How to rent a scooter in Bali

A small automatic scooter such as a Honda Scoopy or BeAT typically costs Rp 60.000 to Rp 100.000 a day in Bali, and a 150cc Yamaha NMAX or Honda PCX Rp 100.000 to Rp 200.000. A month on a small automatic usually lands between Rp 1.200.000 and Rp 1.800.000. Each shop sets and shows its own rate.

Yes. You need a motorcycle licence from your own country plus an International Driving Permit endorsed for motorcycles. A car licence does not cover a scooter. Police check foreign riders regularly around Canggu, Kuta and Ubud, and riding without the right permit also invalidates most travel insurance.

Most Bali rental shops ask for Rp 500.000 to Rp 2.000.000 in cash, or hold a card. Some ask for nothing on a short rental. Where a Rodaku shop has declared its deposit, it is on that shop's page. Rodaku itself never holds a deposit or adds a fee of its own.

Film the bike before you ride away, slowly, taking in the plate and every existing scratch. Keep the video until the deposit is back. Get a written receipt for the deposit and the rental. If a shop refuses either, rent somewhere else — the shops that plan to argue about a scratch are the ones that avoid evidence.

Bali traffic is dense and fast and the crash statistics are not gentle, so the honest answer is that it depends on you. Ride with a helmet that fastens, stay off the bike after a drink, check the brakes before you leave, and carry the right licence so your insurance still applies if something happens.

Yes, and it is much cheaper per day than renting by the day. A month on a small automatic typically costs Rp 1.200.000 to Rp 1.800.000 in the tourist areas, and less from shops in Denpasar that rent mainly to residents. Where a Rodaku shop offers a monthly rate, it is shown on the listing.

A villa or hotel can usually arrange a scooter, but it is arranging it with a rental shop and adding a margin for the phone call. Going to the shop yourself gets you the shop's own price, a choice of bike rather than whatever is spare, and someone to call directly if the bike stops working.

Many do, free of charge inside the main tourist areas, and it is common to have a bike dropped at a villa or at the airport. On Rodaku, delivery is one of the things a shop declares on its own page, so you can see whether it is offered before you send a request.

If your shop starts an ID capture, you take the photos yourself, on your own phone. Rodaku keeps them, each sealed under its own key. Once you send them, your shop gets no copy through Rodaku and cannot see them. They are deleted on a date printed on your booking page, normally 3 days after the rental ends. The date moves later if the shop records a late return or an extension, and falls at most 30 days after the latest end date your booking has had. Once the shop has recorded the return, you can ask for them to be deleted sooner. A shop can ask Rodaku to keep them longer, with a stated reason: they are kept at once while Rodaku looks, Rodaku decides, and your page tells you for as long as your link works. If the police, a court or another authority asks for a copy, Rodaku can provide it to that authority: a person at Rodaku who is signed in with a second check opens the photos, must note a reference, and each time a copy is opened it is logged. Rodaku gives any copy to that authority, not to the shop, and cannot delete a copy once the authority has it. A photo a shop takes on its own phone is outside Rodaku.