In Reply to: First Timer to Bali posted by denisemac on Monday, 15. June 2009 at 08:09 Bali Time:
On arrival at airport you first buy your visa on arrival (VOA) for $25 US - for 30 day visa. Then you go through immigration with your passport and visa, get passport stamped. You then collect your luggage - not always easy in Bali airport to find as there are a few carasouls and you have to find yours and often people everywhere. Grab your bag and do not let a porter take it from you or you will have to pay him. If you need a trolley send your son to get one. ONce again do not let the porters get it unless you want to pay them to do it. Proceed to customs and hopefully they just wave you through. You can change some money now at the money changers - they will all call out to you to go to their counter. Apparantly there is ATM here somewhere also. Then once you get outside there is a taxi counter where you can pay for a taxi.
Hope this helps.