Jade | Doing her ballet stretches

 

Velle Cooks | Dinner

Tonight we are having egg tofu, xiao bai cai and melon pork rib soup.

Velle Cooks | Breakfast at Home

 

Jade | Sleeping

 

Jade | Sleeping

3D2N | Bintan Day 3 | One of A Kind Resort

 

Breakfast. Packed our luggage, the boys went out to catch grasshoppers and we checked out.

Here's my thoughts on One of A kind Bintan.

1. The drive from Ferry terminal is very far, at least an hour drive. If you are already located so far, you should at least provide transfer for guests from Ferry terminal to your resort.
   
2. There is not much food options out here, only their restaurants which is Azura and Oceanhouse.
3. Swimming Pool should have bath towels for guests to use.
   
4. There is no cable tv in the room. Sigh. There is practically nothing to watch for both adults and children. Hotel/Resort could have at least provided a Smart TV if there is no cable channels to choose from. Fortunately we brought board games to play with the children.
   
5. The card access. If one card can open both doors on 1st storey and 2nd storey would be great. But this is not the case. So must always remember which card is for which floor and always remember to bring your card along.
6. My master room door frame is spoilt, so we had difficulty in closing our door every time. 
7. The 2 bicycles which they provided were also faulty. Brakes couldn't work and Jules fell down. But I suppose this is not a game changer.
8. OMG, my hot water kettle was very dirty, even after boiling water for 2 times, there was black grime coming out from the kettle when I pour the water into the sink. Because of this, I couldn't eat my cup noodles. 
   

What I liked about the place:

1. Nice double sinks for master room.
2. Nice heated and automatic toilet water closet.
3. Each villa has its own swimming pool.
4. Master balcony glass floor and my view that overlooks a field of lalang. It was quite scenic.
   

Jade | Sleeping

 

so cute, she holds her two hands together when she is sleeping.

3D2N | Bintan | Swimming Pool Photos

 

Family Photo!

Above: Jules hands up photo. ><

The only photo of just me and hubs.

 treasuring the moments that Jules still likes me to give him a kiss!

3D2N | Bintan Day 2 | One of A Kind Resort

 

 

Good Morning Bintan, our breakfast spread!  I had the mee soto and mee goreng. The boys liked al the waffles and sweet buns for breakfast.

I was wondering why there was no egg station, then I realised that you had to order. Aiyoh. I ordered sunny side ups.

Besides their mee soto, I tried their porridge too. It is right next to the mee soto. It is plain porridge, so I added chicken (from mee soto), soy sauce, fried anchovies. 

I think all malay cuisine is nice, the rest are acceptable.

Love the traditional pitch roof architecture here. 

Reminds me of my Architecture history lessons on Minangkabau.

Breakfast drizzled alittle, it is a very short stroll from the breakfast area back to our Villa. All the pitch roof villas are call Villa Isla. In the centre, there is a water feature and koi pond.

Each villa, the resort provided 2 bicycles.

Above: the communal swimming lap pool is situation above the reception area. See the hot pink float at the staircase? That's my kids making their way to the swimming pool without me!

Above: at the swimming pool! 

There are no bath towels here, no floats and no what-so-ever. You will need to bring all your pool stuff. 

Floats, goggles, sunblock, towels.

Above: for lunch, we walked to their Oceanhouse restaurant. Ordered Soup Mie & Udang (Jade), Soup Ayam Dan Wonton (James, but he didn't really like it), Tumis Bok Choy (me), Bintang Beer (2x), Gado Gado (me), Ayam Baker (hubs) and Slam burger (Jules).

Total bill came up to 482,000 rupiah.

Above: Jade and her prawn noodles. There were 5 large river prawn noodles.

Stir fry xiao bai cai for me.

Ayam bakar (this was quite good that hubs ordered again for his dinner). I had Gado Gado, the peanut sauce was delicious!

Above: Our lunch looked so colourful and sumptous!

Above: Jules Slam Burger. OMG. It was so huge!

Jade loved to have a flower by her ear. She looked really sweet and very resorty. We stayed at Villa No. 5.

Before dinner, we had a stroll along Trikora Beach.

And we saw a school of small black fishes swimming so close to the shore!

Evening came and past. we had our dinner at Azura Restaurant. Hubs ordered his Ayam Bakar, Jules and James each had a serving of Double Decker (sandwich), while me and Jade shared a Kwetiau. I ordered a strawberry mojito for myself, the kids each had 1 can of sprite. Total bill was 386,000 rupiah.