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I am advising you against staying in Lovinna Inn Penuin. Your hotel location gonna limit you on most cheonging places you may wish to go to. In other word,you only have ONE cheonging place near your hotel,thats New Spa...and thats about all.

Try reading this :

https://samsforum.com/showpost.php?p...postcount=6277

....or read my signature links.


Unless you are on a food/shopping tour, where you stay will be good.

Another post below by bro AkhiAustralia with most of Batam cheonging places all grouped together for your reference.

https://samsforum.com/showpost.php?p...postcount=8623

Info as above link,except New Spa which is at Batam City Hotel aka Penuin area.

There are 2 Kings Massage,one inside Formosa Hotel,the other one is behind Utama hotel. If you are staying in Formosa,you solve half your comparing issue or you can stay in Utama hotel (or around there) to solve the other half.

New Spa is a spa with all facilities,like sauna,steam room,O2 room etc,Hello Kitty and the King Massage shop behind Utama hotel are individual massage shops w/o facilities.

King Massage at Formosa only have a sauna room and in-house/in-room massage.

The most suitable for the one who tried is the best. I always suggest my friends to try everything out since Batam massage isnt expensive, every shops give a different feel. Moreover,you are comparing 3 different category of massage places. They are in 3 different class.

Its like comparing Batam street food store (Hello Kitty), Mcdonald restaurant (King massage in Formosa hotel) and higher end Duck King Chinese restaurant (New Spa).

Most massage shops or Men's Spa wont cost a bomb in Batam as compared to Sillypore.

None of the above. There is no honest booking joint in Batam,base on my experience. When you decide to get very young SYT,be prepare for princess sickness. When you are desperate , OKT mark up their price.

Refer to page one of this thread on how to choose your girl/s from LT shops.
(clue : look for those girls who show interest in you)

They usually starts at 11am for shops ending to a "massage" word,and as for the one that ends with "KTV", they usually starts at 1pm. Most i knew in person will not visit LT booking joints upon their opening,i will give about 45mins to an hour allowance after the opening hours for all the girls to get ready.

Hehehe...for best timing,refer to page one again. Page one is base on my experience.

Cant help you on this,becos i dont have a Wechat/Whatsapp/Beetalk/BBM apps on my Batam phone. :D

From what i read in this thread, most people needs to "fail" many times in order to master the art of getting girls from Wechat (unless you are really very lucky). FAIL here is NOT referring to as "failing" in getting girls from these apps but more of failure in getting good "honest" (or better) girls who live up to the deals they agreed upon.

My advise for newbies is often, drop expectation by at least 50% for girls and their services. (Avoid bringing expectation that you have in another country to Batam) Always bargain down regardless of how low the price may seems for everything w/o a price label, eg special service in MPs, booking joint girls, wechat girls etc.

You made an effort to share something,i appreciate them, hence my reply above.

Have a good trip and hope you can enjoy yourself in Batam.

Cheers!!

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anyone interested to go Fri Nov 24
back Sun Nov 26

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Koh koh Piglet, Long time no hear from u, how are you? Wish u this coming trip the best one yet.

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Batam change a lot?
some eating places change, roads improvement.
hopefully more joints also promote quality and quantity.
roughly how is the exchange rate now?

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also FLs asking for the star for st price. Lately, one told me that her st price is now 1 juta (does anyone even pay that much for 1 shot?) and she's only charging me 500k as I'm a regular customer, though that's already 100k more than the usual price I got her. Best is that she's not even working under the same agent (freelance now) when I got her the first time (400k, 200k to commission).

Hmm...

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Horizon ferry, 15 mins before depart can still buy ticket at counter. A good way to start the day. Let's go batam

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Here's the tutorial on how to use http://photouploads.com to upload your photograph and post it in the forum :

Hope it helps.

Cheers!

*this post quote-locked,to prevent anyone from quoting my whole long post.

Bro will update you the excahnge rate soon..going over soon too...

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Batam raining, exchange rate 9850 @ hbb, two sinkie bro was quoted 9720. I just laugh with the money changer guy. other bros may get better rates infront of formosa

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Batam fast retrofitted power points for almost all window seat
https://img8.uploadhouse.com/fileupl...2a5d602412.png

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Saw this on BtmFast.
https://img6.uploadhouse.com/fileupl...7f11ad0aae.png
$21/half-twin for a night with 3meals.
That means pay 42 to get the package deal. With entitlement to purchase 2 $20 rtn ferry. Total. $82 for
2 tickets
1 room cum BLD.
Good deal right?

If you can travel with BtmFast on
Monday to Thursday excluded sg holiday.

Need to check if the ticket can be used separately.

Should get > 9850

Tq
Hv Bookmarked this in case uploadhouse down.

Seker (exBarry) got raided and closed last weekend.

BUT
Not sure back door open or not:D

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Firstly I sincerely thank bro Nono 1973 & BFOMF5 for helping me solve this photo sharing solution.

Secondly, I really appreciated all the useful pointers provided by seniors for my questions. As a newbie, these info will be indeed helpful to reduce "disappointment".

Regarding why I chose to book Lovina Inn Penuin Hotel was due to pretty good reviews from brothers on New Spa @ BCH. My intention is to visit that joint for 2 days n try the services from diff masseurs to compare.

FYI, during my 1st trip in Sep 2017, I stayed 3 nights in The Evitel Hotel - Jl. Teuku Umar. IMHO, everything in this Hotel looks so nice coz it's really new and modern. The level of customer service & breakfast is also excellent. Rate is ard RP 430K / nite (weekend price) for Standard Room type which comes with a small fridge, safety box and nice bathroom (but without bathtub).

But staying in Evitel again might cause a setback because one needs to use Hotel Room Card to operate the Lobby Lift. Therefore, the FL, cewek or masseur might not be able to go up to your hotel room directly. I will have to come downstairs and bring them up myself.
Q: Have any senior faced this kind of problem when staying in a hotel with card operated Lobby Lift?

Regarding my claim that "beca man" (rickshaw driver) in Pulau Belakang Padang got "kang tau" for Javanese FL on the Island itself, I really can't be 100% sure if he's telling me the truth or not. But, in case any daring senior wants to attempt (with "dare to fail attitude"), here's another pointer from me. Since there were many "beca men" stationed along the main street with shops (as shown in my previous set of fotos), the one I engaged was found some 50 meters away from the main group, i.e. opposite yellow mosque & below a shady tree. Can't recall the color of his rickshaw but this guy is a malay man in his 50s with "construction worker" type dark skin color. Here is a foto of the spot where I took the "beca" from. There were only a few of them like 2 or 3 who stood on this spot.

http://photouploads.com/images/2418ad.jpg

To recap on Pulau Belakang Padang activities: I did not really notice if there got Hotel or not; I feel that this is really a tiny island with nothing much to offer; But the nice malay food to try here is Teh Tarik and Nasi Lemak which I really enjoyed. If I got time to go there again, I will try out the Malay Mee Goreng and Nasi Goreng from shop next door.

And yeah! I'll skip online FL search due to being inexperienced in Batam. Thanks for this golden advice.