Batam Info / Interest / Help Thread

[nono1973]

Originally Posted by newyorker88

You need to be overseas more than 72 hours.

Updated as of Dec 2015 from :

https://www.ecitizen.gov.sg/topics/p...px?mpageId=212

...and here :

http://www.customs.gov.sg/individual...and-gst-relief

[NZL97]

Originally Posted by Ojekbtm

Hi bro Nono 1973,

Does the 4 neh neh burger massage at Ocean include HJ in the package price ?
Or is it extra ? As in FJ

The burger massage package at 600k does not include any special services, just b2b by 2 gals enjoy bro

[nono1973]

Indonesia Public holiday for 2016 brought over from previous thread for my own reference here in this thread. Doing some trip/s preparation.

https://sbf.today/showpo...ostcount=34099

Originally Posted by nono1973

Indonesia Public Holidays in 2016
19 Official National Holidays and Shared Holidays in Indonesia for 2016

*for my 2016 reference travelling to Batam

And comparing with year 2015 :

https://sbf.today/showpost.p...ostcount=30992

Calender 2016 :

http://www.static.portalseven.com/im...endar-2016.png

[nono1973]

Preparation for my coming trip...hehehe...one of the movie that will be showing in April 2016 in Batam's Cinema 21 and Blitz.

The Huntsman: Winter's War

Here is the official synopsis for The Huntsman Winter’s War:

Long before the evil Queen Ravenna (Theron) was thought vanquished by Snow White’s blade, she watched silently as her sister, Freya (Blunt), suffered a heartbreaking betrayal and fled their kingdom. With Freya’s ability to freeze any enemy, the young ice queen has spent decades in a remote wintry palace raising a legion of deadly huntsmen—including Eric (Hemsworth) and warrior Sara (Chastain)—only to find that her prized two defied her one demand: Forever harden your hearts to love.

When Freya learns of her sister’s demise, she summons her remaining soldiers to bring the Magic Mirror home to the only sorceress left who can harness its power. But once she discovers Ravenna can be resurrected from its golden depths, the wicked sisters threaten this enchanted land with twice the darkest force it’s ever seen. Now, their amassing army shall prove undefeatable…unless the banished huntsmen who broke their queen’s cardinal rule can fight their way back to one another.

The Trailer :



Mirror,mirror on the Wall..........

Coming soon ,to a theatre near Batam,hehehe...

[alandyla]

I am also planning to go batam this month. Hopefully will meet you there!

[Humlea]

Originally Posted by alandyla

I am also planning to go batam this month. Hopefully will meet you there!

Huh? Meet who? You mean Nono?
Meet Nono have to take queue number...

[hoosdathu]

Originally Posted by Nulgath

In Indonesia,quoting of the price & its final after-bargained price is entirely different.One will usually end with 40-50+% off if they bother to bargain. Fyi,A3,A5 & Nice Massage were sister shops.

Give them a "take it or leave it attitude", tell them nicely u went to next door massage shop yesterday which u get 100k hj & 200k fj. Be firm,high chance their price will auto-drop & it can easily comes down to 150k hj & 250k fj if u push a little further. If they don't drop then don't take their special. They will be more worried than you. You lose your 60k-70k/1hr-1.5hr massage entrance fee (u can still walk over to next door shop to try again),they lose 1 rotating queue to earn a customer willing to take up special service. And almost all the time,they only have 1 customer per rotating queue for 1 whole day.

It will be helpful if u could share which date that u found out A5 quoting 600k for fj & Tulip quoting 400k for the same.Maybe CNY period,due to high demand,the first quote might go higher.

To pay 200k for hj & 400k for fj behind Utama area,i think high class place like Altlanta spa,Octopuss spa & other hotel-base massage offers equal or if not better deals + they have quality massage. No need to go to those rundown Utama shop area. I see b4 in prev btm thread,those who are hard-hearted enuff can even get 100k hj & 250k fj in Altlanta spa.

with all respect to other batam experts in sbf, this post gets my vote for "best advice on specials pricing in batam massage shops".

hope all batam rookies read this and be aware of market prices. dun be carrot heads, inflating prices for us all.

[Ojekbtm]

Originally Posted by NZL97

The burger massage package at 600k does not include any special services, just b2b by 2 gals enjoy bro

Thanks bro nzl97.

[alandyla]

Originally Posted by Humlea

Huh? Meet who? You mean Nono?
Meet Nono have to take queue number...

I plan to go Batam on my own this month, hopefully able to meet any brothers from here who happened to be at Batam at the same time, to cheong n enjoy good food together. It would be more fun to cheong together. Of course it would be great to meet Nono n gang as well! Looking forward to a great bonk time ahead. Cheers!

[Black Page]

Originally Posted by KohOnly21

Hais. Jackpot gaming in batam all closed since last week.. Afternoon donno go where already.

http://googleweblight.com/?lite_url=...p_KPnBZnJI-8ZA

Also lots of people who was working there donno what to do on afternoon now. People lost job because of this crusade against vice. Today gambling, tomorrow what's next?

[nyquist]

Part 1

27-28 March 2016 - 2D1N

First time going batam on a long weekend trip with 2 newbies. (Laurel and Hardy)

Departed Harborfront to Haborbay at 1150 and arrived on schedule. Batam Fast was only 50% capacity.
The great thing about it is you can smoke in the sundeck.

Cleared Indo custom in 10mins and bought our necessities at the convenience store and also changed our money at the money charger outside the terminal at 9500.

Next our booked ' unreliable' driver drove us to our hotel called GGi which is just across Harborbay. The hotel was $73 per night which is rather expensive.

Upon arrival we realised the rooms were not ready.. We were told to come back at 3pm to checkin..

So we hopped onto the car and headed to Meximo for wantan mee.

Laurel and Hardy were rather surprised that the noodles tasted so good and yet afforded. Laurel even commented he could retire in Batam.

Total cost of 3 bowl of noodles and 3 drinks were 62,000.

Next it was shopping time.
First stop, Permata. Stocks were low and I guess all booked for the long weekend.
Second stop, Happy 8. Greeted by the blackfaced mami and the stock were much better this time.
Girls were ranging from 1.2 - 1.5 juta...
Laurel picked one at 1.2 juta and Hardy at 1.3 juta.
Mami only allow to give Laurel a discount of 100,000.

Lastly, we headed for New Berry to find my regular cewek.
Upon arrival was told she had been booked by someone at 850,000. Her usual price was 600,000. Guess super long weekend, prices have increased.

Looking around, saw one that had eye comtact with me and booked her for 1.2 juta which I later regretted it big time.

----------------------------------------------To be continued--------------------------------------------------------------

[iicycold]

Originally Posted by hoosdathu

hope all batam rookies read this and be aware of market prices. dun be carrot heads, inflating prices for us all.

Nwaday i'll notice sm btm FR here has no pricing or simply jus sharing witout pricing,tis can easily tell me tat they were chopped & overpaid. Guess they jus wan to save face.

So i feel sharing of those reli good & cheap places shld be discreet. Wat for go sm btm pl pay higher price wen the same higher price i pay there can be found in other places w better service standard?

Tat's my own theory.

Originally Posted by nyquist

Looking around, saw one that had eye comtact with me and booked her for 1.2 juta which I later regretted it big time.

tere will be good trips,tere wil be bad trips.Apply to me as well. Like nono like to say,tis trip no good,nex trip almost definitely wil be better.

Lookin fwd to yr nex FR installment,to learn.

[hoosdathu]

Originally Posted by H0pe1100

For the convenience of readers, I have tried to summarize the locations posted by Nano1973.

can't view your map, bro

[fde83]

Originally Posted by nyquist

Lastly, we headed for New Berry to find my regular cewek.

Gals prices from berry, dian - 1.2k, fifi - 1m, nana 1.2k, anne - 1.2k, yuni - 1.4k. All prices are before nego. Please dont judge me why I choose fifi, I pick here the day after I went clubbing hence the judgement. Lol.

[Humlea]

Originally Posted by alandyla

I plan to go Batam on my own this month, hopefully able to meet any brothers from here who happened to be at Batam at the same time, to cheong n enjoy good food together. It would be more fun to cheong together. Of course it would be great to meet Nono n gang as well! Looking forward to a great bonk time ahead. Cheers!

I still looking for chances to zoom down when the coast is clear... patience