Batam Info / Interest / Help Thread

[spunk101]

Bro, i have read and gotten locations of all the booking joints thanks to Bro NoNo and some other bros providing the info. My questions is, what is the best time to go hunting at these joints where the girls just started work so that I don't go too late and choose left overs only.

Thanks

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by spunk101

Bro, i have read and gotten locations of all the booking joints thanks to Bro NoNo and some other bros providing the info. My questions is, what is the best time to go hunting at these joints where the girls just started work so that I don't go too late and choose left overs only.

Thanks

if you dun go today then tomorrow will be left overs...mostly booking joints crowded tomorrow as early as 8am onwards...Batam is not big and alright to walk here and there...

no worries I will not be there to compete with horny guys...wish all happy long weekend...

[yaz86]

[QUOTE=nono1973;19361342]Lunch time, inside the vehicle, i took advise from the taxi driver and head over to Kopak Jaya 007, the restaurant near Barelang bridge.

I'm currently searching for seafood restaurants near Barelang Bridge and Kopak Jaya 007 is one of my picks. It has a nice view as well can see Barelang Bridge great for photo taking with my cewek . Planning on having lunch there then go to Barelang Bridge hang out before returning to hotel. Thanks for the useful information

[milfmilf]

Originally Posted by quresh7

Hi guys heading to batam yomorrow morning with a friend just want to have good time. Any kind brous willing to enlighten me on some pick up joints ? I omly know 2 so far. memory ,and happy8

bro, pls share your happy8 booking sexperience if you happen to book from there. Thought of trying this place during my next visit. Thanks

[fde83]

Originally Posted by spunk101

My questions is, what is the best time to go hunting at these joints

Best timing is around 9am to 10am. Most gals are also being extended from the previous night so keep that in mind too.

[Black Page]

Originally Posted by fde83

Best timing is around 9am to 10am. Most gals are also being extended from the previous night so keep that in mind too.

I am not an expert in this, as usually I do not book, but I was sure best time is after 1pm, as girls after a night out want slip and relax in their rooms.
I thought joints are not even open so early.
Anyone can elaborate on this please?

[freakedout47]

Guys..
I have been reading about the 2 way free ticket to batam.. not quite sure how it goes about..
Buy from seller for $2..
Ticket expire nov 2019..
So what we have to do?
Register with the ferry company?
This is my 1st time buying the ticket..
Usuall bought the ticket at the counter..
Can u guys explain to me what i should do after buying the ticket?

[nitecrawllerr]

Originally Posted by Black Page

I am not an expert in this, as usually I do not book, but I was sure best time is after 1pm, as girls after a night out want slip and relax in their rooms.

Early bird catches the worm. After 1 pm wib, only crumb left.

[lee123]

hi , any good massage near formosa hotel to recommed? going tmr thx

[iicycold]

Originally Posted by Leoric

How,bro? Deepavali Mon, will u be there?

brother, i cummin bk 2morow la...beter u cum today then mon go bk, btm gng 2 be super crowded since y'day...lol

Originally Posted by Leoric

Nothing to do in SG for the LWE & plenty of coupons on hand, may want to go there kill sm time. Maybe can get sm b2b massage or sm breast massage after my sauna & spa.

so mani ah? can pass me sm, i pass 2 my new frens i knw in btm so they can cum agn & agn & agn....lol

Originally Posted by freakedout47

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Can u guys explain to me what i should do after buying the ticket?

the ticket u buy inside got number boh? if hv call em la....they can explain better than mani other brothers in tis forum....lol

Originally Posted by lee123

hi , any good massage near formosa hotel to recommed? going tmr thx

formosa radiu 300m got at least half dozen cheep mp...walk ard & try everythg...lol, u might b surprise yr ownself...

Originally Posted by nono1973

1st time have had that feeling as if its like bringing Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett to Batam for a holiday in Batam,hehehe...

u got so mani 'kungfu' 4 good thgs in btm, but cn't put 2 good use wit yr grp tis time...lol

[CapDrill]

Thanks to all contributors on this thread. I found loads of information. Batam has changed alot, since I last work there. I wonder if the seafood restaurant is still operating at Batu Besar?

[nono1973]

After our late lunch,we checked into hotel (yes, we checked in late around 430pm), head to our respective room and have them gathered in one of the room in 15 to 20 mins time so as for them to leave behind their shopping bags, luggage and/or go to clear their WC business. Gathered up again, i help them break up some small change for tipping the message therapist in the hotel's MP later.

It was then late noon by the time we reach the MP. Happy hour was over (after 4om), so by right we do werent entitled to the happy hour's 30% discount. I kick up a bit of fuss over this and end up the supervisor has to call their MP manager to see if a discount should be given. They manage to get me 15% off, and unhappy with the discount, i talk to the MP's manageress in person over the phone and manage to gather a final 20% off. Not fantastic but well, at least its still "something" since we have 6 people, with 5 of us doing massage/reflexology.

4 of us took up 2 hours of Traditional Massage and 1 took up 1.5 hour of foot reflexology. 1 uncle choose to go to the restaurant downstair to wait for us to finish our massage while he works on his tablet. At this point, something "fishy" was going on in one of the uncle's room, but i have no idea yet until dinner time,hehehe...

https://sammyreviews.store/showthread.php?p=...post1 6520014

Nothing to shout about on the massage on my part tho, but one of the lady therapist who was about 4 to 5 months preggy and was massaging the uncle's Vietnamese wife got the most compliment as she works REALLY hard on her. The lady therapist impressed every one of us with her working attitude.

After the massage session, we head over to A2 food court for our dinner. Uncles who wish to drink drank to their heart's content and our conversation were mostly on the massage session we all had and that is where the "fishy" business surfaced.

One of the uncle (completely new to Batam,1st timer) requested for hard massage, and thinking that a lady wouldnt have the ability to do so, ask for a man instead,hehehe...and that is where the "fishy" part comes about.

As according to that uncle, massage not wasnt hard as expected but was moving towards the piano type,hehehe...and alot of massage was focus on his butt and later almost hitting his groin area brushing through his "little bro" many times by "accident". Uncle got a really rude shock and push the male therapist's hand away from the groin area hence stopped the unwanted molestation.

Massage session still continues tho but the 2 hour was wasted for that uncle,hehehe...there was suggestion by the other 2 uncles to launch an official complain to the MP or the Hotel GM (whom i knew in person) but was later brush aside by the uncle victim's kind heart for not wishing to see the male therapist losing his job.

The whole dinner time was a total laughter with Uncle curry rice and Uncle coffee shop keeps on teasing Uncle Molest over the massage incident,hehehe... uncle curry rice was the curry rice owner, uncle coffee shop was an owner of a few coffee shops in Singapore and Uncle molest, well... the unlce who got molested in the Hotel MP. Vienamese wife was uncle coffee shop's 2nd wife. Uncle molest's wife couldnt make it to this trip due to work and only Uncle curry rice's wife came along. I called Uncle Coffee shop's Vietnamese wife auntie even tho she's at least 10 years my junior, just out of respect. The rest of the them in this trip should be over 60 of age frommy perspective.

In this trip, this 3 uncles were like comedian or in Chinese call it, 相声 trio. Hence there was lots of cheering and laughter throughout the trip with no moments of boredom. In fact, i think the aunties may have felt a little bore becos Vietnamese wife tho speaks Chinese and English didnt quite communicate much with Uncle curry rice's wife. I did put in effort to help the 2 tho but well...seems like they both have some cultural gap in between probably also due the age gap too. I wasnt quite successful in this tho BUT i did make both of them happy individually by bring them to do/see what they wish for in Batam,hehehe...

This is one of the imperfection in this trip.

Dinner for 6 person, i lost count. Everyone there seems to rush to make payment when food arrived and some uncles also dont know if they were paying right,hehehe...abd kept bugging in the next few days if whatthey paid is correct or not since they would usually opens up their wallet to let me "pick" their cash in it to make payment,hehehe...they have to, otherwise they would often mistook 100k rupiah for 10k rupiah and vice versa.

Conclusion, a bunch of funny uncles who hasnt fully grown up yet.

(past trip, aunties were the ones who make the most noise,hehehe..)

Another photo taken while on our way back to hotel...

After dinner, needs to move around, cannot wait and sit around awaiting death,hehehe...and there we are, slow walk to Gogo supermarket after reaching our hotel.

[nono1973]

Next morning, original plan was to go Eatern food court for fish soup breakfast, but well...uncles and aunties wish to try the hotel's breakfast, end up they ate too much of it and hence, we have to skip breakfast number 2,hehehe...like i said earlier in previous post,hotel only got the whole hotel only got 3 rooms of guest in it therefore we did not get the chance to try the buffet breakfast on the 2nd storey of hotel. Our breakfast was ordered from the 1st floor's restaurant, from a certain menu.

Having 6 person on a big table for breakfast, everyone's appetite seems good,hehehe...next like yesterday, is to burn away what we have ate in the morning.

Penuin wet market, took a long walk around the area.

https://sammyreviews.store/showpost.php?p=19...ostcount=15018

Too lazy to take any photos since i was already there around 2 weeks before that trip.

For myself, i help an auntie who did come along in this trip to buy something called the Silver Fish. The S and M size going at 160k rupiah per kiligram. L size was 170k rupah per kilogram. They are actually a kind of species of ikan billis.

I dont know what the aunties and uncles buy tho, the aunties bought their things, uncles bought theirs. To me, nothing really interest me there. And from my view, they bought lots of craps,hehehe....

During the walk, i found a good compilation of Batam's ferry tickets advertised at one of the tour agent. Practically consist of every ferry company's pricing. Not a bad idea to keep the photo for record tho.

The shopping this time didnt take up much time. It is still early, with much of our breakfast not digested in hence we walked over Aiko for some foot reflexology.

Inside the shop, there's been lots of talks on who wish to get a foot reflexology and who wish to have a whole body massage. End up all took up foot reflexology. Now, here comes another problem,hehehe...Aiko only has 3 girls and 2 guys doing massage at the point of our time there. And we have 3 guys and 2 ladies in our group. Uncle coffee shop opted himself out,just like the last time.

We cant have guys massaging the 2 ladies,so we choose to let the only massage girl left to massage uncle molest (we call it, help to get rid of his "phobia", hehehe...on the molestation incident). So me and uncle curry rice gets our foot reflexology from the leftover 2 guys in the shop.

Aiko seems to be just so so to them. I think they still prefer Namii. To each its own, i guess.

[nono1973]

Originally Posted by nitecrawllerr

The highest at 2.5% offered by HSBC Insurance. Beating FD interest rate offered by local banks. Just sharing only...

Thank you for sharing.

A bad news from my side, when i returned back to Singapore from Batam after the auntie/uncle Batam trip, i received a letter from OCBC that they have terminated my structured deposit which gives me 2.05% per year after 2.5 years (which is suppose to last 6 years and 3.5 years more to go). So went to withdraw my deposit there few days ago and close the that account. Maybank act fast too, immediately the next day after i receive that letter, they downsize their fix deposit interest from 2% (or 2.1%) to 1.88%, so i am kind of stuck,hehehe...

HSBC's endowment only for people under 65, hence i am giving it a miss for now.

Anyway, i am still keeping a close look out as of now,hehehe...

Originally Posted by iicycold

Tere's nw got one free one liao, jus search under horizon ferry @ market will do...still got another is gng 4 $2.5 nw...lol...

i tink free one bcs the seller wan earn free good review....lol

Currently, i notice at least 2 advertisement with FREE horizon ferry coupons there (to be given away) but nobody is picking it up,hehehe...then again, it expires end of Oct and another on end of Nov.

I am still waiting for my uncle to pass some Dec or Jan coupons to me tho. Dont intend to buy anymore as why pay when i can get it for FREE,hehehe...i have another group trip on Nov and Dec respectively. Jan 2020 would need to bring my parents for shopping in Batam just before CNY2020 arrive.

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Tks for the chicken wings...I keen to go foodcourt rather than restaurant...the reason why J8 foodcourt fried chciken wings good becos using fresh chicken and not frozen...

too many things to try and will need many trips...partly hardly eat much...

I brought my auntie (my mum's sister) and my mum to go there to eat their chicken wing, the price is actually S$0.10 to S$0.20 more expensive (on average) as compare to Singapore. Thats according to my mum and auntie.

After my Batam trip with those aunties and uncles last week, i learned one small thing. Its not just about the price when it comes good tasting food, its also more about how the chef cooks the food. Well, one of the uncle was a chef (curry rice), the other one who owns several coffee shops too. Hence i begin to see things from a different perspective.

Next trip with these group of uncles and aunties, i shall bring them to the chicken wing shop to test it out. And see what they commented.

By the way, they all likes the Meximo Pub noodles. Maybe if there is a chance to see you coming to Batam, maybe can bring you there to test the noodles too. Meantime, if you happen to be at A2 food court, do feel free to try the Bak Chok noodles inside A2 food court. May not be as good as Bai Long or Meximo noodle, but would make do and beats quite a handful of noodle shop in that area,hehehe...

Enjoy!

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Huh...when Balai hv cheap tickets...I hv tried asking for Passion card an NTUC card and still no offer discount...one way $33 HBF to Tg Balai and return always pay with my hotel room...

Going to Balai is one way ferry S$33? 2 way is S$66?

Originally Posted by nitecrawllerr

Now Indo Falcon having promo. Two-way to TBK at S$52. I suppose shes competing with Majestic which is charging S$57 now.

Noted on the pricing. Shall keep a look out on any advertisement on Balai ferry from Singapore. On and off, there will be some going around.

Thank you for sharing.

Originally Posted by BFOMF5

Another name "BANANA"
YELLOW SKIN BUT INSIDE WHITE

These are the people, usually with the MOST complain when they go to Batam. Much often, Batam isnt a suitable place for them to tour around. Probably just a place for them to kill some time.

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by nono1973

Going to Balai is one way ferry S$33? 2 way is S$66?

reason is usually i go Balai using Sindo Ferry ag 11.40am so pay one way and back on Indo Falcon 11am...
...so pay more...