When you stay at Cassia Bintan, part of Banyan Group in Bintan, you'll be next to a golf course, you'll be a 8-minute drive from Bandar Bentan Telani Ferry Terminal. This beach aparthotel is within the region of Snake River Temple and Batam Centre Ferry Terminal.
Head down to the water and enjoy a day at the private beach, or take advantage of other recreational amenities, which include an outdoor pool. This aparthotel also features complimentary wireless internet access, concierge services, and babysitting (surcharge).
Enjoy a meal at the restaurant or snacks in the aparthotel's coffee shop/cafe. Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge, the beach bar, or the poolside bar.
Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff. A ferry terminal shuttle is provided at no charge (available on request), and free self parking is available onsite.
Make yourself at home in one of the 81 guestrooms, featuring kitchens with stovetops and microwaves. Rooms have private balconies or patios. 40-inch LED televisions with cable programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and separate sitting areas.
"1. Well-equipped apartment. Safe, ironing equipment, umbrella, beach bag, crockery, cutleries, pot and pan and best of all – extremely comfortable bed and pillows and new air-conditioners!
2. Clean and modern interior. A few small flying insects that got into the room (inevitable due to the surrounding garden/forests and opening of doors) but thankfully, didn’t encounter any mosquitoes or ants in the apartment – what a relief! Fogging in the common areas is done twice a week – Tues and Thur late nights. Didn’t detect any unpleasant drainage smell in the toilet/shower so I’m perfectly happy with my assigned Queen Suite apartment!
3. Balcony views:
(i) Block 1 is beach front apartments with full sea view
(ii) Block 2 is made up of two sections: one section faces the Garden and the other section faces the Car-park
(iii) Blocks 3 and 4 have either (i) Garden view - with partial sea view on highest floor) OR, (ii) Forest view – with partial sea view too on highest floor).
(iv) Block 5 on the top floors have distant sea view (this block is on a slope and furthest from the reception and pool)
4. Friendly staff. My requests were attended to swiftly.
5. Private beach (shared among the 3 resorts there) is reasonably clean with fairly clear sea (there’re jelly fish warning signages).
6. Pool at Cassia is smaller but newer and cleaner than at Angsana. A new pool bar construction is currently being carried out in front of Cassia’s pool and the hoarding blocks the beautiful sea view from the infinity pool until mid Nov – what a pity!
7. Adequate breakfast spread but houseflies and birds were spotted in the restaurant – made me worry about the hygiene level
8. Various English movie channels but screen resolution was poor and images often lagged for a few seconds – makes the movie watching experience tiresome and annoying. Only the International news and Singapore channels did not suffer from lags/poor image quality
9. Some of the building and lift direction signs in the different apartment blocks are puzzling and confusing – the signs are probably very clear ONLY to the people who planned/designed them - certainly NOT easily understood by foreign guests! You need to get into the correct lifts in different buildings to reach the blocks furthest from the reception (to avoid climbing any stairs or slopes eg blocks 4 and 5). I only figured out the various sheltered linkways/correct lifts after a few trial and errors, lol!
10. Credit card is needed for room deposit during check in even if room cost was already paid in advance during online booking: 4 Million Indonesian Rupiah per apartment per night"