Montigo Resort: Sun, Sea, Sand and Rain!

Booked a trip to Batam one month ago together with Le boyfriend's friends! (:

And since its a getaway, it got me all excited to this trip, because I had always wanted to try out Montigo Resort since I've seen some of my friends heading there so yea, this is my chance! hahah!

But before i start, beware that this is going to be a post with a lot of images! So it might take sometime to load. =X

Us waiting for the ferry!

This time round we will be taking Batam Fast Ferry! They comes in different timings, so choose your most preferred timing (: If you are interested, you may look through their website for more information, http://www.batamfast.com/home/index.ashx. Prices of the ferry tickets are rather fixed if I'm not wrong. All the 6 of us paid SGD282 for 6 tickets (SGD47/pax).

Finally we get to board the ferry! And pictures during the ferry ride (: It has been a while since i've brought Sona out for a walk! (: And btw, Sona is my Sony Camera! hahahah! =D

We decided to head out to take more peekchures during the ferry ride! It was super windy, but the scenery was really awesome.

And soon after (45mins later), we reached our destination. Oh yes, before I forgot abt it, Montigo Resort was located at Nongsapura, but because they do not have good timings for us to go and return, so we choose to take from Harbourfront Ferry Terminal to Batam Centre instead.

We searched for our drivers and after we have seen him, because the time was 940am (Singapore timing), we decided to head for breakfast. So we got the driver aka the tour guide, to bring us to places for breakfast. And we settled for this coffeeshop for breakfast. According to the driver, the bak kut tehs here are quite good too! (: But I didnt had that, because I was craving for Meehoon Soto! hahahha!

Sorry, i'm not too sure of the name of this coffee shop, but i shall take note next time =X

Very nice teh peng they had too! (:

After breakfast, because we had sometime to spare, we headed to visit some of the chinese temples before we head elsewhere. Pretty statues they had.

Lanterns - I love lanterns btw. And they had 3D drawings up just outside the temples.

And visiting of more temples. =D

This temple that we visited was called Maha Vihara Duta Maitreya (if i didnt spell wrongly). But this temple left me with a huge impression. Not only its magnificent  but it also had a pretty places and big halls/auditoriums for prayers to be held.

Doesnt this tree look like the one bird flow chart? hahah! Thats the reason why I took this picture.

Doesnt the gas tank look cute?

After the temples, we headed off for sight seeing, and the driver took us to this bridge.

And yes, this bridge looks like how the london bridge look like, and its really awesome! Because there are people selling snacks and icecreams and drinks to those who went there for sight seeing. And being me, the glutton one, I couldnt resist and bought a Magnam! Slurp!

Taking picture with a magnam on my hand! haaa Reflections love!

Oh did i mention, the weather was horribleee? It was so warm and hot that day! Given the fact that it rained in the morning? Well, we headed for some coconut drink to keep ourselves cool! Ive never been to road side stores like this when i'm in Batam, and this is the first time. good experience indeed (:

After drinking coconut drink, we headed off to BCS Shopping mall to do some shopping. Because we will be heading for massage later at 5pm, so we headed for little shopping before massage and dinner.

And again, we started looking for food! hhahah! For lunch btw, we settled for this Ayam Penyet store that all of us thinks it was okay. So since Ayam penyet was their famous dish in Batam, we decided to give it a try.

Well, the only think was that the chicken was slightly smaller as compare to the ones we had in Singapore. And the chilli/balachan was spicy! I'm definitely not someone who can take spicy, but anyway, I didnt take alot of that hahah! (: And ginger tea to make me feel better. After trying the ginger tea at Holiday Inn resort few years back, I'm starting to love ginger tea, but somehow this ginger tea in this store, didnt live up to my expectation. So yeahh..

After which we headed off for massage so no pictures on that. But anyway, we paid 250,000rupiah (SGD33) for the massage and it wasnt really that good. The staffs are not really trained properly and we had to change rooms right after we changed and they started for a while. But anyway, I dont think I will head back to that spa place again )):

Massage done! And comes dinner! =D

Settled for seafood at Siau May Live Seafood. This food court looks similiar to those like Newton Circle in Singapore. But of course, the price you pay here is cheaper thn in Singapore.

They had beer ladies to serve you drinks and also a stage for people to go up to sing! (:

So this is what we have ordered, chinese call this dua tao (Big head = mussels), and we had their signature toufu! (: Quite tasty, but the portion was a little too small for a group of 7 (Including the driver btw).

Ordered Garlic stir fried veges and salted egg prawn! Even thou sometimes i might be allergic to prawns but this prawns are really heavenly! (: Totally in love with them that I had almost 4 of them! =D

According to the lady boss, this fried chicken with garlic was good, but to us was really mehh. It does have the garlic smell when u smell, but it doesnt comes with the taste. And we had fried sotongs, this was good too! The sotongs was deep friend and it was crunchy and easy to cheww!

Lastly was the fish! Never once I was a fish lover, so this was okay for me.

The bill come up to abt 560,000 Rupiah (SGD73) for 7 of us, which I think it was quite reasonable. Even thou we didnt order a lot of seafood this time round, but the meal was good! (:

After dinner, we set back into the mini bus, and headed off to our resort! =D

This was the living room that comes with a mini kitchen at the back which allows you to cook and even heat up your food!

Headed up the the second storey and this is what we saw, 2 bed rooms! The one straight in was the twin room, and the one on the right hand side was the masterbed room.

Pretty Masterbed room that comes with a sofabed and tv!

Check out the humongous toilet!

The twin bed!

Every toilet comes with sanitary kit like this! (:

The third floor comes with a sky terrace! Which is able to let people to sit down and enjoy the scenery! 

This is what we see from our sky terrance!! Isnt this place awesome!? And we asked ourselves why are we only here in the night. -.-" 

We could even see the infinity pool which was located on the first floor!

The next morning, my mission was to take the pictures of this resort we are staying again! hahah! Night view good, morning view shld also be not bad right? LOL!

So below was the toilet in the master bed room! The bathtub that could fit 2 people! And a standing show just right beside the bathtub!

The view from the sky terrace! Awesome right? But too bad because it was raining the whole day, which kinds of dampen our mood. Otherwise this would have been a great place to be in to spend our whole morning!

Check out the splendid view!

Brochures Ive gotten from the recept the night when we checked in. 

The view of the pool again! (:

Oh did i mention this resort comes with Wii for us to play too? =D

We took a ride to the breakfast area for brekkie!

The dining area for our breakfast. (:

The view from the our dining area! How many days can we have our meals just right beside the sea? =D

And swimming pool! 

Oh every table comes with jams like this! 

A group shot before we left this resort! Dont worry! I will be back! hahahah!

 

After a 45mins drive from our resort back to town, we headed for food again!

Settle for this store, and tried their lontong, and it tasted a little different from the ones we had in Singapore, but it was good! (:

Im quite amazed that they actually had this tissue and toothpicks bottle/box in almost all the restaurants. 

Overall experience was really awesome, we had the best of the best! But a little regret was that we shld have spend more time in the resort! So for those we are intending to go, please please, buy food from the Hypermarts in the shopping malls and headed down to the resort directly! 

Also, the resort they offer spa packages, and when we were there we were entitled to 30% off but im not too sure was this offer only applicable for their opening special or what? But anyway, I will definitely head back again for a second experience! =D Enjoy their scenery, their spa and their food! Especially to soak ourselves in the infinity pvt pool we had in the day and not in the night! LOL! 

Where was this place?

Montigo Resort Batam

Address: Jl. Hang Lekir Nongsa – Batam, Indonesia

http://www.montigoresorts.com/

Spending per pax: SGD219 (Excluding food & Shopping)

For those who are interested, you may email me to get the contacts for the personal driver that we have hired. This was the second time we actually engaged him to drive us around. (: 

Email me at jessilyn79@hotmail.com