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One more thing he mention about the membership is free without any deadline.
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Yes,at the moment. i am sure you know how things can change w/o prior notice when business of any entities becomes good/no-good,hehehe...
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He also mentioned that Formosa is having its repainting of the façade of the building to give a new look.
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Correct. Kind of like their new look today and i believe,there will be more changes in the making.
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Therefore I guess unlikely Formosa hotel will be closed in the near future as the hotel have already spent some money on the repainting as well as upgraded some of its hotel rooms, toilets, VIP massage room,restaurant. Its business is growing and earning good money from kings massage, alisan KTV, hotel rooms and the restaurants and unlikely the boss wants to give up the business.
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I believe i should be the last person here who wish to see Formosa closed down. Its my Batam 1st hotel which i stayed in. Besides all the good memories,I have been served like a prince there nearly all the time,i have access to so many goodies there most other customers couldnt have. Those who has been to Batam with me will know,i practically knew most of the staffs there from their technician to the housekeepers,security guards,room service staffs,IT technicians,massage girls,some KTV girls (and Mamis) etc etc (not counting the ground floor receptionist,marketing staffs,restaurant waiters/waitress/manageress,bellboys etc). Some even knows that i can walk to "my room" blindfolded from the 1st floor stairway,hehehe.. (not exactly 100% blindfold tho,i peeped..hehehe..)
Its also my Batam school of newbie cheongsters where most of my 29 trips of Batam travelling history were written with more than 50 bros i knew in person from this forum itself has stayed there alongside me before,hehehe...when i hear that it maybe closed down during then,i also must standby in case one day if it really does. So i find the need to prepared at least 1 or 2 hotels that were close to Formosa's proximity that has similar things of what i am looking for in Batam.
From another angle of view,i often recommend Formosa Hotel if any newbie seek my advise but i also recommend them to move out of formosa once they "graduated",hehehe...my reason is simple,so not everyone will crowd in this newbie hotel (my perspective) and makes it harder for myself to book the room/s from there in future. Another thing will be they need to seek out what they enjoyed most in Batam,have their own definition of the best hotel accommodation,best bonk,best type/s of Batam girl/s,most wanted fetish,best food etc etc. They have to venture out on their own thereafter.
Many like when i 1st started, who has never been to Batam before, stayed in Formosa Hotel as their 1st.
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Lucky plaza has also a large pool of customers with good business but the building seems to look abit rundown and therefore there may be a possibility that it will be taken over.
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The plot of land has already been bought over together with Center point mall,Formosa hotel etc (i hear). I dont know how the Batam shop-leasing-system works,maybe the lease not up yet or they got an extension for another donkey years? I remember seeing quite a handful of shops like New Berlian,the older Zhi Char store and some other shops moving off in that area about a year ago. But today,i see new zhi char store,a 24 hour alfa mart,hair salons,provision store/s and other shops starting to emerge from that area. Not forgetting the price increase in Mickey Mouse Bak Kut Teh too.
That could be a sign.
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As for centrepoint, there is a high chance that it will be bought over by new developers since it has been vacant.
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My hearsay info about the land bought over in that area started from the HP shop in Centerpoint who happens to have a few branches of shops at Lucky Plaza, Nagoya Hill Mall,DC Mall etc. They already closed down their shop in Centerpoint for quite a while. Even heard Center point are likely to turn into a hotel. Like i say,i am just hearsaying....nothing i can do about it as i arent no final decision-maker of the land except to prepare myself if things of the hearsay really happens.
Whatever changes that come,live still goes on...
I found some photos of how Centre Point used to look like many years again before i even stepped into Batam.
Thats was about 2010 time...according to the net.