Batam Info / Interest / Help Thread

[iicycold]

Originally Posted by nono1973

If i am a senior citizen,i will pay S$32 to go via Harbour Bay ferry terminal. I definitely reach my hotel around Nagoya way faster & more efficiently,hehehe...for the last 4 over years,i have been devising the best way for myself to travel around in Batam.

My best way that best suits me, go via Harbour Bay via Horizon (S$48) or Batamfast (S$39),for FREE,hehehe...and then have the hotel pick me up from Harbour Bay and end of my batam trip ,send me back to Harbour Bay,again for all of it free. How much do i save? I stopped counting for nearly 2 years ,hehehe...

aiyo brother,most not senior citizen yet la...but travel 2 btm wit 39 $ 2 HB is still ok 4 me though...lol....good idea!

to chiong is need 2 stay ard nagoya area,& not BC area ma....lol

Originally Posted by nono1973

If i have friends with me,i will usually walk over to Ggi hotel to order Gocar costing around 9k rupiah or so to Nagoya area,hehehe...shared by 3 pax including myself,each person just pay around 3k rupiah. Comes out to be the same price as ankor van (walking distance should be quite the same),hehehe...and if i am staying in my regular hotels,fare would be zero rupiah (free pickup/drop-off).

i ask security guard/bell boy help me order go cars sm time instead....lol, but need tip him 10k-20k depend on wich hotel lor....lol...over all stil save la.

Originally Posted by nono1973

Hmm...could this part of the reason of the closure?

http://batampro.id/dari-lantai-3-hot...at-bunuh-diri/

tis one u post look like a ghost in the GW hotel window lei...lol...seventh mth cummin 2 an end tis sunday lo.....lol

[miumiu6464]

Just had this for dinner. Very nice, can choose the level of spicyness of the chicken.

Restaurant can be found diagonally opposite Barelang Hotel. Meal above for 2 cost 88,000. Totally worth it.

[iicycold]

Originally Posted by miumiu6464

Just had this for dinner. Very nice, can choose the level of spicyness of the chicken.

i aso got notice a nice lady handbag...lol

[janderson]

Originally Posted by OnlyLiveOnce

Yes, my friend booked her twice for ST at 600k for up to one hour. Very nice high class type, an undergraduate with a kid. Good quality stuff but do not bargain with her, she will just ignore you thereafter. Drive her own car. Cheers.

Thanks for the info bro. Just wanna confirmed if she's real. Wechat is full of scammers.

[pandknight]

Originally Posted by iicycold

wa! so jia lat ah?!

hope u r ok nw....nxt time mus careful look b4 u jump...

thanks bro. yup, lips are healed, repaired the chipped tooth and scar on nose healing. just recovering from cough and flu. weather been sucky.

might be going back batam in 2 weeks time.. see how.

[fde83]

Originally Posted by janderson

1.5m for 2 to 5hrs

Pussy is made of gold. Must try

[OnlyLiveOnce]

Originally Posted by fde83

Pussy is made of gold. Must try

No, just gold plated. More expensive if made of gold.
Better try when still available, haha.

[fde83]

Originally Posted by OnlyLiveOnce

No, just gold plated.

Really? Then must be double or triple layer of gold plated. Hahaha

[zyzzaesthetic]

Hi bros and seniors ,

Visiting Batam next week with another friend and we will be staying at Harmoni Hotel My first trip in batam ever.Can anyone advise on any good joints for cewek (Overnight). Need recommendation on massage place , KTV or FL joints if possible. And also any nice place to eat if possible . I know that there is a lot of very experienced seniors that is familiar with cheonging in Batam and would appreciate the valuable info. Thanks in advance for the info that may follow and your effort is deeply appreciated.

[miumiu6464]

You can try reading up the previous 20-30 pages. As you said, long time cheongsters have already posted their sharing on this forum. Don't waste their effort and simply ask to be spoon-fed.

[manicals]

Originally Posted by nono1973

After about 20 years,it finally lose it competitiveness.... i think this is a very old hotel (should be more than 20 years) and according to the old Batam thread in this forum,it starts with the name Mandarin Hotel,later becos of some haunting issue,they change their name to Goodway. 20 years later,they are completely out of business.

http://batam.tribunnews.com/2018/09/...tel-batam-jaya

I have stayed in the hotel twice...and one of the time was during CNY. More news on Goodway hotel's closure.

http://www.batamnews.co.id/berita-37...hal-biasa.html

http://batamnews.co.id/berita-37230-...y-tumbang.html

I have a feeling that it might be renamed and reopen again,hehehe...since this hotel is very near to NED.

3 more very old time hotels Mercure, Novotel and Sari Jaya were also close down this year too. Novotel renamed to Travel Lodge hotel tho.

Btm is heavy rain today until is flooding.

http://batamnews.co.id/berita-37376-...-pagi-ini.html

[nitecrawllerr]

Originally Posted by Black Page

Your years of experience in Batam are much more than mine. Thumbs up for you. I can only fantasize about how good was the life there, well before I could even IMAGINE there was a place named Batam.

My first time, I felt like venturing in the Far West from Singapore, intimidated by some silly information on the web about how dangerous and sinful it was.
I remember New Berlian, one block from Formosa. The ladies were not the youngest in island (euphemism), but booking was starting from 350k. My first booking girl was from there, and, although she could not win the Miss Indonesia contest, she really pampered me as a king.

Back then we cheong like no morrow. Ev weekends. At times switch places btw Tbk n btm. Ceweks at btm spoilt for choice ya. Things were cheap....boking, accomodation. Boking of 2 ceweks at one go was so affordable! Tere were few discoteq. Casino were around too but for a short period.

Most ceweks at N Berlian were milfs. Boking fees quite cheap n reasonable compared to sm other joints. Used to patronise N berlian too. Know the boss Mr Goh quite well. Way back one cld bok a cewek for 150-200k rup


The ex rate i am getting now is slight better than i used to get late year 2000. But the cost of boking ceweks, meals, accomodation, tpt, far far exceeded my 1998 budget!

[Kaboon]

Originally Posted by nono1973

While waiting for Predator to "show up" in Batam,hehehe...can go watch Big Brother 大师兄 at BCS mall or Nagoya Hill Mall,hehehe....nice movie,worth every dollar if it's no more than S$4.

This movie is good,i'd recommend anyone still in btm to go watch it. An action movie. Too bad the indo version in the video site with bahasa sub u shared before hasn't come out yet,otherwise i'd have watch it my hotel room instead.

Originally Posted by iicycold

tis one u post look like a ghost in the GW hotel window lei...lol...seventh mth cummin 2 an end tis sunday lo.....lol

gate of hell closed tonite,u still not back yet?

[fingerlicking]

Hi all, i wish to ask what/where is the nearest man spa near to nogaya? hopefully near to harbor bay side

thanks

[nono1973]

Originally Posted by Black Page

By the way, dear Nono, you know what would be EXTREMELY USEFUL to all visitors, including new ones, almost regulars, expecially returning visitors after a long time?
A list of booking joints (be them named as "massage" or "KTV") kept updated every month, area by area. Not a big work: just a list of names with area where they are located.

This is a good idea and i agree every bit of it. BUT! (hehehe...i talk about this briefly before)

Everytime the list is updated, i got penalized. The forum rules,no ads with contact info that comes in conflict with the forum's business that kept it running (i am saying this in my own words and understanding of the forum rules).

1st, the forum only allows 1 month time frame of editing ONE single post. Everytime the list is updated,i need to either quote the whole post (which by the way, is also against forum rules) or create a new post with the entire list,which is again against the forum rules becos i am not suppose to repeatedly post a single (or more) mongering place with its contact info and details more than once. (yes,i remember someone suggest posting a link but i am talking about updating something new in the same list,so links cant work)

2nd time,i try to do one post one booking joint with full details and yes,its one place one post like i did in for the Batam Food list,hehehe...

https://sammyboy.today/showpost.php?p=14...ostcount=34430

...and then later compile it into a list,guess what. There are people who start complaining to the mods that I AM ADVERTISING for a certain booking place/s (and some eateries),hehehe....i think my friend's who were in the Balai threads (they frequent both Balai and Batam) even tells me people are saying i am an OKT or some kind of an agent too,hehehe....

I learned later that this forum is called SBF, its a community where when "if i do it,i'm damned,if i dont do it,i am still damned",hehehe...and i later learned that very people who complained to the Mods were the very people who cloned themselves to start creating trouble in the thread too. (all of them were in my ignore list and one could easily tells them apart base just SOLELY on contribution)

My friends whom i knew in Batam keep teasing me whenever we met,becos base on those complainants in SBF ,i am now looking more like the owner of the WHOLE Batam island,hehehe...the WHOLE island belongs to nono1973,so every details that comes out from what i type in this thread on mongering places become an advertisement,hahaha....doesnt it seems like it?

So what can i do? I decide to just guide the newbie/s the basics i knew. The more in depth stuffs,they will have to figure out themselves as my summaries already "sort of" serve like a guideline. At least if they ever met up with those real agents (who plan to chop them,at the very least they know the right price to pay) or if there's some not-so-good experience,they will at least know how to use their own judgement base on what they have read on my guide/s and summaries. 40 summaries, base on average of 1 month one summary,its about 3.5 years of my own personal experiences,hehehe....

As of all the situations mentioned and encountered above, it is not easy updating the list according to what i would want it to be,hence i can only provide this below...

(which is why i notice google updates the batam map at about once a year,hehehe...)

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...which i find its the BEST solution (for newbie ,of course). Go to Utama Hotel,walk ONE ROUND around its perimeter, whereby they will at least know how to find their way in way out ; at the same time they wont be able to MISS OUT what they are looking for if they stayed in Formosa hotel (base on my spoiler above).

As for the latest update, forumers will have to read the latest 50 to 70 pages of the thread. And for the more senior forumers (who has ever shared their part/s in the past) who are really looking for the more in-depth info, they will have to go through some readings and use forum PMs.

In conclusion, everyone plays the Batam game differently,my method/s may not be all suitable, and if the majority of the people reading this message wish for an updated cheonging list as like in the past,then the forum mods/admins may have to give me the "rights" to do so and start throwing those complainants PMsss on ME out (sound as if i truly own the whole of Batam). Otherwise, i will keeping those listings in my "wardrobe",hehehe...think of it this way, compiling info and putting them on a list is no easy task whereby it require lots of teamwork effort,imagine every post i made ,there's one complain (i dont know if they even contribute), and i have to remove it...how much time and effort would have gone wasted. And afterwhich, i am damned,hehehe...

Give you a few simple examples, remember Marine Live Sea food restaurant's ordeal,then there's a post i made on Bunga name card with the joint's phone number on it and then there's one whole list of Batam's booking joints name card. (i can see the mod making effort to be fair to everyone and thats no easy work either)

I am more of a Batam Info collector in this thread,so if things cannot work as i hope it would directly, i can only work around it,hehehe....save the right people many trouble/s as well as keeping the thread peaceful. Which i feel best fit in.

* truth to be told,i have in the past indeed thought of collecting a dollar or 2 from each of my Batam friends who joined me in my trips to pay the SBF forum for advertising the WHOLE of Batam. Anyway,its only a quick thought that cross my mind a very long time ago,hehehe...Batam belongs to Indonesia,NOT nono1973 (and i am a Singaporean).