Renting a Surf Board in Bali

Renting a surfboard in Bali isn’t a hard thing to do. You can pretty find a surfboard for rent anywhere there is a coastline and some waves. There more popular surfing destination will be able to offer a better variety of boards and may also offer better deals depending on who you rent your board from.

Your best best for renting a good surfboard in Bali is to try and get one from a reputable surf school or surf shop. These locations will usually have the best boards in the best conditions. These types of places will usually cut you a deal if you want to rent a board for several days or weeks.

If you are looking to rent a board for the duration of your stay, talk to the owner of the surf shop or surf school to see if they will allow you to swap out the board as your skills increase or as the conditions changes. As you learn to surf, you will want a longer board that is easy to use, but once you get some waves under your belt, you might feel like switching to a shorter board.

When renting a board for an extended period of time, be sure to discuss details with the owner about what the cost for repairs are and what will happen should the board break or be stolen. If you don’t talk about this before hand, the owner has the ability to pull some ridiculous number out of his head on what to charge you.

You can also check out this post on getting a new surfboard in Bali.

Tips for Renting a Surfboard in Bali

If you aren’t sure what to look for in a surfboard, check out this post on getting into surfing in Bali.

Avoid renting surfboards from locals on the beach. There is a number of reason for doing this. One is that they will most likely try to take advantage of you and over charge you simply because they think they can. The other reason is that these boards are already in bad shape. Many of them have probably been broken in the past and are just waiting to break again. When this happens, they like to try and charge you $300 dollars for breaking their boards.

No mater where you rent from, give the surfboard a good look over, as if you were walking over a rental car for scratches and dents. If you fail to point out any dents and dings in the boards, the owners may try to charge you for the damages even if they knew they were already there.

Have Fun Surfing

I have mentioned a lot of negative things in this post about renting a surfboard. Most of them are worst case scenarios and only mentioned so that you can protect yourself. The majority of rental surfboard rental places out there are there to screw you over. If possible, talk to other tourists who have rented surfboards before and ask them where they got them and what they thought of the place. The are your best source for unbiased information on surfboard rentals.

So, if you are looking to learn to surf in Bali, go find a surfboard rental and hit the waves!

<Renting a Surfboard in Byron Bay

My friend Palu from Byron Bay, has 3 shops selling boards, as well as a surf school. He also has a selection of used boards for rent of sale.

Meeting with Palu on Poppies Lane II, around 9.40am, we checked out his boards and prices. Palu told Ollie that if he rented a board, he could change it if the conditions changed. Palu does a range of boards, focusing on the learner end of the market. Ollie did find a fish type board, ideal for an experienced surfer in small swell. The prices for the brand new rental for a week was 600,000rp. The price to buy its was 2.5m rp.

Short term rental include 20,000rp per hour, 150,000rp, 600,000rp, deposit or passport required. Day surf trips can be arranged, including lunch for $100.

If you are looking buy a surfboard, check out these epoxy surfboards in Kuta Beach