Batam Info Thread

[doggienine99]

Originally Posted by newyorker88

But their drinks are dam expensive

Yap. At Nagoya Hill Mall, I think at level 3 or 4. Fruit drink charge between 35000-42000RP per /drink. Food price are OK. U can try the eating place at level 2 (cant really remember) asphalt road (tar road) walking alley, fruit drink are much cheaper at 18000-25000RP.

[DDAMn]

Originally Posted by miumiu6464

There a Sundanese food makan place populated by workers nearby. It's located near to Gold Bird, so sometimes can catch some golf bird ceweks there. About 25k can eat very full full Liao..

Yes bro the eating house is called BU Joko.they have another branch at btm center.

[hawkeye007]

Originally Posted by DDAMn

Yes bro the eating house is called BU Joko.they have another branch at btm center.

Really...? Where in batam centre..? RM Sunda next to Hotel Lai Lai is one of my faves, they serve up a good beef rendang, one of the better ones in batam...

Their food beats Sederhana hands down...

[nono1973]

Originally Posted by newyorker88

Bintan and Balai are 2 different islands.

Bintan resort is mostly family area, expensive as well.

Bintan from the port is different, goes all the way in. Not a place to go for etnertainment unless you have friends who can guide you, or you are there for business.

Thank you for sharing,then may i ask how about Tanjong Pinang? On the map,Tanjong Pinang appears to be part of Bintan island. Is Tanjong Pinang also like Bintan? or same as bintan?

My questions are just for knowledge purposes,no obligation to reply since its kind of out of topic and that i wont be heading to those places mentioned anytime soon.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by bridge

Haha...noted, maybe can meet up for smoke or kopi

Sure,why not since i doubt not many i know will be heading there on those date.

My Room Booked,Ferry going there also Booked,Return ferry also booked,girl booked. My last trip to Batam was designed to make Feb 2015 trip possible. And most of my 2014 trips are meant to help me gather enough experience to head for my upcoming CNY trip.

Originally Posted by miumiu6464

It's OK if you manage to get increased booking fee of 200k only. What I remembered is that 2 years back, Gold Bird tried doubling the booking fee and they still managed to sell all their girls...

Yes,bro...i did read about it. Last year and the year before last,Gold Bird Booking fee doubled during CNY. Best thing is,they are ALL fully taken. So this year CNY,the whole booking joint update LISTING is design to break this culture. Gold Bird has set a precedence over the last 2 years,other popular joint/s might follow suit.

The main question is,where else will still have quality Girls for booking during CNY that are not "very" overly-priced like Gold Bird,it is exactly why i am in Batam a weeks ago to find out. And to confirm if i am right or wrong,i can only go Batam on CNY to get my experimental answer...lol.(my excuse to go Batam)

Havent confirm thing i dare not share,but by the time i can confirm,i will have to wait till 2016 CNY to share it. Meantime i only have a draft idea.

[bridge]

Originally Posted by nono1973

My Room Booked,Ferry going there also Booked,Return ferry also booked,girl booked.

Power! Girl also booked!
My room booked too, just did the ferry booking, was told that there is a surcharge due to CNY. Return ferry ticket is $60 instead of $48, need to collect ticket before 10-Feb eventhough my trip is on 19-Feb.

[newyorker88]

Originally Posted by nono1973

Thank you for sharing,then may i ask how about Tanjong Pinang? On the map,Tanjong Pinang appears to be part of Bintan island. Is Tanjong Pinang also like Bintan? or same as bintan?

Bintan and Tanjong Pinang is the same.

Bintan is the northen part of Tangong Pinang Island, where many resorts are, mostly filled with singaporeans, family resorts.


Tanjong Pingang is the port, where it is the starting point and activity centre of Bintan Island, for both international n local ferries. All the way in is a road, and there is a local airport as well.

If you are keen for a kampong tour and more relax time than batam, go tanjong pinang for a day or two, life is definitely slower there, and whore house? There are, but never been there for gals.

Massge joints? Yes, they have specials, but not at those hotel massage near the port. Must travel inwards. Been to a few before. Not sure if they are still around.

Overall, it is a more laid back place than Batam.

[Cwpmami]

Hi All Bros,

as mentioned before, me and 1 of friend going down batam on saturday morning...
Will go ralph lauren outlet for shopping first.

anyone will be there? we can meet up for drinks and TCSS

Wechat me~

[Cwpmami]

Hi All Bros,

me and 1 of my friend will head down to batam this saturday (9.40am ferry).

anyone want to TCSS and window shopping together?

Wechat me~

[Heil Hitler]

Originally Posted by bridge

Power! Girl also booked!
My room booked too, just did the ferry booking, was told that there is a surcharge due to CNY. Return ferry ticket is $60 instead of $48, need to collect ticket before 10-Feb eventhough my trip is on 19-Feb.

These ferry operators are really too much. Oil has come down so much & they still impose a $12 surcharge. The worst thing is, our MPA lets them do whatever they please. So bro, if you collect ticket by 10 Feb, does it mean you avoid the surcharge?

[BoBMamba]

Thanks bros for the suggestions , I'm sure I'll be able to save more in the future and can stock up on better hotels and bonks :P & thanks to bro nono for the guide to massage places in Batam.

I somehow prefer the idea of having an in hotel massage even though I know the price will be higher..gotta brush on nego skills..

[bridge]

Originally Posted by Heil Hitler

These ferry operators are really too much. Oil has come down so much & they still impose a $12 surcharge. The worst thing is, our MPA lets them do whatever they please. So bro, if you collect ticket by 10 Feb, does it mean you avoid the surcharge?

No, $12 surcharge is a firm thing. If I don't pay & collect the ticket before 10-Feb, they will release the the seats.

[DDAMn]

Originally Posted by johnkhb

Really...? Where in batam centre..? RM Sunda next to Hotel Lai Lai is one of my faves, they serve up a good beef rendang, one of the better ones in batam...

Their food beats Sederhana hands down...

Its near Harmoni One Hotel.its actually difficult to track if u are not familiar with the area cos there only a small sign showin the direction.its beside a small road leading towards harmoni one.

[nono1973]

Time to write the full summary,this time round,lots of info to share with everyone :

Reference post -

http://thesbf.shop/showpos...ostcount=28624

Day 1

This trip is suppose to be a rest and relax trip,dont wish to be burden by the responsibilities of taking care of newbies,so those who are with me in this trip already has some level of good experience in Batam and are all capable of solo-ing on their own. There are 3 of us this time,me,bro S and bro M.

Met up with the 2 bros at Harbour Front in our desired timing,bro M and myself decide to try the business class of Horizaon Ferries but bro S didnt wish to,so he sits at the 1st floor whreas me and bro M took the 2nd floor. Honestly,business class in Horizon Ferries is really over-rated,i was expecting the below type of girls to serve us during the trip...

...but the whole Business Class section was serve by only an Indo man. Yes,we got FREE Today papers,free 1 bottle of mineral of water and some peppermint sweets,and thats about all we are getting for paying the extra S$8 (over the S$48 ticket). We do get priority to get off the ferry when we reach Batam tho,but its only about 5 mins ahead get off time. When we reach the custom of Batam,bro S has to walk in double quick time from his regular economic class to catch up with us. (sorry to bro S) He still manage to catch up with us tho. Nonetheless,those in Business Class gets to reach the custom 1st where the custom officer chop our passport. In general,the S$8 isnt much of a novelty from my point of view as we all didnt need to rush.

Below is a video of how business class looks like in the ferry extract from the Horizon web site :

Yes,more leg space on the chair,other than that,better sea view...and thats about it for novelty sake. Wait,when we disembark from the ferry,I finally saw ONE of the 3 pretty indo Horizaon girl standing outside the ferry to welcome us to Batam. Ok,I guess that should makes the S$8 well worth its cause for now…hehehe…

Upon reaching the custom Arrival Hall where our passport were suppose to be chopped,i realise they have change their custom hall to a more spacious one...below is an illustration pic for your reference :

As you can see,lots of glass in the building. The table where the custom officer chop my passport is much lower now compare to the previous times,so i can see what his hands are doing,whether he chop my passport or try to do anything funny. The custom officer asked me a few questions,but i couldnt hear him very well...so he has to repeat 3 to 4 times before i can hear him well enough to answer him.Thank God i didnt piss him off...lol. His question was why am i here for in Batam? Hehehe...my answer,to tour Batam,hehehe...

For those who plan to bring illegal things from Sillypore to Batam,please be extra extra careful,they changed their X-Ray scanner that were used to scan our luggage to a brand new one. And i also see a few tourist behind us having their bags unzipped and checked like what is often seen in Harbour Front Sillypore custom when we returned from Batam.

For the smokers,upon returning back to Sillypore,i tried their smoking point,its bad...really bad. Totally zero air ventilation. So the feeling is like smoking in a fully enclosed toilet cubicle without the smoke going out of the room unless another smoker opens the glass door of the smoking room to go out and step in. Those outside waiting for the gate to open during departure can easily breathe in 2nd hand smoke. Just a little heads up for smokers and non-smokers.

Now stepping out of the Arrival Hall,will look something like the illustrated pic below :

Stepping out of the Arrival Hall,i realise that we are only less than 30 steps away from Harbour Bay Mart (provision shop) where we await for the unreliable taxi driver.

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[nono1973]

This time round,i am not going to change any money from the money changer at Harbour Bay (i still have quite an amount of rupiah leftover from last trip),as the rate there was a total crap, plus the money changer dont feel like doing our business. While standing there to wait for our unreliable driver to arrive over 10-15 mins,i dont see anyone changing from the money changer beside Harbourbay Mart. The unreliable driver finally arrived and i ask him to send us to opp formosa to get our money changed,before heading to Kaha to pay for the rooms and then head back to Formosa again to check in. I know,i know...a bit of time wasted,but we are at Batam man and we have nothing with us except time...hehehe...lol. (sibei haolian sia....lol)

Once checked in,we need to rush for lunch becos our unreliable driver says he has some VIP he needs to send of to Batam centre. He didnt joined us for lunch but still does his part to send us to A2 food court.

This time round,becos one of us is a Muslim,so we couldnt get back to Meximo pub area for the wan tan mee,but well...go out together some time must learn to give and take a bit. The Meximo Pub Wan Tan Mee ,i also eat before a few times..about time to try others,hehehe...

After our lunch,the unreliable driver came back in time to pick us all up to go "shopping"...nice,i believe that is what everyone's been waiting for. On our way to our 1st stop,the unreliable driver was telling us that his VIP (from Sillypore but not sillyporean whom he send off to Batam centre) didnt pay him at all for his 3D2N trip cos he has over spent and his bank card doesnt allow him to draw cash from the nearby ATM. Told our driver he will sms him to transfer money to him via Western Union to him later when he reach Sillypore. Unreliable driver steady,never complain on that day..lol..until later on the next day where his Sillypore customer remain uncontactable thru out our 3D2N...lol.

Visited the 9 joints stated from my previous post :

Originally Posted by nono1973

1. The "new" New Berry Location. Simply locate City View Hotel,just 2 shops away is the joint. As usual,more than 20 girls,most are very tempting with lots of them smiling.

City View Hotel is beside a Bird Shop,beside the bird shop is the "new" New Berry.

2. Permata Indah joint : Good number of girls (at least 30),the most i ever seen compare to the other joints i see today which is practically 70% joints in the list. Surprise to see a few good looking girls at 1 mil or less.

3. MM Massage : Most of the good girls has been permanently "bought" by their customers. No much good are left in this joint today. Less than 10 girls.

4. Indah2 : About 15 girls with 60% SYT. Launch a small complain due to a runaway girl from my previous trip by a bro. Quality not too bad,but i was skeptical about booking one from them.

5. Happy Massage 8 : I didnt step in,but according to friends who stepped into it,quality dont seem too good and quantity has drop by half. Sounds like good business for them.

6. Orchid massage : I didnt want to go,but since i am around Gold Bird,thoght i should go there take a look. As expected,nothing special,mostly MILF i seen before. Not much changes. Quantity around 5 girls.

7. Gold Bird/Sedona : Also has a good number of girls,around 20 plus. A good number of SYT too. 2 Chinese Speaking girl that looks like Chinese ,both cost around 1.2 mil if i dont remember wrong. The same number MILF still there. Some new girls added to their collection.

8. Paradise Night : A little disappointed by the quantity and it quality today. 5 girls inside,mostly 6/10 and below and Mami wants to charge 1 mil and above. Their SYT that are rate 6.5/10 cost 1.2 mil...sorry,other joints today has better girls at lower price,in terms of look and attitude.

9. Memory : I leave the worst joint of today for last.5 girls in total in it,all milf...and they are MILF at 5/10.

Yes,yes...i think this part everyone who read my previous post knows. 3 of us ,each picked 1 girl each respectively from the "new" New Berry,Orchid Massage and Memory at 900k,800k and 600k. The girls were send to us around 5pm if i dont remember wrong. So everyone after picking our girls all head back to Hotel to rest up a bit and unpack our stuffs,and then meet me at my room to collect their girls.At this point,no one knows how good their girls are until during our dinner time at 730pm.

730pm,we all meet up at lobby for dinner.All the girls didnt want to go for dinner except the one from the "new" New Berry. 1st thing i do was to check up on the bros 1st round's field report,hehehe...notice until now i havent shared which bro booked which girl and from which joint? Nope,not going to do that in this summary in order to respect each other's privacy. I will just share the ratings for 1st round of each girls from their respectively joint.

From Memory overall rating : 7.5/10 - 8/10 for 1st round

Look : 6/10 milf,chubby and English speaking
Age : 30+
Price : 800k - forgot to bargain
Attitude : 9/10

From "new" New Berry overall rating : 6.5/10 - 7/10 for 1st round

Look : 8.5/10 pretty-looking,slim and always smiling.
Age : around 20
Price : from the very right hand corner series of girls in joint priced between 1mil to 1.2mil, bargained to 900k.
Attitude : 7.5/10

From Orchid Massage overall rating : 7.5/10 - 8/10 for 1st round

Look : 7.5/10 pretty-looking, a little chubby and always smiling.
Age : 20-25
Price : 600k - didnt bargain,hehehe....the price is a steal
Attitude : 8.5/10

Other than the stated overall rating part and their attitude,the girl's looks and age are my personal opinion when i look at them. Hmm...appears to me everyone seems like having a fairly good time for round 1.

Ok,back to dinner,cut the story short. Dinner was at beside Queens. Everyone pays their own dinner and everyone filled themselves pretty well. We all like our dinner so much that no one actually remembers the total bill,me too...lol.

There was a short commotion during our dinner when the "new" New Berry girl who joined us will out of the sudden burst out Laughing loudly....its quite amusing when she did that for the 1st 2 to 3 times,but when she keeps doing that thru out our dinner time,we kind of find her "not-in-the-right-mind"....lol. Imagine this,a girl having dinner with you suddenly laugh out so loud that even next few tables can hear and that is for no reason within our surrounding or ourselves for her to be laughing at. I personally find it quite cute...especially so when this laughter is made by a very beautiful young girl. But when this type of thing happens too many times,i seriously cant help feeling....something not right somewhere,hehehe.... No,no...there's no one being possess or anything supernatural...but still i just kind of hoping the night will go smoothly...lol.

After dinner,everything is OTOT and before heading back to room,we went to provision shop behind Formosa to buy some stuffs and the "laugh-out-loud" girl request us to buy a cake inside Tea-Story restaurant and we obliged.

That ends day 1.

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[nono1973]

Day 2

Day 2 is going to be a super long write out as it will cover most of my travel,so do bear with me if i ever bore you. Apologize in advance.

I am starting to become tired of the regular buffet breakfast in Formosa,perhaps its about time I try other Hotel’s breakfast,hehehe…oh,wait,all our girls left the hotel rather late,some even dont feel like leaving so we all end up having late breakfast this morning…lol. Breakfast suppose to end at 10am,we manage to gather there only after 930am.

Massage

Since it is still very early in the morning afte our breakfast and all joints arent open at those hours,one bro wish to go Massage,the other wants normal shopping at the mall. So this time round,I get the driver to drive the bro to Nagoya Hill Mall to shop and me and the other bro will go for Massage. I am also in search of massage shop which has photo book to choose girl and will go to Hotel to massage for my future trips.

We manage to go to one shop,but...but...but...its FULL HOUSE!! The photo album got about a dozen girls to choose from....massage at 130k/1.5hr...or was it 140k/1.5 hr excluding VIP room which will cost another 10k or something,sorry...i didnt get to ask them properly. But seeing the girls walk in walk out there REALLY makes me drool....i didnt see a single milf...ALL SYT!!

Hmm...realise most massage shop dont have a price list and i am lucky to grab a name card of the massage shop I havent tried,but i will definitely be back in my future trips.

Then we move on and try this one below (which has no name card) :

This one above Pepy Massage also about the same as previous massage joint we visited. Lots of SYT,also has photo album...also about same price,also can go Hotel for room massage. But business not so good,hehehe....i picked a semi -syt while the Muslim bro pick a syt and off we went for our 1.5 hr massage.

Look : 7/10 - there are quite a number of 8/10 (8.5/.10) type that i didnt pick from the album,and didnt see any 7/10 and below ones.

Massage : Real solid good massage
Room : VIP room with attached bath area and LCD TV.
Ambience : Hmm...not so good,the whole place has a strange smell,i think i prefer in-hotel-room massage
BBBJ : Super good ,for a long long time.
HJ : Not bad,at least better than i expected.
FJ : I didnt opt for it.
BM : For a min or so only on my back
Auto Roam : Full roaming
Overall Rating : 8/10
RTF : Yes,definitely but for in-hotel-room massage

Damage : Entrance 140k with VIP room + 200k special + 2 can of Red Bull at 10k each.

The bro who joined me for massage gets a 250k FJ excluding entrance of 1.5 hr massage. Girl much prettier than mine,hehehe…he is also happy with the service.