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Originally Posted by retirebatam
2) The waiting time for grabcar is shorter than on call taxi, maybe because there are too many batam grab driver therefore when there is a job, the driver will fast hand fast leg take up the assignment..  |
Just some extra info, a small handful Taxis at Harbour Bay ferry terminal has taken up my ideas base on the "10k , 20k & 50k" theory,hehehe...
Told them, the floor got 10k rupiah, 20k rupiah & 50 rupiah, which of the 3 notes will you pick up?
Almost all of the them choose to pick all 3 notes.
Meaning to say, the taxis at Harbour Bay Ferry terminal (some of the them, not all) were taxi drivers & were also Grabcar app user, as well as Gojek & Maxim app user.
Told some taxi drivers there that most if not all tourist prefer familiar faces when it comes to holiday travelling. They can always provide good service now & then later give their number & name to the tourist/s they fetch & ask them to call them when taxi is needed at cheaper than "regular-cut-throat price".
In this case, both tourist & taxi drivers all winners.
I notice such changes in Batam when i takes taxis at Harbour Bay recently.
Also, i make it a point to NEVER to take taxis at the queuing sign outside KFC, hehehe.... anywhere but there.
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Originally Posted by retirebatam
While walking past harbourbay mall, notice that the bridge that link the ferry terminal to the mall has been removed. Harbourbay Mall was reduced to skeleton meaning that the walls and beams of the building removed except the structure and the foundation remains. Probably the architect going to re-design the New Harbourbay Mall.
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I think in Singapore, once building were about to be torn down for some major work. No shops or business/es will be allowed to be operating inside its premises, hehehe... but i see Gogo Supermarket still in operation.
And i'm loving it...hehehe...as i bought most of my regular hotel-stay necessities there.
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Originally Posted by nono1973
If there is anything i learned in Batam, that is do not believe what my eyes can see in Batam,hehehe...
Below is a building called Harbour Bay Mall. The whole building is left only with skeleton structure.
If i tell there are shops STILL in business in this buidling, will you believe me?
Photos were taken last month on the same day. |
Another thing you may wish to take note in future if you pass by there, is that there is a Money Changer near to the Wey Wey Bridal shop there closer to the car gantry area almost opposite Gogo supermarket.
They offered as good rate as the money changer opposite ex Formosa Hotel.
100% better rate than any Harbour Bay ferry terminal money changer.
By the way, i came back to Singapore one day after you....hehehe....