Bintan Escape! Day 1!

Video of the trip HERE (Part 1) & HERE (Part 2)

It was a very impromptu and last minute trip to Bintan with the 2 cray cray women.

Was excited that I could travel with Mr Lah for the last trip of the year.

His job requires him to be busy for the CNY period, so this short getaway was just the great way to end the 2014 with him.

Yah, as always, the forced face when asked to take picture!

And fast forward! Our first selfie on the island of Bintan!

We stayed at Nirwana Resort Hotel Bintan, and there was a free shuttle which too us from the ferry terminal to the resort. 

The resort was a stones throw away and we literally took only less than 5 minutes to get to the resort lobby.

As we arrived a tad too early, we weren't able to check in, so the typical tourists' calls for activities in the resort. Headed to the resorts' Recreation Centre to check out the activities that they offer.

As it was about 10am Bintan time, most activities were not open (BOWLING!!!)So we had to chill by the cafe before we decided on the shooting range.

FYI: the pricing of the F&B are all comparable to the pricings in Singapore or even Sentosa!

That's the only setback though.

The rest of the experience was great.

Finally! the bowling centre was open.

The front desk did give us 2 coupons for bowling, so free of course play luh! hahaha

Team Chio Bu! *HAHAAHHAHAHA*

Team Enemy!

Im not telling you who won! hahahha

Played some ping pong before it was time to check in.

We changed and got ready to check out the beach nearest to our resort front.

This is awkward. What you don't see behind the camera. 

 They managed to catch a mini hermit crab and was very amused by it! There were so many little hermit crabs around.

  My scary back view. hahahhahahahahha!

Took the darkest ride of our lives into the village area and to the end of the island, to reach a really delicious kelong place.

Thinking long and hard, what to order, as all the dishes seemed delicious!

The happy couple ordered!

FOOD IS SERVED!!!! WOWOWOWOWOWOW!

I know you're having a very bad craving and am thinking of heading to chomp chomp this very moment right... *Raise eyebrows*

 Kangkong

 Cereal Sotong

 Butter prawn

 salted egg crab

this ended off our day 1 in Bintan!

The dinner was great, and I'm still yearning for it till today!

A Long Long Night; Literally Long

HELLUVA NIGHT!

Started off with meeting a few of us to sit in the limo before heading to Shanghai Dolly to pick the birthday girls.

Hello~! Trying to get a proper pic here please..

Thats better!

Picked them up and surprised them in the Limo! 

We had beer and only beer. 

Thing to note, corkage is super expensive in the limo.

I just don't get it! The corkage is $80 per bottle. Nope, you didn't see it wrong. $80.

Its the same price as my champagne!

So we just ordered some beer and drank it in the limo.

The limo was booked from http://www.cosmosine.com

You may wish to check out their website for more information on the pricing.

 Thats beer in the glass FYI.hahah

  The driver was friendly and they were really nice! They drove randomly around orchard, and we started waving to random people. It was really fun!

We were about to arrive at our secret location, so we definitely needed them to blindfold themselves up!

  They were so upset they couldn't take a proper picture of themselves with the limo.

Group A tightening the masks whilst group B hurried up to prepare the room!

  A group shot is a must!

Still blindfolded even up till the moment they sat on the chair!

Obviouslyyyy, halloween themed.

We were joking that it looked like some witchcraft session going on.

BTW, those are all shots of different mixtures. Some of which were not as bad as the rest.

And each of them had to down 7 shots in a row. *Oooops*

Thinking long and hard before picking the proper shot glass.

This was a very scary process though.

CHAMPAGNE TIME!!

MY FAVOURITE!

They joked that I looked like the Tiger beer girl for the night. 

Perhaps Tiger could have me as their ambassador. hahaha!

And they should.. Because look at our fridge!

Tiger Tiger Tiger Tiger..

 Sharlyn came at the later part with a birthday cake for the girls.

Chocolate cake is a must.

 Time for a selfie with the survivors of the night. The rest knocked out. haha

GOOD NIGHT WORLD!

xoxo,

Cherylhee