Bintan Hotels - Reviews and Rates

With our passports safely back in our possession we were itching to get back on the road, or on the high sea to be more precise! We decided to take a ferry from Singapore to the Indonesian island of Bintan and find a beach to relax on.

The ferry was about 2 hours and we were plunged into the mayhem of the port town of Tanjung Pinang. It w...

We arrived earlt Friday morning in Singapore with the intent of staying in Sleepy Sam's Hostel Friday night so that we could go to church Sabbath morning. After waiting for two hours outside the hostel, we were tolda that there were no rooms available. So, instead we left earlier than we intended on our ferry to Pulau Bintan, Indonesia. The 45 m...

Travel always has inherent challenges. Often these come in form of language or infrastructure, but Singapore showed me that even in a modern, English-speaking country, things don't always come smoothly. In fact, it's probably because Singapore seems so "easy" that we had a little trouble. Our guide book just casually mentioned an Indonesian isla...

So after a few days, we had had our fill of Singapore. We had hit the quay strip, Chinatown, Little India, museums, even eaten at Taco Bell (Thailand doesn't have one, so Dane and I were really pumped about that visit!). We were tired of sight-seeing and wanted Derek to feel like he was getting a true vacation, so we decided to head for a beach ...