Hehehe....1st day of my trip, upon arriving to Harbour Bay and was about to walk to the hotel...a BIG rainstorm with thunders and heavy down pour. How BIG is the downpour...this BIG...
The hotel was suppose to come pick us all up, they didnt (until i call them later). Not the 1st time same thing happened,so i arent surprised BUT i still got to call the hotel up to give them a piece of my mind before they eventually got someone to pick us up. But again, that was about one hour after we have reached Bayfront Mall.
Bloody hotel got no business from Monday to Friday, yet they can make such "stupid" mistake by allowing guest/s to wait at the ferry terminal for about an hour due to POOR coordination. Its a Friday when we arrived and
we were the only 6 guests in the hotel occupying 3 rooms in it on a Friday.
How did i know, because 2 of the hotel staffs tell me so. Because during breakfast, we were the ONLY living human in it. Because there is no buffet breakfast. Breakfast was ordered from the room service menu. And we have our breakfast in a cafe on the 1st floor instead of the breakfast area on the 2nd floor.
Fair enough, the hotel was just less than 5 mins walk away from the ferry terminal. All of us were not handicaps, but i didnt know which groups of uncles and which aunties was coming in this trip, hence i thought it was the previous aunties and uncles in my past trips who has some walking issue that would be coming. It turn out this trip's aunties and uncles were physical fit (yes, even fitter than me,hehehe...). If it werent for the rain, we would probably walk over.
Anyway, what tick me off was that i didnt bring the hotel's number with me, hence i have to do a search on the internet via my mobile phone, which i do not like to (i have 2 Telkomsel sim card, remember? But i dont like surfing on phone). Eventually found their number online, called them and they ask some seriously stupid question/s, and that was the last straw before i blew my top.
Uncles and aunties werent upset over them being late tho, so i guess i am the only one being paranoid (i believe if i dont make that "call", they will never come but aunties and uncles didnt know),hehehe...this hotel was recommended by a friend who tells me its good. Seriously, i dont see how good it is as i am typing this down now. Maybe it was due to my expectation as if its like Formosa Hotel.
I seriously didnt like the idea of the 1st event of the trip turning out not according to my arrangement. Maybe, its the weather's fault. Maybe its the hotel's fault...it could also be my fault too (bad temper). Thank heaven,uncles and aunties who were way more older than me has got more patience and were more optimistic than me. Glad my sudden mood swing didnt affect their mood that day,hehehe...
This is just Day 1, scene 1's ranting....haiz...
* one of the oldest uncle's wife in this trip was a Vietnamese lady from HCMC (still) holding Vietnamese passport who was on her way to becoming Singapore PR. I got a bit worried hence i pass her my spare Nokia 150 phone with Indo sim card with her before her passport was chop in the queue; thats in case she met with an issue with the immigration officers. (luckily, she brought her PR letter)
** immigration in Indonesia were known to "disturb" 1st time tourist with non-Singapore foreign passport (as according to my understanding from trip-advisor). No harm being extra careful.