We, my niece and her hubby went to Batam for the weekend, from 20th April to 22nd April. We went there actually for a mission, to find Batik Shirt for our Best men. Which we manage to purchase at a very cheap price. IDR150k which is about SGD15. After that we go around shopping for keropoks and toiletries. Oh we really ate a a lot by the way!

20th April 2019

We board the ferry at 9am from Habourfront Centre and we reach Batam Centre at 9am Indonesia time. Once we reach Batam Centre We were hungry as we didn’t ate any breakfast at all.Our 1st stop is A&W at Batam Centre Mega Mall.

We ate and after that we walk around the mall just to waste time while waiting for our Driver to fetch us to the Hotel at 12noon. My niece and her hubby bought some Tee shirt and stuff while both of us sat at Starbucks. I need my morning coffee fix! We bought a Grande but got a FREE upsize to Venti! yay! (Their Promo for the Month of April)

At 12noon, our driver fetch us to the hotel. It was about a 15mins drive to the hotel. We stayed at Gideon Hotel. We paid for about SGD100 plus for 2 nights. The hotel surrounding was ok, there is a market place and BCS Mall just right opposite of the hotel.

After we rest about an hour, at 2pm we went out from to eat lunch, unfortunately we didn’t took the picture of the Nasi Padang and all sort of dishes we ate. -.-

Our next agenda was to source for Batik shirt and we manage to go to Ramayana Mall to bought all 5 of them, 3 for our Best men and 2 for his brother in law and his cousin. We spent quite a lot of time in Ramayana Mall actually since my niece and her hubby did their spectacles. We waited for about 45mins for it to finish and then we go to Nagoya Mall for a shopping spree at their supermarket! 😀

We finish our shopping at about 8pm and by that time we were hungry! We called the driver and asked him to drove us to BCS Mall for dinner. We actually wanted to ate seafood for dinner but my love was super tired that he requested to just go some where nearby.

Once we reach BCS Mall, we meet up with his friends and ate at BYZA Cafe. I was disappointed with my food! Spaghetti Carbonara with Grilled Dory and which my Dory was still raw and not properly cook. 😦

After filling our tummy (not for me) we went straight back to our hotel room as he was so tired that once we reached, he showered and lay on the bed. I didn’t dare to disturb him, that night we sleep quite early (wanted to watch Fantastic 4 on TV but our eyes gave in!)

21st April 2019

Good Morning! We woke at about 7.30am, bath and straight down for our breakfast.

The breakfast buffet spread was not that much. For that day it was Nasi Lemak, fried noodle, salad, eggs, cereal and some dessert like Bubur somsom.

We really enjoyed our breakfast and OK funny thing about us both is, every time after filling our stomach, there is always the urge of going to the toilet! we need to do the number 2!!! 😀 so we went up back to our hotel room and did our business before we went out to the market to buy keropoks!

The market consist of dry and wet. We just walk around the dry market to look for keropoks for his mummy and my daddy. We bought quite a lot and only paid about SGD30 for I guess about 10 packets. It is so worth it! After walking aimlessly at the market we went back to our room. You know what? We took a nap! we nap about 2hours! Shiok! We woke up at about 4pm then we chillax and watch some movies on TV then I got hungry, so out to dinner at BCS Mall. At BCS Mall, he brings me to eat my favorite cuisine! Korean Food. He told me previous night. “Tomorrow, I promise I bring you to eat korean food ok?” Sweet right? *cringe* lol

Funny thing was we didnt know that our Army Stew serving was huge! it seems like both of us can share it. Even then we didnt finish the food and ended up we pack our squid twiggim and also the pajeon (which I continue eating it at our hotel room). After dinner, we played around at the claw machine, cause I insist that he got me that cute UNICORN but then it was hard so we gave up! We walked around again and bought my daddy his wallet and again to their supermarket to spend a little more.

We bought shower gel, my hair lotion some more keropoks and I even bought sanitary pad! HAHAHA! Keeping stock! LOL. Then after that off back to Hotel, we watched some TV then sleep. We both was super tired by then

22nd April 2019

Our last day! We woke up again at about 7.30am, brush our teeth and wash our face then off to breakfast. Seriously we didn’t even bother to shower.

After breakfast, I accompany him to get his Gentlemen Haircut. It was just across the street. It was a nice cozy place and clean. Price wise cheap obviously! He paid SGD13.50 for his clean shave, trimming of his beard and all. And he even got a shoulder and head massage! Awesome! I didn’t took picture but I did an IG story on my Insta,
https://www.instagram.com/x_ellakwon_x/

We spent about 45mins in there, once back to our hotel room. We only got 1hr to bath and pack all those last minute stuff. We came with 2 haversack but then we went back with 2 extra back. LOL

We took grab from the hotel to Batam Centre Mega Mall. We paid about SGD3.70, if we took the hotel taxi it cost us about SGD7. We decided to have our lunch before boarding the ferry. We ate our lunch at Bistro Godiva. I love this place!

We finish our food at about 1.15pm then we straight off to Batam Centre Ferry Terminal. We need to reach there before 1.45pm if not the gate will be close. Anyway its not even a 10mins walk from Mega Mall to the ferry terminal. Its just across the street.

Our trip were awesome and it is so worth it, manage to get what we want to and ate good food, manage to rest and rejuvenate. Until we meet again Batam and like duh! Batam trip is like anytime, any weekend. LOL

Sign off

Ella ❤