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 Batam Island (Indonesia), Singapore travel tales
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| A Lau |
12 June 2005 |
Stayed at Panorama Regency Hotel - Batam Island (Indonesia), Singapore.
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Shopping centres : DC Mall & Mega Mall are the bigger ones. Haircut + color (long hair) + mani + pedi is only SGD46 at Johnny Andrean.
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| M Sedam |
04 January 2005 |
Stayed at Panorama Regency Hotel - Batam Island (Indonesia), Singapore.
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Batam Island is full of great nightlife and places to eat. Relaxed people and way of life. Bought many DVD movies for my collection at home. Shopping is good at Lucky and Centrepoint malls which are very close to downtown Nagoya. If you want real Indonesian experience go to the Pacifico Disco. It's open late and full of people, loud music and very dark. Lots of taxis and motorcycles to take you around town.
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| J Sulong |
08 August 2004 |
Stayed at Panorama Regency Hotel - Batam Island (Indonesia), Singapore.
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There is a padang food stall behind the hotel (along the Panorama Residence's side) which we had no time to try and a deli cafe which will be opened soon behind the hotel (at the left side of hotel). Those who like the beaches at Nongsa or Turi beach, it's only 30 minutes away.
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| S Ruzidah |
08 August 2004 |
Stayed at Panorama Regency Hotel - Batam Island (Indonesia), Singapore.
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We took the hotel's Limo and the driver was a nice person. We went to Waterfront (40min drive) where there are a lot of water sport activities like water-ski, banana-boat ride, para sailing and also boat rides to surrounding islands. We can also look at the beautiful sunset while eating at the restaurant or simply by taking a ride on a boat. We can also fly a plane at the Flying Club. We also went to the newly opened DC Mall where a lot of discounts were provided. There are also other shopping malls that offer fantastic discounts. We went to the famous restaurant which provides sumptuous seafood dishes at a very low price.
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| M Hartley |
21 August 2003 |
Stayed at Panorama Regency Hotel - Batam Island (Indonesia), Singapore.
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Don't eat in hotel restaurants-good hygiene, but too expensive. Menu is varied, but connected to the rear of the hotel in a local shopping plaza is a restaurant (can't remember name) that uses the hotel kitchen, offering same menus plus some additional local dishes at a fraction of the hotel costs.
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| M Hartley |
01 August 2003 |
Stayed at Novotel Batam - Batam Island (Indonesia), Singapore.
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Batam is pretty bleak during the day, fruit stalls are cheap but a bit hard to find (except the local 'farmer's market' that is almost across the street from the Melia Panorama hotel, but everything is sold out by 8:30 AM - but if you want good fresh fruit, go there about 6 AM and you can get anything, try the durian).
Best Western food/ambience/pool bar for expats is Lucy's Oar House (not misspelled - its motif is supposed to be like a British sailor's bar. Filled every night with expats (British and Australians working on contract for the oil/gas industry). Excellent Tex-Mex chili, split pea soup, cold beer, nice staff (pretty, young local ladies who do not hassle you like prostitutes, but just serve you beer and food with a smile). The fish and chips are great and servings of everything are almost always too much. Almost the only place I could find real smoked ham (being Islamic, pork is not served in many restaurants except in some Chinese noodle places).
On the second floor above Lucy's is a real get-down bar/club with bar top pole dancers and lap dancers featuring young micro-mini-skirted ladies who will offer many varied and delightful ways to remove any unneeded cash from your wallet. Not my cup of tea, but still it was interesting to go up and 'take a look'
(literally).
Taxis, a pain sometimes beacause they are always honking at you, are cheap & generally trustworthy. Just agree with the price before you get in, most are private autos with the owners trolling for extra money. I travelled about 20 kms every day (30 minutes) to work for 50,000 IDR, which only comes out to about US$6 or 3.50 British pounds - very reasonable. Almost any destination within Batam is less than US$2.
In my 2 weeks stay, I never had any problems with local people, all were very friendly and open.
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| B Yak |
13 July 2003 |
Stayed at Novotel Batam - Batam Island (Indonesia), Singapore.
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I was taken ill, so I didn't get around much. But there isn't much to do in Batam except for golf, or if you just wanna hang around and chill.
Golden Prawn, the local seafood restaurant, served good food at affordable prices. Unfortunately, it was a little far away from Novotel, the hotel we stayed at.
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| C Blunt |
15 June 2003 |
Stayed at Novotel Batam - Batam Island (Indonesia), Singapore.
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Nagoya, Batam is adjacent to the nearest ferry port to Singapore and is a popular destination for weekend getaways for Singapore residents. Many foreign workers in the oil industry live here. There's not much of interest to tourists in Nagoya itself. Most of the resorts are located outside the town.
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| Y Ramos |
06 April 2003 |
Stayed at Harris Resort Batam - Batam Island (Indonesia), Singapore.
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Good weather, nice nightlife but that's all!!! Avoid Batam and go to Bintan.
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| D Fell |
06 April 2003 |
Stayed at Panorama Regency Hotel - Batam Island (Indonesia), Singapore.
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Hotel ideally situated in commercial area of town.
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