On Saturday, Andrew and I were up and grabbed a cab to the ferry terminal. I had a great breakfast of kaya toast and soft boiled eggs before we boarded our ferry to Bintan, Indonesia.
Bintan is a resort island with the primary purpose of Singaporian tourism. It is about 50km away, across the Singapore Straight.
Being one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, I was hoping to get some good/close pictures of some ships. However, the ferry was fully enclosed, and there was enough splash/spray of water on the windows to make that rather tough. We stayed at the Angsana Resort & Spa Bintan which was just a short coach ride from the ferry terminal. It was quite a gorgeous resort with a pool that looks great in pictures (probably better than what the pool actually was) and a private beach.
Our room was quite nice, up on the 4th (top) floor.
The resort didn’t seem all that busy and with the size of the beach, there was plenty of space. We got there in the early afternoon, and spent all the time while the sun was out along the beach (sometimes with beer).
The only issue with being on the resort, was there was no other place to go. There isn’t even a town or anything nearby, just a couple of tourist trap shops at the ferry terminal selling fake Polo goods. That being said, we had lunch in their main restaurant, and I had some Mie Goreng.
After spending the rest of the afternoon at the beach/pool, they were having and Indonesian buffet in the main restaurant for dinner. They had many kinds of skewers, and they all went well with peanut sauce.
After dinner, with it dark out, the pool looked quite impressive.
They had a games room with a couple of foosball tables in it, so we managed to keep ourselves occupied before heading off to bed.
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