 Bintan Resorts - Avoid going....
It was like 6 or 7 years since my husband and me last went to Bintan Resorts so this year we decided to spend our wedding anniversary there. We could only get accomodations at the Bintan Lagoon Resort as we made last minute bookings and what with the school holidays, the other cheaper resorts were fully booked.
We got the shock of our lives when we saw that ALL the prices quoted in the restaurants, shops and bookings of taxis are in Singapore Dollars! Worst! All the prices are so much MORE expensive than in Singapore! Piangz! :disgust2:
When we went to this place called Pasar Oleh Oleh, we thought we could get some good buys like we did years ago...but we got our 2nd shock...everything was AGAIN priced in Sg $ and wah liao...more expensive! Can u imagine a cheap looking made in Indonesia T-shirt priced at S$35? Siao right? :notimpressed2: :notimpressed2:
It's not as if the island had a major revamping or what...All the resorts still look the same from the website and no new roads or shopping malls have been built...
The island is lovely in the sense it is still so untouched by progress but the COSTS of dining and shopping there is a MAJOR TURN-OFF man! :disgust2:
Whoever the idiots are in thinking they can rip off Singaporeans need their heads examined at Woodbridge Hospital....
Can u imagine even an ang mor can tell the shop girl at the ferry terminal that the Mars there costs more than in Singapore?
Sorry guys...Bintan is no longer the Indonesian island I used to know. It has become more like a 'rip Singaporeans' island.....
So sad man.......:cry3:  It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
Roger L'Estrange | 
