A scooter in Lombok costs 70,000 to 150,000 IDR a day depending on the bike and where you get it, and your accommodation can usually have one at the door within about five minutes.

Kuta is a bit dearer than the rest of the island because that’s where nearly everyone rents, though the difference is 20,000 or 30,000 IDR a day and it shouldn’t decide where you stay. We’d think more about the roads you’ll be riding from whichever town you pick, because a week in Senggigi and a week in Kuta give you very different riding.

We run guided scooter trips here every week, so between us we’ve rented, ridden and had fixed just about every bike on this island. Below is what we tell our guests: what you’ll pay in each town, which bike to ask for, how the licence and police side of it works, what your travel insurance probably won’t cover, and what the roads are like once the tarmac ends.

We checked the prices again in September 2026.

Scooter Rental in Lombok at a Glance

Hardly any rental shop here will ask to see a licence. The police at the roadside checks will, so bring the paperwork even though nobody makes you. The rest of it is straightforward.

Daily rate: 100,000 to 150,000 IDR if you walk into a shop in Kuta or Senggigi. The shops that advertise online are cheaper, about 70,000 to 85,000 IDR for a Honda Beat or Scoopy.
Weekly and monthly: cheaper per day every time. Ask for the weekly price once you’re going past three days and you’ll get something off.
What you get: the bike and two helmets. Fuel isn’t included and the tank is often nearly empty.
What they’ll want from you: a photocopy or a phone photo of your passport. Don’t hand over the original.
Fuel: Pertalite is 10,000 IDR a litre at a Pertamina station and a scooter tank takes about 15,000 IDR worth. Pertamax is 15,950 IDR a litre here in NTB.
Parking: 10,000 IDR for a motorbike at nearly every beach on the south coast and along the Senggigi road.
The legal bit: your motorbike licence from home plus an International Driving Permit that covers motorcycles.

Rider on a scooter on an empty sealed road above a bay in Lombok — Most of the coast road is like this. The tracks that turn off it are a different story.

Which Scooter to Ask For

You’ll be offered four or five bikes and the shop will tell you there’s no real difference between them. There is once you put two people and a couple of bags on one and point it up a hill, so it’s worth knowing which is which before you pick.

Honda Beat or Scoopy, 110cc to 125cc. The standard rental and the cheapest. Plenty for one person around Kuta, Senggigi and the beaches.
Honda Vario 125 or 160. The one we’d ask for. A few dollars more a day, and it’ll carry two of you up the hill roads without struggling.
Yamaha NMAX or Honda PCX, 150cc to 160cc. Bigger and more comfortable for long days on the road. Good if you’re crossing the island, more bike than you need for the beach run.
Honda CRF 150. A proper dirt bike at a dirt bike price. Only take one if you’ve ridden off road before.

Local Tip: Sit on it before you say yes. These bikes are set up for Indonesian riders, and if you’re tall you’ll be riding a Beat with your knees near the bars all week when a Vario would have suited you better.

Where to Rent a Scooter in Lombok

Our advice is to rent in the town you’re sleeping in and not at the airport. Get to your accommodation first, then take a bike from whoever they deal with, because if the chain comes loose or the brakes go soft the person who arranged it is down the road instead of an hour away.

Renting a Scooter in Kuta Lombok

Kuta is where most visitors rent and there are rental boards on nearly every block of the main street. Your guesthouse will sort it in about five minutes, which is what we do instead of walking up and down comparing 10,000 IDR between shops. Walking in, expect 100,000 to 150,000 IDR a day, less by the week, and a bit more than the same bike would cost you in Mataram.

You’ll want a bike here more than anywhere else on the island. Grab and Gojek cover Kuta patchily and the drivers often won’t do the longer trips out west, so without one you’re walking to the town beach and that’s about it. On a scooter, Tanjung Aan is 6 km east and around 12 minutes, Mawun is 12 km west and 15 minutes, Selong Belanak is 20 km and half an hour, and Mawi is 22 km but closer to 45 minutes because of the track at the end. Our Kuta Lombok guide goes through the town, and where to stay in Kuta covers the places that’ll organise the bike for you.

Note: MotoGP is at Mandalika on 9 to 11 October 2026. Rooms in Kuta are booked out and rates triple that week, so don’t count on walking in and finding a spare scooter either.

The beachfront esplanade at Kuta Lombok with scooters parked along the road

Senggigi and the North-West Coast

Senggigi costs about the same, 100,000 to 150,000 IDR a day depending on the bike, and it’s worth haggling once you’re taking it for three days or more. Nearly every hotel and homestay along the strip either has a bike out the back or knows the fellow who does.

We’d get one on the first morning here. The road north out of Senggigi is our favourite hour of riding on this coast, sealed the whole way, over the headlands and down into the bays, and Malimbu Hill is steep on the way up but fine on any scooter. Kerandangan is five minutes out at 3 km, Nipah about 15 minutes at 15 km, and anything in this half of the island is inside a 90-minute ride. There’s more in our Senggigi Beach guide, and in where to stay in Senggigi if you haven’t booked a room yet.

Senggigi Beach in Lombok with the coast road running behind it

Lombok International Airport

You can rent at the airport, and Mataram shops will bring a bike out to arrivals for about 75,000 IDR on top of the daily rate. We’d still take a car into town and rent there. The road out of Praya is the busiest you’ll see all trip, you’ll be carrying luggage, and a car to Kuta is only about 30 minutes on good sealed road and easy enough for any hotel to arrange.

Mataram

Mataram has the most bikes to choose from and the best monthly prices, and some shops deliver free inside the city. It’s where we’d go if you want a specific model or you’re staying a month. Delivery out to Senggigi is around 50,000 IDR. It’s a city and not a beach town, so most people only rent here if they’re already in Mataram for the hospital, the markets or a flight.

Tetebatu, Senaru and the Inland Villages

Inland you’re renting from the homestay and there might only be one bike available. Try both brakes before you take it, because the roads up here are steeper than anything on the coast and a village bike has spent its life doing 2 km to the shop and back. Tetebatu sits about 90 minutes north of Kuta in the central highlands and it’s one of the best rides on the island, with the monkey forest and the rice terraces right there. From Senggigi, Tiu Kelep and Sendang Gile are two to two and a half hours on a scooter, and the other falls are in our Lombok waterfalls guide.

Scooter riders on a narrow road between rice fields in central Lombok — The inland roads are the ones we’d ride if we only had one day. They’re also where the phone signal disappears.

Bangsal and the Gili Islands

None of the three Gilis allow motorbikes, so your scooter only gets you as far as the harbour. Bangsal is 16 km and about half an hour from Senggigi, or two and a half to three hours up from Kuta. Leave the bike in a paid parking spot where somebody is watching it, take your things with you, and have a read of our Bangsal Harbour guide first, since the port is the one place on Lombok where turning up without a plan costs you money.

Boats at Bangsal Harbour in north-west Lombok, the departure point for the Gili Islands

Do You Need a Licence to Ride a Scooter in Lombok?

By the law here, yes. You need your motorbike licence from home and an International Driving Permit with the motorcycle category on it, which is category A. Indonesia never ratified either of the international road traffic conventions, and the police regulation covering foreign drivers works off the IDP, so your home licence on its own isn’t enough. ASEAN licences are the exception and are fine here without one.

The shop probably won’t ask you for any of it. That’s just how renting works here, and it means the risk is yours and not theirs. Sort the IDP at home before you fly, since it’s cheap there and a hassle to arrange once you’ve arrived.

The fines in the Indonesian road traffic law are a fair bit higher than the figures travellers pass around. Riding without a valid licence carries up to 1,000,000 IDR under article 281, being without the vehicle registration papers up to 500,000 IDR under article 288, and no helmet up to 250,000 IDR under article 291. Those are the legal maximums, and you’ll be asked for far less than that at the roadside, but it’s useful to know what the ceiling actually is.

What a Police Stop in Lombok Looks Like

The checks sit on the main roads, usually on the bypass and around the airport side of the island, and not on the coast roads where you’ll do most of your riding. An officer waves you over, asks for your licence and the STNK, and if you haven’t got them he’ll suggest you pay something there and then.

Be friendly, keep your helmet on, have some small notes tucked away separately from the rest of your cash, and don’t argue the point. We’ve never known it to be worse than a slow ten minutes. Riders who have a helmet on and papers under the seat get waved through most of the time.

Local Tip: Ask the shop for the original STNK, which is the registration card, and check it’s under the seat before you leave. Police ask for it, and if you’re putting the bike on the ferry from Bali the port wants the original and won’t take a photocopy.

What Your Travel Insurance Won’t Cover

Scooter road rash is the injury we deal with most on this island, and it’s the one people haven’t thought about paying for. Most policies won’t pay a motorbike claim unless you hold a valid licence for what you’re riding, and plenty won’t cover anything above 125cc even if you do. Have a look at that clause at home rather than in a clinic in Mataram.

The insurance a Kuta shop includes in the daily rate usually covers the engine and nothing else. It isn’t personal accident cover and it isn’t third party, so if you damage somebody else’s bike or come off your own, that’s on you. Small injuries get patched up locally, and anything serious means a drive to Mataram where the hospitals are. There’s more on all of this in our is Lombok safe guide.

What We Check Before Riding Off

Two minutes in the shop saves you an argument at the end of the week. This is what we go through on our own bikes and what we’d do with a rental.

Photos all the way round. Every scratch, both sides, front, back and the odometer, taken while the owner is standing there.
Both brakes. Push the bike and squeeze them hard. If the back one comes all the way to the grip, ask for another bike.
Tyres. Check they’ve still got some tread left on them. Bald tyres on a wet sealed road are how people end up on the tarmac.
Lights, indicators and horn. You’ll use the horn more than the brakes here, at every blind corner.
The helmet. Take one that fits your head over one that matches the bike, and ask for a different one if the strap’s gone.
The STNK. Original, under the seat, before you ride away.
The fuel. Most bikes come to you close to empty, so check the gauge and you won’t be buying petrol out of a bottle in the first ten minutes.

Fuel, Parking and Flat Tyres

Fill up at a Pertamina station and not at the stalls selling petrol out of glass bottles on the side of the road. Pertalite is 10,000 IDR a litre, a scooter tank takes about 15,000 IDR of it, and that’s nothing next to what you’re paying for the bike. Bottled fuel is fine for topping up around town and costs a little more, though before a run out to Mawi or Selong Belanak we’d always leave with a full tank from a proper pump.

Parking is 10,000 IDR for a motorbike at nearly every beach on the south coast and along the Senggigi road, collected by someone with a ticket book as you come in. It’s worth paying, it’s how the village earns something from the beach, and your bike gets kept an eye on. At night in Kuta and Senggigi, use the steering lock and leave it somewhere with people around. Theft from tourists is rare here, though an unlocked bike outside a bar is asking for it.

If You Get a Flat Tyre, Find a Bengkel

A bengkel is a repair shop and nearly every village on Lombok has one, usually a shed with a compressor and a hand-painted sign. Look for the words tambal ban, which means tyre patching. They’ll patch a tube while you wait, for not much money, and we’ve had ours done in about fifteen minutes more times than we can count. That’s why a puncture out in the rice fields is a nuisance here and not the end of your day.

If you break down somewhere with no bengkel around, call the shop you rented from before you start pushing. Most of them will come out to you, and most would rather do that than have a stranger pulling their bike apart.

What Riding in Lombok Is Really Like

Easier than it was a few years ago, and still nothing like Bali. The Mandalika development brought a multi-lane bypass and a sealed road running west along the coast, so the ride out to the south coast beaches that used to be broken up and slow is now simple riding. Traffic is light once you’re out of Mataram, and we’re on these roads every week with whole stretches to ourselves.

It’s the last kilometre that catches people. The track to Mawi is half an hour of sealed road and then 15 minutes of dirt that’s loose, rutted and steep in places, and in the wet season we won’t send an inexperienced rider down it at all. Kuta across to Senggigi takes about two hours by car and a bit longer on a scooter, since the road cuts through the middle of the island instead of following the coast. You’ll share the tarmac with buffalo and goats. Dogs get territorial after dark on the quiet stretches between the towns and the beaches, and they’ll usually leave you alone if you keep riding at a steady pace. Up at the Pusuk pass the monkeys will have your bag open while you’re lining up a photo.

Note: We don’t ride outside the towns after dark and we’d tell you the same. There’s no street lighting, the trucks run without lights, and you can’t see the potholes or the animals. Rain is the other thing to plan around. Between November and March it doesn’t rain all day, it comes down hard for an hour or two, and the tracks out to the western beaches go off quickly afterwards. Our best time to visit Lombok guide has the seasons in detail.

A water buffalo standing on a sealed road in Lombok as a scooter approaches — Whoever is bigger has right of way, and it’s rarely you.

Renting Yourself, or Riding the Loop With Us

For a few days around Kuta or Senggigi, renting your own bike is the right way to do it, and everything above is how we’d go about it. Where a rental falls short is the rest of Lombok, because the roads and villages we’d want to show you aren’t on the map that comes with the keys, and you won’t find them on your own in a week.

The Lombok Loop is our four day, three night ride around the island, and you come as a passenger behind a local rider who grew up on these roads. So there’s no licence needed, no navigating, and no spending your holiday watching the two metres of tarmac in front of the front wheel instead of the coast. Groups are up to twelve people and usually six to eight. We leave Senggigi on Thursdays and Kuta on Fridays, and the bike, fuel, rider, parking, entrance fees, three meals a day and the safety gear are all included.

You get the back roads instead of the bypass: jungle waterfalls, the mountain roads under Rinjani, Sasak villages where we stop because our founder grew up in one, warung food you’d ride straight past without knowing it was there, empty beaches on the way through, and a night camping below the volcano. Our riders have done this route hundreds of times between them, and they’re the reason most people tell us afterwards it was the best thing they did in Indonesia.

Lombok Loop group riding pillion with local riders on a mountain road below Mount Rinjani

Local Tip: You still need travel insurance that covers motorcycle activities to ride with us, even sitting on the back. Sort it before you fly.

Plates of Sasak food laid out on a table during a Lombok Loop tour

Scooter Rental in Lombok FAQ

How much does it cost to rent a scooter in Lombok?

Between 70,000 and 150,000 IDR a day, depending on the bike and the town. A Honda Beat or Scoopy from a shop that advertises online sits at the bottom end, a Vario in the middle, and an NMAX or PCX at the top. Walk-in prices in Kuta and Senggigi are usually 100,000 to 150,000 IDR, and we quote our own guests the upper half of that. A week always works out cheaper than seven separate days.

Can I rent a scooter at Lombok airport?

You can, and Mataram shops will deliver to arrivals for about 75,000 IDR on top. We’d take a car into town and rent there instead, because the road out of Praya is the busiest on the island and you’ll be riding it with your bags.

Can you rent a scooter in Lombok without an international licence?

Most shops will rent to you without one. It’s still against the law to ride without it, the fine goes up to 1,000,000 IDR, and your travel insurer almost certainly won’t pay a medical claim if you come off. Get the IDP at home before you fly.

Can I take a rental scooter from Bali to Lombok?

On the public ferry you can, where a bike under 500cc goes as Golongan II for 169,400 IDR, though you’ll need the original STNK and the fast boats won’t take bikes at all. We wouldn’t bother. Most Bali rental agreements don’t allow the bike off the island, and renting on this side costs less than the crossing.

Can you ride a scooter on the Gili Islands?

No, the Gilis don’t allow motorbikes at all, so it’s bicycles, walking and horse carts over there. Leave your scooter in a watched parking spot at Bangsal and collect it on the way back.

Is it safe to ride a scooter in Lombok?

It’s fine if you’ve ridden before, wear a helmet, stay off the bike at night outside the towns and don’t drink and ride. If you’ve never ridden a scooter anywhere, this isn’t the island to learn on. Hire a driver for the day instead, or come with us on the Loop as a passenger.

Can I rent a scooter in Lombok for a month?

Yes, and that’s where the real saving is. Mataram shops advertise months from around 1,000,000 IDR for a Beat, which works out at about a third of the daily rate. Ask for a newer bike if you’re keeping it that long, and look at the tyres before you agree.

Get a bike on your first morning, keep the tank full and the helmet on, and the island opens up in a way it doesn’t for anyone waiting on drivers. If you’d rather see the far side of Lombok without working out the roads yourself, have a look at the Loop and come and ride it with our team.

Scooter Rental in Lombok: A Local’s Guide (2026)