Batam Info / Interest / Help Thread

[penyet]

Originally Posted by Black Page

Long stories have been told about how to pay no more than 30k from HB to Nagoya, using Grab or walking outside the gate, instead of the standard 50k with taxi. (I note that the difference is just 2 SGD, but apparently there are many who believe this is worth the hassle).

Some use Grab not to just save 2 SGD. Grab drivers don't keep upselling services throughout the ride - can be irritating. Save getting verbal attack.

Also it was a Grab driver who informed me he can take me up the Harbour Bay multistorey carpark to a carpark level just next to entrance door to Horiz tkt counter - see pic. No taxi driver has ever told me this! Convenient esp if we are in a hurry to buy or change tkt timing.

[Black Page]

Originally Posted by penyet

Some use Grab not to just save 2 SGD. Grab drivers don't keep upselling services throughout the ride - can be irritating. Save getting verbal attack.

Thanks for all your info.
FYI:

I take regular taxi only on my arrival to HB. Easy and just 2SGD more expensive than Grab.
No irritation, no attacks. Sometimes the driver tries to claim he knows where to take me for girls. Who cares?
I am used to say I am a regular to Batam, I was 10 years at Formosa, I have a girlfriend in Batam. All that is more than enough to kill even the bravest driver.

Originally Posted by penyet

Very convenient to book grabcar to hotel at jodoh, probably about 20K only. Much safer than ojek and no need to wear oily smelly helmet. Unless u enjoy the thrill.

I am used to take Grab cars onlu when it rains.

At all other times, I walk or I take ojek, which I pay 12k to 15k. Generous and appreciated by most.
No thrill, no helmet, but quick and cheap.

(Yes, I save a whopping 5k vs. Grab car, eheheh)

[penyet]

Originally Posted by Black Page

No thrill, no helmet, but quick and cheap.

Hope u put on the other helmet on your other rides.

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by Black Page

(Yes, I save a whopping 5k vs. Grab car, eheheh)

Originally Posted by penyet

Hope u put on the other helmet on your other rides.

Both of you are talking to each other in open forum...can always used pm/dm instead of posting in open forum...

[fatguy]

Anyone can give advice on LT?

Price wise, does it get cheaper later in the night? I think I will only reach at around 8pm, so LT will be like 12 hours? 8pm to 8am? How is the usual LT timing like?

Also, do I need to bring the gal out? Breakfast/supper?

So far I only experience ST at hallo kitty, and massage + HJ at dragon spa. So I want to try something new.

TIA!

[Black Page]

Originally Posted by fatguy

Anyone can give advice on LT?

Price wise, does it get cheaper later in the night?

Same price ("booking"), but less girls available.
Of course, you should keep the girl with you all time. What do you want, go out for dinner and leave her in the room?
I would not do that, but I am just one in this forum thinking this.

[lurpsexx]

Originally Posted by Black Page

Third floor is gone. KTV Alishan is in our memory. My rooms 275/265 are skeletons.

What r they gonna do with this old hotel shell?

[fatguy]

Originally Posted by Black Page

Same price ("booking"), but less girls available.
Of course, you should keep the girl with you all time. What do you want, go out for dinner and leave her in the room?
I would not do that, but I am just one in this forum thinking this.

Hi bro, thanks for replying.

I wondering if I need to bring her out for dinner/supper and breakfast the next day. Is that something that is "expected"?

I never long time before,but I want to try some toys/outfits. So I thinking LT or ON better. Atleast experience once.

I hoping price cheaper after 10pm...

[kum69]

Hi guys. I will there this friday, 17th May. Staying at Hana Hotel. Any info on P2 and P3 ? The type of girls available there?

My head spins going through the last 50 post.

Anyone can update which joints to go to for LT.

Thank you

[Black Page]

Originally Posted by kum69

Hi guys. I will there this friday, 17th May. Staying at Hana Hotel. Any info on P2 and P3 ? The type of girls available there?

At P2, there is a "secret" fishbowl at 4th floor, accessible only if you have booked a VIP room (min 300k in week days, 500k on weekends).
Sitting fee is 650k, which alone will not take you anywhere because girls demand a good tip just to be friendly.
ST fee, to be paid to the two tomboys who manage everything there, friendly named "papi" (please note: not "mami"): 1.8M. Booking fee: 2.5M.
Some of those girls look damn sexy, but the total cost is too much for what one gets.

Originally Posted by kum69

My head spins going through the last 50 post.

You should scroll at least the last 50 PAGES, plus use the search function to find what you are looking for.

[JayJay555]

Going on a short 2D1N business trip on a Mon/Tues, any hotel to recommend at around $100-$150 and hunting ground? Not sure if Mon night will have any pubs/bars/clubs to go or not...

[Black Page]

Originally Posted by fatguy

I wondering if I need to bring her out for dinner/supper and breakfast the next day. Is that something that is "expected"?

Not the breakfast, but she should stay with you at all times during booking, so yes of course, if you go for dinner she's with you.

Originally Posted by fatguy

I never long time before,but I want to try some toys/outfits. So I thinking LT or ON better. Atleast experience once.

You will be disappointed. Toys and outfits are only for a girl you have special chemistry with. It is not guaranteed the girl you book has such chemistry.
Moreover: do you speak some bahasa? Only few girls can speak some English. Achieving chemistry via Google Translate is more difficult...

Originally Posted by fatguy

I hoping price cheaper after 10pm...

Hope and reality are often very far apart.
Same price, and, most likely, leftovers at 10pm are unwatchable.

[kum69]

Thanks guys for the info.

Anyone has been to Sinta?

Is LT available there?