☼ Aloha ☼
I'm back from the short Batam getaway with my fam!
Woke up at 5am yesterday (18/03), prepared and made our way to harbourfront to take the boat to batam
And the boarding pass looks like a receipt with a QR code.
Win maximum, come i clap hand for you.
While waiting for our boat we saw this! Bibik Nio. Wahaha spot our cool surname.
Got on to our tour bus and the tour guide brought us around batam.
From chocolate factory to Buddhist temple to kueh lapis factory to ralph lauren factory outlets to shopping malls.
After spending the whole morning touring around batam, the tour guide brought us to this famous seafood restaurant for lunch. 933 restaurant or something if i remember correctly.
Super love this meal! Veggie prawn fish sotong shell thingy was all good but the crab was pretty disappointing and i've got no comments for the soup because i didn't even drink it HAHAHA.
I loveeeeee the prawns. Can eat the whole thing without having to peel the shells so happy ^^
Went shopping after lunch! Came across this giant donut-cake.
Finallyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Checked into our hotel!
Harmoni One Hotel.
Love this hotel because i expect it to be some low class hotel initially as i've read about reviews saying 4 star hotels in batam totally not 4 star one. I beg to differ because this hotel is good!
Not bad right?!
Since we had some time to spare before the shuttle bus time to Nagoya Mall (famous shopping centre in batam), we decided to explore our hotel.
Rooftop swimming pool + gym + garden.
Spot the newly wed taking their wedding photo! :)
We really spoil the whole romantic ambiance there hahaha
My parents was like "people take wedding photo we also must take!"
So yup, here's the photo. HAHAHA
And you think all those photos above super spoiler? Got more spoiler one coming up for you.
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We soaked our legs into the sauna pool HAHAHAHAHA super shiok no joke!!!!!
Ohana <3
Some artisitc photo of my dad and bro because the sun was setting.
View from our hotel's rooftop
On the shuttle bus to the shopping mall!
While waiting for our dinner to be served..........
SGD 1.60 ayam penyet!
Which was bad......... zzz really cannot believe reviews online one lor all liar liar pants on fire.
The chicken was small (ok la cannot hiam since SGD 1.60 only), chilli was super spicy (ok chilli IS supposed to be spicy) and bitter (chilli is NOT supposed to be bitter ok). Overall, bad bad bad.
Oh, and the milk tea i ordered totally tasted and looked like condensed milk + water. No tea one. FML.
Grocery shopping at the hypermarket after dinner.
Spotted this super cool koko krunch hahaha
They sell rainbow layered cake in almost every bakery.
What's up with this rainbow cake thingy in batam ah?!
Took the last shuttle bus provided by our hotel back, packed supper to eat too.
Super fattening but was damn shiok :'(
Crashed at almost 12 SGP time and woke up at 8am the next day for breakfast downstairs!
Only photo i took during breakfast because there's this banana cheesecake!
But doesn't taste as good as it look, so disappointed :(
But the chocolate danish was good!
Touristy photos.........
Touristy photos again. BEAR WITH ME. IT'S MY MOM HAHAHA
Checked out of hotel and we were drove to the ferry terminal to wait for our departure time.
Meanwhile we went to the shopping centre just beside the ferry terminal for lunch at BFC (best friend chicken LOL)
BFC.
Copy cat much...........
Ice cream nom nom nom
Green tea x some soda drink which i have no idea what it is
Fried rice x chicken x egg
Walked around the ferry terminal after lunch.
Some advertisement board thingy made by flower petals everywhere in batam.
So pretty and the colours are so bright! :)
Had our tea break at waffletown wahahaha
Chocolate x cheese toast which taste pretty good to my surprise!
Chocolate milk wahaha so cute mickey mouse one.
Banana x cheese and chocolate x cheese waffle
Our ferry back to Singapore!
Our kueh lapis!!!
Yup so this marks my 2D1N trip to batam! Overall i think it was pretty boring, super warm (they don't turn on their aircon AND LIGHTS one idky zzz) and dirty........ So i don't think i will go back there anytime soon again.
Jx's birthday tmrw! We are really growing up indeed :)
Meeting them for dinner at timbre yay yay yay!