Travelogue Boracay - Reviews

Hotel Review

I think I did a review in my first post. But whatever, i'll just do a proper one here.

Stayed at Patio Pacific Hotel near Station 2.

It's about 10-15min slow walk to the main D'Mall shopping area.

As you can see below, it is very basic setup and the bed is not as good and firm.

You can feel the spring when you sleep.

Our view from our main door. Yup, isn't very fantastic. haha..

The Garden Cafe - breakfast area. The breakfast is very simple, and it changes daily. Only thing that didn't change was the omelette station. 

The setup when walking towards the swimming pool.

Activity Prices

And the MOST IMPORTANT THING!!!!

Prices!!! How not to get cheated in Boracay!

Yes, they will double or even triple the prices, so this is the local rate.

Do your research before you go, and hopefully you chance upon my blog. hahaha.

Good luck and have fun!!!

P/S: Worth to try is Parasailing when sunset which I totally regret not doing. :(

Last but not least, you may always ask me and I'll try to help!!! :):):)

Travelogue Boracay - December 23rd - 27th 2013 (Day 4-5)

For Day 1 & 2 of Boracay trip, click here.

For Day 3 of Boracay trip, click here.

Here's the last leg of my Boracay trip, Day 4.

Today is a rest & relax day, as half of the group went diving in the morning. So the rest who didn't go diving, slept in later and did our own activities.

For me, I went to the Town Centre to send post. :) I have the habit of sending postcards since my Aussie trip because I thought it would be nice to have a mini souvenir from the country's local stamp. And of course, pretty post cards. :)

Thereafter, we walked down the stretch of beach again and did abit of shopping. Tried the crepes that looked pretty but it was actually so-so only.

GGH bought Havaianas slippers for both of us. :) It's cheaper to buy there. Mine cost $30+.

After that, we went for a dip in the pool.

After the rest were back from diving, we all headed for Puka Beach! It's BEAUTIFUL!!!

Peaceful and photo worthy! It's not alot of people so it's very good for relaxing.

Puka Beach is actually 20min ride from our hotel, and it's uphill. It's right at the corner of Boracay left.

Like the chinese movie "Na Xie Nian"



Love this pic. Happy moments. :) (minus the extra haha) 

I totally forgot about taking picture for our Day 4 dinner so... this marks the end of Day 4.
Day 5 was go home day. So we only had morning free time. So, both of us went to cover Bulabog Beach which is just behind our hotel. So basically, we pretty much covered all the beach in Boracay. haha.
Bulabog Beach is quite dirty.. we went in the morning which was after a heavy rain so i'm not sure if it's the tides that brought up the dirt or it's just dirty every morning. But we saw people cleaning up the beach.

Bulabog Beach is more famous for Kite surfing and more atas house ard here. This is where you can see sunrise. But you will have to get up early as their sunrise is like 5am. haha..

We headed back to pack our bags, check out, and have our last meal at White Beach.

We went to the famous REAL COFEE to have their Calamansi muffin.

It's a very small shop so you need to really keep your eyes on to find it. I cannot remember where. hehe.

The real deal - Calamansi Muffin

Our last group photo

This marks the end of the wonderful trip. Love this trip and love the beach!!! It's really one of the best beaches I've been to and I'm gonna miss it!

Travelogue Boracay 23rd - 27th December 2013 (Day 3)

Ah. Back to my Boracay trip. This has been sitting in my draft post for about a week or so already. Year end closing is causing this is delay! But nonetheless, better late than never eh?

So Day 3 WAS the highlight of the trip - ARIEL'S POINT!

The price we paid was PHP1,600 per person. This package includes: (obviously) cliff jumping, kayaking, snorkelling, BBQ lunch, tea time snacks, and full flow drinks once you are on board the boat to Ariel's Point!The day begins at arriving at Ariel's Point Resort which is located near Station 1, very near to the Jonah's Shake, at ard 10am, before heading out for 30min ride before reaching the actual place. The day will end ard 4.30pm where you will take the boat back while watching the sun set.




Ariel's Point

 

My 5metre attempt. The Ariel's Point has 3 different jumping boards, lowest is 5m, then 10m, and highest 15m. You are advised to start jumping from the lowest one before moving up.

My advice: Do not stand at the board for too long. The more you hesitate, the more you will be scared to jump. Just walk off the board. I'm serious. haha.

Another advise, please please jump straight in, try your best not to bend your body cause you will get hurt very badly. You will get bruises, bad bruises, which I did when I jumped 10m. Ouch. Serious ouch.

Proof below. :( 



Me looking down thinking hard if I should jump. haha

 

Simple BBQ lunch.

Snorkelling. The beach is super clear, and has good view of beatiful corals and school of fishes. Boracay is definitely one of the best places to snorkel. :)



The big boat

Another advise: When returning back to shore, go early and chop seats on the upper deck. They limit the number of people on the upper deck so better go up the boat when they ask.

Why? Because, firstly the wind is good, and you get to view the sunset and of course, take pictures!

We ended the day with us settling for Shakey's Pizza. No photos because too hungry. haha... only got leftovers. But it's good. Better than Pizza Hut. haha.

Travelogue Boracay 23rd - 27th Dec 2013 (Day 1 & 2)

The ending of 2013 and a good start of 2014, I shall blog about my Boracay trip!!! :)

Out of the beach vacations I went, I can say this is one of the best I've been to!

The beach is clean and white (maybe that's why it's called white beach), the sky is just beautiful.

Isn't it just beautiful?

But before you get to the beautiful island, the travelling is a tiring one.

Singapore to Boracay Travelling:

We took Tigerair to Kalibo International Airport (3.5hrs),

Bus travel (2hrs), 10min boat ride to the island, and a mini shuttle into our hotel. In between, there was some waiting time. Basically, by the time we reach our hotel, we were tired and hungry cause we didn't eat since 11am. Due to flight delay, we reach at about 8pm. 

We checked in at Patio Pacific Boracay which is in between Station 1 & 2.  

Our bedroom. It's very basic room, bed was so-so only.

I was amazed the TV is not CRT tv. haha... which most of us expected that!

Review of Patio Pacific Hotel

After 4 nights of stay, the rooms are cleaned daily and neat. What I didn't like was the bed was too thin. You can sort of feel the spring. Also, the BAD BAD thing about the room is that the wifi sucks big time! The whole trip I gave up trying to connect to wifi cause it takes forever! The only strong connectivity is if you go to their swimming pool area.

What I like is the swimming pool is rectangular shape in a decent size. I don't like irregular shapes cause difficult to do laps. Also, they have free rock climbing but we didn't go that. They have a small gym which looks decent too.

Personal preference, I wouldn't go back to this hotel. Many other hotels looks more promising than this.

Anyway, back to Day 1, we dumped our bags and just went out to have our first meal. Without hesitation, probably because we were all just very hungry, we settled for the nearest available local food. Big Mama.
Food's tasty but I think Philippino food are generally too salty for me.

The popular Sisig (some hot plate pork with egg) it's good!!!! Must try!

We ended our day 1 early as all of us were tired from travelling. And also, to get ready for Day 2!
We walked to the white beach which is behind our hotel. And it's just amazing! Took some time capture moments and photos.

If you have seen Nikon Coolpix advert in mags, this is it. I am zero gravity!

We spent our Day 2 on ATV!!! And best, we managed to get cheap deal which is just behind our hotel!
Shall explain at the end of the whole trip blog. :)

A briefing before our ATV.

My first time doing ATV!!! Yay!

It was a 15min drive up to see the top view of the whole of Boracay.

From the top, you can see that the other side of the beach, there are many kite surfing. I think this is the spot where you get the best wind. It's really very windy!

After 30min, we drove back down and we went to the art museum which is free. Well, the ATV is inside an amusement park which is not maintained. So only a few is open. So this is one of it. But there's quite a lot of the arts, and does look real!   

Another free ride was a cycling roller coaster. It was scarier than a proper roller coaster! Maybe because firstly, it didn't seem well kept, rusty, and everytime you cycle, it squeek! It's so slow that when you look down, you won't feel safe. hahaa... I was screaming when turning. So embarassing!

We ended our activities around late afternoon, and went to the white beach to take a dip! We also tried Standing Paddle for only 80 Peso! That's like $2.50?! haha... just had some fun or why not? 

We took this chance to go all the way to near Station 3 to have the famous Jonah's shake!!! It's near the willy's rock so just keep walking.

It was fantastic! fresh and sweet! Shiokness to the max that every day I had one!

The water's so clear and blue and the glimpse of light showed hope.

After sunset, we went back to bath and decided to go D 'Talipapa for dinner. This is a marketplace with fresh seafood where you get to choose live seafood and ask any shop to help you cook. Choose local restaurant, don't go chinese restaurant because they don't cook as good as the locals flavour.

 We spent some time haggling over prices which you must do it else it's overpriced!!!
We bought 2Kg live lobster, 1Kg (8pcs) tiger prawns - dead, 1Kg live crabs, medium size fish for a total of 7,000 Peso! That's like $25 per pax which is considered reasonable since we chose fresh seafood!
Luckily one of our friend knew someone (Singaporean who moved to Boracay) here, and he recommended how to ask them to cook the way it should be eaten best!
The lobster head - Make porridge. Lobster - cheese. Tiger Prawns - grilled with garlic. Crabs - Curry.

Lobster head porridge. First time eating a head that really had meat inside!!!

Curry crab. Not to my liking because the curry taste weird to me.

Steam Fish

Cheese lobster. Fabulous!!! The gravy is superb!

Chicken (ordered from the restaurant)

After the food coma we had, it was raining till flooded and had to camp at one coffee shop before the rain stopped.

After that, we went to one of the bar along the white beach to have our drinks and countdown for Christmas!

Mr. Sunshine brought a hat from SG. haha.

 

We had lots of fun dancing the night away and drinking like water cause it's just damn cheap to drink. A local beer (Red Horse) cost like $2 only!!!

Fun night to Christmas! That marks our Day 2 of Christmas eve!!!