honest line, not a limitation.
Airbnb and short-term rental fees
The nightly rate isn't the bill: a flat cleaning fee plus the platform's roughly 15 percent service fee stack on top, which hits short stays hardest, and tourist tax is sometimes collected in cash on arrival.
Open the full price breakdown and compare it against a hotel before you book. Short-term-rental rules also vary by city and change often, so check locally.
Your leaving date
Refuse to payDecline on the spot.
Paying for the All Indonesia arrival card
File it yourself at allindonesia.imigrasi.go.id. It takes minutes.
It is free on the official government site, and it is mandatory, which is exactly why lookalike sites buy the search terms. We publish no figure for what they charge because none is sourced for Indonesia, but anything above nothing is too much.
Reseller markup on the Bali tourist levy
Apply on the official government portal, linked in Getting there above.
The official Bali tourist levy is IDR 150,000. Resellers charge two to three times that for the same document, and they are not a faster route, only a costlier one.
The airport or hotel exchange desk
Withdraw from a bank ATM instead, and never change cash at the airport.
Exchange counters make their money on the spread rather than on a stated fee, which is why we publish no percentage for it: it moves by counter, by hour and by note. The rule is what is reliable, not the number.
The scooter damage claim
Photograph the bike from every angle and take a slow video walk-around with the shop in shot before you ride off; never leave your passport as the deposit, offer cash instead.
A rental shop points to scratches that were already there and names a repair figure you cannot argue with.
The fake Bluebird, meter refusal, or flat airport rate
Use a registered company (Bluebird, Silverbird, Express) or Grab/Gojek where the fare is set before you get in; check the logo and driver ID rather than the paint.
Bluebird, the trusted metered taxi, is widely imitated by copycats using a similar paint job and a near-identical name.
The unlicensed money changer's fast count
Use only a licensed exchange showing a Bank of Indonesia logo and QR code, count the money yourself before leaving the counter, and do not let notes go back across the desk once counted.
An unbeatable board rate is the bait; a fast, confusing count with notes folded or palmed back is the method.
The fake help number stuck on the ATM
Ignore any phone number stuck to an ATM; if a machine misbehaves, call the number on the back of your own card instead.
Criminals place fake help numbers on machines so a caller can talk a victim through handing over card details.
The salon or tattoo-parlour fee dispute
Agree the price before anything starts at a tattoo parlour, nail salon or spa in Bali.
Fee disputes at Bali salons and tattoo parlours are common enough to be worth heading off in advance.
Your phone plan abroad
The rental counter insurance upsell
Decline the counter CDW only after you have checked what you already have; you can often buy the same cover for less, or already own it.
At the counter you will be pushed collision damage waiver (CDW/LDW) and 'excess reduction' add-ons, often around $15 to $40 a day, framed against a scary excess (the amount you owe if the car is damaged: roughly up to $2,500 in the US, about 950 to 1,500 euros or pounds in Europe, more in Australia). Before you accept, three things are usually true. First, your credit card may already include rental CDW, but you must check your card's own current benefit guide: coverage differs by card, is often secondary, has duration limits, and excludes some countries (Italy, Ireland, Australia, Israel and Jamaica are common exclusions), so confirm YOUR card for YOUR destination rather than assuming. Second, if you are not covered, a standalone excess policy (bought from an independent insurer, not the counter) is usually far cheaper, often under $8 a day versus the counter's $15 to $40. Third, personal accident and personal effects add-ons usually duplicate health and home insurance you already have. The one cover a card's CDW does NOT include is third-party liability, so if your rental does not include enough of that, it is the one worth genuinely considering.
Each line stands alone. We never add these into one total, because money you were never going to spend is not a saving. Your whole trip runs about $0 to $0. See the full breakdown
Not priced: Travel insurance.
Where the money goes
Open only the detail you need.
Getting thereNot included
The round-trip airfare you gave in step 5, if any. Paid in dollars at booking, so it carries no foreign-transaction fee.
One-off, per person. Official source
Watch out for
Bags, seats, and change fees are the avoidable part, not the fare.
The fare already covers the mandatory part. Bags, seats, and the right to change your mind are optional, and every airline strips a different amount out to get there. What your fare doesn’t include
Paying in dollars does not dodge your card’s foreign fee.
The fee attaches to a foreign merchant, not to whatever currency shows on the receipt, so billing in dollars does not exempt the charge. Why dollars don’t dodge it
There is no magic day or trick that reliably drops the fare.
The studies disagree with each other on the best day and the best advance window, and that disagreement is itself the finding: no single number is worth planning a purchase around. What actually makes a flight cheaper
Prepare ahead
If the airline cancels, you are owed cash, not a voucher.
US rules already owe you an automatic refund to your original payment method if you decline the rebooking, voucher, or credit the airline offers instead. What your airline owes you
These carry no dollar figure by design: each is named because it is real, and there is nothing honest to price here.
Accommodation$0
Room price for the stay. Separately modeled taxes appear in the tax section, not twice.
Daily spending$0
Food, local transport, activities and tips, for your travel style, party size and trip length.
Taxes & payment fees$0
Tourist tax, card purchase fee and ATM fee, added together for this row only; each is its own line below and none of them are added into any other group.
On the room and the card-paid half of daily spend.
A flat per-withdrawal charge. This is separate from the card purchase fee above and always applies, regardless of your step 7 answer.
Three kinds of information. Your figures, our estimates and sourced rules are labeled separately. Whether a cost is in the total is a different label.
Modeling assumptions
- People and rooms are counted separately. This estimate does not assume a specific number of rooms for your party.
- Every priced night of the stay is treated the same; there is no separate arrival- or departure-day adjustment.
- Changing your travel style will not replace a flight or room price you have already entered; only typing a new figure does.
- This estimate uses one room throughout the stay. If your own booking has more than one room, check the count and enter the combined nightly price on the accommodation step.
Your trip estimate
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Optional. Enter your round trip fare per traveler to fold flights into the total.
Total trip realistically somewhere between $0 and $0.
Getting thereflights, and what the border costs
Watch out for
Prepare ahead
These carry no dollar figure by design: each is named because it is real, and there is nothing honest to price here.
Departure tax is not a separate line here. Where a country charges one it is collected inside your airfare, so it is already in the flight figure, and adding it again would count it twice.
On the ground detailyour room, your days, and how much of it is cash
Whether at an ATM or a card terminal in a shop or restaurant, always choose to be charged in the local currency, not dollars. Paying in dollars (called dynamic currency conversion) lets the machine set its own, worse, exchange rate on top of any fee.
Fees nobody quotes youthe part that lands on the statement weeks later
What you'll pay
Plus the one-off entry charge, which sits in Getting there above with the flights, because it is per person rather than per night.
What you can refuse, and what the lookalike sites charge, is set out under Costs nobody tells you about below, with the two figures kept apart from these ones.
The fees, one by one
10 fees you can refuse to pay on this trip. Tap to see each one and how.
Every one of them, and how to avoid it10 items
Two of these are money you hand over by default; the rest is money you keep by knowing. Each is its own line.
Quantified, with a real range
- Your own bank's foreign feeswhat the fees above come toMost US cards add a percentage on what you buy and on the cash you pull, plus a few dollars per ATM withdrawal. Nothing about that is a cost of the trip; it is a cost of the card you happened to bring.A no-foreign-fee card takes both fee lines above to zero.The cards that do not charge it
- Paying in dollars at the terminalabout 3 to 8%on what you cardDynamic currency conversion lets the machine set its own rate on top of any fee, and it runs about 3 to 8 percent on whatever you put on the card. It is the single easiest charge on this page to refuse, and it costs nothing to say no.Choose IDR every time, at a till and at an ATM.How to decline it
Always worth doing, no fixed price
- Paying for the All Indonesia arrival cardfreeon the official siteIt is free on the official government site, and it is mandatory, which is exactly why lookalike sites buy the search terms. We publish no figure for what they charge because none is sourced for Indonesia, but anything above nothing is too much.File it yourself at allindonesia.imigrasi.go.id. It takes minutes.Every form, and its real site
- Reseller markup on the Bali tourist levyIDR 150,000the official priceOfficialIDR 150,000The lookalikestwo to three times thatThe official Bali tourist levy is IDR 150,000. Resellers charge two to three times that for the same document, and they are not a faster route, only a costlier one.Apply on the official government portal, linked in Getting there above.The official source for this charge
- The airport or hotel exchange deskExchange counters make their money on the spread rather than on a stated fee, which is why we publish no percentage for it: it moves by counter, by hour and by note. The rule is what is reliable, not the number.Withdraw from a bank ATM instead, and never change cash at the airport.Getting cash here
- The scooter damage claimA rental shop points to scratches that were already there and names a repair figure you cannot argue with.Photograph the bike from every angle and take a slow video walk-around with the shop in shot before you ride off; never leave your passport as the deposit, offer cash instead.The full scam guide
- The fake Bluebird, meter refusal, or flat airport rateBluebird, the trusted metered taxi, is widely imitated by copycats using a similar paint job and a near-identical name.Use a registered company (Bluebird, Silverbird, Express) or Grab/Gojek where the fare is set before you get in; check the logo and driver ID rather than the paint.The full scam guide
- The unlicensed money changer's fast countAn unbeatable board rate is the bait; a fast, confusing count with notes folded or palmed back is the method.Use only a licensed exchange showing a Bank of Indonesia logo and QR code, count the money yourself before leaving the counter, and do not let notes go back across the desk once counted.The full scam guide
- The fake help number stuck on the ATMCriminals place fake help numbers on machines so a caller can talk a victim through handing over card details.Ignore any phone number stuck to an ATM; if a machine misbehaves, call the number on the back of your own card instead.The full scam guide
- The salon or tattoo-parlour fee disputeFee disputes at Bali salons and tattoo parlours are common enough to be worth heading off in advance.Agree the price before anything starts at a tattoo parlour, nail salon or spa in Bali.The full scam guide
Where these numbers come fromevery assumption, and its limitssources
These are the assumptions behind the number. Change the room price, nights, travelers, or travel style above, and every line here moves with them.
- Hotel
- Daily spending
- Flights
- Cash vs card
- ATM withdrawals
- Foreign fee
- The range
- Tourist tax
Rough guide, not a quote. The percentage here is a blended stand-in for a typical US card's foreign fee, not your exact rate. The real number moves with the card you carry: one no-foreign-fee card can cover both sides, while a plain rewards credit card only removes the fee on what you buy, and cash still costs a little unless that card also waives ATM and foreign-cash fees. A debit card, or accepting the "pay in dollars" (dynamic currency conversion) offer at a till or ATM, can push it higher. Rates checked Jun 2026 and rounded.
How we check and date every figure