Six Stars Massage, Batam
Six Stars Massage is located right opposite Swiss-Belhotel Harbour Bay and Harbour Bay Mall, and is only a 5-min walk from Harbour Bay Ferry Terminal. It is also only 5 mins by taxi from Nagoya Hill Shopping Mall. The taxi…
Swiss-Belhotel Harbour Bay, Batam, Indonesia Oct 2013
English 简体中文 繁體中文 English Swiss-Belhotel Harbour Bay (SBHB) is an ideal hotel for vacationers in Batam. A part of the established Swiss-Belhotel group which has hotels in the Middle East, Australia and Asia, this new hotel is less than one…
Shopping in Batam; Nagoya Hill Shopping Mall
Nagoya Hill Shopping Mall is the largest mall in Batam. It has 3 storeys and 2 anchor tenants- Hypermart (think a Carrefour-like store) and Matahari, which is a well-known department store throughout Indonesia. There is a Food Street with small…
Seafood in Batam; Wey Wey Seafood
Many tourists head to Batam for cheap seafood. Golden Prawn Seafood Restaurant is famous in Batam and known to Singaporeans for their seafood. But according to Wikitravel, Golden Prawn “seems inexpensive to touristing Singaporeans but is well-known in Batam to…
Getting to and from Batam from Singapore
There are many ferries from Harbourfront, Singapore to various ferry terminals in Batam. If your main purpose in Batam is to shop, it is highly recommended to take a ferry terminal to Harbour Bay Ferry Terminal at Batam. The main…
Shangri-la Hotel, Jakarta
“Solid, reliable brand” I have always been fond of the Shangri-la group. I remember when I was a little boy, my parents took me to Shangri-la Singapore for dinner. They had the most beautiful tea cup I have seen –…
Getting around Jakarta
There are traffic jams everywhere. You may think a short distance of 1km, how bad can it be? You will be surprised. There are traffic jams everywhere. I mean, EVERYWHERE. As soon as you leave your hotel, you enter a…
Getting from Jakarta Soekarno–Hatta International Airport to city centre and back
My taxi took more than one hour to travel from the airport to the city centre. There was a lot of traffic jam. Please, please remember to use the toilet/ prepare a bottle of water for the long ride. My…
Rosso, Shangri-la, Jakarta
This is an Italian restaurant. Porcini mushroom soup cappuccino with truffle oil and Tuscan cantucinni Mushroom soup + cappuccino (!) + truffle oil + served in a coffee cup (with a layer of foam on top) = AMAZING!!! INDESCRIBABLE!!! I…
Satoo, Shangri-la, Jakarta
Satoo means “one” or “first” in Indonesian. This restaurant offers a very wide-ranging buffet lunch. Some stand-outs: Fresh seafood (tiger prawns!!! Clams!!!—I am huge on shell fish, not so huge on crustaceans). Sashimi!!! Peking duck!!!! I love Peking duck! Peking…
