In Reply to: Trolleys at Airport posted by LizC on Tuesday, 5. December 2006 at 05:40 Bali Time:
On our seventh trip to Bali in October I had an experience with a porter. We had a porter come and ask us if we wanted his services and we said yes (as we have always done in the past) and after he had loaded our luggage onto the trolley another porter just stepped in and took control. When we got to where the money changers were this second porter pressured me to get money changed and wanted me to pay only him. I told him quite firmly that I had already had rupiah and that I would be paying when our transfer met us. I gave the money to the first porter only. I told our transfer who picked us up that I felt some of the porters where using standover tactics on other porters and this was not good for Bali. In my seven trips to Bali I have had only one good experience with Porters as I seem to get the greedy ones who demand to be paid $20 and only want to go as far as the money changer.