Four Questions Worth Asking Any Bungee Operator
Most safety pages are adjectives. These four questions produce documents instead, and you can ask them yourself in about a minute.
Bungee safety pages tend to be written in reassurance rather than fact — “rigorous”, “world-class”, “internationally certified”. None of that is checkable. These four questions are, and they work at any venue, anywhere.
1. Are you currently licensed, and can I see it?
The most important one, and the one that separates venues fastest. In this market it is not academic: one Bali venue is under a shutdown order over licensing, and another location has previously drawn enforcement attention over permits. Ask for the document, not the assurance.
2. What standard do you work to?
There are real standards written for bungee. An operator may genuinely work to one. What matters is that the answer comes from them, attached to their name, rather than from an agent’s marketing page.
We will not state a standard on an operator’s behalf. An earlier version of this site did, and an agent is in no position to make that claim.
3. Who inspects the rig, and how often?
Cords, harnesses and attachment points have maintenance regimes. We do not observe or control any of it, so we do not describe it. The operator can. A venue that answers this specifically is telling you something a venue that answers it warmly is not.
4. What is your stand-down policy?
Under what conditions do you not run, and what happens to my booking when you do not? Wind, storms, equipment checks and staffing all justify calling it off. An operator willing to override those for a paid booking is the wrong operator.
If you would rather not ask
We will ask for you, and we will tell you what we got — including when the answer was nothing. A refusal to produce a licence is itself a useful result.
Written and checked by the desk. Figures are dated at the point of writing — our editorial standards explains how, and what happens when something here turns out to be wrong.
