Batam Trip

Small island of Indonesia

Nothing fancy, a 2D1N getaway with my family. We go see and experience it ourselves.

Yes, finally stepped into Batam.

Everything, as usual was arranged by my hubby. We gotten the ala carte type where we bought:

1. Ferry ticket at 10% discount. Departure 830am from Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal to Harbor Terminal, Batam

Upon departure, we bought our data plan SIM card cost $10 for 6GB right at the terminal itself.

2. We booked driver at cost $60 for 10hr. Contacted the driver and off we go in the 6 seater Avanza.

Didn’t know there is time different between Singapore and Batam 🤔 Yape, Batam is 1 hour later. Singapore 9am and Batam 8am

3. 1st, stopped at a nearby coffee shop for our breakfast. Traditional local coffee, tea and prata

We ordered Egg, Egg+Onion, plain prata and chicken murtabak. All at only SGD$10+, somewhat reasonable.

4. We stop at the nearby Tua Pek Kong Temple.

The driver insist to help us take family pictures

Strolling around the garden but what’s more attracting here was the kitten

Great Wall alike surrounded the temple.

Next, we went to book for our massage at local time 7pm

Me and hubby took a 2hr traditional massage at $38. The kids booked for 1.5hr leg massage at $25.

We then proceed to this place called golden city. Here we 1st stopped for some layer cake tasting. Well, it’s very commercialised with busses sending passengers over to taste and purchase the layer cake.

Nope! We bought nothing from here 😂😂😂

Just a turn, we are here within golden city for our lunch. It’s tourist recommended place for lunch, and so we are her. We are tourist 💁

Hot! Let’s wefie

$2.50

They both love this gigantic coconut water

Nice but it’s a bit too much for just me and hubby

👍🏻 must try

Total bill $42, very reasonable considering the portion and dishes that we ordered.

Just another turned, we arrived at this GoCart playground. Each $15 for 10minutes GoCart drive.

They were each given a shower cab to put on before putting on the helmet. 😂 coz the helmet was smelly I Guess

All geared up and ready to enter

10minutes was fast for the kids but was slow for the daddy 😂😂😂

The children enjoyed the GoCart a lot. They were sharing their experiences on how slow, how fast , how sharp was the turn. Although it doesn’t look appealing to me, but happy to see the children enjoying.

Another turn and we reached the place where Cheng Ho cruise located. It’s Cheng Ho cruise replica. I have no idea what is this cruise about but the driver said it was where Cheng Ho stopped by.

Cheng Ho was a great Chinese explorer. He expedited to explore the world for the Chinese emperor and to establish Chinese trade in new areas. He stopped over at Batam as well.

Next, relates to Cheng Ho as well. The mosque 🕌 dedicated for Muslim Chinese people there. The architecture combined both Chinese and Malay elements. Rather unique to me.

😊funny, this driver likes to help us take family pictures.

We were sent back to our hotel, Biz Hotel $68 for 2 rooms – including free buffet breakfast. Hotel was moderate and complete.

Very quickly checked-in and we proceed to next destination which is the Berelang Bridge. 30min journey from our hotel.

We stopped at Diana Layer cake shop for quick taste and yes, we bought a big box of original layer cake.

Tasting area and left was the kitchen

For us to taste

Like how the shop operates. Upon us reaching, they immediately brought over cut pieces of all available flavours for us to taste. There were free water too. Price list stated there and we are separated from the kitchen. We just buy though the divider

To the Beralang bridge which is 30min drive. Okay, we all dosed off 💤 dosed off

We stopped at one end of the bridge and walked to the opposite. Took few pictures and enjoyed the scenery on TOP and along the walk. Was Super windy, in fact, was very strong wind. Nice 👍🏻

Little do we expect, the bridge was half closed for marathon in next 7hr time 😂😂😂

Like really we going to run 🤔

One of the planned by hubby was to buy this pisang keju (fried banana with cheese). But the stall was so overwhelming that we have to wait for 30minutes. We give it a miss for this round.

Back to Batam town – 30 min drive again. This time to the real shopping cum food heaven (coz of its price).

Best meal was somehow a random choice we picked in Nagoya mall. The dinner was so sumptuous and at only $19

Seriously, we ordered another take away avocado juice at $1.50 only 😊

Quickly got 2 slices of cake and off we go for our pre-booked massage

The Kamayan massage wasn’t as good. Should have tried the highly recommended secret spa. Nonetheless, the 2hr massage still Shiok.

Next, we went back to hotel.

We went to the roof TOP to sing birthday song for our princes. And video called my parent. Small cake but memorable 2018 birthday nonetheless. Rooftop birthday celebration while videocalled grandpa and grandma

Bought cup noodles which is like a much have whenever we overseas. Also bought 2 bottles of yogurt drink for the children. Nice 👍

sleep 💤

Next morning, we went for the hotel buffet breakfast and 10am boarded the free shuttle bus to Nagoya Mall for our Makan + Shopping ✌️

We did our phone tempered glasses which cost $3 each. Phone casing which is like $3 as well.

Recommended and we bought big original at $22

Share tea before our movie

Finally got to try the pisang goreng but with avacado instead of the popular keju (cheese)

Can’t believe this is only $2.50

This is really 😋 yummy. Cautious coz it is vvv sweet

$4 per ticket.

Let’s go for lunch before leaving Nagoya mall. If only I will come Batam again, I don’t mind just be here for massage, food and shopping 🛒

Too much, too heavy a meal.

Not prata. This is what my mom used to make for us during weekend when we were small. 👍

And finally, pisang goreng keju. Comes with set of 2 half boil egg, drink and this at $3.50

This is nice. It’s tapioca

Ryan’s fav Bandung drink

Bye bye 👋 Batam

Was a great getaway experience for us. That’s what we needed. Simple getaway, another experience that add into our lives.