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Tips: Shopping with Minimum Budget

03 Jul

Shopping is one of the most refreshing activities in every where, any where, especially when you are travelling. You can buy any thing your wants. But, you must have big mount of budget on it. What happen if you don’t have? What happen if you spend most of your money on travelling cost then you don’t have much money rest for shopping? The answer is you must cut your travelling cost (read Budgeting to Bali) or you go shopping with small mount of money. These are tips you can follow to solve your problem, how you can buy things with minimum budget.

So many arts are offered at Bali, you can choose it to be your souvenir. Beside of cheap, arts are easy to get in every souvenir shopping place in Bali. Bargain is the most urgent skill you should have to get cheapest price. Before you buy things, you should prepare many tips below:

    • Make List

      Write down all things what exactly you want to buy. It is necessary to avoid buying unimportant things for souvenir. When the list ready, you can allocate money in each thing for budgeting.

      • Search for information

        Collect information as many as you can get from internet, magazine, or villagers about the shop. Don’t just follow the guide man, because they often bring you too many shops that give them commissions, and not bring you to the shop which gives you best price.

          • Look for cheapest price

            Walk to another shop to collect price information. Show your bargain skill, bargain half price from seller offering price. If seller doesn’t meet your offering price, look in another shop and use your offering price before as lowest price on bargaining. Don’t ever show your interest of things, be calm and be friendly to the seller.

              • Don’t be rash

                If you don’t have much time for shopping, so don’t. Because shopping needs long spare time to spend so you can make best decision on buying things, and also best price for your pocket.

                Happy Shopping!

                 
                 

                Bali Souvenir Shopping Places

                07 Jun

                Souvenir is a must thing you have to buy when you travelling in someplace. You can keep it for your self or maybe give it to your friends, family, or people who close to you as a gift.

                In Bali you will find many kind of souvenir such as handicrafts, T-shirts, bags, hats, etc. Prices are different based on quality and places where you bought them.

                Here are some references for souvenir shopping places in Bali.

                • Sukawati Art Market

                Paintings, sculptures, and many others can be found at this market. As it’s named, this market is located in Sukawati Village. This is place where people sell art things and souvenir in low prices. It is a must that you have to bargain in case of getting cheap prices.

                • Gang Poppies (Poppies street)

                Alongside this street you will find shops that sell exclusively Bali things like clothes, sandals, bags, hats, souvenirs, home equipments, accessories, even imported books. This street is in front of Kuta Beach, so it’s very easy to find this street. The rule is being clever on bargaining until you get the cheapest one.

                • Jenggala Ceramics

                Much kind of ceramics are founded in this place. Ceramics with contemporary styles and exclusively color are the superior product. Besides buying ceramics you can also learn how to make ceramics or paint ceramics. Jenggala ceramics are in Uluwatu Street, Jimbaran, and Kuta.

                • Sentral Ubud

                When you come to sentral Ubud, you will see shops that display and offer many kind of crafts like silvers, paintings, and many more.

                • Ubud Art Market

                Just like another art market, this place offers crafts, statues, paintings, accessories, and Bali clothes. It’s located in Sentral Ubud.

                • Legian Street

                Along Legian street there are small shops until famous boutique. Accessories, clothes and many other fashion stuff are offered there.

                • Bog Bog Shop

                Bog Bog Shop is in Veteran Street 34A. This shop sells T-shirt, mug and bag with cartoon pictures. You can choose the pictures or use your own face to be cartooned. Prices are between Rp 200.000- Rp 350.000.

                • Badung Market

                Another place that sells much kind of souvenirs, foods, traditional clothes, etc in Denpasar. Read the rest of this entry »

                 
                 

                Budgeting to Bali Island

                03 May

                They are some Tips to guide you in budgeting when you gonna spend holiday in Bali.

                1. Plane tickets
                Order plane tickets in earlyday before your flight date for cheapper cost. When its low season, many airline offer promotion ticket arround Rp.325.000,-.For example, with Air Asia you can get two way tickets just Rp.300.000,-. Make your arrival in Bali in the morning so you can have enough time to search hotel, car/motor rent, or many other activities before your rest.

                2. Your arrival
                Your first step in Bali will charge Rp. 50.000,- for airport tax. Then search for Taxi, choose good reputation taxi like Bluebird. It will cost arround Rp 50.000,- from airport to Kuta (if you like to stay in Kuta). An airport taxi is more expensive than an usual taxi. If you have enaough patient, wait for taxi which drop their passenger, and then directly you in to the taxi.

                3. Hotel
                On I&II Poppies street you can get many hotel and variation cost from Rp. 50.000/night (with fan) until Rp.250.000/night (with AC) include bread and Tea/Coffee for breakfast. Poppies street located between Kuta Beach and Legian which is the shopping heaven place.

                Dont go to Bali in High season( school holiday season) ,June-July and September – Descember,if you dont wanna get difficulties on getting hotel. Before you decide to choose one hotel to stay, its wisely to check one or more other hotel to compare. The important things to check are cleaning room, comfortable bedcover and blanket, cleaning bathroom, is the shower, wastafel and toilet flush work properly? Generally hotel in Kuta are not AC and hot water shower rooms but they’re just fan and cold water shower. If you’re bored with this things, or wanna get out from Kuta, you can choose Denpasar (30 minutes from airport), Sanur Beach Area (20 minutes from airport), or Ubud (an hour from airport).
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