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Originally Posted by nitecrawllerr
At TBK the customs will confiscate and make you pay kopi money. They can detect enhancement pills fm their xray machine. But btm no idea. Maybe they allow or close one eye.
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Originally Posted by HeatguyAlvin
tried several times and am sure btm the customs never open their eyes  |
That must be an urban legend. Xray cannot detect the difference between viagra and aspirine.
Every time I cross the borders between Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, as well dozens of countries worldwide in all continents, I have a plastic bag (supermarket medium size) full of medicins of all types in my luggage. It's my emergency kit, in case I fall sick: antibiotics, painkiller, for cold, for fever, for wounds in case of accident, for this and that... OF course, I have also my sildenafil supply for the trip.
I was NEVER questioned, of course, and I am speaking not of a box of pills, but of a bag full of boxes. It's clearly for my personal use, not for reselling.
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Originally Posted by nono1973
Until today i still cannot figure out how a hotel with such good business & regulars can close down.
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Really? I am surprised you say that.
The reason was COVID!
The owner of Formosa, Chinese from Taiwan, looked at PRC and understood before any other in Indonesia, and in most of the world, the storm that was approaching. He closed and ran away with money just 1 month before the lockdowns and border closures stopped any hotel business for 2 years. Many people lost all money, people lost job and savings, but not him. He ran away with all cash before the ship sank, leaving all workers without a job and a lot of people without their legitimate money. Smart but damn man.
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Originally Posted by nono1973
Formosa's centralised safe box makes more sense to me.
To date, i cannot understand why the need for those safe box in Batam hotel room.
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Also here, I am surprised.
There are no such burglars in Batam. They do not come with heavy tools to take your box out of the wall.
The purpose of the safety box in the room (better in the room than centralized!) is to have a place where to keep your passport and money when unknown people comes to visit you and spend the night there.
Whenever I have someone in my room, I want to go to shower relaxed without fearing I lose my money because one of the girls takes it from the drawer. The safety box (in the room) is ESSENTIAL.
NOTE: if there is no safety box in the room, and the centralized box is not convenient for things one wants to put and take quickly, the alternative is the luggage. Put your precious things in the luggage, close the zip and add security code. The girl will not leave the room overnight while you sleep, taking your big bag.
(I know you don't have a big luggage, so you have to excavate in the wall of the bathroom... Well, I prefer the safety box
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