How we get our numbers

Every price on Bali Luxury Life is a published price with its source and the date we read it. Never averaged or estimated. Checked every 90 days.

The short version

Every price on Bali Luxury Life is a published price: a figure a provider or a public body has put on its own website or in its own document, recorded exactly as published, with a link to the source and the date we read it. We never average, estimate or convert a price. We check every price and fact again at least every 90 days.

All of the prices are in the Bali Price Index.

What counts as a published price

A published price is one that anyone can find and read at its source without asking. A villa manager's fee on its own website. A school's fee schedule. A hospital's tariff. A minimum wage set by the government. A visa fee on the immigration website.

It does not include a price someone told us, a price from a review or a forum, a price repeated by a third-party site, or a price we worked out ourselves. If we cannot find a source, we leave the fact out.

Where a guide adds up or does other arithmetic on published figures, for example the fees a new pupil pays in the first year or the monthly cost of an employee, we say that the calculation is ours and list every part, so that each one can be checked against the source.

The two kinds of source

Every row in the price index says how the price was obtained. Today there are two types:

  • Published by provider. The company, school, hospital or operator publishes the price itself.
  • Published by public body. A government body or public agency publishes the figure, such as a minimum wage, a tariff or an official fee.

What every row carries

Each price row has the same fields:

  • the item, in plain words;
  • the provider that published it;
  • the price in rupiah, or in the currency and form the source uses, such as a percentage fee;
  • what the price includes, and the period the source gives for it, such as a school year;
  • how it was obtained, one of the two types above;
  • the address of the page where it is published;
  • the date we read it.

No row is published without a source and a date.

What we never do

  • Estimate a price, or fill a gap with a guess.
  • Average prices, or convert them into another currency.
  • Copy reviews, ratings or photos from anywhere.
  • Rate, score or rank companies. Lists are in alphabetical order.
  • Write anything in a customer's voice.
  • Let payment change a price, a fact or the order of a list.

How often we check

We check every price and fact again at least every 90 days. When something changes, we update it and change the date. If a source has gone, the fact comes down until we find a new one.

How corrections work

If you see a wrong figure, tell us the page, the fact, and where the correct figure is published. We check every request. If the fact is wrong, we fix it. If we cannot confirm it either way, we take it down until we can. We date every change we make. See Corrections.

What we will add

Later we will ask providers for prices directly. We will always say who we are: Bali Luxury Life, a publisher, and that the price may appear on this site. We never pose as a customer, and we never ask for a price we would not publish openly.

Prices quoted to us will be marked as quoted, with the date of the quote.

Using our data

The price data is free to reuse with attribution, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). You may copy it, quote it and build on it, including commercially, as long as you credit Bali Luxury Life and link to baliluxurylife.com. Each topic's price file can be downloaded as a CSV file from /data/prices/, and the full set is shown in the Bali Price Index.

Each price was published by the provider named in its row. Please keep the source and the date with any figure you reuse, so that readers can check it.