Hotel Windsor Square
Welcome to Hotel Windsor Square, located in the heart of Batam's shopping and entertainment Jodoh district. We have deluxe twin rooms, deluxe double rooms and VIP suites for both smoking and non-smoking guests. If you just want to get away from it all for a holiday in the lush warmth of a very cheap, easily accessible tropical
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Batam is an island in the Riau Islands Province of Indonesia, 415 km˛, with about 700,000 inhabitants, of whom about 85% are of Malay-Indonesian origin and 14% are Chinese. The island is located about 20 kilometres south of Singapore, a 1 hour ferry ride away. Once a wild island covered with jungle and inhabited by a few Orang Laut tribes, Batam changed in the late 1970s when the Indonesian government made it a special development zone, later part of the Sijori Growth Triangle, enjoying free trade zone status. In the last 40 years, jungle disappeared and Batam turned into a strong industrial centre, with population increasing from a few thousands in the early 1960s to 700,000 today. Among the local Chinese population, Teochew (dialect) and Mandarin are the primary lingua francas. Batam is also famous in the tourist industry mostly as a destination for Singaporeans. It has a few resorts and leisure facilities.
