I Lived in Bali for 30 Days Here's the REAL Cost in 2025

Lloyd & Mandy

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00:00Bali has long been a favorite hotspot for digital nomads but has it gotten too expensive in 2025

00:07and beyond? G'day guys I'm Lloyd and my wife Mandy and I lived in Bali in 2022 for six months

00:14and after almost four years away we just moved back here with our one-year-old daughter and

00:20we've been here for about one month and one of the biggest questions we get asked by everybody is

00:25hasn't gotten too expensive because you see a lot of news articles and a lot of stories a lot of

00:30people posting videos about how expensive Bali has gotten over the last few years so in today's

00:37video I'm going to break down all of our costs and what we've spent after one month of living here

00:42I'm going to tell you everything that's changed all the prices that have gone up some of the things

00:48that haven't changed that are still very cheap and at the end of the video I'm going to give you

00:52some tips on how you can save money if you do want to come to Bali on a budget so

00:56the short answer

00:57really is yes Bali has gotten a lot more expensive than it used to be but it still really is

01:03good

01:04value because of the value of living that you actually get here for the money you spend in

01:09compared to other countries so I'll get straight to it accommodation has increased massively in fact

01:16I remember when we came here at the end of 2021 at the start of 2022 now it was sort

01:22of right at the

01:22end of COVID so you need to take that into account but we were staying at a guest house for

01:26like

01:27I remember it was about six or seven hundred dollars a month for a guest house just a basic sort

01:32of room

01:33that same guest house now is probably around fifteen hundred dollars there's been so much development

01:39as far as property and villas there's literally property going up all over the place because the

01:45demand is just still so high everybody wants to live in Canggu Ubud or Uluwatu and the owners of

01:53these properties they know it they know that they can charge a lot more now what you used to get

01:58for

01:59about fifteen hundred dollars in Canggu you're looking at at least three thousand dollars a month and I'm

02:04going to put the conversions to everything down below here but as an example we have just been

02:09staying in a really nice villa here in Pereirinan it's close to the beach it's about a five minute

02:16motorbike ride it's got a pool it's two bedrooms two bathrooms it's very new it's about two or three

02:23years old it's in a really good location as I said there's a gym right across the road and we're

02:27paying

02:2740 million IDR per month which is roughly two and a half thousand US dollars now that may seem

02:34like a lot but when you actually take into account everything that this villa offers like it's

02:39probably at the higher end of villas here in Canggu you can get villas a lot cheaper if you're willing

02:46to be a bit further away from the action or a bit further away from the beach maybe you're willing

02:51to

02:51give up some comforts like we get included with our rent we get housekeeping included as well as pool

02:58maintenance and it also has a washer and dryer which is huge because we have a baby so we're pretty

03:03much

03:03doing washing like every day but so yeah accommodation in general you're probably paying

03:07double what you would have three years ago which is a shame because Bali used to give such great value

03:13all around that's the whole reason we moved here we came here because we wanted to build our online

03:18business and reduce our cost of living significantly but unfortunately it seems like everywhere in the

03:25world it's just getting more and more expensive to live and Bali is no different but so because we're a

03:31family and we're obviously renting a slightly bigger villa if you're a single person or even just a

03:37couple that doesn't have children you could easily get away with a one-bedroom villa and you're probably

03:41looking at around 25 to 30 million per month if you want to be in a good area and if

03:47you're willing

03:47to drive a little bit further you could probably drop that up to around 20 million per month and as

03:52I

03:52mentioned earlier there's still guest houses where you can pay around 15 million for a guest house

03:57room which is quite good value but honestly outside of accommodation we haven't really noticed prices

04:03have gone up too much like scooter rentals are still really cheap here it has gone up a little bit

04:09I

04:09remember paying around about 1.3 million a month for an NMAX scooter and now it's about 1.8 so

04:16that's

04:17definitely gone up a little bit but compared to Thailand and other places like the Philippines Mexico

04:24scooter rentals still really cheap and getting around in general like grab taxis hasn't changed

04:30it still costs barely anything to jump in a grab taxi or on the back of a grab motorbike and

04:36get

04:36anywhere like if you want to go from Canggu to Uluwatu for example you're looking at only about 300,000

04:43rupiah so it's really cheap to get around still very good value as for food and eating out I would

04:49say

04:50there's definitely like more trendy hot spots and they charge a little bit extra but when you're

04:55comparing like prices to Australia and Canada in the US and places in Europe it's still like a third

05:01of the price it's so cheap to go out even in a nice restaurant we go out to eat a

05:06few times a week and we

05:07mix it up sometimes we go to local warongs which is ridiculously cheap like we'll pay about a hundred

05:13thousand for all of us to eat which is like seven dollars or something with a drink and then sometimes

05:18if we

05:19want to go a little bit on the higher end like a not a not a fancy restaurant or anything

05:23like that

05:23but maybe we feel like getting Mexican or sushi or Greek food or something like the bill usually with

05:30a couple of drinks is three to four hundred thousand maybe five hundred thousand which you just can't do

05:36back home the grocery stores have definitely improved we know that when we were here in 2022 we

05:42struggled to find decent groceries and it seems like the grocery stores have expanded and they've

05:48got a lot more options and they're more grocery stores as well the prices have gone up like

05:53everywhere like it feels like groceries just all over the world have gone up but I would say yeah

05:58they're still really affordable if you want to do some cooking at home honestly you're probably not

06:02really saving any money because it is so cheap to go eat at a local warong it's just a matter

06:07of

06:07whether or not you want to eat out for every meal and then we have our health or travel insurance

06:12which is through safety wing Mandy and I pay a combined hundred and twelve dollars per month

06:17for our safety wing insurance and that covers all three of us including our daughter if any of us

06:22need to go to the hospital or to the doctor or anything like that we're completely covered and

06:28that's honestly one of the biggest I feel like hesitations for people especially from Australia and

06:33Canada and even Europe because like we have sort of a socialized healthcare system where you get free

06:40healthcare and people are pretty hesitant to go and live somewhere like Bali because you're giving

06:46up free healthcare but in my honest opinion having lived in Australia and Canada for a long time and

06:52then spent time in Bali I can tell you right now the healthcare system isn't the best in Canada or

06:58Australia like I have family members who have had to wait months and months just to get booked in for

07:04like a simple scan and this is the same in a lot of countries in Bali yes you do have

07:09to pay for your

07:10own healthcare but you can walk into a hospital or a clinic with pretty much any problem and they're

07:16going to treat you right away and because we're covered by our travel insurance we get reimbursed for

07:22any costs that we have as far as any health issues go so we use the safety wing nomad essential

07:28plan

07:29which is about $56 each for me and Mandy and that fits us perfectly because we can travel anywhere all

07:36over

07:36the world and still be covered so even if we stay here in Bali we just keep our plan and

07:42if we need a trip to

07:43the doctor or anything like that we're reimbursed pretty much instantly we actually both got dengue fever the

07:49first time we came here like the first week we were here we both got dengue and we were in

07:55a really bad shape

07:55actually we had to get nurses around to the guest house we were staying in for like 10 days straight

08:00both of us couldn't get out of bed we had to do daily blood tests and IVs and it was

08:05looking pretty

08:05bad and it wasn't a good start to our trip and it kind of scared us a little bit because

08:10the doctor's

08:11bills were racking up we literally had like three nurses coming to our room every single day for 10 days

08:17which was a couple thousand dollars and it's not how you want to spend your first month in Bali but

08:23safety wing covered us they covered every single bit of it and reimbursed us within 30 days but if

08:28you're super worried about the health care system and getting sick i'd probably recommend bumping up

08:35to the safety wing nomad complete plan because it's more like a private health insurance it even covers

08:41you for things like maternity so we were on this plan when we were in thailand and it covered

08:45mandy's entire pregnancy as well as postpartum and everything like that and yeah you can add one child

08:51per member under the age of 10 and they're completely covered so if the health system's

08:56something you're super worried about here and you want to include it into your budget uh it's not

09:00expensive to be covered by safety wing and if you have to go to the doctor or hospital god forbid

09:06you're completely covered if you want to check them out we'll leave a link down below in the pinned

09:11comment as well as in the description and uh it's an affiliate code as well so if you do use

09:16their link

09:17you'll be helping our channel out and then when it comes to wellness so like gyms and massages and

09:22stuff like that gyms have always been i would say a little bit more expensive here than in some other

09:30places but the gyms are amazing like they're epic they have things like ice baths and saunas um even

09:36the yoga studios have like recovery zones in them as well as like the mma gyms they all have ice

09:43baths and

09:43saunas and stuff and although you you probably will end up paying about two million a month for

09:49a really really good membership um you're going to get a lot of bang for your buck and the gym

09:55i go to

09:56it's only a million for one month and it's really really good so you can go on the cheaper end

10:01as well

10:01so yes the price has gone up significantly when it comes to rent and accommodation but everything else

10:08i feel like is still extremely reasonable and for us the equation here isn't just price it's what you

10:14get back in both time lifestyle uh support and just comfort so like for example we have a nanny here

10:22we

10:23never could have afforded a nanny back home uh we pay about a hundred thousand per hour for a nanny

10:29we also have housekeeping and we can get our groceries and food and everything delivered so that we can focus

10:36on the important things like working uh and obviously being with our daughter and yes there's a

10:42lot of traffic especially here in changu which can be really frustrating but you can avoid that by

10:47getting stuff delivered to you or just timing it so you're not going out during peak hours which is

10:52kind of what we do but honestly even though it's so busy here we absolutely love it because there's just

10:59such a good creative vibe here like everybody's kind of creating something whether it's a business

11:04uh it just feels like there's such a creator community here and paying a little bit extra for

11:11accommodation feels like it's worth it mandy and i like to sit down once a week and go through

11:16everything kind of like a a work business slash marriage meeting and we go through all of our expenses

11:23and what we're spending just so that we know like if things are getting out of control or if we're

11:27spending too much

11:28here or there or if we have some spare money that we can be investing and so for that reason

11:32i'm able to share with you guys

11:33a pretty good idea of what we've spent during our first month here in changu so first of all our

11:40rent

11:40uh as i said it's 40 million indonesian rupiah per month which is a little expensive but you can

11:46obviously go a lot cheaper than that our nanny we've spent just under 6 million indonesian rupiah

11:52for 60 hours for the month so that's 15 hours per week we just get around three days a week

11:58they

11:58usually do five hour minimum and she's really nice she's amazing mandy's yoga membership uh is

12:05about 1.2 million idr my jujitsu membership is 2 million idr and then i also have a gym which

12:12is

12:12like right across the road that i go to for recovery and weights and stuff like that and

12:17that's 1 million idr now this villa and this is pretty common doesn't actually include electricity you

12:22just pay as you go so there's a meter and you can see when it's starting to run low and

12:26you have to

12:27go and top it up at the store or you can just send money to the landlord sometimes we've kept

12:31track

12:32of how much we've spent and it's just under 3 million indonesian repair for the month so it's not

12:38too bad it's pretty much the same as what we're paying in thailand our scooter was 1.8 million for

12:43the month which is an n max it's kind of like on the bigger side of scooters uh you could

12:48definitely

12:48if you're just a single person or a smaller person even you could rent a smaller scooter for probably

12:551.4 1.5 so as you can see our total cost for our first month uh of living here

13:02in bali it comes to

13:03about 55 million rupiah or around about three and a half thousand us dollars which may seem like a lot

13:09compared to i mean it does seem like a lot to me compared to what we were paying three years

13:13ago i

13:14still feel like the value is so much higher than it is back home even though we are paying a

13:19little

13:19bit more i also didn't include in the monthly costs things like going out so we're like we don't really

13:26go out drinking or anything like that anymore at least not too much but if you're going to be doing

13:30stuff like that then you need to take that into account uh also shopping like if you want to buy

13:35new

13:35clothes super cheap we just went to seminak village there's tons of markets everywhere honestly and we

13:42picked up a bunch of clothes and i think we spent between all three of us like 100 bucks and

13:48i got

13:48like a couple of shirts and shorts man you got a couple outfits and so did lila so everything like

13:53that is still super cheap so there are a few ways to actually make it a lot cheaper living here

14:00uh and

14:01this goes for both families and for singles so if you can negotiate a longer stay so if you're going

14:07to

14:07be here for say six months to a year uh the balinese love getting money up front and they will

14:13give you

14:14a heavy heavy discount so something like a 40 million per month villa you could negotiate it down

14:19to probably about 30 million per month if you're willing to pay for say 12 months up front and that

14:25goes for scooter rental as well like if you're going to be here for a year instead of renting a

14:30scooter you

14:30could easily buy one for a thousand or maybe one and a half thousand dollars um and then sell it

14:37when

14:37you leave or if you're going to be here indefinitely like it's going to pay itself off after about 10

14:41months also as far as accommodation goes as i mentioned you could easily find a cheaper place

14:46just outside of the hot zone so like if you're willing to drive even just an extra honestly five

14:52to seven minutes from the beach or like the center of changu or wherever you're staying you can

14:57easily cut costs in your villa rental there as well and just be smart about where you're eating out too

15:03like it's easy to get caught up in some of the trendy like restaurants and cafes where you're going to

15:08be paying extra but the local warongs are so cheap and the food is honestly so good and they're always

15:14busy

15:15because people who have been here for a long time understand that they may not look fancy or anything

15:20from the outside and you might think oh it's a bit dodgy like eating local food or whatever is it

15:25clean

15:25is it sanitized uh we haven't had any issues and honestly the food's amazing and you pay barely

15:32anything to eat out so if you're going to be spending a little bit extra on accommodation you

15:36can definitely save a lot of money by eating locally and then yeah cooking breakfast or a couple of meals

15:41at home um not going out partying too much you can save a lot of money and then with gyms

15:46and things

15:47like yoga you can get like punch cards um which we find always works out to be a bit cheaper

15:52because

15:52every time we join something for say one month um something comes up and you miss a few classes and

15:59then it seems like you're paying more whereas if you get a punch card um you know exactly how much

16:03you're paying for each time you go to say yoga so if you are a digital nomad or a creator

16:09or just a

16:10remote worker who values community nature and convenience barley still makes a ton of sense and is still

16:18extremely valuable in our opinion even with higher rent like if you want a really nice villa and

16:25you're willing to pay extra for it uh we think it's worth it and with our one-year-old we

16:29feel

16:30really comfortable here like we've already found a couple of restaurants that are really really nice

16:34to take her to that where the staff like look after her and play with her obviously we have mentioned

16:39already that we have access to a nanny and then there's tons of playgrounds around as well that have

16:45cafes attached to them where you can literally just take your kid to play around all day and it

16:50costs like maybe a hundred thousand indonesian rupiah to take your kid there all day so it's super

16:55family friendly as well yes the roads are busy and it can be intimidating but if you wear a helmet

17:00and

17:00use common sense and if you're covered by insurance preferably safety wing um healthcare and pharmacies

17:07are really really good here so you don't need to stress about that so is barley too expensive for us

17:12now

17:12um no i don't think so accommodation's gone up but the overall value of living here i just don't

17:18think you can get anywhere else like we've tried so many different places and nowhere ticks all the

17:24boxes quite like barley does and you can literally go out and meet people every single day you can meet

17:30other families if you're a family or if you're single and you're looking to meet somebody super easy here

17:35as well because there's just such an outgoing friendly vibe here and i think that's part of

17:41what you're paying for by living in bali or staying in bali for a long period of time is you're

17:47paying for

17:48the access to the community as well as everything else so i hope this video was helpful in some way

17:55if you're thinking about coming to bali uh check out our bali series we've made a ton of content here

17:59and if you have any questions or anything leave them down below in the comments feel free to send

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