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Originally Posted by retirebatam
Who knows maybe the courteous, smiling Sinta will be back to the new hotel, which her children whom she had to take care years ago may have already grown up.
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Can be hopeful but better not keep expectation too high.
Likewise for the rest of the hotel service level as they were run by different different management altogether.
The good vibes there will be mainly to see familiar faces.
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Originally Posted by retirebatam
I remembered you have achieve the gold card status.
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I have both the physical silver & gold card tho, but rarely the chance to use them. The staffs there already recognized my face before i could take out my card. Normally when i join my friends or vice versa, i would pass those cards to them so they can get 15-20% on hotel food (include room service), massage & in Tea story.
I asked the hotel to give me A FEW MORE GOLD cards, hehehe...they turned me down.
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Originally Posted by retirebatam
Little did we know that formosa can close shop during that time
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True...it really comes as a surprise to me.
Before they close shop, while i browse at advertisement of apartments to buy in Batam online & chanced on Formosa going up for sale. I even checked with Riki & he got no idea of it.
Few months later, the news broke out that hotel was closed.
Until today i still cannot figure out how a hotel with such good business & regulars can close down.
There are also quite a lot of people there "Long-Stay" in that hotels at a premium price too (usually on 3rd floor).
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Originally Posted by retirebatam
Because those safe box in the room can be carried away by strong burglar whereas formosa's centralised safe box is in the room jaga by the staff
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Formosa's centralised safe box makes more sense to me.
To date, i cannot understand why the need for those safe box in Batam hotel room.
I mean since strong burglars can just carry them away, whats the point of it being there? Just to feel safe but NOT actually safe? If you are a burglar, where will you start looking in when you broke into a hotel room? A lot of things require some level of common sense.
Most of the safe box in hotel rooms i stayed in were more like a shoe box for me. I keep my shoe inside & then lock it up. When i need to step up of room, i unlock it, take it out, wear it & step out. (i rarely do that nowaday because its rather inconvenient if i need to rush,hehehe...)
The only useful thing i could think of for safe inside room is to prevent scent of my shoe from flowing all over the room. Especially my socks scent,hehehe....i create my own in-room safe.
If you read my Batam reviews before, you probably would know i build a "safe" inside the toilet bath tub at Formosa hotel,hehehe...
