BataM Nightlife

Batam is 45 minutes from Singapore by ferry and a lot of Singaporean's and expatriates living in Singapore travel there on weekends to enjoy the cheaper nightlife than in Singapore. Cheaper drinks, cheaper massage and lots of beautiful bar girls!

Nightlife

The majority of the nightlife is consolidated in a few streets in the center of Nagoya with numerous pubs like The Last Pub, Classic's Pub, Lusy's Oar House Tavern, Red Cock Pub, Classic's Pub and Ice Bar. Most of the larger hotels have a disco or karaoke bar. The bar district is a self policed area. All the bars have their own bouncer who will kick you out of a bar if you are drunk, rude or obnoxious. The pubs and bars are opened until 1am or 2am on Friday and Saturday night. There is a nightclub in this district, called Steps that is opened later and has live music.Beer prices can be up to 27,000Rp for a small bottle of Bintang, Heineken and Guiness at the more expensive bars though generally they are around 23,000Rp. Prices during the day at most bars are cheaper until about 5pm.

The Last Pub is probably the best bar to hang out in. It is definitely the most popular and gets very busy on a Saturday night. charges 17,000Rp for a bottle of Bintang up until 5pm when they go up to 23,000Rp. Last Pub also serves great, reasonable priced food. Indonesian food like nasi or mie goreng or Western food like burgers, steaks or really good pizza!

Nightclubs

The Pacific Hotel, 5 minutes by taxi from the centre of Nagoya has a large, loud nightclub, Entry costs 40,000Rp which includes one drink. There are plenty of local girls here looking for a nice cashed up foreign man to go home with.

The Sphinx Disco, located in the Seruni Hotel is another good late night venue with loud music and beautiful single girls. Most nights they do not charge entry fee though drinks are expensive. Around 50,000Rp for a mixed spirits drink.

Maxim Nightclub is located just across from Pelita Hotel in Nagoya.

Massage centres or parlours in Batam

There are many massage centers that are reputable establishments that offer a professional massage service. Then again there are plenty of the dodgy massage palours that will give you a massage and depending on the girl, will offer you that happy ending you may want. There are several massage parlors in the bar district behind Harmoni Hotel which do offer the cheaper massage service like this. An hour massage can be as low as 75,000Rp though the girls will generally ask for another 150,000Rp for the happy ending or some call it a sensual massage and with most things in Indonesia a bit of bargaining can bring the price down.