Cheap Bali Flights
Budget Airfares Indonesia,
Jakarta, Surabaya & Labuan Bajo
Bali Cheap Flights this page is for internal Indonesia Cheap Flights for the international cheap flights to Bali click the link. Indonesia is a huge island chain that the only practical way around if you are on a holiday vacation is to fly. The good news is there are usually lots of options, but most people are going to be sent to Merpati or the Indonesian National Carrier Garuda, which are the most expensive option in the picture below you can see the names of some of the other airlines but another frustrating thing is trying to book cheap flights online as there website's don't work for the most part, so one needs to either go to the airport locally in Bali, or the outer islands or trust the travel agents who make the bigger profits off the more expensive flights, so guess which ones they will recommend.
One of the Bali Travel tips I would offer is this; when you land go and talk to the airline agents at the airport and talk directly to the chap airlines, and if you have a good idea of where you are traveling to book the next leg of your travel when you get to where you are.
The local ground transportation in Indonesia is very low grade the buses can be overloaded and the sleeper trains are non existent yet they are sold as sleeper trains there is also the option of the ship ferries but these only go from the closest shore to the closest shore so you still need to use the inadequate ground transportation. The bus below looked great until they loaded it ,when full the isle were unusable as they were full of cargo and overflow passengers.
Finding cheap flights to Bali Indonesia is not easy; they seem to charge a premium to go to Jakarta or Bali. Cheap airfares to Surabaya were also hard to find, however once you are in Indonesia the flights are cheaper and there are a lot of flights available. You still need to look for the discount flights to get really good deals. Air Asia seems to have the least expensive in general but if you look at some of the other carriers you can still find bargain airfares. Some of the other budget airlines are Sriwyaya Air , Adam Air, Mandala Air and Garuda Air were both asking a lot more, at least 25% or more. the best prices for cheap flights to Bali form Singapore KL and Bangkok is Lion Air the really cheap flights around $150 USD now July 2008 to & from Singapore.
If you have a lot of luggage it can cost you a lot on some of the airlines. Air Asia has a 15 kilo limit then they put everything you have on the scale including your carry on and it is 20,000 a kilo for the overage. Sriwyaja only charged 10,000 pr kilo and they did not weigh my computer which is 7 kilo, which on Air Asia would have added 15 USD to the total price of the ticket.
I believe that good things should be rewarded When I got on the Sriwyaja flight I asked if I could get coffee they said sorry we don’t serve coffee. I asked them if they have hot water, they said yes, I normally keep some Nescafe in my computer bag today I did not have any in there but the beautiful stewardess came to my seat after the flight took off with a cup of coffee! You have to love that kind of service!
At the very last minute I booked a ferry from Singapore to Batam just across from Singapore in Indonesia and it cost me $29.90 Singapore dollars for the ferry and then $51.80 for the flight to Jakarta. The airport tax was 30,000 Rupia just a little bit over $3 USD. So for trading two hours and taking the ferry I saved nearly $80 USD, not bad and I did it all of the fly with no reservations.
The original plan was to take the frery from Batam to Jakarta, and then take a night train to the end of the island of Java, then catch a ferry and a 1st class bus to Denpasar, the main tourist area of Bali. I was figuring that the whole trip would take maybe 3 or 4 days. When I got to Batam they said that I would need to wait two days until the ferry left, and then the ferry would take 26 hours and I would get into Jakarta after the night train had all ready left, so it would be another wasted day, so the flight from Batam to Jakarta was a great deal all the way around.
I searched flights from Bangkok and Singapore to see if there were any deals to be had on cheap flights to Bali or Jakarta and all I could find were around 150 USD or more one way. I like taking trains and buses are ok if they have bathrooms and the air con works but when you start to get in to distances that are over 1500 KM you start to really eat the time that you have available.
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