Batam Info / Interest / Help Thread

[nono1973]

Posting this QR code taken from Harbour Bay so that in future i can just simply come to SBF to scan it before i go to Batam.

Since many people is unlikely to have internet connection by the time they reached Harbour Bay ferry terminal & to get connected, time will be wasted at the custom with the help of staffs trying to get online there. I just scan at when i am in Singapore Harbourfront Ferry terminal, screenshot & save it on my phone. By the time i reach harbour bay, just show them since there is an one hour timezone difference between Singapore & Indonesia.

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Since need to download the Pedulilindungi app, so i thought i just post the QR code here. Just testing if it will work.

Hehehe...i just tested on my Pedulilindungi apps & it works well (both attached photos in this post works).

If anyone has the Batam center ferry terminal version of QR code, do help to post it here (for convenient sake).

Thank you.

[btmchiong]

this is the batam center ferry terminal qr code

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last time using majestic ferry they have it in the ferry when boarding the staff will ask you to scan it

[benbee]

My experience at batam center, early aug went in solo there's few table outside arrivals gate, I only show once my vac cert on my phone. follow by late aug and 6th sep they never check, I just hand over arrivals card to them & off i go. In batam I don't even have the safe entry apps, none of the malls ask for it.

[nitecrawllerr]

Went in thru harbourbay. All rushing in. Theres two female staffs couldnt cope. So many bypass the pelindungi scan and went in straight to imm counters.😁

[Black Page]

Originally Posted by nitecrawllerr

Went in thru harbourbay. All rushing in. Theres two female staffs couldnt cope. So many bypass the pelindungi scan and went in straight to imm counters.😁

Indonesia boleh!

[nono1973]

Bro nitecrawllerr, you must have gone in during the weekends. I went in on weekdays & there was nearly a dozen staffs sitting there checking the apps (i am the 1st guy entering the immigration hall,hehehe...& i looked back).

(weekend always not many people work in their immigration side, weekdays often full manpower)

Originally Posted by btmchiong

this is the batam center ferry terminal qr code

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Sincerely thank you for this good info.

Originally Posted by Black Page

If you are there, would you mind, please, to ask when you pass by?

I went to have my "haircut" near Utama area & happens to see Newton building.

Food court still open there, but...

I checked with the security sitting on a chair under this signboard with my google translate, he tells me Newton disco still in operation.

As i was there at noon, he might be worry that i didn't know what time Newton discotheque starts. He tells me Newton discotheque starts from 10pm onward (comes at 10pm onward).

Hope this helps answer your doubts you have over the last few months.

[nitecrawllerr]

Originally Posted by nono1973

Bro nitecrawllerr, you must have gone in during the weekends. I went in on weekdays & there was nearly a dozen staffs sitting there checking the apps (i am the 1st guy entering the immigration hall,hehehe...& i looked back).

(weekend always not many people work in their immigration side, weekdays often full manpower)

Bro, I went in yesterday. Today afternoon came back.

I never like to be the first nor the last pax. Infront of me was like a dozen pax. All walking so fast, so kancheong. Ferry half full even though its school holidays. The ferry fare is the killer.

[Black Page]

Originally Posted by nono1973

As i was there at noon, he might be worry that i didn't know what time Newton discotheque starts. He tells me Newton discotheque starts from 10pm onward (comes at 10pm onward).

Hope this helps answer your doubts you have over the last few months.

Super Nono! Thank you!
So it's open. Yes, it opens at 10pm, but until 1am there is (there was?) almost nobody.
We shall see if the same zoo is still there

[handcell]

Originally Posted by nitecrawllerr

Bro, I went in yesterday. Today afternoon came back.
I never like to be the first ……..The ferry fare is the killer.

Now $70 both ways is the cheapest right? Correct me if i am wrong!

[nitecrawllerr]

Originally Posted by handcell

Now $70 both ways is the cheapest right? Correct me if i am wrong!

Yes. $70. At harbourbay.

[bensg]

Originally Posted by xiaosinful

Is there any major new hunts or changes after covid? Business is worse/better? Great to see Nono post again

Anyone heading there this weekend ?

Heading there Saturday morning, wanna tag along? Pm me

[BFOMF5]

Originally Posted by handcell

Now $70 both ways is the cheapest right? Correct me if i am wrong!

SINDO give MG,PG $5 discount for HBF <> BTC.

[ilovetogobatam]

Originally Posted by Black Page

Part of post-COVID recovery and return to normal life is returning to see Nono's posts from Batam.

ya, agreed.

[nitecrawllerr]

Originally Posted by BFOMF5

SINDO give MG,PG $5 discount for HBF <> BTC.

And cab to and fro BTC <> Nagoya?

[benbee]

Originally Posted by nitecrawllerr

And cab to and fro BTC <> Nagoya?

average BTC to Nagoya grab RP35000, currently Sindo TM-BTC for ntuc member $5 off & if u use favepay u get 10% cashback amt to ard $6.5 (when in 6 sep, cashback expires 31 Dec 22) which can be used on next trip. save a bit for me as i depart from TM.