Bintan
It is a nice place if you are looking for a place to relax, with beaches and sun to laze your day with. Went club med for my company trip and we stayed there for 2 days 1 nite. It is a good place to stay though the rate is much higher than other resorts. But considering the fact that it serves good buffet and free flow of drinks/alcohol throughout the day, that makes up for everything.
In ferry and on the way to Ria bintan with my usual hangout kaki colleagues.
I like the room as it was hotel-like but attached with a garden view outside. The only bad thing is that the toilet is separated from the bathroom and my room mate and myself find it really cumbersome.
Our dinner dress up - Hawaii theme--
Can see all of us really put in some effort.. peer pressure..
The poolview from top. This was also the place where few of my colleagues and myself went swimming at 11pm and left at midnight. That's not late, i heard some of my colleagues were drunk and went into pool at 3am with clothes on....that was happening i thought. Clean waters which I like.
After a full day of team building games and socialising... finally we have sometime the next day for pix taking.
Woke up early for our breakfast and followed by spa pedicure treatment. First time doing the paraffin wax and it was scotching hot and Maybelle and I were screaming away. Quite interesting experience. Time to bid goodbye to club med-
And there we arrive at Mayang Sari Beach resort. We checked in at the counter soon enough and were sent to our room in this buggy car. Quite scary when travelling on it as it had no signal that the car was going to move and at the instance we just felt that we were close to being thrown out of the seat.
Kampong style and spacious rooms. Though we still prefer club med rooms to mayang sari but we thought you never know if you dont try out others. The demerit will be the slippery floor.
His all time favourites- Chess
Is this more suited for gals??
We went to Kelong Restaurant where we had our dinner. Food was expensive and little. Wind was strong and the food get cold easily. I did some research on forums before i came here but the food were not as good as mentioned and we both agreed that we were paying for the scenery.
The set meal for two..
The sunset that we managed to capture halfway through our dinner.
The suites are very cute, categorized by the names of sea animals and insects. Mine will be bumble Bee 2.
Mayang Sari garden view taken from the restaurant where we had our breakfast.
Attracted by the massage offer from one of the brochures received at the bintan ferry terminal, we decided to head to Pasah Oleh Oleh. Of course it was after all the sun bathing and tan. So this justify for a good relax. The 2-way shuttle service to Paseh Oleh Oleh took us S$6 each! Though expensive, we still went becoz i'm craving for some shopping and massage.
When we approach the massage centre, we were told of full house but the earliest availability will be 8pm. We decided to head for dinner first since we were hungry as well.
This restaurant's food were really good and affordable! From below you can see the degree of our hunger. It shooked me to realised that I didn't take any foto until the food was finishing!
We then proceeded to this place for our massage. Really cheap! $28 for an hour! Of course they had some other charges.. which amount to $30, but i still find it acceptable. Their skills were good and I wld definitely go for a 2nd time if we were to stay longer.
Our masseurs...
Giant coconut?? Haha.. sth ought to try :)
We went back to our dinner restaurant and ordered this coconut. Quite different from those we see in SG and it cost $3. Alot of juice but flesh little..
We went to the pool at Nirwana Gardens for a last swim before we head off for our ferry. There's a bar in the middle of the pool.. wanted to try out but the drinks were expensive so we decide to give it a miss and continue our swim.
Time to bid farewell again.. Goodbye bumbleBee2
BumbleBee Ensemble
A final look at the passage way outside our suite. Nice seaview...
Role Play: Mayang Sari Tel-operator...
Taking the 3:30pm ferry back..
One piece of advice - To bring along SG money if you're going bintan. There accept SG money than any other curency. If you want to pay using US, you're end up paying more as the conversion rate tend to be lower. Hungry and spent all our SG money, this is the last hotdog we managed to afford during our journey back.
Goodbye Ria Bintan~~ tired...
posted by Cailin @ 4:30 PM
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