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Just came back from my short Bintan trip today. Overall quite a nice relaxing trip with HM, CS and CS’s GF, totally just relax and do nothing. Basically its watch TV, then look for food and walk around, then watch TV, then sleep.

As this Nirwana Resort that we will be staying has like 4 different types of accomadation, what HM got was the Banyu Beru (which means blue water) villa, a 2-storey bungalow. The whole area is very quiet, abit of the country feel and really give you the relax feeling.

One thing to note is that, the service level of the staffs at the resort is very good. They are very friendly and helpful, from the bell-boys to the staffs at the information counter and even the buggy driver. Very great service. On numerous occasions when we were looking at the schedule of shuttle buses and ferries, they will come over and asked where we would like to go and advised us on the timing and stuffs. Very pro-active level of service. Thats one of the thing that I was impressed about for the trip.

The nice part about the trip is that the scenery of the place. Especially on Monday evening when we went over to the Kelong Resturant for dinner. As it was the sun set timing, we could see a very nice soft orange from the sky, plus the nice sea breeze make the whole dining experience even more enjoyable.

However the bad thing was the place despite being a Indonesia island, it uses Sing Dollar.. Which kind of remind me of shopping back home. Furthermore being a tourist island, the things there are more expensive.  that further reduce any advantages our stronger Sing Dollar has among the Asean countries. So overall spending has not been any difference (perhaps even more) than we would in Singapore.

Had taken some pictures of the whole trip, will post them up once I transfer them to the laptop from my digi camera.

Stay tune for the pictures eh…