Bintan Agro Resort is located in the south-eastern coast of Bintan Island. You have to take a 1 hour and 45 mins ferry from Tanah Merah to Tanjung Pinang followed by a 45 mins transfer from the ferry terminal to reach there.
We took the 8.50am ferry from Indofalcon and thus we set off to Tanah Merah about 7.15am. Parked the car, got our ferry tickets, went for a quick breakfast (coffee, tea, bread and eggs), quick smoke, went through the boarding gate and onto the ferry..the lower deck of the ferry is already full by the time we got on so we had to sit on the upper deck which is open... becoz it's early morning, the sun isnt scorching hot.. thanks god... and the sea breeze was damn good in the face.. not too bad after all..
After about 1hr and 30 mins, we arrive at Tanjung Pinang. The queue to clear customs was really long and it really took us quite a while as we were almost towards the last of the queue..Met up with the local staff from the resort who will arrange for our land transfer and after about 45 mins drive, we arrived at the resort!! Checked in and went straight to our room..
The room was big and spacious. Rest & relax for a while before heading out to the Asiana Bistro and Bar for lunch. Hubby ordered Fried Rice and I ordered Fried Noodles. His came with fried egg, satay and rice crackers and mine came with fried chicken wing and fried egg. Nice....
After that, we took a walk around the resort.. it's a nice quiet resort with a recreation centre providing some sea sports activities and day tours to nearby islands, 2 places to eat, 1 spa and 2 small swimming pools..good for people like us who are not planning to do much anyway. They spent quite a bit of work to keep the grounds green & tidy.. you kept seeing people sweeping the floor of leaves...clearing puddles of waters, trimming weeds etc.. me and hubby grew up in kampungs so we are quite fine with the whole rustic kampong feel to the whole place..
After our walk, we went back to the room and I caught up with some sleep.. getting a little dazed from not having enough sleep.. haha.. then we went to our spa session at Oceania Spa at 4pm Indo Time.. Hubby went for thai massage which was conducted at the outdoor beach gazebo at the beachfront (Nice!) and I went for the aromatheraphy massage which is conducted in one of the rooms with seaview.. but there isn't any point seriously since you can't hear the waves neither can you feel the seabreeze neither can you see the seaview as you are facing down?? Still prefer the spa at KTM resort. I signed up for a 90 mins sessions but most of the time seem to be spent on massaging my legs as compared to my shoulders and the indo lady that was massaging me didnt have a very good command of English so I never asked her to do more of my shoulders.. never mind.. at least we both had a massage
Stayed in our room for a while since we are not that hungry from our very late and filling lunch.. only headed out for dinner at the Sun Moon Restaurant and Bar at around 8pm coming to 9pm i think.. ordered steamed rice with baby kailan, oatmeal sotong and chilli crabs with beer! I had the chilli crab craving for a long time now and I am so happy that I finally get to lay my hands on crabs! The food is seriously good...and it's good to have a proper nice meal with hubby...
Then it's back to the room for more beers and sleep! Woke up super early the next day because the sun was super bright and shining into the room at 6am in the morning.. gosh.. and I thought I can sleep late... duhz.. but anyway we managed to fall in and out of sleep until 9am before we headed out for breakfast.. breakfast spread was okay.. much better than the fried rice, fried beehoon and fried noodles plus bread at KTM. They have counters cooking eggs, fried kway tiao and roti prata, lotong, fried fritters etc etc.. at least more varieties.. had a good breakfast, confirmed our late check out at 3pm and stayed in the room till then.. (since our land transfer is only coming at 4pm and our ferry is at 6pm Indo time..). Checked out and headed over to Sun Moon for our lunch.. which is Sun Moon fried rice (very special) and sambal kang kong.. (another craving of mine)
Then it's time to make our way home... the top deck of the ferry this time is packed with people.. maybe because it's night time and not so hot as compared to the morning or afternoon ferry but at one point I was seriously thinking the ferry is overcrowded man... but anyway we made our way home safety and by the time we got home, it is already past 10pm... home sweet home
