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Changes around inside Harbour Bay ferry terminal (air-con area)
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I will go against mainstream, but I liked it more on my first visits. Poor, essential, even misplaced as a big structure mostly empty in the middle of nothing. It made me feel entering a remote world, wild Fronteer.
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Marriot Hotel should be almost done and ready for business soon (base on the look of it,hehehe...).
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That's a big bet. How many people who can afford to pay a Marriott, even with lower rates adjusted to Indonesia, will come to visit Batam? Maybe foreign executives coming for business. But is business in Batam taking a downturn up?
In any case, if this hotel will be successul, it will attract more people with big money to spend. Not really the kind of people who LIKES to spend hours in investigating where to find a taxi which costs 2 SGD less than the one waiting in front of the door, just for the pleasure of finding the cheapest and saving some few dollars, even if it costs hours of investigation. (ahemm... yes, I am teasing you). This kind of visitors will simply push up prices of everything, as drivers might see a request for 100k for a short ride accepted without any complaint.
I am not happy to see Marriott opening in Batam.
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1. I am likely to move around from hotel to hotel
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I will stick to Formosa until they will really treat me badly, or they will close for good. It will be a sad day for me. The end of an era.
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2. Plan my CNY progamme
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This is really interesting, as it shows how each person is different from others. The last thing I want to do in Batam is planning. I am on holidays, so I follow my istinct and what destiny offers to me.
You are the kind of person who likes to prepare activities steps by step. And you do it for CNY months before that!
I don't know what is your job, but I am sure you'd be an excellent tourist guide and group leader, with an Excel table on the notebook detailing each action with 5-min steps.
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4. Meeting with bros who will be grabbing OUR girls from Hang Nadim Airport ,hehehe...
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After years of playing free in Batam, now you come to get married, I understand.
Congratulations!
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5. Most challenging part, Fireworks! (its costly,for both in-room and out-room)
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Don't do that in Formosa. I don't want to read that my hotel was destroyed by a big fire due to a group of imprudent Singaporeans.
(what happens if one fires a firework in the room of a big hotel in Singapore, say Marina Bay Sands?)
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* i am also thinking of my Oct/Nov trip too,hehehe...
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Now it's me who I say HEHEHE.
I will be there soon. Very soon.