Batam Review - Holiday Inn & Golden Prawn 999 - Day 1

Total Spending in cash: S$100
Resort Coverage including ferry: S$168++
Days spent there: 2D1N

Another Batam Trip! I think it's going to be my yearly trip now since I can be a Queen for less than $300.

We took the Spa and Stay for 2D1N Holiday Inn at $168 per pax. As that was last year promotion, I believe there should be something similar to this for this year.We took the 2nd earliest boat to Batam and had an early check-in into the resort. It's my second time there and I can safetly say that I love Holiday Inn compared to Harris.

Firstly, check out the room in Holiday Inn for family of 4! It's like a condo and we all loved it! Very cozy and we just made ourselves at home.

Living hall + mini pantry (not in the picture)

Master bedroom

Twin bedroom

Shared toliet

Master bedroom toliet

Small porch

The amazing view!

I know Batam's scenery and it's a cannot make it, if you ask me personally. Well, Holiday Inn made a really smart move in building their resort in a circle so that everybody will have a overview into the pool and it's a really pretty view.

On to the next topic, it's spa time! I can't remember how long was the spa hours but it was about 1.5hours in total. We had scrub, massage and a drink after the whole thing. It was heavenly, really...

Spa Area

Happy people after spa!

After spa, we headed to nagoya shopping mall which is a 30 min ride from Holiday Inn. I haven't been to other malls as my friend mentioned that there was nothing in the rest of the malls.

Nagoya Hill

We were all famished by the time we reached there and decided to have their local food and ordered nasi ayam penyet!! The one we went to was oppsite A&W. Don't expect much from Batam's A&W, it's not much there.

It's so cheap! About $3 SGD

Fruit juice less than $2 SGD

After a happy lunch, we went on to pamper ourselves with pedicure, hair spa and facial at Eska...

We need classic pedicure about $14 SGD! They used OPI nail colours.

Hair spa at Eska, they used loreal Matrix products (about $14 SGD)

Now that I'm typing this out, it's amazing at now much things we covered in a day and it's not even the end yet! After pampering ourselves, we header to hypermart to get some tolietries! It's a MUST because everything is seriously cheap there. We had our trolley filled with soooo many things.

Check that out!

Upon spending a total of a million rupiah at Eska, we're entitled to a one way ride to somewhere. We requested for them to bring us to Golden Prawn 999 for dinner. We also told the uncle we needed help to liaise a cab back to Holiday Inn. As it's hard to get a taxi from Golden Prawn unless you ask the front counter to help call a taxi, plus it's safer as well. We paid $15 SGD back to Holiday Inn, it's a average price though we could bargain lower but since it's quite late, we decided not to.

Dinner price: about $16-20 per pax, see more below on what we ordered.

Fried cripsy prawn

Chilli crab cooked in malay style

Claypot tofu

Fried tofu with fishcake?

Seabass in light sauce

That's only $15 SGD in a bunch!

Finally that concluded Day #1! Amazing isn't it? At how much things we managed to do in just one day.

** Day 2 will be in another post!