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Harris, originally uploaded by wantunn.

Back from my short short break to Batam. Stayed at the harris batam (http://www.harris-batam.com/). Hotel was a little old (they’re building a new extension now) but the spa was recently renovated and the price unbeatable. $218 for a 4 hour spa, and get this, 1-for-1 for the month of September.

Anyway, we went for 2 4-hour sessions and learned the following:
- Hot and cold stone massage sounds better then it actually is. The stones were either too hot or too cold
- If the water level in your jacuzzi keeps dropping, it’s not magic. Check if someone stepped on the draining plug and accidentally dislodged it.
- 4 hours is a long time.
- Short thin women are actually quite strong and can give rather painful massages.

The recently renovated spa basically occupied the top floor of the building and consisted of a bunch of individual massage huts with curtains and bamboo blinds separating each other and basically each hut is built for 2 persons (couple huts). During one of the sessions, we heard 2 guys in the hut behind us. From their conversation, I guess they were having the complimentary spa and did not know it was actually a couple hut. So two guys in a couple hut having a massage and then they realise that there is only 1 jacuzzi which they had to SHARE. Thats when they couldn’t stop giggling and one of them loudly proclaims “Wo zhe meh gen wo de lau po jiao dai” (translated: what am I going to tell my wife).

Other thing we overheard was a couple making out in another hut. The girl couldn’t keep her ah-hem, volume down. It got cut off real quick when the masseur came by to tell them their time was up. She switched from moaning to “hang on, we’re still changing” real quick.




P.S. Coffee soda sounds better then it tastes.