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Originally Posted by Leoric
Namii hotel quite good, other than the part it has no elevator & that their better were all at the higher floor.  |
Thank you for sharing, just touch on a little, Namii hotel and Namii Massage, both belongs to the same organisation,hehehe...and they are "clean" massage.
Now you know better what to look for huh?
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Originally Posted by nono1973
I will be compiling up all my favourite Grab-food in Batam soon,hehehe... 
I will touch on Namii Hotel (and the other Utama area of hotels) at a later time. |
Remember i said i was trying to look deeper into those hotels around Utama area?
I got 2 or 3 new base in Area B, now looking at another base in Area A. Which is suppose to sort of replace Formosa Hotel ,if not at the least, have other alternative for myself to choose from.
Getting overly-reliant to Formosa Hotel is NOT healthy.
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Originally Posted by nono1973
I will be looking deeper into :
1. Pagoda Hotel
2. S Hotel
3. Namii Hotel
4. Romance Hotel
5. Maybe Hotel 18 too, which i am keeping in view.
Hehehe...to be continued.
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What i learned so far...
1. Pagoda Hotel, what i find out so far is that this hotel is even more popular than Utama Hotel. And in terms of popularity, Utama hotel can only comes in 2nd place. On the December peak period, i learned that Pagoda Hotel gets fully booked faster than Utama and other hotels in that same area. I know what you are thinking.But i do not think its becos Utama Hotel is a bigger 3 star hotel hence they got more rooms, therefore took a longer than usual to be fully booked.
Its a hotel that i wouldnt bother to take a 2nd look few years ago. But i am curious why are people still returning to this hotel again and again. What are its good points that keeps their customers from returning. I am keen to find that out soon,hehehe...
2. S Hotel, not as close to Utama Hotel as compare to both Pagoda Hotel and Namii Hotel. Its the actually furthest away from Utama among the 5 listed. But its really not that far out in terms of walking distance. I try walking from Utama Hotel to S Hotel before (entrance to entrance walk),and its roughly only about 8 mins walk away.
Price wise were exceptionally low too. But then again, i am often looking at their better room but still, its pretty much quite low base on a 2 star versus 2 star comparison, eg Zest Hotel versus S Hotel. They sell most of their rooms to Red Doorz tho, hence usually it would appears online that their rooms were sold out but the fact is Red Doorz is selling their room instead. And its price is about S$15.83 for their premium room with windows and bath tubs.
And their family room only at S$13.11,with an extremely small toilet.
Their most expensive room is about S$16.18..with big window. So i dont mind a smaller than usual toilet, probably half of Formosa hotel's toilet size, i might pay this hotel a visit.
Much often, i enjoy reading the lower than average pointer review in agoda booking.com and there was complain on cockroaches, poor wifi, below par facilities,mosquitoes,centipedes and those smoker-stench scents on beddings etc. There were also talks about raid by local polisi too. More important of it all, if i could bear with all the mentioned bads or able to find solution/s counter them all.
Not forgetting, i am the type of Batam travelers who would bring my own mobile wifi along, portable humidifier/ionizer/air-freshener and even insecticide,hehehe....
3. Namii Hotel, already hear-read your review on this place and a few more others who has PM-ed me. Not bad a place other than they have no elevator for their good and better room.
Plus point, they are just almost directly opposite Utama Hotel, they are new, hence nearly every in-room facilities were working well. More importantly, they are from the same organisation as Namii Massage at Harbour Bay, hence they also has a reputation to upkeep.
Minus point, no elevator to their better rooms, no breakfast option, no good view windows. Meaning to say, they only have a small windows for outside view, and their bigger window has a poor view. Small toilet is not good either as it probably gonna wet everything inside, including tooth brush, cups, flooring etc. No toilet paper provided,hehehe...this is really one of its kind. Maybe their targeted customer were locals?
4. Romance hotel. Location is the best as it is directly opposite DC Mall's bad door. This hotel sold most of their room to OYO and were selling at a pretty low price, i would say its as low as S Hotel.
The bad would be pretty much similar to S Hotel as well and like S Hotel, runs the risk of getting raid by the local polisi. One review from a Taiwan tourist caught my attention on this hotel tho.
https://samleong.shop/showthread.php?p=...l#post19612021
Hmm...why am i even talking about this hotel after i have already strike it off my list. Its just a reference.
5. Hotel 18. Its a small 1 star hotel with small room, small bath area but super good location. Its the closest hotel to Utama Hotel. In fact, its just directly behind Utama Hotel where all the fun place were location. Surprisingly, it provide breakfast too, but just the very basic ones like in Lumba Lumba Inn hotel. Who needs breakfast anyway when Hai Kee coffee shop is just less than a min walk away from its front door,hehehe...on top of it, they have a family room too.
The bad, no elevator. 3 storey hotel, not too high to climb up 3 floor as compare to Namii hotel's 4 storey (in Singapore term ,as local term its 3 storey high). Better rooms were on the 3rd storey tho. Only their standard room cost below S$20 (include breakfast), the rest of the rooms all cost above S$20 and family room can go up to as high as S$27.65 (include breakfast). A bit high for a 1 starred hotel.Then again, one can still opt out breakfast for a little lower price for the stay tho,hehehe...and forget to mention, due to its the hotel size and limited rooms, its often full during weekends too.
I am making an apple to apple comparison, not on affordability.
Still keeping a lookout.