This is my FR from 23rd May to 24th May
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Supposingly going with bro juliensg but he cannot make it, so here goes the FR. There are few posts for this FR as it is too long.
Day 1
My ferry is 9.40am and reach Harbourfront at 8.30am. A lot people at the ferry entrance because of weekend crowd. Everything pretty much the same from bro NoNo newbie guide from this moment until I reach Batam. Brought SGD 200 and 1mill rupiah which I changed in Singapore. So total SGD 300 for the whole trip.
You can refer to this site by bro NoNo
http://realreviews.com/forum/showthr...l=1#post154825
Reach Batam at 9.40 am Indo time with rainy day. Get mineral water and CD.. sim card for 50k with 1g data. I bought the sim card here in Harbour Bay.
Then I try to find Ocean Massage (recommended by bro NoNo for the burger massage) in Harbour Bay Mall but no luck.
The time is running out as 11am fuck house open business and of course I wanted to get the early and freshest chicken. Get a taxi and head to Formosa Hotel, the taxi driver offered 50k and no discount. I tried to ask for discount, then he proceed to the taxi counter and show me the destination price list. He showed me the price list for going to Nagoya Hill which is 55k. I don't want to argue much and decided to go for 50k and off we go. The taxi asked me if I wanted to look for char bo which the first shop he recommend is Permata Indah. Because of i read in the forum, if taxi driver go into the shop together with you, the price will be higher or papi won't reduce the price. So I rejected the driver but he quite pushy about bringing me to go. I keep rejecting him until I reach Formosa Hotel.
Starting to checkin to hotel and the receptionist is very polite and nice. The checkin process was very fast as I booked my hotel from Agoda for $68. He gave me 2nd floor with smoking room. Once enter the room, start checking on the hot water, toilet flush, air condition and power plug. This checking is recommended in the forum too to avoid unnecessary experience.
It's time to look for fuck to give, to girl of course. It's still raining and luckily I brought my umbrella along. Bringing umbrella and looking for chicken (you should know how desperate am I). My first station is New Berry, by using Google Map and navigate through (New Berry does not show up in Google Map, so I search for Hotel City View). When I walk halfway, then I suddenly breakkkk!!. I FORGOT TO CHANGE MONEY. Later no money pay to papi. Then head back to Formosa Hotel in the rain and went to the opposite hotel and changed remaining SGD 200 with the rate of 9700. Then head back to New Berry which is just beside Hotel City View.