Hi all,
Was at Balai for a quick 2D1N trip this last week.
Took the first Indo Falcon ferry and reached there at about 845am.
Went through the immigration quick and grabbed my boarding pass for my return trip, paid IDR 10k for the fee.
Walked towards the main street and grabbed a blue van. Sat down inside right behind the driver and there was only one other guy inside. He asked me where I'm heading and told him to drop me at Hotel Maxi. Reached the hotel at about 9am and wanted to check in, but receptionist said I can only go in at 10am. So I waited until then and got my room (standard for 380k, booked from tiketdotcom), during the process I asked for a driver and they just gave me his contact for me to call directly.
About 1015am driver was waiting for me downstairs so we head directly to villa. Went to see about 7-8 villas, mostly quoted around 900k-1.1m
A few lookers, seems like most of the good ones taken by Malaysian bros who came earlier to the villa at about 9am (damn that's early). The most exp I got quoted was 1.4m, the girl was definitely a cute SYT though didn't really smile or anything. In the end I took one for 1m, mami quoted me 1.2m, but told her I'll make her a deal right now if she gave me 1m and she relented.
Me and driver went out and he brought me to see Aston and supermarket for me to get stuff. Back at Maxi, he told me to just pay him tomorrow altogether and I said fine. Girl came a bit later and 1st rd began. After that I asked her if she wants to eat, she said it's hot outside so we ordered room service. Short nap, and then we wake up for nasi padang dinner right across Balai View. Both lunch and dinner costs about 100k for me and my girl. Back to hotel, initiated rd 2 and then watched movie tgt until we sleep.
Woke up at 630am in the morning, she asked to go home and I said fine, coz Im tired anyway. She didn't ask for any tip so I didn't give any. Went downstairs for breakfast at 7am, decent usual Indonesian hotel breakfast spread, nasi goreng mee goreng porridge etc. The outside area on Maxi's restaurant looked nice, but it was a bit hazy so I didn't go out.
Stayed in until about 830am and sms-ed driver to pick me up at 10am. Meanwhile I walked around Balai View area and saw the kinds of Sakura Massage. There were also supermarket, chicken rice place and so on walking distance from Maxi. At 10am, driver picked me up and sent me down to ferry. He said I can pay him how much I felt reasonable, gave him 200k for being such a nice driver coz he also taught me stuff about Balai. He's happy with that and asked me to just give him a call next time I visiting. Went inside the immigration and paid the tax 60k. Ferry came and back I went to Singapore.
All in all a nice short trip to get to know Balai area. A bit fault on my side to wait for check in when I can just go earlier to villa, but didn't really regret in the end because I still got a nice companion with enough GFE. Hotel Maxi Standard room is good for me, they have bathtub with hot water, TV with decent channels (HBO and HBO channels yeah!), reasonable room service and great location. Would consider going down there again if I got fed up with Batam
