Ger’z Shares: Diidoffen Bikini & LuckViVi Bluetooth Microphone Feat. Batam, Indonesia RECOMMENDATIONS! Things to do in BATAM!

Hello Readers!

Today I will share my review for this 2 sponsored products, (1) Diidoffen Bikini & (2) LuckViVi Bluetooth Microphone, and also about my trip in Batam from 9th-Dec-2016 to 12th-Dec-2016; Most importantly the THINGS TO DO IN BATAM and my BATAM RECOMMENDATIONS! Well, this is what I have tried and recommend, I definitely know there are more things to be done and stuff to buy and food to be eaten in Batam so I definitely will be back but meanwhile this is what I did in Batam last summer!

Before we talk about what to do in Batam first let’s share on transport and accommodation.

#1 TRANSPORT

2 types of “Transport” one that teleport you from Singapore to Batam, Indonesia and one that teleport you within Batam itself.

Batam Fast (Ferry to Batam)

Here is a picture of our Ferry on the outside.

The interior has aircon and a place for you to place your luggage.

The outside seat if you are like us who wanted to enjoy the salty sea wind!!!

Review: This is my 2nd time taking Batam Fast and I feel they are really well-organised and good.

Batam Rent Car (Car Rental Company)

You know as a couple who loves Free & Easy and the freedom to explore. Renting a car overseas is MANDATORY! But in Batam, you don’t rent a car because of the terrible Traffic condition, especially when you are not a local driver and it’s more expensive to drive a rental car.

If you rent it with a driver, it’s cheaper. DON’T ASK ME WHY!!

Probably they are afraid of us foreigners not getting used to their driving style and probably higher chances of getting into traffic accident or what?

The cool thing is that car park charges are paid by the driver. We went a lot of places and we thought we need to reimburse him the carpark fees, but no, there is no need to reimburse the driver.

My highly recommended driver, Mr. Dwi. He is good and awesome, brought us to many good places for shopping and have good food. Sorry but we did not do any research beforehand so we blindly followed him and he brought us to a famous Fish Soup stall. Which I did not know it’s so famous!!! LOLS!

$65SGD/day (parking charges absorbed by driver) so you might wanna tip him if he did a great job!

www.batamrentcar.com

Driver: Mr. Dwi

Person in charge: Mr. Fikar

Review: Mr. Dwi (Driver) was very good, he woke up at 4am to pick us up from our resort (KTM resort) to the race start point (Barelang Bridge) of the marathon (oh ya, I forgot to mention why are we at Batam, answer is because we signed up for a half marathon event again!). I guess the previous driver “fly us aeroplane” after knowing that he need to pick us up at 4am to Barelang Bridge. So Mr. Dwi is nice and responsible and willing to accommodate our requests to fetch us so early in the morning, and also bringing us to a lot of good places… However… He can’t really speak English very well… but he still can understand us most of the time. I can’t speak Malay / Indonesian language too so we converse using broken English + broken Bahasa Melayu and we had lots of fun too. But if you can speak Melayu, pick Mr. Dwi. He is really a nice chap!

We feel that Mr. Dwi is earning very little after paying for all the car park charges and minus the petrol and maybe car rental etc and commission to the Person in charge, we decided to give him a tip for the job well done. I highly recommend tipping them if they did a wonderful job.

#2 Accommodation

KTM Resort

Shuttle service very good!!

Hotel driver picked us up at the Ferry. We did not know beforehand about the Ferry transfer and we thought we need to pay additional fee or pay for a cab to our resort. But I was surprised when we exit we saw the KTM resort signage that our driver is holding onto!

Very spacious and comfy car or mini bus or van.

They gave us WELCOME DRINK! Seriously! I never had such nice Welcome drink before… HAHAHA!

After we got our keys, he helped us with sending our luggage to our room.

Most importantly he helped me to exchange my sim-card which I bought at the Ferry Terminal. In the end it’s my handphone problem and not the sim-card problem. Oopsie!
Selfie outside our room!