Shirley,
So envy your zac zac can sleep thru the nite... Rhys still need nite feed and now even worse, coz think his upper teeth is coming out, so he recently keep waking up crying and fussing in the middle of the nite... sigh... when can i ever have a nice good sleep.... I want my banyan tree back!!!
BINTAN RESORT... BANYAN TREE
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Bintan hor, I only been to Banyan Trees and Bintan Lagoon Resort. After going to banyan for a few times, decided to go some other resort for a change and main reason also no money lah... but eee... machiam like hotel stay in Singapore lor... in fact worse than the hotels here... so no choice now, have to spend more money to go banyan liao.
The place there is fantastic... more for couples to relaz. Oh, not forgetting the jacuzzi in the villa... haa.. go in naked also no one see... oops...
For kids hor, i think it is pretti boring. Well, they can play at the beach, got very nice swimming pool and that's abt it for kids lor. But for 2D1N, should be ok. If you are want a lot of activities esp. for a family hor, think Club Med might be a better place to go...
Oh, another impt point hor, in Banyan Tree, all use USD... not cheap for having meals there. So we usually packed cup noodles there... otherwise hor, the meals there might cost you few hundreds. We very cheapo one... But i must mention that their food is VERY nice...
The trip i just went, we took our dinner alfresco style with a small live band singing for us, with the sea breeze and stars above, it is like paradize... all worth it...
Starz,
Me dun have special rates lah. I booked thru travel agents lor. Just that Banyan side got our records so they will try to make it a bit special for us, such as free gifts and free upgrade of villa.
I think i stayed in all the villa types before except on-the-rock. All these while, I ONLY book the cheapest one, Valley Villa. But they upgrade for us. So super value for money lor. This time, they upgraded us from Valley Villa to Bayfront (2 villa jump). Actually the difference between seafront or bayfront hor, is the layout of the villa and view. But hor, some of the cheaper villa also might have a better view than the more ex one... so heng suay...
I got a valley villa that time and the view was prefect. I got pix of all the villas i think (nothing to do there so me took pix of EVERYTHING!! including the toilet). I even got a video abt the villa... haa... if you interested to see, let me know ok?? All my friends and colleagues already brand me as Banyan Tree promoter liao... haa...