Batam Info / Interest / Help Thread

[atee]

Originally Posted by nono1973

Apologize for the late reply,this trip my objective is to rest and relax as i arent feeling well since i came back from my Batam CNY trip. I am using Batam to recover myself.

The room is a junior suite from Formosa Hotel, here's the price taken from their website :

No problem bro.

Looks like jr suite differ from delux room. The flooring is carpeted but jr suite is laminated tiles. Several times tried to book from Kaha but always full.

Weather been very hot. You take care bro.

[heavenlychaser]

Any 1 going next week?

[Black Page]

Originally Posted by nono1973

(i am so used to those old ones that i often get to the wrong room,hehehe...)

I share your view. I feel like at home, if I go to my same usual room.
Probably, I might opt to stay there in my usual room, even if they could offer me an upgrade for free. Or maybe not?

[nono1973]

Originally Posted by <censored>

Hi Bro,

Do you still have a link for your beginners guide to Batam?

I am thinking of going Batam with my friend and this is my second trip. First trip we mostly went to explore some ayam farms around nagoya area but was not able to find SYTs. Appreciate if you have any advice or still have the guide to help me out.

Thanks!

Here bro,below is the links to the beginner's guide. A temporary spare one i use when the site i backed up is down (i kiasu ma,hehehe...always have spare ones or plan B and C). The back-up site is currently on maintenance tho. I also dont know why it keeps going down nowaday.

https://sbf.today/showthread.php...=#post17068224

...and the Batam food list for your reference.

https://sbf.today/showthread.php...=#post17070272

Hope it helps and may you have a good trip.

Good luck!

[nono1973]

Originally Posted by atee

Looks like jr suite differ from delux room. The flooring is carpeted but jr suite is laminated tiles.

Nearly all rooms on 2nd floor comes with Laminated floors,part of the 3rd floor's room were non-laminated (meaning its carpeted),regardless of the type of room. Rooms with laminated floors cost 30k rupiah more,so if you are having rooms with carpet,it likely means 30k rupiah cheaper. Most of what you are getting from Kaha were carpeted flooring.

Originally Posted by atee

Several times tried to book from Kaha but always full.

Sign up for membership,bring yourself to at least Silver level,pay for family room (once you get to silver),and get either the junior room or executive room FREE twice a year. If i dont remember wrong,deluxe room from Kaha cost 450k rupiah,getting from formosa direct cost 460k rupiah,and while you may save 10k rupiah per night stay,you also miss out on their points. 15 nights of stay you save about 150k rupiah,BUT you dont get a free night stay which save you a total of 460k rupiah. This really depends on individual on this one.

I'm not including the free upgrade (to junior suite) saving when it will cost 840k rupiah. I choose the free stay of Junior suite this time round becos i already stayed in Executive room last year before (costing 940k rupiah with 2 toilets,2 TVs,DVD player etc)

Originally Posted by atee

Weather been very hot. You take care bro.

Thank you bro. I have been avoiding chicken,barbecue and fried food this trip,so my meals were limited very much on just porridge and noodle-soup base stuffs. Bad cough in the night which deprive me of sleep and am on medication.

Key drinks in this trip were hot Pomelo tea and Rosella tea, as well as non-cold Teh Botel, Larutan cap kaki tiga too.

[nono1973]

Originally Posted by Black Page

I share your view. I feel like at home, if I go to my same usual room.

Next time if you opt for a non-smoking room,your choice of the same kind of room which you usually stay might multiply,hehehe...something i found out just recently.

Originally Posted by Black Page

Probably, I might opt to stay there in my usual room, even if they could offer me an upgrade for free. Or maybe not?

For me,its the same. I preferred my usual room too. Those new room/s were just for trial,i mean i have not stayed in those room/s before,so there's no harm trying it out for a bit. The bad about those room,its behind the hotel...there's a major construction behind the hotel where they try to build Formosa residence etc. I am already deprive of sleep,the construction noise made it worse.

There's also a safe deposit box in junior suite and executive room too. Anyway,what tick me off is the mirror opposite my bed in the junior room.

Some bros might like that,i dont.

[gizafire]

Thinking of heading there alone for the long weekend on 30 March. Looking for Kaki pm me !

[Black Page]

Post deleted due to double posting by mistake

[atee]

Originally Posted by nono1973

Nearly all rooms on 2nd floor comes with Laminated floors,part of the 3rd floor's room were non-laminated (meaning its carpeted),regardless of the type of room. Rooms with laminated floors cost 30k rupiah more,so if you are having rooms with carpet,it likely means 30k rupiah cheaper. Most of what you are getting from Kaha were carpeted flooring.

Sign up for membership,bring yourself to at least Silver level,pay for family room (once you get to silver),and get either the junior room or executive room FREE twice a year. If i dont remember wrong,deluxe room from Kaha cost 450k rupiah,getting from formosa direct cost 460k rupiah,and while you may save 10k rupiah per night stay,you also miss out on their points. 15 nights of stay you save about 150k rupiah,BUT you dont get a free night stay which save you a total of 460k rupiah. This really depends on individual on this one.

I'm not including the free upgrade (to junior suite) saving when it will cost 840k rupiah. I choose the free stay of Junior suite this time round becos i already stayed in Executive room last year before (costing 940k rupiah with 2 toilets,2 TVs,DVD player etc)

Now i got it. Free night stay and upgrade. It would be worth while to consider being a member if one cheong btm regularly like every week. Thanks for the detailed info bro.

[Black Page]

Originally Posted by nono1973

Anyway,what tick me off is the mirror opposite my bed in the junior room.
Some bros might like that,i dont.

You don't want your face to be the first thing you see in the morning when you open your eyes?

Originally Posted by atee

It would be worth while to consider being a member if one cheong btm regularly like every week.

I am member but I cannot go there as often as you
Actually, now I am lucky if I can go 3 times per year.

[iicycold]

Originally Posted by 今晚打老虎.

right beside the ferry terminal! haha

smart clever guessing...lol

u got good eyesight brother,meaning no need do eye test liao...

Originally Posted by nono1973

Hehehe...forget the sweet and its wrapper, wanna buy me a bottle of teh botol later or tomorrow if you are still around? :

ani idea where's the indorasa mp move 2?

teh botel on me...makan bcum on u...lol

[atee]

Originally Posted by Black Page

I am member but I cannot go there as often as you
Actually, now I am lucky if I can go 3 times per year.

I dont go btm regularly. Thats why i mentioned its worthwhile to be a member if one go often like every week.

[atee]

Originally Posted by iicycold

smart clever guessing...lol

u got good eyesight brother,meaning no need do eye test liao...

ani idea where's the indorasa mp move 2?

teh botel on me...makan bcum on u...lol

Beside the jetty? I dont get the joke. All i know theres stiff ktv competition.

[themikos]

Anyone heading over for a short break this weekend? 10-11 march?

[nono1973]

A hilarious event i encountered in a batam hotel K-Mart 2 nights ago...a group of about 5 foreign guests of the hotel buying cigarettes ,only 2 of them were buying,but becos of some small change loose change of 200 rupiah to 500 rupiah. The queue turn out to be rather lengthy,hehehe....

Friend A buy cigarette from K-mart,cost per pack is 23200,...friend A only has 23000,so he is short of 200 rupiah,so he ask friend B if he has 200 rupiah to spare,friend B chekced his stacks of rupiah notes in 1k to 2k rupiah but he doesn't have,so he ask friend C,friend C also check his stacks of rupiah and also do not have too.So he use his handphone to call friend D,friend D arrive and checks his own stacks,but eventually couldnt find any...so they decide to buy 2 packs of cigarette instead ,but they didnt know which brand of the 2nd pack of cigarette to buy,2 of them eventually walked INSIDE the sales counter to choose and at this point of time,there were already 6 to 7 other people in the queue (behind me). They still couldnt decide after some time and the guy,a Chinese man behind the group of 5 got impatient and decide to ask the K-mart staffs to do his transaction 1st...and it only took less than 10 secs. Eventually,friend E of the group arrived and also walked in with some indonesian coins to make the balance payment for the 2 packs of cigarettes.

By the time it was my turn to pay,its already 5 over mins later,i am lucky,i was just behind the Chinese man. Poor guys in queue behind me were still que-ing....hehehe....my transaction total was 28200 rupiah,i paid the K-Mart staff 30k rupiah and ask him to keep the change in English and off i head back to my room smiling at the counter staff.

(hopefully nothing was stolen from K-Mart tho)

I learned a lesson in this event, i believe why booking joint girls and massage girls didnt like a certain group of customers.

Just sharing my thought and encounter.