I’m back from Batam!
I took the weekday package from Tauzia Hotel Management. I believe it is a direct associate with Harris so it should be cheaper. This is my second time to Batam and as long as you follow the hotel and shopping center taxi’s, you’re safe. No guarantee other wise.
Hotel
Hotel Type: Harris Hotel
Package I took up: Get one night, get another night free SGD75/- ish in total. Only avaliable from Sunday to Thursday for a limited time period.
Room Type: Cabana. An extented off the normal rooms. High ceiling but no privacy for toliet and has a handful of Got mosquito as well.
Overall: Breakfast and room cannot fight with holiday Inn but I’m not complaining as it’s cheaper as well.
Massage and Spa
Massage Parlor: Eska
Location: At nagoya basement, opposite hypermart on your right. Just right outside the exit of the shopping mall. Won’t miss the banner. Isabella is just further up on the left or right, can’t remember exactly.
Package Type: Package 5 – SGD 57/- (with tax)
Review: I love the massage, the lady who did it for me ask me how hard I wanted. So I put it till quite solid. Next day, I’ve got muscle ache but shiok. The people there are very friendly. It’s a bit tough to give tips because I wasn’t given a chance to give before I’m passed on to the next person. There will be a one-way free ride back after the massage, and it was quite late by the time we finished our massage. The uncle was nice to bring us back when asked if it was okay, so we tip him quite a bit. Better safe then sorry! Oh, the only thing I didn’t like was both men and woman are shared room and there was this stupid guy who opened the curtain (accidental or on purpose I don’t know) while the lady was massging me. Good thing only my leg was exposed and nothing else. Suckers.
Seafood
Seafood place: Delima
Location: Waterfront – less than 5 mins for Harris and Holiday Inn stayers ($3 for cab on way). Ask if the taxi driver can wait for you as well. Or you can call the hotel to sent a cab down (request if can borrow local phone).
Total spend: 362,000/- (SGD55) – 3 person
Food ordered:
2 crab (pepper and chilli) – Shiok! But please request to choose your own crab if possible cos we had one not so good one.
1 veg (so-so)
1 indo fried noodles (a bit salty but Good!)
1 fried rice (not nice)
chinese tea (very fragant!)
1 plate of Mayo prawns (so-so, prawns pretty fresh)
Shopping
Shopping Location: Nagoya! (Please Bargain! If you’re buying alot, it will be a better price.)
Taxi Fare: S$15 per way for Harris stayers (Get the taxi from the shopping mall, don’t flag yourself.)
What to buy: (Can Bargain)
- Cheap watches
- Cheap fake perfumes
- Fakes bags… etc
- Tolietries
- Indo Mie (Maggie Mee)
they have alot of fakes there! Even perfume! It’s like about SGD7 per bottle but some smells really horrible, so you have to keep smelling from every store to get the closes good ones. Buy body scrubs! Really shiok. Tolietries are cheap cheap! But how real or fake, I can’t really tell. Since it’s from hypermart, I believe it’s okay. Indo mie and mie sedap! 20cents per pack!! Amazingly cheap. We even bought beer back to the hotel to drink and chill at night.
Total spending: SGD250/- (without hotel)
I will suggest to bring about 400 SG there and change if you need to only. 250 was a little budget for me.
Rest of my photos are here!
