My first visit to Batam!

Batam is just about an hour away by sea from Singapore. We took the ferry from harbourfront in the morning at 8. Reached Holiday Inn Batam around 10am (indonesia time). And to our surprise, we're allowed an early check in! The hotel is an all suite hotel. So our unit contist of 1 bedroom, pantry, living room, bathroom n a balcony. Tho my request for highfloor was granted, but the view was not impressive. At first was given a ground floor unit but requested for high floor unit. Regret regret... The ground floor rooms coms wif a small garden and easy access to the pool! But it's okie, we'll go again. Package only cost $98 per pax with ferry and accommodation with abf. Cheap! Better than spending time in Sg hotel paying more.


This is our room! Nice? Haha... very clean and comfortable.


Picture of mi n di! Taken on our sofa in the room while he was watching tv. He's a tv magnet. ;-p

We also went to a nearby shopping mall by private taxi that cost us $28 for 2 way. Only takes us bout 30mins to reach. Offers a great variety of indonesian food! Also available is a big supermarket like carrefour and a departmental store offering some cheap local brand tshirt. Good quality. Had our lunch there and bought about 2 dozens of instant popcorn for our friends from the shopping centre. Cheese popcon, spicy popcorn, marshmallow popcorn, butterlicious... etc.


One of the spicy popcorn. Just need to put into the microwave and in 3 mins, you'll have urself a pipping hot big bag of popcorns! Yum!

We had BBQ buffet at night by the pool! Food variety was good and my Di took 3 bbq crabs in total! He can definitely eat alot more than dat. But i stopped him 'as usual' to control his cholestrol level. Haha... Had a fullfilling meal of fish, beef, seafoods, lots of crabs, cooked food, pasta, desserts...etc. Morning, we went for a swim play the slides! Yes, the one for kids... Hehe... Had fun chilling out by the pool but didn't get much tan as the sun is so-so only.

Overall, it's a great weekend getaway. And i'm looking forward for a lot more of these! And next time, i'll request for the ground floor with my little garden and pond with mini bridge! Haha...