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Originally Posted by localbest
Besides the money saving tips on ferry tickets, I would also like to share with brothers on other saving tips in batam but may not be applicable to everyone.
Below are some of them:
1) Transport expenses
Once arrived at harbourbay ferry terminal, the teksi supir will start asking the customer and will most likely quote a 55k-60k carrot cake price for a short journey of 2.5km to Formosa hotel.
If one is to walk further down and reach the entrance of harbourbay shopping, the price quoted by the taxi supir will be lower down to 50k, but if you bargain hard the price can be further reduce to 45k max.
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40k max. At the entrance of Harbour Bay Mall where there's is steps going down to carpark. If you can't speak bahasa, just signal 40 with your hand and if they don't accept, just smile and move on. Taxis are fine a dozen in Batam. Throw a stone and you might hit a taxi driver or sex worker...