A lot of people wonder, what is the difference between a driver and a guide in Bali? The question is related to the fact that you can meet both the driver and the tour guide on our island. Therefore, our task is to show the difference between these options, and the choice is yours.
One drives, the other drives and tells
The main difference between the Bali driver and the Bali guideis that the latter knows the territory, historical facts and interesting stories about the sights you are going to see to the letter, andhe will always tell you a few interesting legends and customs of the indigenous inhabitants of the island on the way. For example, it is believed that bathing in waters of Tirta Gangga palace helps to reduce stress and find firm psychical equilibrium. The driver will just take you there and, at best, will say: “This is the palace – look at it and let’s go on”.
Just work against experience
Drivers in Bali work on all the orders they have – city driving, transportation of goods, part-time taxi-driver’s work, letting car on hire. At the same time the Bali guide deals only with excursions and the guide is the one to tell you what is the most interesting to see at certain location, where you should definitely go and what you can skip and save time. Where you can find the most beautiful places and the cheapest cafe – the guide also knows it all.
Price for the driver and price for the guide in Bali
Many people think they can save money by renting a car with a driver and buying a map or a guidebook of Bali. It is rather a common misconception. After all, the driver takes a fee just for providing you a transfer over Bali wherever you tell him to go. That is petrol, tickets, taxes for photos and many other things – you definitely pay for all of this. And the route may be far not the best – there is a risk to waste the whole day in traffic jams or spend much more time on moving than you planned.
The guides of The Seven Team know the route blindfold– where it is possible to cut off, and where it is not, where traffic jams are at certain time, and where the route is free. You can know all of this only by working “on the route” regularly for years.
Your own itinerary and the tour of Bali Guide
It often happens tourists want to go on itinerary they have made themselves, and most of such routes are physically impossible to complete, for example: you can never combine a travel over the east of the island with a travel to Tanah Lot Temple or with visit to four waterfalls in Bali. But a confident traveler, having read lots of information on the Internet wants to travel around the island in one day! “Drivers from the street” love such tourists much – they always agree to take you on your own itinerary, and after half a day they say that this route cannot be completed showing the distance on the map of Bali. And there will be no choice for your further travel this day.
Responsibility
The Bali guide and the Bali driver have different levels of responsibility for you. The Bali driver undertakes to carry out your transfer, and the Bali guide – to tell you about the most fascinating things and show you the most interesting places on the island in such a way as to guarantee your satisfaction.
Guides are also different
Be careful, recently many drivers on the island have begun to call themselves “the guides”. In this regard, while choosing the guide, be sure to ask how long he has been working, if he has any itineraries to show, what services are included in the price, whether he is “a guide-driver”, “a private guide” or an organization, whether he has his own website or catalogue of excursions, and where to complain and get help if anything happens.
Service
Bali guides from The Seven Team are very polite and of course, know the island of Bali at their finger-tips. In addition, The Seven Holiday company is working “for reputation” – service is above anything else, in order that the next time tourists will address to us or advise us to their friends and acquaintances. Experience of many Bali guides goes beyond 10 years, and it is worth a lot! In addition, the company has its own website and office.
In addition, when ordering services of The Seven Team you get mobile card and a travel advisory (in electronic and\or hard copy) for free.
Have successful, safe and interesting travels around Bali!
