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The honest answer is that it depends on who builds it, and the spread is wider in Bali than almost anywhere. You can get a site for four million rupiah or forty thousand euros. Here is what sits behind that range, what each budget actually buys, and what we charge.
Key takeaways
In most markets quotes for the same brief land within a factor of three. In Bali they land within a factor of twenty, because you are choosing between genuinely different things: a local freelancer on a bought theme, a Jakarta agency, a Western studio, or your cousin’s friend who does websites. All four call the output a website.
The cheap end is not a scam. It is a template with your logo on it, which is a real product that works for some venues. What it does not do is rank, load fast on island 4G, or take a booking without sending the guest somewhere else. If your covers come from walk-ins and Instagram, that may genuinely be enough.
Five things: whether the design is custom or a template, which features you need, how much SEO work is in scope, whether photography is included, and what maintenance costs after launch. For hospitality the second one dominates — a reservation flow with card authorisation is a different project from a menu page.
In a market where guests decide from a phone before they have ever seen your room, photography is the single highest-return line in the budget, and it is the one owners cut first. Budget €300–€1,200 for a proper shoot. Reuse the same images across the site, the Google profile and Instagram so the brand reads as one thing.
Hospitality
Restaurant
€1,800 – €4,500
Menu, reservation system, photography, opening hours and local SEO.
Restaurant websites →Hospitality
Bar, café or beach club
€2,500 – €6,500
Events, extended menu, an events calendar and Google Maps integration.
Hospitality software →Hospitality
Hotel or villa group
€3,500 – €9,000
Room booking, multi-property structure, rate handling and channel integrations.
Hospitality software →Wellness
Spa or studio
€1,200 – €3,500
Treatment pages, online booking, a gallery and appointment scheduling.
Web design →Platform
Reservation system
€8,000 +
A booking platform built around your operation rather than rented from a SaaS vendor.
Reservation systems →Our work
Case studies
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Locavore NXT, Night Rooster, Mistral, Solea, Lamuri — what we have shipped for venues across the island.
All projects →We are an Amsterdam studio and we quote in euros wherever the venue is, so these are the same rates our Bali and Bangkok clients pay. Local web shops in any of these cities will quote less. What you are paying the difference for is a build that holds up: custom code you own, technical SEO, and a team that answers when something breaks during service.
Most quotes cover the build and stop. These land on top either way:
That is €500–€900 a year before the reservation commission. The commission is the one that scales against you: at a few hundred covers a month it quietly becomes the largest line in the list, which is the argument for owning the reservation system rather than renting it.
| Option | Investment | Ranks locally | Direct booking | Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template / DIY | €0 – €400/yr | Rarely | Via a marketplace | None |
| Local freelancer | €400 – €1,500 | Sometimes | Usually not | Varies |
| Studio (us) | €1,800 – €9,000 | Built for it | Owned outright | Included |
The cheap build is cheaper for about eighteen months. Then the theme stops being updated, the load time drifts past four seconds, nothing ranks, and the rebuild costs what the proper build would have. We have taken over enough of these to say it plainly, including for venues that came to us after two previous attempts.
Which is not an argument for spending more than you need. It is an argument for spending once. If the budget is not there yet, a fast one-page site with a real booking link beats an ambitious site that never gets finished.
Tell us what the place is and what it needs to do, and we will quote it properly — no hidden line items, no obligation.
Request a quoteFrequently asked questions
Our builds run €1,800 to €4,500 for a restaurant and €2,500 to €6,500 for a bar or beach club. Local web shops quote considerably less for a template build. We quote in euros because we are an Amsterdam studio, and the rates are the same ones our European clients pay.
You would not, unless the difference matters to you. What you get for it is custom code you own, technical SEO, a booking flow that does not pay commission on every cover, and a team that answers during service. For a venue doing a few hundred covers a month the reservation commission alone usually exceeds the price difference within a year.
Five to eight weeks from briefing to launch for a restaurant, including the reservation system and local SEO. Villa and hotel groups with multi-property structure run eight to twelve weeks.
Yes. Most of our hospitality work is on the island, and we have delivered in Bangkok and across Europe. The build and the communication happen remotely; we travel for the parts that genuinely need to be in the room.
Yes. We build on a content management system you can actually use, so menu items, prices and photos are yours to change. You get a walkthrough at handover.
