so one day i received one of their many promotional emails from tea tree spa. its a 2.5 hour spa package, inclusive of 30mins Avocado Body Scrub, 30mins Boreh Body Mask, 30mins Foot Reflexology and 60mins Balinese Massage. thinking that darling needs a short getaway to recharge herself for the next semester of fyp craziness, i asked her whether she will like to go and she said yes!!! so i went to make the booking. haha.
finally the day of our spa getaway arrived, which is yesterday. our ferry was at 1210 pm, so we reached harbourfront at 10 am to collect our ferry tickets. and same as last year, the similar mistake happened again on my customs card. -.-'''
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yawnnnnzzzzz...
our first meal at batam was at the seafood restaurant delima. it is actually very near to holiday inn (the hotel which we stayed at) but if u dun want to walk or u dunno how to walk there, u can actually can get the service staff at holiday inn to give delima a call and delima will send a car to the hotel to pick you up. good service rite? anyway dun expect the food there to be super delicous and ridiculously cheap. the food taste decent, and prices are only very slightly cheaper than sg.
the 2.5 hour spa package was really shiok, which made us so pampered and we felt like royalty. shopping at batam mega mall was boring cos not much things to see. anyway holiday inn is located at a ulu part of batam, and the nearest shopping centre is located in the city centre of batam, which is 35 min drive from the hotel. you have to get a taxi to drive you there, and each ride cost 16 sing dollars. come back to the hotel from the city centre is another 16 dollars. so the morale of the story is, you must make your shopping trip worth the 32 sing dollars.
so if you ask me whether our shopping trip is worth it, well we ate A&W which is not around in sg anymore, we bought JCO donuts which cost cheaper than sg, we bought the famous kueh lapis which is really very very nice, darling bought a tshirt for her dad, and i da-bao kfc for supper. hahahah.
the next morning we did some mediation and yoga at the balcony outside our hotel room.
after breakfast, the rest of the morning was spent at the jacuzzi, the pool and packing up. we checked out at 1215 pm and intend to have lunch before our ferry which was at 210 pm. but we were told that the ferry timing was changed to 130 pm. wah we nearly freaked out and as a result we din have time to eat lunch. so we survived on a few jco mini donuts, and starved on the ferry trip back to sg.
ok so that's about it! darling really loved this short getaway and she dun mind coming here once a year just to chill out! :)
and a final photo of the both of us:
pls try ur best to ignore the bulge at my tummy area. i will try my best to lose the bulge. hahahahaha.
