Marina & Boatyard at Benoa — Access, Rates, Services

The marina boatyard Benoa combination is, as of 2026, the only place in Bali where a yacht can lie alongside a working marina and be hauled out in the same basin. Benoa Harbour, on the eastern shore of Bali’s southern isthmus, holds the island’s established marina berths, its travel-lift boatyard, and the port offices that clear foreign yachts into Indonesia — all inside one breakwater, roughly twenty minutes from Ngurah Rai International Airport. This page explains how access works, how rates are quoted, and which services the yard actually delivers, then shows how it fits alongside the new marina rising across the bay at Serangan Island.

One point of honesty before the detail: kurakuramarina.com is an independent information and yacht-services platform. We do not own or operate the marina or the boatyard at Benoa, and we are not the developer of any facility there. What our desk does is coordinate: berth requests, haul-out slots, yard work lists, clearance paperwork and provisioning, handled on one WhatsApp thread through the Juara Holding Group’s operating brands, in service since 2015.

Where the Marina & Boatyard Sit

Benoa Harbour is Bali’s principal commercial port, entered through a marked, dredged channel that opens off the Badung Strait. The yacht side of the port occupies its own corner of the basin, away from the ferry and cruise wharves: pontoon and alongside berths, a fuel point served by truck, and the slipways and hardstand corners where the haul-out trade works. The port sits at the end of a causeway with direct road access — Sanur is about fifteen minutes north, Nusa Dua fifteen minutes south, and the airport twenty minutes around the bay.

The same sheltered water that serves Benoa laps the eastern shore of Serangan Island, where the Kura Kura Marina project is under construction inside the KEK Kura Kura special economic zone. The two sites are neighbours, not twins: Benoa is the working facility a visiting yacht can use today, while Serangan is the purpose-built superyacht marina taking shape for the seasons ahead. Owners planning a season in South Bali usually end up using both sides of the bay — and the port area itself is changing around the Bali Maritime Tourism Hub development, so layouts and berth allocations move from year to year.

What the Boatyard at Benoa Delivers

The yard scene behind the berths is a working boatyard tradition rather than a superyacht refit complex, and it is honest to describe it that way. As of 2026 Bali has no large commercial travel lift open to visiting yachts: haul-outs around Benoa run on slipways and marine railways, supplemented by mobile-crane lift-out for smaller craft and tidal grids on the Serangan flats for quick between-tides jobs. That serves the seasonal cycle of cruising yachts, catamarans, charter boats and wooden phinisi up to roughly 25–30 metres; anything larger typically sails to Batam, Singapore or northern Australia for its out-of-water work.

• Slipway haul-out and relaunch — the realistic full haul-out route in Bali; cradle fit, maximum tonnage and permitted hardstand work are the checks to confirm through the desk before committing
• Hardstand periods on the slipway cradle for works or lay-up between seasons
• Antifouling, hull preparation and topside painting, where the slipway permits spray work
• Propeller, shaft, anode and through-hull work while the boat is out
• Engine, generator and electrical servicing, afloat or on the hard
• Teak, varnish and general carpentry through vetted local trades

Heavier work — osmosis treatment, structural repairs, full paint jobs, interior refits — is where scope discipline matters. Some of it can be staged at Benoa; some is better routed to specialist facilities elsewhere in Indonesia. Our yacht refit and repair desk scopes that call vessel by vessel, and the wider marine services directory covers the trades that come to the boat rather than the boat going to them.

Access: Getting a Berth or a Yard Slot

Foreign-flagged yachts clear into Indonesia through an appointed agent, and Benoa is one of the standard ports for doing it — customs, immigration, quarantine and harbourmaster in one place. Berth allocation is handled between the agent and the marina office against vessel length, beam, draft and stay duration. In high season (roughly June through September) alongside space is tight and yard slots book ahead; in the wet season both open up considerably.

The practical sequence our desk runs for an arriving owner: paperwork lodged before the boat makes landfall, berth confirmed in writing, then the work list agreed with the yard so the haul-out slot is waiting rather than requested after arrival. Fuel is arranged by truck to the berth — the mechanics are covered on our fuel and bunkering page — and clearance formalities run through the yacht agency desk.

Rates: How Benoa Charges Are Quoted

Published tariff numbers age quickly, so the honest way to present Benoa rates is by structure. These are the line items an owner should expect on a quote, all confirmed in writing in USD before committing:

Line item	How it is quoted	Notes
Alongside / pontoon berth	Per metre LOA per day	Weekly and monthly terms improve materially on the daily rate
Slipway round trip	Lump sum by size and tonnage	Indicatively several hundred to a few thousand USD; awkward hull shapes priced on cradle fit
Hardstand / cradle days	Per day on the slipway	Lay-up terms for multi-month storage are negotiated, not listed
Pressure wash	Fixed, on haul	Usually bundled with the slipway round trip
Utilities	Metered	Shore power and water billed on consumption
Waste & environmental	Fixed per stay	Oil, filters and antifoul residue handled through the yard
Agency & clearance	Per service	Separate from marina charges — see the agency page

For context on how berth pricing works across the bay — including what the Serangan project has signalled for its own tariff structure — the berthing rates and fees guide keeps the comparison current.

Benoa or Serangan: Which Side of the Bay?

Today the answer is straightforward. If the boat needs a berth this month, or needs to come out of the water in Bali, Benoa is the working option. If you are planning where the vessel will live once South Bali’s superyacht infrastructure matures, the Serangan berth desk is where those conversations start. And if the question is really “berth and repairs in one place, which marina?”, we keep a dedicated comparison on the marina with repair services in Bali page.

Can I haul out at the Benoa boatyard?

Yes, within honest limits: Bali has no large commercial travel lift open to visiting yachts as of 2026, so haul-outs at Benoa run on slipways and mobile cranes, realistic for vessels up to roughly 25–30 metres depending on cradle fit and tonnage. Send your LOA, beam and displacement through the desk and we confirm the workable route and the next slot in writing — or tell you plainly if your boat belongs at a regional travel-lift yard instead.

How do I book a berth at the marina in Benoa?

Berths are allocated by the marina office, normally through your appointed agent, against vessel dimensions and stay length. Our desk lodges the request with the paperwork already complete, gets the allocation confirmed in writing, and lines up fuel, provisioning and any yard work for the same stay on one thread.

What does a berth at Benoa cost?

Berthing is quoted per metre of length overall per day, with weekly and monthly terms well below the daily rate, plus metered utilities. Because the tariff moves and allocations depend on the season, we confirm the current number for your dates in USD in writing rather than publishing figures that will be stale by the time you arrive.

Is Benoa suitable for a long stay or lay-up?

Owners use it both ways: afloat on monthly terms, or out of the water on a slipway cradle for a works period, though hardstand space around Benoa is scarce and books ahead of the April–October dry season. Bali’s flight connections make it a practical base either way — and works packages can run while the boat is out, supervised and reported through our desk.