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Old 08-07-2008, 11:54 PM   #1 (permalink)
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it was a very nice trip ...
hotel stay: mayang sari(sea view) go for starfish 4

1st day : reach there at 9plus am... waited for the bus to fetch us there ... ard 15 mins ... but it's ok .. over there had shops so go see see walk walk a while reach le ...then ard 11plus to 12pm went into our room, starfish 04 ... it is at ther far end but the view was wow .... we took sea view ... and ard 1 pm went to coffee shop at nirwana for our lunch after tat went to book our mangrove trip($122 for 2 ppl) and the taxi trip($110 for 6 hrs)to tanjung pinang we took the afternoon 3pm and 7pm for mangrove.. 3 pm is a intro of mangrove and at night is see fireflies there is alot of it , it's fun but scary ... because very dark ... then at night a bit noisy because of the sat party going on ... i would like to go but too tired .. the party go on till 3 am ...
* pls note this do not take up any offer from ppl when u go to pasar ole ole ... becos u reme i say book of taxi trip but we haven given our $ , a guy came talking to my bf while i went toilet and say tat he can offer $100 for 9 hrs ... then we tink its a gd offer so we ask him but we have book from the hotel there de taxi (its a counter but not under the hotel) is it ok if we cancel it later , he say ya it's ok , so we say can then we took up the offfer . so after our night mangrove trip , we went back to our hotel(mayang ari) we wne to the counter to ask the ppl there ask them it is ok to cancel the taxi trip ? they also say it ok , so we took it as can ...as we reach hotel late alll the restan close le .. so we took up room serv $33 for 2 person nt bad the food ...

2nd day : when we eating our breakfast , the taxi guy from the hotel there came and the one tat approach us at th paser ole ole came also ... and the taxi guy say the driver came and we can't cancel our trip , and we have to pay $30 sing dollar if dun wan it , i say we r not going to pay this amount , we make the effort to double check and even early in the morning 7 am we went to the counter check another they also give us the same answer ,(it's ok) and after tat the guy from paser ole ole was ask to go one side talkthen in the end he say can't drive us , we say ok ... then i was very angry lah... in the end the in-charge or wat so ever say tat , he is illegal one when enter or left bintaan restor need a card or something and they du have insurance , and the hotel there de gt cover insuance , and all their man is train there if there' s danger or wat they will know how to hander so and they lock the door always ...
o , we went to tangjung pinang .. over there like nothing to buy lei ... gal be careful i almost gt drag off by a indo guy ... in a shopping center .. becos i was walking to find the sale girl i ask my bf to pay money for other thing then i was alone walking in there .. then this guy came talking to mi , then i dun care lah , then he keep on talking i was pissed of course then i diao him aand walk very far away ...ha ha ... becos aafter diao him i gt scared .. ha ha ... then after tat i run to my bf .. ha ha ... then ard 3 pm reach hotel , bath and rest , and very surpise the hotel send mi a birthday cake .. so sweet of them ha ha , then we went to kelong in nirwana to eat ... the food there is very nice .. but price a little ex ...4 dish , 2 plain water , 2 white rice $70 plus .. ha ha ... but i tink worth it ...
then went back to sleep ..
3rd day : wake up and went to snorek trip in a speed boatat 10.30am , $40 each, would go again ... a gd experi .. and after tat went to spa at tama something , beside the mangrove trip ... nt bad the spa(have to book in advance) , cheaper also ... spend ard $216 at there for 2 person ... and then took a ferry back to singapore , reach ard 7.30 pm

over all ... would stay at mayang sari if going there again, gd service
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bintain is boring and expensive. Beach not up to standard. Prices all near SG one coz managed by SG ppl. Prefer Bali. Got rich culture/Cheap shopping/Nitelife/Beach and many tings to do. Also got indo food. Try go bali next time! Sure fun
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I would go back if its not so expensive
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refering to bali or bintain?
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refering to bali or bintain?
wildswan is refering to bintan ...
ACTUALLY over there is not bad lah ... ard the same like sg lor , but , sg dun have the beach like bintan .. and over there u gt a feeling of relaxation ... heee
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wah the whole trip quite expensive eh... but sounds like a nice getaway!
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wah the whole trip quite expensive eh... but sounds like a nice getaway!
ya , its ex ... ard 1500 sing dollars for 2 ppl.. dun include shopping ... but we play water sport and eat ... but really nice place if u only have 2 to 3 days hoilday , it's nice going there ...
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wing then u must visit bali lo, if u say bintan is nice...hee9
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wing then u must visit bali lo, if u say bintan is nice...hee9
really ar , i heard alot of fren saying the same thing ... will go there maybe next yr ... hee .. thx
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really ar , i heard alot of fren saying the same thing ... will go there maybe next yr ... hee .. thx
If u say bintain is nice, then bali is excellent man. I want to go bali!
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Yah, i also wanna go see bali....
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