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Batam Slideshow
Top Hotels in Batam
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Holiday Inn Batam
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Novotel Batam
140 reviews -
Mercure Batam
99 reviews
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Swiss-Inn Batam
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Swiss-Belhotel Batam
14 reviews
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I Hotel Batam
68 reviews
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Panorama Regency Hotel Batam
5 reviews
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Hotel Sahid Rasinta Batam
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Nagoya Plaza Hotel Batam
13 reviews
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Patra Jasa Anyer Beach Resort Batam
1 review
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Planet Holiday Hotel Batam
28 reviews
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Puri Garden Hotel Batam
13 reviews
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Quality Resort Waterfront Marina Batam
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Vista Hotel & Service Apartment Batam
26 reviews
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Harbour Bay Amir Batam
10 reviews
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Pacific Palace Hotel Batam
48 reviews
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Grand Majesty Hotel Batam
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Batam View Beach Resort
100 reviews
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Harmoni Hotel Batam
45 reviews
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Golden View Hotel Batam
44 reviews
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Formosa Hotel Batam
17 reviews
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Goodway Hotel Batam
25 reviews
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Nongsa Point Marina & Resort Batam
25 reviews
Batam
Travel Blogs from Batam, Indonesia
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Stinky Batam
This is a top pick! BATAM Andy and I, compelled to spend a day at the beach, decided on a whim to take a boat to Batam, an Indonesian island conveniently accessible by ferry from both Singapore and Johor Bahru. Batam caters mostly to Singaporean holiday-goers, ...
Batam Island, Riau Island, Indonesia.
As the final stop, headed back to Batam and took some good photographs of the Barelang Bridge, The next day, went shopping at Nagoya Hill and then back home. ...
our day trip -part two
... harbour front on the MRT to catch a ferry. within five mins of arriving at the ferry terminal we were on our way to Pulau Batam in Indonesia. the ferry took an hour to get there and then on arrival we got stung and made to buy a seven dau US10 visa ...
Batam Island, Riau Island, Indonesia.
... went for a local lunch. Dinner at the Seafront in Batam. Then the next morning went to the Thirupurasundari Temple in Batam to visit the temple again. Then to the ferry terminal to head to Belakang Padang Island. ...
Wakeboarding in Batam
... EH Long run this park and they made me feel right at home. We took a 1 hour ferry from Singapore and arrived in Batam. It reminded me of the Dominican Republic, a complete contrast with Singapore. It is not modern and not clean. There were men fixing ...
Batam Island, Riau Island, Indonesia.
... 40 minutes to Singapore by boat, and then leave with the first available transport to other cities in Indonesia. History The history of Batam is tightly interwoven with nearby Bintan Island and the rest of the Riau archipelago. According to ...
Indonesia
Some of us took an afternoon ferry trip to the Indonesian island of Batam where we chatted with locals, ate Indonesian food, and shopped. A blues/jazz band from Jakarta played in the hotel and did a great job on my requested Norah Jones while we played ...
Indonesia
after shooting down through singapore on the excellent MRT transport system it was lunch then onto the ferry for a trip to batam insland in indonesia. and as magnum mentioned, it just wasnt what we expected, so after getting another blue dot on T Po ...
Indonesia -- Just a Taste
... for me. A lot of good English jobs available in Indonesia and at some point I'd like to go put in some time teaching there. Batam was dirty and run down and to be honest I didn't feel too safe there. Indonesia is a big country, I plan to see ...
cheeky little trip to Indonesia
Like i said we did a cheeky boat trip to Indonesia, we arranged a trip over to Batam on the Batam islands of indonesia, an hour long ferry ride where I fell asleep to find that Joel had been steering the boat for a while...Im guessing thats what woke me ...
Odissea sull'Equatore
... l'Equatore; la prima volta che mi trovo nell'emisfero meridionale, ed ovviamente non potevo che farlo in grande stile. Indonesia: e' incredibile la quantita' di esperienza folli che possono capitarti in questo Paese in soli tre giorni. Avevo un piano, ...
Batam Island
... leech'. - L Planet. Tomorrow I'll attempt to get a ferryboat ride to Pekanbaru on Sumatra ( The Big northernmost Island of Indonesia for those of you too lazy to consult your world atlas). I bhooked my aforementioned ticket from Bali to Darwin on ...
Batam
... the bar... awkward is not the word. The next morning we did a little shopping once we had realised just how unbelievably cheap Batam is... dirt cheap bags, shoes and clothes. Apparently they are not used to seeing western tourists around here as we ...
Batam
... and worn that you can't see the letters - luckily I can touch-type). This morning I caught the ferry to Batam which is an Island of Indonesia very close to Singapore. When I arrived I was greeted by a local girl called Octavia who is showing me ...
Spent a Week That Night
... with all my being. I couldn't believe I'd overslept. I never oversleep. Despite the posh room I'd had, I feared another night in Batam. One night was already two too many, and I was itching to get to Sumatra. I happened to have found another saintly ...
Boomtown
Singaporeans come to the nearby island of Batam in Indonesia for fun and frolics. For 'fun and frolics' read massage parlours. For 'massage parlours' read, erm, something a bit naughty. Ahem. Tim and Rachel come to Batam because they want ...
Day 171-173 Fish, fish heads + bloody fish heads!
... a 'Penguin' catamaran. We were stamped out of Singapore and then had an hours journey across the waters to Batam, which is officially a part of Indonesia, we paid a $25 entrance fee and a nice shiny visa was stuck into our passports, which are starting ...
Löytyykö taksilla paratiisiranta?
... ' sen mukainen. Ihmeen rauhallista ajo maanteillä oli, vaikkei täällä ole lainkaan nopeusrajoituksia. Takaisin ajettiin naapurikaupunki Batam Centren kautta, ei sielläkään mitään maata mullistavaa. Tässä meidän hotellin lähistöllä oli ison ...
Indonesiaan "äkkilähdöllä"
to 13.1. Singapore --> Nagoya, Batam, Indonesia Aamupalan jälkeen lähdimme taksilla Harbour Frontiin, josta laiva Batamille lähti. Kuskiksi osui nainen, ekaa kertaa koskaan ulkomailla. Topakka täti kertoi toimineensa alalla jo 30 vuotta, koko ajan ...
Back to mopeds and happy chatty people
... one night on this Island until we leave tomorrow to do a 30 hour boat trip to Jakarta. We have paid $25US to get into Indonesia and I was excited to see that we got a great big sticker filling a whole page in our passports. The currency is Rupiah and we ...
Hotels in the red light district
... see it sitting where I can get to it... Anyway, it takes less than an hour to leave Singapore and arrive in Indonesia, and we were pretty quickly through immigration and into our penultimate country. Lu had booked accommodation for us not too far from ...
And then I was in Indonesia
A 1 hour boat journey from Singapore Harbour front and we were in Indonesia, as British citizens we had to pay the US $25 visa fee and the process was painless and easy. After being granted a 30 Day visa we were in the real asia. Haggling had become, it ...
From city to slum
... back packs - we were not popular with the commuters. Down to the harbour and on to the fast boat service to Batam - it takes an hour to reach Indonesia, our 23rd country and a new currency 14,000 to the pound. In that hour we changed from 1st world to ...
Indonesia
... was a long queue at the ferry terminal but we were able to get a ticket for the first Penguin ferry to Batam in the Riau Islands of Indonesia. We did not have to put our rucksacks through baggage - which was great news, but we started to question this as ...
From Riau to Jogja via Djakarta
Left HarbourFront Centre in Singapore by ferry at 07:55 hrs, arrived Perlabuhan Batu Ampar in Batam, Provinsi Riau Kerpulauan, at 08:00 hrs WIB (Waktu Indonesia Barat, or Western Indonesia Time). By taxi to Hang Nadim Airport (BTH) for Air Asia flight QZ ...
downtown
... now have been replaced by port of Harbour Bay which is its location bunch up, and is now served by Wavemaster ferry). Besides Batam Center, also there is port of ferry in Mussel which also serve the target of Singapore, but its location farther and its ...
oh my, what a shock!
... pretty bad never mind the fact they were piled high with rubbish as well (we think it is the name of the country, India/Indonesia, pretty close)! We went for a walk that evening to find the shopping mall and we had our first taste of security in ...
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