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Getting Around

Grab, Gojek, scooters and drivers, and how you actually pay for each.

Bazza the kangarooRp

🦘 Bazza's still writing this one. It's an outline for now, and the bits marked "unverified" haven't been checked yet.

Grab vs Gojek: paying with an Aussie card

  • Grab is generally smoother with foreign cards. (Pickyourtrail, checked 2026-10-25)
  • Gojek takes some foreign cards, but international cards with 3D Secure can fail at its payment gateway. Cash or GoPay is the fallback. (Pickyourtrail, checked 2026-10-25)
  • Ryan's test: which of his Aussie-friendly cards work in each app unverified

Scooter hire

  • Typical daily and monthly rates unverified
  • Deposits: cash vs passport (never leave your passport)
  • Licence, helmet and insurance rules. Insurance
  • Police checkpoints and paying fines properly

Private drivers

  • Day rates, what's included, tipping unverified

Day trips with a driver

Fixed price, fuel and parking included.

See Bali day tours (link coming)

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