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 Batam, Indonesia travel tales
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| M Hartley |
01 August 2003 |
Stayed at Novotel Batam - Batam, Indonesia.
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Batam is pretty bleak during the day, fruit stalls are cheap but a bit hard to find (except the local 'farmer's market' that is almost across the street from the Melia Panorama hotel, but everything is sold out by 8:30 AM - but if you want good fresh fruit, go there about 6 AM and you can get anything, try the durian).
Best Western food/ambience/pool bar for expats is Lucy's Oar House (not misspelled - its motif is supposed to be like a British sailor's bar. Filled every night with expats (British and Australians working on contract for the oil/gas industry). Excellent Tex-Mex chili, split pea soup, cold beer, nice staff (pretty, young local ladies who do not hassle you like prostitutes, but just serve you beer and food with a smile). The fish and chips are great and servings of everything are almost always too much. Almost the only place I could find real smoked ham (being Islamic, pork is not served in many restaurants except in some Chinese noodle places).
On the second floor above Lucy's is a real get-down bar/club with bar top pole dancers and lap dancers featuring young micro-mini-skirted ladies who will offer many varied and delightful ways to remove any unneeded cash from your wallet. Not my cup of tea, but still it was interesting to go up and 'take a look'
(literally).
Taxis, a pain sometimes beacause they are always honking at you, are cheap & generally trustworthy. Just agree with the price before you get in, most are private autos with the owners trolling for extra money. I travelled about 20 kms every day (30 minutes) to work for 50,000 IDR, which only comes out to about US$6 or 3.50 British pounds - very reasonable. Almost any destination within Batam is less than US$2.
In my 2 weeks stay, I never had any problems with local people, all were very friendly and open.
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| B Yak |
13 July 2003 |
Stayed at Novotel Batam - Batam, Indonesia.
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I was taken ill, so I didn't get around much. But there isn't much to do in Batam except for golf, or if you just wanna hang around and chill.
Golden Prawn, the local seafood restaurant, served good food at affordable prices. Unfortunately, it was a little far away from Novotel, the hotel we stayed at.
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| C Blunt |
15 June 2003 |
Stayed at Novotel Batam - Batam, Indonesia.
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Nagoya, Batam is adjacent to the nearest ferry port to Singapore and is a popular destination for weekend getaways for Singapore residents. Many foreign workers in the oil industry live here. There's not much of interest to tourists in Nagoya itself. Most of the resorts are located outside the town.
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| V Oh pei sze |
04 February 2003 |
Stayed at Novotel Batam - Batam, Indonesia.
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Restaurants good.
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| T Chung |
29 December 2002 |
Stayed at Novotel Batam - Batam, Indonesia.
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It is located little off the city center, need to use taxi for shopping and enjoying entertainment.
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| H Fujiwara |
28 December 2002 |
Stayed at Novotel Batam - Batam, Indonesia.
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If you want to have Japanese food, I recommend 'Kurino-ya' in the Harmony hotel.
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| B Niedzwiecki |
21 July 2002 |
Stayed at Novotel Batam - Batam, Indonesia.
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Batam is the worst tourist trap I've seen!
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