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Day 1: Arrived at Batam @ 1:30pm for a 3D2N trip, checked into Nagoya One hotel, a 2 star hotel located about 5 mins drive from Nagoya Hill shopping mall. Stayed in the biggest room, a Family room, as the pricing of the rooms were cheap (booked on Agoda) and also it was a total of 3 other buddies I was travelling with. Went for lunch at A&W then some Ayam Penyet across the street at a stall. Total about 100k spent on food.
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Thank you bro. I am impress by the way your wrote your FR. It contains some key information of the Time,Places and the charges. I was about to say you wrote an almost perfect FR hehehe...until I read your 2nd part.
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Toured around Nagoya hill for a massage, comparing prices. Checked out the infamous Delta Spa to see what it was like inside. Entered and was greeted by the receptionist. I requested for the menu of their massages and was asked if it was the first time here, "yes it is" I said. She then gave us a wristband and was brought upstairs to talk to another receptionist that will explain to us the price. She also told us that we had a 15 min limit of being upstairs, if we exceeded the time limit we will be charged at 100k+ per person. so we paid a close attention to the time as we headed up. The receptionist upstairs told us to wait and take a seat at the sofas, as she claimed she was "busy", gave about 13 mins and she was still busy. At this point decided that they were just trying to cheat our 100Ks and left immediately. As we were leaving she called for us, and only then explained to us the pricings, which were steep, as expected. Thanked her and left as the main point of visiting the spa was only to see how it was inside and to check the pricings.
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Well done bro. You titled your post ,"Batam Info Thread (A Newbie's Review)" ,but all your doings dont seems like a newbie. Very steady, clear-minded person who can be unmoved by the surrounding.
I have no other further comment on this..
1st timer or newbie to Delta Spa near Nagoya Hill Mall should use their own judgement to gauge if situation are against them. Execute some common sense,hehehe...and you just did. If only more people were like you ,less people will be chopped.
I am speaking with my personal point of view referencing it to the below post regarding Delta being a tourist trap unsuitable for most newbies :
https://samleong.shop/showpo...ostcount=32814
Good job,bro!
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After much touring, we stopped by at Zen Wellness, which had a couple of masseuses sitting outside, a mix of milfs and syts, one of the few massage parlours along Nagoya Hill area for a 1.5hr Indo + Thai massage at 268k after a 10% discount. Offered a HJ at 400k, but after some negotiations, the masseuse named Lina (probably in her early 30s) agreed to go down to 250k. Took a little too long to cum like about 20 mins  it was a huge load tho hehe. The massage however, was average maybe a 6/10, had bony fingers and hence not much strength in them.
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Hehehehe...if one goes to these 1st tier massage places,you are actually paying for their ambience and better quality massage. If I were to pick ambience in a massage place,I would take in more option from whats to offer within the same perimenter in that area.
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Proceeded to the hyper mart at the shopping mall to get some groceries, spending about 20k after splitting with 3 other buddies then back to hotel for some rest. Night comes, we head out for some dinner at Winsor Food Court, had some seafood and satay, coming up to 300k total. We had a driver working at the hotel who was asked to drive us around by the owner of the hotel who was a Singaporean Chinese named Ah Hwa whom we talked to when we told him our plans for the night. He also claims to own Winsor Food Court.
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A friend of my friend is sometime my enemy. I am not intentionally replying to you,just had this feeling while reading this paragraph.
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After our dinner, we headed to Kampung Bulai (pronounced as "Bo-leh") for some clubbing, (location as recommended by Ah Hwa) Entered this club named "Foreplay Club" after touring the area, most were pubs. There was no entrance fee just that we had to buy a drink to club there. Spent a total of 100k on drinks. A pretty good club, that had live performance and then some edm music mixed by a local DJ which I very much enjoyed.
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I raely visit Batam night spot area,so cant comment on this part as my experience at limited.
Different frequency.
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Oh yes, before heading into the club we came across blue moon massage and entered to check for the pricings. A massage there costs 150k (not too sure about the timings cuz I've pretty much forgotten them). The lady said that they were full, in terms of booking and massage, a little stunned to hear that considering that it was a Monday and not on a weekend. The time was about 10:30 local time.
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Its 1030pm or 1030am? The busiest time in most massage shops were during the evening around 6pm onward. Therefore you see promotion in Octopus Spa and other massage places before 4pm.
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Went back to the hotel at about 2am to end off day 1.
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Was actually awaiting the part 2 of your FR before I comment. I don’t want to comment out of impulse hence I read every FR a few times beforehand.