General Info

[Rogue Wan]

It is officially 200 thousand per day. Recently overstayed 7 days and paid 7 x 200. You will have a major headache if you stay longer than two weeks and not prepared to pay on top of 200x14. And 'surely' no ones you wants to invite that kind of grief upon themselves. But hey it all relative. If you are cashed up and mobile everything can be solved with patience, a little grovelling and hard currency.

http://www.depdagri.go.id/media/docu...No.38-2009.doc.

This document details government charges for many things and is worth consulting before doing any transaction. If anything, to get a ball park figure of what you 'should' be paying, but not necessarily end up paying.

Case in point: Meet a young German fella at immigration office about 5 months ago when i was doing my one and only ever visa extension. He had paid a calon 3 juta to get his visa extended! Ouch I say! Cheaper to fly to Singapore and back! The official charge is 250 or there about

Bali could be different though. Anyone else experience with overstay? Cos true be had i only have the one experience and that was anamoly with employment crossover and Kitas ending.

RW

I lost the plot date-wise last time I was in Bali and found, when I went to leave, that I had over-stayed 4 days.

The immigration officer didn't bat an eye-lid, merely called over a superior who filled out a bit of paper and I paid either $US20 or $25 per day overstay (don't remember exactly, but no more than $25.)

Don't know about the two month on arrival. I go to Bali in a few days and although I won't need that long, I'll try and find out if it's in operation yet and post on here.

[Dazednconfused]

I really don't want to have to do a SIN run or anything to stay the extra few days.

I lost the plot date-wise last time I was in Bali and found, when I went to leave, that I had over-stayed 4 days.

The immigration officer didn't bat an eye-lid, merely called over a superior who filled out a bit of paper and I paid either $US20 or $25 per day overstay (don't remember exactly, but no more than $25.)

Don't know about the two month on arrival. I go to Bali in a few days and although I won't need that long, I'll try and find out if it's in operation yet and post on here.

[Jaimito Cartero]

JC, if you don't get the answers you are looking for, let me know. I know of a guy who can get your passport stamped without you or the passport leaving the country. Cost used to be 100$ a year or so ago.

Well, I've heard of other people who just put some bills in their passport if they overstayed, but I've never done that before.

[Hamaca]

I recently read about a new two month visa, but am unsure if you can request it at the airport or not.

I have a 5 week stay at the end of this year, and really don't want to have to do a SIN run or anything to stay the extra few days.

I'm looking for quick and easy, of course, and hopefully without being banned coming into the country the next time.

You can extend your Visa for an extra 30 days cost $25, 00 its not a problem, but you don't request it on arrival you have to go to immigration office at airport or Denpasar if you are staying nearer there, best to go 7/10 days before your 30 days are due to run out, you have to go twice, first time fill out the short form/pay your money, second time pick up your passport. You are only going to be 5 days overstay so if I were you I would just pay the 5x Rp200, 000 overstay fee and save the grief. More time to enjoy your hobby.

[1Ball]

JC, if you don't get the answers you are looking for, let me know. I know of a guy who can get your passport stamped without you or the passport leaving the country. Cost used to be 100$ a year or so ago.

[El Greco]

Air Asia also runs sales quite often, so you might want to sign up for email alerts and the like from them. I flew BKK-PNH when the route was new for $50 or $60 which was 1/3 the going price at the time. They have a bit of the Southwest effect, drastically lowering fares when they enter the market.

Mid April they had a zero fare sale. Too many destinations on offer up to May 2011. Ok they only offer a few seats on every flight but I only need one right? You have to be quick though because their site was so busy.

They advised me by e-mail about a week in advance so I had plenty of time to make my plans.

I booked a dozen legs paying only airport taxes where necessary. Later on I will have to book my seats,meals and baggage. Eg Out of Jakarta to Singapore I paid nothing for my booking since I will have to pay airport tax in cash there.

All the best and have fun.

Meu dois centavos amigo.

[Jaimito Cartero]

I recently read about a new two month visa, but am unsure if you can request it at the airport or not.

I have a 5 week stay at the end of this year, and really don't want to have to do a SIN run or anything to stay the extra few days.

I'm looking for quick and easy, of course, and hopefully without being banned coming into the country the next time.

[Sharka]

Also, from what I remember once when I chose jetstar out of Sin, the taxes and fees were much higher for this airline than other low cost airlines. it may have been at certain times but it was much higher than the competition.

[Dinghy]

but if you do jetstar, watch the baggage WEIGHT - it cost me an extra $100 out of PP to get to SIN (baggage cost was about the ticket cost)

[Bellpepper]

You can do PNH - BKK then BKK - DPS direct on AirAsia. Alternatively you can do PNH - KUL, then KUL - DPS direct, also on AirAsia. Given a choice between the 2 I would prefer to transit in Suvarnabhumi instead of KLCC, but check schedules and fares.

The 3rd most straighforward option is to do PNH - SIN on Jetstar and then from SIN you have a myriad of options for DPS.

Happy travels.

Thanks, all of you, for your help!
BP

[Raverboy]

Talking about airlines . . . . does anyone know a good flight connection between Phnom Penh and Bali? My search engines indicate at least 7 hours trip one way and 800 USD for a round trip. So it does not seem possible to go to Bali just for a weekend. But are there maybe any small airline with better connections that is not found by the search engines?

I'm asking because I have just got a job offer in Phnom Penh.

Thanks,
BP

You can do PNH - BKK then BKK - DPS direct on AirAsia. Alternatively you can do PNH - KUL, then KUL - DPS direct, also on AirAsia. Given a choice between the 2 I would prefer to transit in Suvarnabhumi instead of KLCC, but check schedules and fares.

The 3rd most straighforward option is to do PNH - SIN on Jetstar and then from SIN you have a myriad of options for DPS.

Happy travels.

[Jaimito Cartero]

Air Asia also runs sales quite often, so you might want to sign up for email alerts and the like from them. I flew BKK-PNH when the route was new for $50 or $60 which was 1/3 the going price at the time. They have a bit of the Southwest effect, drastically lowering fares when they enter the market.

[Robert Long]

Special alert for the guys that want to summer in Indonesia. Ramadan dates this year are August 11th thru September 9th.

IF starts September 10th thru September 20th. During this period travel is very difficult as all the space is usually sold out and is very expensive.

Book accordingly and ask the bros here if you need assistance.

RL

[Fast Eddie 48]

Talking about airlines . . . . does anyone know a good flight connection between Phnom Penh and Bali? My search engines indicate at least 7 hours trip one way and 800 USD for a round trip. So it does not seem possible to go to Bali just for a weekend. But are there maybe any small airline with better connections that is not found by the search engines?

I'm asking because I have just got a job offer in Phnom Penh.

Thanks,

BP

BP,

I don't think there are direct flight I have check into that about 8 yr ago, you need to connect at Bangkok or HK not sure about now.

Fast Eddie 48

[Betong]

Mind you, the average is about one in a 100,000 or something (pulling a figure out of the air), so ten times higher and you're still likely to survive.

Just so we don't have to pull numbers out of the air, Planecrashinfo (a pretty reliable source) calculates that the odds of not surviving a scheduled commercial airline flight, 1985-2009, were 1 in 9.2 million for the safest 25 airlines worldwide, and 1 in about 840,000 on the least safe 25. In other words, so unlikely even in the worst case that it's hardly worth worrying about.

But we humans do worry, and there's a lot to be said for peace of mind when flying. Especially when the weather gets nasty, which of course happens a lot over Indonesia. So I'm happy to pay a bit more for what I perceive as a safer airline. But I try not to be too concerned when I have to take one that isn't. It's still several hundred times safer than riding a motorcycle, and I do that every day.