Greeted with lemon grass tea and iced cold hand towel for the scorching hot weather upon arrival. Good thing about booking a reservation here is that they actually provide bus shuttles from the ferry terminal to the resort, so it's really convenient. They have wifi throughout the entire resort, and occasional Singapore signal...... Not sure if that's a good thing being so near home hahahaha.


Montigo provides 24 hour check-in provided if the room is available. Sadly, they were fully booked the day before so we did not managed to check-in right upon arrival. We were early enough to enjoy the breakfast buffet though! So the staff suggested us to go for the breakfast buffet while we are waiting since the next room is only going to be ready at 3PM


The breakfast buffet is insane. Probably because I haven't had such amazing food all in one place for quite a while. The last was Pan Pacific Hotel's buffet @ Edge, shit that's some epic godlike buffet over there hahaha.
Montigo provides international breakfast buffet, ranging from traditional indo cuisine to european's beef goulash, to our beloved congee, and then my favorite cereal bar; they have a selection so broad you'd be full before you even get to try everything. So my advice is you take a little bit of everything, so that you get to try all of their food before you get too full to devour their pastry and desserts.


We were done with breakfast at about 11:30AM, after that we took a short walk around the beach/jetty area since we have the time. But we were so unfamiliar with the place because it's our first day so we ended up heading back to the reception to chill for a bit until our room is ready.


Back at the reception;

We managed to finally check-in at around 1PM, after rolling around for 3 hours hahahhaha

Did I mention that Montigo Resorts is actually friggin huge? The buggy will transport you from the reception to your villa or the restaurant area because it's that huge. Sure you can walk, but it's summer all year round, I'd suggest not la, ah?


We booked the Hill Top Villa, located right at the top of Montigo, just one straight path down from the reception so it isn't too unaccessible tbh. But we were extremely surprised at how freaking big the villa actually is. Kimmy didn't think it would be this big when we were making our reservation.


Anyway, it was almost time for dinner after we're done swimming and settling down in the villa. Called for room service because we were so freaking lazy and the surrounding area has absolutely nothing. Nearest town is at least a 15 minutes drive away? But the restaurants within the resort itself serves amazing food, there is also Tiigo bar at night with Dj spinning for you to chill!

That sums up our day 1 @ Batam, hahaha. Tbh didn't really do much except relaxing and enjoying the slow pace lifestyle here. We booked a session of "Chef's Experience" for tomorrow morning. We gonna be fishing for our own fish and then learning to cook some traditional Indo food, hahaha. Xiao eggcited. Update again tomorrow!