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Originally Posted by nono1973
Yes, almost all hotels,booking joints, MPs and spas will be packed. Unless you can find those places that rarely has anyone going to or you already had "someone" in mind, and reserved in advance.
Over the last 4 years, i have never go to Batam during Christmas eve nor New Year eve before,hehehe...  .. |
In my entire cheonging life, have never been to batam on a new year eve and spend the new year in batam. On 31/12/18, I arrived at harbourbay morning and took the 30k taxi to formosa. To my surprise many massage joints are either pack or fully book or closes. To me, going to batam on new year eve is the worst and most disappointed trip I ever experience. Ask for king massage girl to room during noon time but was told all the massage cewek was fully book until close shop but luckily only manage to have one session only.
The following day which is new year day many massage cewek did not report for work at king massage. After check out, went to DC mall area and was surprise many massage joints were also close and manage to get one session of massage beside helo kitty.
Ordering food in nagoya hill also have to wait for more than half hour as there are too many people in the mall as new year day is a public holiday in indonesia (unlike JB which new year day is not a holiday)
Even during ramadan period, there is no issue getting booking cewek and massage service. Massage is still plentiful during ramadan as most cewek need money to celebrate hari raya.
Therefore my list of days to avoid going to batam is as follows:
1) All the saturdays. (price of hotels for sat is the most expensive)
2) The eves of public holidays which falls on weekdays
3) First few days of hari raya
4) New year eve / CNY eve / christmas eve
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Originally Posted by nono1973
Yes, and be reminded to book the return ferry seat back to Singapore upon the day of arrival to Batam so that one wont end up having no return seat back to Singapore.
Longer queue,longer wait happens in all ferry terminals..
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The ferry trip going back to spore on 1 Jan 2019 at 7.15pm (second last ferry) from harbourbay was full house