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Travelogue: Montigo Resort Batam Day 2

Back to my post of my journey to Montigo Resort. If  you have missed out on my previous post: 
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Batam Montigo Resort Day 1

19th April 2015






Day 2 was a short little stay at our resort as we were forced to check out at 12pm sharp! The funniest thing was the receptionist called us at 11.30am to rush us out as they need to provide other free transport for the rest of the guests. The sign of lacking buggy cars. Moreover we were the first few to be sent down to the receptionist booth.

But anyway during our stay, our resort package include breakfast buffet which most of us were looking forward to. No doubt that they met our expectation, the environment was rather conducive to be able to view the scenery with our breakfast along.

There were live chefs around cooking and preparing breakfast for us on the spot. You may be exclaimed by the varieties of section they have. Live chefs would be frying different kind of eggs, frying mee goreng, panning pratas and preparing sausages and bacon.

Other than that, section of PASTRIES over-whelmed me. I couldn't resist myself for grabbing each piece of different pastries onto my plate. My plate was certainly filled with breads and cakes while the rest went ahead to pick up carbo and fats cuisine

Healthy lifestyle is sure to implement as there are booth section of fruits, cereals and yogurts. Amazingly, I went for two bowls of cereals and still not filling full.

Breakfast like this make me hope for two tummies so that I can contain and gobble down more food but never gonna happened. HAHA







Much needed brisk walk after our heavy breakfast is a need and therefore we re-walked to the same bridge that we had past by the night before. It was amazing as compared to the night view. How can the sea view make me feel so calm and surreal? When a place is peaceful, quiet and serene, it is definitely tranquil. Tranquil water set beside us while we were strolling in and we had to wait for many visitors to bypass in order to do our 10 shots photo profile,

We attempted our jump shoots using my DSLR camera. It was fun and easy as I just need to set the 10s timing mode and left it there to run the whole show. So basically, all of us kept jumping while the shuttle began. Out of all the pictures, there would be 1 photo when you are floating in the air.






More photos of us because the scenery is really un-resistable. Just wanna shout out that we are at Maldives. Hehehehehe. If only it was... my really dream country eh! To travel to Maldives for my honeymoon ( this shall be a big hint for my boyfriend if he reads my blog). LOL







Since we have a few hours left, we decided to change and dipped in the pool before the receptionist called to chase us out.

Our ferry was set at 2.20pm so in between 12pm-2pm, we have to idle around to let time pass by so we took the buggy ride to the cafe to chill. While Natasha and Crystal were busying playing with soccer, Meijun and I ordered drinks to keep ourselves refreshed. Surprisingly, they sell Pepsi Blue there which I had it when I was in Primary school. That taste and flavours didn't change at all.

My heart can never leave this resort even after I'm back after few days. I kept thinking the amazing view and relaxation they provide. A totally let down of ourselves! Thanks to this group of wonderful sister who agreed to embark this journey with me. Although our trip was short, that 2 days 1 night bonding session marked down a good month of April to me. Kinda regret that we didn't extend our stay but hoping that the next trip together will by flight instead of boat. I'm looking forward to our overseas trip to Bali/ Thailand/ Phuket whatever countries that send us by airplane.

Till then for our Batam trip!

Travelogue: Montigo Resort Batam Day 1

18th April 2015

Woohoo, back to this exciting trip post that I have drafted it for long. The month of April has been an exciting month because I got to travel to both our neighborhood countries with my colleagues and friends. And yes, people are telling me that how come you have so much savings to travel. The key for all my trips is to book earlier la! Once you see deals from the site, gather your friends and make fast decision. Once everything is all settled, hit on to the deal and secure your rooms.

For this Montigo resort trip, it was supposedly our 2014 "graduation trip" for Meijun, Natasha and I but we post-poned to 2015 and wait till after Crystal officially graduated from her Poly. So yeah, plans were organised and it flew through systematically. We got our resort for $480 which was the cheapest rate that you could find online. I chanced upon hotel.com and agoda to compare the price. Just nice that hotel.com had a great deal on the resort and without any further-ado, we booked our resort at a fast go.





I have been counting for long for this day to arrive and time indeed flies when you are working and occupying your day with work. Never till we knew that 18th April has arrived. Montigo resort has only one nearest ferry terminal therefore we have to book our ferry tickets from batamfast which lead us to Tenah Merah Ferry Terminal. Two return tickets cost us $52. It was certainly our first trip together and out of Singapore after a decade year of friendship. We hope to organise more in upcoming years. Feeling rather excited when we board into the ferry, we are lucky that the custom was not as packed as harbourfront terminal. All transaction went through smoothly!

Here we were sitting on the ferry. Its a free seating so you have to make it fast to secure your seats. I saw some people ( but lucky not the elderly) have to stand throughout the whole 45 mins journey. Most of them came in as a whole big group therefore there is a little human traffic flow while we were finding our seats. 




Not long after we were out of the custom, a gentleman was standing outside holding a sign which stated "Free Shuttle Bus to Montigo". He even shouted to alert the passenger who were coming out from the custom. I stopped by and asked if my name was reflected inside his list as I remembered that I requested for a free shuttle bus to bring us over to our resort. He confidently smiled at me and said "Yes Madam, please wait for me at the corner side. We have to wait for another group of guests." Awesome la please, free bus ride to our resort. 

Journey from terminal to the resort was not long, it took us 10 mins to our paradise.









Oh my god was the first reaction that we reacted when we arrived! It was indeed a PARADISE! We were so over-whelmed by the scenery and also the cottage that was built along the hillside. The weather was so perfect on that day, with a degree of 34? You can see puddle of clouds that looked like marshmallow forming up on the skies.

Not long after our "WOW-ING", I decided to try for an early check in but it doesn't work as the staffs told me that they have to clean up the room before allowing the next tenant to stay in. Oh well, check in time was at 3pm in the afternoon and we arrived at 11am. We knew that we have plenty of time to walk around before we could dive in into the infinity pool. 

Their service was up to notch because they served us with a cup of iced tea to cool us and also a warm towel to wipe ourselves. One of the staff even took a group photo of us and told us that she will email to my email address when we are back to Singapore ( till now I havent receive it though). HAHA. Anyway, she was being nice to explain and point out our resort and the rest of the facilities in details ( that includes the opening and closing hour). Best service ever! 




Kidding us to have to wait for 4 hours in the resort without doing nothing, we thought that perhaps we could travel down to Nagoya Shopping Centre for our lunch. Immediately, we requested for a cab and they charged us 200000 rupiah for one trip ( which marked out like $6 for each person). Lunch was definitely at A&W since you are in Batam ( old school fried chicken is a must to have it here). However, I felt that they have over-charged the price as it is a must-try fast food restaurant for the tourists. Purposely set the price so high!

We also chilled at SHARETEA for some drinks which was fairly acceptable for their price. Don't judge me, you will tend to compare the prices when you are in overseas la. Afterwhich, our long groceries shopping to buy ingredients for our dinner. Menu was a simple one as we didn't want to waste alot of time on cooking so pasta will do the job. Batam supermarket is a must to go and to ransack all the items. Buy your daily essential from there especially for ladies, take back some sanitary pads home. Hehehe, they are cheap! #cheapskateaunty








Soon or later at around 2pm,we left the mall and took cab back to check in into our resort ( LIKE FINALLY!) Took our excess card and the staff called a buggy ride to ride us over to our room. Another epic reaction that we have, we kept WOW here and there and requested Crystal to video our voice down. We threw our bags on the sofa and excitedly ran up to the second storey to explore our rooms.

 So let me briefly explained that in this resort, it has 3 different levels. The first level is catered for kitchen, living room and our infinity indoor pool. On the second level, there are two rooms, one master bedroom with a bath-tub toilet where no one is willing to use it despite being located there because of the dirt and dust that were accumulated on the bath-tub. YUCKS! The other room with two single beds with attached of one bathroom.

Lastly, the final level which was a balcony where you can cater for private BBQ ( but let me warn you uh, their catering is expensive although you have staffs to BBQ the food for you at night). If not, you can use the big space to chill with your friends, some star-gazing will do it good.











Okay okay, now to the most unique facility that we have here. The infinity pool was situated in the resort. You can dip in the pool all day or night and the water won't turn cold. Not only being able to swim indoor, you can also get to catch the sunset and sunrise. A beautiful page of nature scenery for you to enjoy. I guess we paid so much for the infinity pool. Does it resemble our own local MBS pool? Just that it was on a smaller version. 






The next moment after our tour in the resort ( we took pretty long to settle ourselves, busy capturing photos of the pool, the bed, anything that we saw there). By the time, we really want to jump into the pool, it was closed to 4pm. But nevertheless, we got changed and splurge into our pool and swim ( more like dipping ourselves into the water). Thanks to Meijun that she bought along her gopro, we get to take a photo of ourselves diving inside the pool). Basically we made use of our time playing in the pool and not forgetting to take photos of ourselves as to keep for memory, 

After getting bored of the infinity pool, we called the buggy to bring us to the public pool for more soaking. We were all drenched so we pulled over our bathing robe to cover ourselves and board the buggy car. This is what you do when you travel to a beach country, wear lesser as much as you can but not for us, we are conservative. 








Just a short journey from our room to the swimming pool so we headed down to explore the place alittle before we jumped into the pool. It was really a relaxing place as they provide a "cafe" for us to order our drinks and snacks if we are hungry. The cafe was not fully opened as we didn't really see alot of people chilling over the booth. I reckon we were only the few who used the pool, it felt like all the pool was ours at that moment.









Sun-tanning myself because the weather was really good but my skin tone colour didn't change much after the whole trip which im kinda regretted ( my aim was to get darker at the end of the whole trip) but I guess we kept ourselves indoor more than spending time at outdoor. But it was a good workout to swim for the whole afternoon, after all swimming kills calories.











Afternoon spent on the pool and when the sun was setting down, we knew that we have to hurry home to prepare for our dinner. And remember what we bought over from the supermarket? Our pasta ingredients are ready to perform in the kitchen. We thought that the food varieties might not be enough for us so we walked out of our room and head down to the seafood restaurant to order some of the Zi char ingredients. The food sold was at a reasonable price rate whereas 3 dishes that cost us only $20+ SGD. We ordered crayfish, asparagus, and braised tofu to add on to our pasta.

Our Pasta, from the picture it looks super delicious but the taste was so MEH..... I almost vomited all my food out. So disgusting! Not saying that our culinary skills is bad, but the pasta sauce that we bought taste so bad, like a rotten paste. Sourish and salty! The whole combination was too over-whelmed that I refused to explain more. The ingredients that we bought turned bad and we had to throw it away ): In the end, our zi char food saved our night.
  





Our night wasn't spend much as we were prohibited to explore outside the resort so we stayed in and try to dig out activities to go on with. We ended up chilling at their cafe to chit chat and have our supper which was a caramelized banana crepe and peppermint tea. We took a stroll down to the long bridge for a overnight view before we returned back to our room to sleep.  





And thus, this simply sum up our first day at Montigo resort! It was so fruitful, productive and also the most relaxing trip ever where you don't have to crack your brain on what's our next itinerary is. We simply kept it simple and go! (:

Day 2 post will be up soon.

Till then
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