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Is anyone familiar with the new Bali visas please.
The lovebali extra tax?Is anyone familiar with the new Bali visas please.
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Probably, but it’s no bad thing if someone comes to AFF for advice. I haven’t followed closely but I am aware of some changes in the Visa - or maybe there’s no change in the Visa and maybe there’s just an extra tax....Pretty sure there is no new Bali visas in 2024. Perhaps the OP is talking about the tourist levy @mrs.dr.ron mentioned. I mean surely a simple Google search would have found the info.
Is there only a tourist tax or is Australian citizen visa on arrival exemptYes, very much. What is your exact question?
Aussies need either a pre purchased eVisa (or do it on arrival) plus the new lovebali (that's the website) tourist tax. Both require a payment. Then there is also the customs declaration which can only be done 3 days prior or again on arrival.Is there only a tourist tax or is Australian citizen visa on arrival exempt
Agreed.Aussies need either a pre purchased eVisa (or do it on arrival) plus the new lovebali (that's the website) tourist tax. Both require a payment. Then there is also the customs declaration which can only be done 3 days prior or again on arrival.
This would be fab. I checked bali travel forum and there's mixed reports. I'll be trying in June.
I’m excited for this development but I wonder if it’s more relevant to Jakarta than Bali. Does anyone have any recent experience with the egates in Bali? The late night arrivals hall 1-2 hr “hurry up and wait” queues don’t excite me.
Thankyou. Thats brilliant progress.We arrived at Bali last week on the morning of 14/2/2024.......right on the day that we had to pay Bali tourist tax.
We applied for/paid the eVOA and the Bali tourist taxes online.
On arrival at DPS reasonably long queue for those passengers who presumably did not pre-pay for their eVOA. There was no signs about where eVOA tourists should go and we had to ask around before finally locating the automatic gates. Absolutely no other tourist was waiting there at the automated gates.
We showed the young immigration official(standing right in front of the automated gates) our printed out eVOA and Bali tourist tax documents. The guy instructed me and my wife to go through automated gates but informed me our children(both teenagers but under 18) need to be done separately at the counter manually, and the counter is just located behind and next to the automated gates.
I asked if I can go with the children instead of automated gates but was declined and instructed us adults to go through automated gates and said he would take our children to the counter.
So my wife and I went through automated gates and as soon as we have passed the gate, the young guy led our children pass the gate next to the automated gates and to the counter with officials. We waited behind the counter whilst two officials checked our children's passports etc.
So for us the total arrival immigration time taken(excluding time to ask around and locate the automated gates) was about 5 minutes(it would have been 1 minute if we don't have children with us). I wonder what would happen if our children are younger like under 10 years old.
As for whether they checked if Bali Tourist tax has been paid, I can't answer this one as we paid online before leaving Australia and no word was said from the officials during passport checking. One thing was, we printed out the physical copies of the Bali tourist tax but nobody asked for them.
No. The linked LL article implied that it’s an honour system at the moment.So do you have to have paid the Bali tax to use the egates. We do have our evisas.