In Reply to: Tipping airport porters posted by smurf on Sunday, 16. January 2005 at 14:53 Bali Time:
I remember when we first went... we were expecting the porters to harrass us, but the way in which they did it caught us off guard. They looked all official and ask for our passports and so forth and whisked us through customs. And only then did we realise that they were just the porters. We had no money, so we just gave them a couple of bucks in Aussie money. They said they weren't happy with that, but that's the same old story.
Last time we went, we gave the porters a few dollars and everything was OK. They must make an absolute killing from all the clueless tourists like me that give them the average balinese daily wage in one go!