Wake up early to go for breakfast. Their breakfast timing is from 6am - 10am (Indonesia Time). We will not show the full video because we will be compiling it. We will upload to our YouTube channel. Do subscribe to us to watch the videos. Just watch the short video that we have recorded. Do ignore the sound that is from Hidayat’s nose.
After breakfast, Ashila & Shasha head down to the swimming pool. The Swimming pool at Aston Batam Hotel & Residences is open from 6am - 8pm (Indonesia Time). The photo & video is taken by Azam. Where is Hidayat? Simple... Sleeping Lor... Where got time for Swimming. Bed time is way way important than Swimming.  Shasha & Ashila We have book an appointment at 11.30am (Indonesia Time) for our spa treatment. It is located opposite Nagoya Hills. The shop name is The Spa Secret. We took free shuttle bus service at 11am from hotel lobby to Nagoya Hills Shopping Centre. Then we will walk opposite the mall to go for the appointment. Our family did not go for the spa treatment because they want to shop at Nagoya Hill Shopping Mall. We took a Traditional Herbal Spa package for 2 pax. It cost IDR $860,000 per person (SGD $87 per person). The spa package is 2 hours 30 mins in a couple room. What will you go through? 1. sea salt foot bath in the room. 2. Followed by body cleansing in the room. 3. Body massage using lemongrass oil + you will smell the aroma lemongrass through the head hole massage bed in the room. 4. Scrub your body using lulur in the room. 5. You will seat at the body steam room for 15 mins (damn scary). Remember this is a separate room. Not in the couple room. 6. After that they will ask you drink water to hydrate yourself + Body Yogurt Polish in the couple room. 7. Soak yourself in Jacuzzi Pool in the room. 8. You have to shower yourself in the room. 9. Lastly, ladies will go through V-Treatment (claim to tighten it..lol) & men will go through lotion body & shoulder massage in the couple room. 10. Once your massage is done, you will drink a cup of Lemongrass tea with biscuits & sweets.
To make your life easier. Nah. Go and see the link yourself. If you interested, go and make an appointment. http://www.spasecretbatam.com/ After we are done with the spa, we meet up with our families at Nagoya Hills. By that time, they already done with their shopping at there. Our next plan was to go to Diamond City Mall. Known as DC Mall Batam. It was a last minute plan. Take note we got 6 pax and we don’t have transportation on second day. If we take taxi, we need two taxis. Each taxi cost you IDR 50,000 (SGD $5). Means two cabs total of SGD $10. We decided to take the risk and try grab services in Batam. They have grab car that caters 6 pax. Guess how much they cost you to go from Nagoya Hills to DC Mall. It cost you only IDR $13,000 (SGD $1.30). The driver will message you and tell you where to meet. They can’t fetch you at the Shopping mall as they claim the security guard and tax driver will assault them. Going there was quite smooth with Grab but you will need to walk a little bit further from Nagoya Hills.
We did shop at Diamond City Mall (DC Mall Batam). We bought some items from supermarket again. Azam & Ashila buy good quality jackets. Ashila wanted Telur Penyu (Turtle Eggs) and for 10 eggs, it cost you IDR $15,000 each (SGD $1.50 each). We also bought foods at Coffee Town DC Mall Batam and bring back to hotel. Nasi Ayam Rendang cost you IDR $27,000 (SGD $2.70). Sate Ayam 30 sticks with Lotong, Timun and the sauce cost you IDR $98,000 (SGD $9.80 in total). Means each satay stick cost you SGD $0.32. I highly recommend the satay to you because it taste the same like our Singapore version. Most satay in Batam is mixed with soya sauce (kicap) which is NOT NICE to us. Nasi goreng oriental cost you IDR $32,000 (SGD $3.20). Mee goreng cost you IDR $27,000 (SGD $2.70). 5 pieces of chicken nuggets cost you IDR $26,000 (SGD $2.60). Don’t buy the nuggets. Not worth it. Might as well you buy the nuggets at Burger King Singapore. Lagi worth it. We decided to Grab again from DC Mall Batam to our Hotel. If we go by taxi, the price will be about SGD $8 each. Its a peak period that time. Imagine two taxis means, total of $16 for two taxis. We book GrabCar 6 seater for the price of IDR $15,000 (SGD $1.50). Its one time payment uh. You see huge price difference uh.
Let me tell what is the scariest part. The driver message me to exit at this place. When we were exiting the place, we got followed by the group of strangers (taxi drivers). As we are approaching the car, the car drove away from us. He even message me personally. DANGER. We was approached by this guy who say “Mas, sini tak boleh grab. Its illegal!” In our heart, its like whatever lah. We walk a little further from DC Mall Batam to get into the grab. The driver told us, the person who approach us is a gangster he controls the area to stop grab Drivers from making money and making hard life for the grab customers. He also claimed that they are taxi driver and they are willing to smash the grab drivers in order to stop them from entering to that area. If you ask our personal thoughts on using grab services in Batam, I highly recommend NOT TO TAKE GRAB IN BATAM especially with family members. You don’t want them to get hurt due to the cheap services. Unless you go with a group of martial-art background, you may consider grab services. hahaha. i mean it. Anyway, we managed to go back hotel safely. Above is the proof of our pictures. Hahaha.
Before sleeping, Ashila, Shasha & Azam did their face mask. This was our last night in Aston Batam Hotel & Residences. Its was a great family time spent.
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