My 35th Batam Trip Summary
(8th Dec to 11th Dec 2016)
Reference to my
34th Batam trip summary
This trip seems to have more things to do than I expected (and planned), hehehe...anyway,i already have a feeling that its not going to be good as my 34th trip,and I am suppose to do 'returns' to temple becos year 2016 end as my next trip would likely be next year in 2017.
Touch down on Biz Hotel becos I need to do some reccing over the area around Biz Hotel and as well as a promise that I need to keep to someone at Biz. Formosa's sudden price increase this month also forbids me to stay there too,so I thought it would be a good chance for me to stay at Biz,and as well as to keep a promise to return during beginning of 2016.
(dont worry about Formosa room price,i have manage to bring the price back down again before i left Batam,it will be update in the later part of this summary)
Why Biz Hotel this time round? Reason is simple...
Check in to Biz Hotel Junior Suite,the 1st thing that greets me was a interminent power over-surge when I plug-in the card key (lights on,lights off...no,nothing to do with supernatural stuffs). Ok,fine...someone came and fixed it and after settling down,i begin to set up my "entertainment" system and the next problem I have to face is the internet issue. The wifi totally failed me for the 4D3N. So for this trip, the entire holiday mood was killed by me having to bring the receptionist,the technician, the supervisor and their managers up to my room every single day on an average of at least twice a day. There is totally no way any 'living thing' could have kept their cool,hehehe...
One of the case is,where the in-hotel-room service dinning was over charging me my food order by 66% extra. The menu says 50k rupiah on a certain food my girl ordered, the bill on the receipt turn out 88k+. The rest of the case would be the technicians of the hotel having to come to my room on a daily basis to fix the internet connection.
The hotel stays in this trip seems to remind me something, in Batam if there is anything that start getting messed up, I will have to swallow everything down, hence much often I would prefer to plan most of my things in advance and making sure they are all nicely done. This applies also for all my other travels beside going to Batam. Its a lesson (or reminder) to me in this trip and even at that,i would say that this will not be my last stay in Biz Hotel. The staffs was so apologetic that I hear no less than 200 of the same words "sorry" from them. How do I know its more than 200 times they said "sorry" to me,hehehehe...I counted and I stopped counting at number 200,hehehe...this is an unforgettable stay in Batam hence I have a lot to pen down.
Ok,so much for the hotel I stayed in.
When i 1st touch down Batam,the 1st thing i did was go change my money opposite Formosa Hotel at 9400/SGD. Head to the hotel to make some inquiries there (but the manager isnt in) before heading to Kaha to get my Biz Hotel room at 820k per night. Yes, Junior Suite room from Kaha at Biz Hotel has increase price,the Executive room cost 930k per night (if i dont remember wrong). Since i am not the bill bearer in this trip,i took the junior suite. So 3 nights stay cost me 2460k this time round.
(i know,i know...this could be the 1st time you guys see me as a non-stingy guy)
Next thing,i head to one of favourite booking place to grab a girl. Reach the place,mami isnt in..we head for lunch and then after lunch,heads back to the same place again and the mami is STILL NOT IN,hehehe...so i decide to steal her girl...meaning taking the girl w/o paying,hehehe...until later on mami called my girl and we have to make a detour to pick her up to make payment. After bargaining with Mami,the price for 3 nights came down to 2 million rupiah (mami tells me CNY price will go up by 100k per night and it has to be a fixed price,meaning cannot bargain). Tcss for a bit before heading to TOP 100 to buy groceries and then back to my room again.
After dropping my girl off,told my girl to 'stay',while i head to some pharmacies to help my bosses to buy some medicated stuffs. Spend quite a bomb there and due to the fact that some pharmacy didnt have the stock i need,i pharmacy-hop quite a handful of shops before finally settling my 'last buy' at a 24 hour local pharmacy.
Head over to Tiban Tua Pek Kong thereafter...
I have been to more than 10 point to point travel in case no one notice.
Harbour Bay >> Money Changer >> Formosa Hotel >> Kaha >> Joint >> Lunch >> Joint >> Top 100 >> Pharmacy 1 >> Pharmacy 2 >> Pharmacy 3 >> Pharmacy 4 >> Tiban Tua Pek Kong >> Back to Hotel (i could have go for dinner out of hotel if i wanted to)
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