Short answer: the small recurring services are where a Bali month quietly gains or loses a million rupiah, and almost nobody publishes what they should cost. Laundry 8,000–15,000 IDR per kilo. Cleaner 100,000–200,000 a visit. Haircut 30,000–80,000 at a local barber. Oil change 60,000–120,000.
The rule that governs all of it: fifty metres off the main road is a different price list. A laundry on the tourist strip charges two to three times what an identical shop down a lane charges for the same wash.
Last checked: 13 August 2026. Prices in Indonesian rupiah.
Laundry
| Service | Local shop | Tourist strip / hotel |
|---|---|---|
| Wash, dry, fold — per kilo | 8,000–15,000 IDR | 20,000–35,000 IDR/kg |
| Hotel or villa, per item | — | 15,000–60,000 per piece |
| Express, same day | +50–100% | +100% |
| Ironing (often included) | Included or +2,000/kg | Extra |
| Dry cleaning, per item | 40,000–100,000 IDR | 100,000–250,000 |
Practical notes:
- Minimum is usually 2–3 kg. Bring a proper load.
- Next day is standard. Same day costs more, and in wet season sometimes is not possible at all — humidity means things genuinely do not dry.
- Count your items and take a photo of the bag before handing it over. Occasional mix-ups between customers are the most common complaint, not theft.
- Separate anything you care about. Local laundries wash hot and dry hard. Delicates, technical fabrics and wetsuit tops should go in a labelled bag with instructions, or be washed by you.
- Wet season smell. Clothes that come back slightly damp will mildew in a closed wardrobe. Air them.
- A month of laundry for one person: 150,000–350,000 IDR.
Cleaning and household
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Cleaner, per visit (2–4 hours) | 100,000–200,000 IDR |
| Cleaner, 2–3× weekly, monthly | 500,000–1,500,000 IDR |
| Pool service, monthly | 300,000–700,000 IDR |
| Garden service, monthly | 300,000–800,000 IDR |
| Deep clean, one-off | 300,000–800,000 IDR |
| Pest control (ants, termites) visit | 200,000–600,000 IDR |
| Gas bottle refill (LPG) | 25,000–50,000 IDR |
| Drinking water refill (19L gallon) | 20,000–40,000 IDR |
Ask before you arrange your own cleaner — many villas and guesthouses include cleaning in the rent, and hiring a second person creates awkwardness. If it is not included, your landlord almost always knows someone.
Tipping and treatment: these are ongoing working relationships, not transactions. Pay on time, pay a fair rate rather than the lowest you can negotiate, and add something at the end of a long stay. It matters, and it also means your things get looked after.
Grooming
| Service | Local | Mid-range | Expat-oriented salon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's haircut | 30,000–80,000 | 100,000–200,000 | 250,000–500,000 |
| Women's cut | 60,000–150,000 | 200,000–400,000 | 400,000–900,000 |
| Colour / highlights | — | 500,000–1,200,000 | 1,200,000–3,500,000+ |
| Blow dry | 50,000–100,000 | 100,000–200,000 | 200,000–400,000 |
| Manicure / pedicure | 80,000–150,000 each | 150,000–250,000 | 300,000–500,000 |
| Waxing (leg / body) | 100,000–250,000 | 200,000–400,000 | 400,000–800,000 |
| Beard trim | 30,000–60,000 | 60,000–120,000 | 150,000–250,000 |
Honest advice on hair: for men's cuts, the local barber is usually fine and 80% cheaper. For anything involving colour or a specific cut, the expat-oriented salons in Canggu and Seminyak exist because that skill and those products genuinely are not universal — and people who ignored that advice have some stories. Ask other people with your hair type where they go.
Massage and spa is a separate and larger category — see spa and massage prices in Bali.
Scooter servicing and repair
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Oil change, including oil | 60,000–120,000 IDR |
| Basic service | 100,000–250,000 IDR |
| New tyre, fitted | 250,000–500,000 each |
| Brake pads | 80,000–200,000 IDR |
| New battery | 250,000–500,000 IDR |
| Puncture repair | 20,000–50,000 IDR |
| Chain / belt replacement | 150,000–400,000 IDR |
| Wash | 20,000–40,000 IDR |
If you rent monthly, establish who pays for servicing before you agree the rate. Some agencies include it, most street shops do not, and a bike doing 1,000 km a month needs an oil change during that month.
Do not defer brakes or tyres. Bald tyres in wet season is the single most common contributing factor in the accidents people here talk about. See scooter rental in Bali.
Repairs, tailoring and making things
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Tailor — hem, take in, simple alteration | 30,000–100,000 IDR |
| Tailor — make a shirt from a pattern | 150,000–400,000 IDR plus fabric |
| Tailor — make a dress | 250,000–700,000 IDR plus fabric |
| Shoe repair | 30,000–100,000 IDR |
| Phone screen replacement | 400,000–1,500,000 IDR |
| Laptop repair diagnosis | 100,000–300,000 IDR |
| Surfboard ding repair | 150,000–400,000 IDR |
| Key cutting | 20,000–50,000 IDR |
| Bag or backpack repair | 50,000–150,000 IDR |
Tailors are genuinely one of the best-value things in Bali. Bringing a favourite worn-out shirt and having three copies made in better fabric costs less than one shirt at home. Bali has a real garment industry behind this, particularly around Denpasar and Seminyak.
Phone and laptop repair: competent and cheap, and the parts question is worth asking directly — original versus aftermarket screens differ substantially in price and quality, and a good shop will tell you which they are fitting.
Where the tourist markup hides
Five specific places, all avoidable:
- Anything on the main tourist strip. Laundry, barber, tailor, repair. Fifty metres inland is 40–60% cheaper.
- Hotel and villa laundry charged per item rather than by the kilo. This is the largest single markup in this whole category.
- "Expat" branding on services where the skill is not actually different. It genuinely is different for hair colour; it is not for a wash and fold.
- Not asking for a monthly rate. Cleaners, laundry, pool service and scooter servicing all price a monthly arrangement below the sum of individual visits.
- Delivery and pickup services for laundry, which add 30–60% for the convenience of not walking a hundred metres.
Finding good ones
- Ask a neighbour, your landlord, or at a warung. This is how everything works here and it is faster than any search.
- Area WhatsApp and Facebook groups — the practical layer, and where recommendations circulate. See how to meet people in Bali.
- Walk the lane you live on. Most of these services exist within 200 metres of where you sleep, unmarked and unlisted.
- Once you find a good one, stay with them. Being a regular in Bali gets you better work, faster turnaround and honest prices, in that order.
A monthly total for the small stuff
| Item | Monthly |
|---|---|
| Laundry | 150,000–350,000 IDR |
| Cleaning (if not included in rent) | 500,000–1,500,000 IDR |
| Drinking water refills | 60,000–150,000 IDR |
| Gas | 25,000–50,000 IDR |
| Haircut (local barber, monthly) | 30,000–80,000 IDR |
| Scooter servicing, amortised | 100,000–200,000 IDR |
| Total | ~900,000–2,300,000 IDR |
Roughly $55–140 a month for everything in this category. It is not the biggest line in your budget, but it is the one nobody plans for, and paying tourist rates across all of it doubles it.
The honest negatives
- Quality varies and you will find your people by trial. Expect one bad haircut and one shrunk t-shirt.
- Wet season laundry genuinely struggles to dry. Plan an extra day.
- Items go missing occasionally between customers at busy laundries. Count and photograph.
- Timelines are flexible. "Tomorrow" sometimes means the day after. Build slack in.
- Language. Simple Indonesian helps enormously here, more than in restaurants. Berapa? (how much), kapan siap? (when ready), besok (tomorrow).
- Cash only at almost all of these.
Where the money leaks
Every single item on this page has a monthly or local-rate version priced well below the walk-up tourist rate, and none of it is advertised — because these are neighbourhood businesses that have never needed to advertise anything.
The same mechanic runs through the larger lines too: scooters at 700,000–1,200,000 IDR a month against 70,000–100,000 a day, gyms and studios pricing weekly passes 30–50% below drop-ins, spa slots in the empty 1–4pm window at 30–50% off, villas 40–60% cheaper monthly than nightly.
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Related
- Cost of living in Bali — three monthly budgets
- Bali on a budget
- Scooter rental in Bali
- Spa and massage prices in Bali
- Monthly rent in Bali by area
- How to meet people in Bali
How this page is verified
Prices come from using these services across Canggu, Pererenan, Ubud and Sanur and cross-checking against what current residents pay, re-verified quarterly. Ranges rather than single figures, because this category varies enormously with how far you are from a tourist strip — which is the single most useful thing to know about it.
We deliberately do not name individual laundries, barbers or mechanics. These are small neighbourhood businesses, they change, and the right one for you is almost certainly within walking distance of where you sleep rather than wherever an article sends you.
