My 27th Batam Trip
(14th April 2016 to 17th April 2016)
This trip was like a test trip. Meaning to say,i put a lot of things to test. I put 2 hotels into test,i put a booking girl into test,i tested the one man's meat another man's poison theory,i test my own theory of a good hotel with everything build under one roof as well as sourcing for prices from Kaha. Nothing really special in this trip except i will rate it,better than my last and at a 8.5/10 rating. I hope to record this 27th Batam trip down in summary for my future reference.
Reference to my 26th Batam Trip Summary on March 2016
This trip is a little abnormal as compare to my last few trips. I did a small test on how i would advise other bros here to book from Kaha Travel. As in i tested out
how do i would book thru Kaha for other hotels,hehehe...and i will be touching a lot on Hotels this summary since i am staying in 2 of them this trip.
My initial 1st choice was Da Vienna Boutique Hotel...
According to my own advise on
how i would book hotel rooms from Kaha travel,i emailed Da Vienna Boutique Hotel,asking for a Deluxe room and a Junior suite,their reply to me was they have both rooms available,i ask them to reserve it,they say fine. So i thought all was well untill less than a day before my actual trip, i received an email from them telling me "sorry sir,your room has been taken,may i reserve for you the 2 other room-kind" etc etc....the moment i receive the mail,i almost lose my cool as it was less than a day before my trip and i replied them i wasnt very happy with their arrangement. i told them straight off to cancel all available hotel booking i have with them (I have other rooms on other days which i am helping my other friends to book too). Anyway,i think that guy (maybe its a girl) got a bit desperate and keep mailing me back to apologize blah blah blah...i never replied. Thumbs down for Tia Prihandani,the reservation officer for Da Vienna Boutique Hotel.
And using the exact method i use to reserve Da Vienna Boutique Hotel,i reserved rooms from Biz Hotel. And they were very much more professional. Special thanks to Jenny. They kept their words,reserved my room and ta da!On that day i arrived,i just head to Kaha to pay for the room voucher and then to Biz Hotel. Check in was as early as 1130am,hehehe...oh,and Biz Hotel got the deal of my other friend's room too.
I believe in terms of hotel room reservation skills,Biz is more experience,more down to earth and given the fact that both hotels were fully booked on the date i traveled to Batam. Biz has won over Da Vienna in this aspect. There are more...read on...
As my saying goes,there is no such as an all good and no bad in anything and in this case,it includes hotels. I like to check my room and in a testing trip like this one,i like to put the room i will be staying in to test. Like always,i turn on all lights,run the air con,tap and flush the toilet bowl...there's 2 toilets (living room and master bedroom),hehehe...and the one in the master bedroom was the one infest with a dozen tiny-beetle-size cockroaches (pretty obvious when the toilet bowl area is in white color). Honestly,i am actually fine with it as these cockroaches were within the boundary inside the toilet bowl. Still,i call the house keeping up to query. By the time they were there,no more insects. Lucky there were some dead remains as proof.
According to the maintenance guy,the 1st floor restaurant were having some cleaning up,so its likely the roaches moved upward. Ok...i am listening and lets not forget my room is on the 9th floor,restaurant on the 1st floor,hehehe...anyway,cut the story short. After voicing to him my dissatisfaction,my friend and i heads over for our regular "cewek-shopping" before heading for groceries shopping where i bought a bottle of Baygon insecticide :
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Originally Posted by nono1973
Its a Junior suite from Biz. 1st step in,i kill more half a dozen baby cockroaches. Bought one of this...
...and kill another half a dozen,as it draws out more of them,hehehe...
I showed the room service guy 1 of the dead ones to show i arent lying and another one shown later to reception. Guess what they (reception) suggest? They wanted to give me a free upgrade to executive suite which is of a higher price (820k/night,junior was 670k/night from Kaha) but i tell them i will stay for a night to see how's the situation will be like 1st.
Sorry,i did not take any photo of the dead roaches as proof as i have flushes all of them down the toilet bowl. |
When i reached my room,i used the insecticide on the whole room and ta da! Few of those tiny-beetle-size cockroaches's bigger brother starts coming up and i manage to kill of it...and this time round i showed them to the receptionist who later offered to switch my room to an executive suite (for free) which i politely turned down citing that i would like to stay in this cockroach infested room for a night and will only do the change tomorrow if necessary.
Look at how Biz Hotel handle the case. It was a test. There wasnt exactly a cockroach infestation. I have stayed in a handful of hotels in Batam that has roaches,even Formosa Hotel,Goodway,Gideon,Harmoni has them if i were to look hard enough. 1 or 2 is really inevitable and in the case of Biz Hotel,i looked hard.
Oh,and that free upgrade to executive suite in Biz Hotel wasnt exactly free. It comes with a small price of a can of Baygon,hehehehe....
We have brunch at Meximo Pub wan tan mee,before heading cewek-shopping,and then to groceries-shopping at Top-100. We changed our money opposite Formosa Hotel money changer becos they offered the best rate of 9700/SGD i know of before heading to Kaha to buy hotel voucher,checked in to hotel and brunch.
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