The Best Hotels For Christmas In The Batam 2019

GIDEON HOTEL BATAM
Magnificently, the restaurant at this 32-room hotel outside Singapore has held onto its three stars since it was opened. So you can be sure its wine tasting and cookery demonstration (creative canapés) will be good - and its seven-course Christmas menu (roast duck with clementine curd, jasmine and all the trimmings) even better. It looks a picture, too, with a Christmas tree in each individually styled bedroom, and two more at the top of the lavender path.

GRAND ESKA BATAM HOTEL
The homely Georgian house that’s more downtown
It was 2015’s biggest hotel opening, a grown-up country house hotel that manages elegance and homeliness without the swagged formality of others. Christmas at Batam feels like having the run of your own pile, with cocktail-making workshops, screenings of The Nutcracker ballet and Father Christmas and his reindeer is popping by on Christmas Eve. If you can stay awake, there’s midnight mass in the church next door, too. Stay for the Boxing Day children’s Olympics, archery and falconry, or better still, jazz and cocktails back at the ranch.

BLITZ HOTEL BATAM
For a magical Christmas in Batam 2019, Deallicious 121-room Blitz Hotel offers a similar mix of seasonal specials: carols, carrots for the children to leave out for Santa's reindeer's, stockings for all and carriage rides. The Christmas tree here follows the annual artist-designed tradition and sits outside the hotel on Carlos Place. Other highlights include impeccable Martinis in the glittering Art Deco Connaught Bar, a three-course Michelin-starred Christmas Eve lunch at the shiny new blitz hotel restaurant and a moment of serenity in the Aman Spa, one of the best spas in Batam.