Cebu Hotels

[D Cups]

Has anyone been to the Sea Turtle House on the West side of Cebu?

How about the Ocean Bay Beach Resort two hours south of the airport?

Thanks for any intel.

[Wicked Roger]

PJ,

You paid 54$US per night plus 12. 6% tax and 10percent service charge so that comes to around 70$US give or take. Add on 700p x2 to have breakfast and the total comes to around $100US a night. My advice is to book a hotel that includes breakfast if that's important to you to save some pesos.

You can book the Parklane, Crown Regency Fuente and several others in the $70ish area that include breakfast.

For $100US per night you can book the Marco Polo and Radisson Blu with select promo rates.

As always it's 'up to you'.

Enjoy Cebu.

The ELizabeth is even cheaper. Well it is for me and anyone who asks me nicely to help them book it. Again YMMV but until more decent hotels enter the market prices will remain relatively high. I like the Marriott and Radison but not thier prices, the latter has nice restaurant the the former a great seafood buffet

[Python75]

Honestly, I don't care one bit about who sees me walking into the lobby of any hotel with a cute little Pinay.

CC

I am with you on this one, although I can empathise with guys who feel slightly uncomfortable. Certainly it does not feature as a factor when I am choosing hotels.

90% of my afternoon female companions will ask me to walk them down to the lobby afterwards and I am always happy to oblige for no other reason than I treat all fuck companions with respect. Without exception all hotel staff, both male and female, at whatever hotel I have stayed at always smile and show professional respect. What they are actually thinking might be something different, but they all know that the majority of single male foreigners staying at their hotel are there to fuck women.

The bottom line is that we are paying customers and while the hotel has full rooms they have a job.

[Col Law]

Just stayed in this hotel for 8 weeks. 2 weeks in a 1 bed room apartment (32000 a month + electric approx 2000) .6 weeks in 2 bedroom apartment (45000 a month + electric approx 2000 a month.) The hotel is 5 minute walk to Ayala. The decor in the hotel is certainly dated and shows its age, staff are as helpful as they can be, without licking your arse to much and discrete.

I chose the apartments as I like to have a bit of space, and they are not small rooms in this hotel, the cooking facilities are electric rings, Leave your current g / f to do the cooking and it will get burnt. The really big negative about these apartments is they are situated on the 11th and the water system was badly designed low water pressure very slow, not enough pressure to get the hot water in the shower working so cold showers, to me it became a compromise space verses hot shower space won out for me. The 1 bedroom is equivalent to 2 1/2 in a normal hotel and the 2 bedroom about the size 4 hotel rooms, would I stay again, not in the apartments, maybe ill try the hotel rooms next time as the location is very good.

[Jp Slicky]

I can recommend this place.

My room was very clean and very reasonable priced. I would definately stay there again.

If you want to know more, see their website or post here or PM me with question.

[Stroker Ace88]

Booked a Premium Deluxe room through Agoda; promo rate of $54. 00 USD (plus tax, breakfast was not included).[SNIP]

Breakfast: large buffet, but IMHO expensive at 700 pesos per guest. [SNIP]

Gripes: really none worth mentioning except the breakfast buffet. An international layout of food, but no English translation for many items. IMHO if they want to cater to an international crowd they should do a better job of stating what a dish is; and not take it for granted that everyone will automatically know what a particular item or entree is.

PJ,

You paid 54$US per night plus 12. 6% tax and 10percent service charge so that comes to around 70$US give or take. Add on 700p x2 to have breakfast and the total comes to around $100US a night. My advice is to book a hotel that includes breakfast if that's important to you to save some pesos.

You can book the Parklane, Crown Regency Fuente and several others in the $70ish area that include breakfast.

For $100US per night you can book the Marco Polo and Radisson Blu with select promo rates.

As always it's 'up to you'.

Enjoy Cebu.

[Brymor]

Honestly, I don't care one bit about who sees me walking into the lobby of any hotel with a cute little Pinay. However, I did have an interesting experience at the Water Front Hotel. I was bringing my GF back from the beach and it was later in the evening. We were both sun baked and a bit messy from an all day adventure. My cute little GF was wearing a pair of hot pants and a skimpy T, when we arrived at the hotel. The lobby was full of mature PH guests mingling after some sort of formal event. The looks I got were incredible. At first, I thought I had shite on my shirt or something similiar. Both the men and women were having a real go at me and my gal. It wasn't until I got into the elevator that I realized that I just experienced 'the walk of shame. ' I smiled and thought nothing more of it. Just enjoy the looks and keep on walking.

CC

The Waterfront is my preferred place to stay because it has such a vast lobby, the security guards never know if you are a guest, visiting the casino or simply trying one of the many restaurants located inside the hotel complex. But I can understand how it must have looked, I have often stayed there when they have had conventions or weddings and the pinay GF can then look a little out of place!

[Pip Jaeger]

booked a premium deluxe room through agoda; promo rate of $54. 00 usd (plus tax, breakfast was not included). the hotel is still undergoing construction and can be a bit noisy during the daytime. the only time i found it annoying was one day when a couple of gf's and i were hanging out by the pool. the noise was only a minor inconvenience and is, imho, offset by the reduced rate.

cleanliness: spotless, room cleaned daily, nightly bed turn down service; duvet cover was also changed daily.

bathroom: somewhat small, but with a good sized walk-in shower (big enough for two) , luke warm to hot water, low pressure.

bed: california king with standard mattresses, a bit hard. 3 standard pillows.

mini-bar / small fridge and in room coffee / tea service; two 500ml bottles of water provided daily.

oversize in room safe: easily handled a 15' laptop and probably big enough to fit a 17' one.

free wi-fi: good signal, but on most days slow upload / download speeds

breakfast: large buffet, but imho expensive at 700 pesos per guest.

staff: very friendly and helpful. 24 hour armed security at the front door.

air-con: worked well and was quiet.

plenty of closet / shelve space; a large desk / work space.

there was no extra key card deposit (perhaps due to my booking for 2 adults) ; get two cards as you will need the extra one to keep in the 'power slot' if you want to leave the room and keep the air-con running.

in addition to the mesh type curtains there were a set of heavy 'black-out' curtains with a few velcro tabs to keep them shut – a nice touch.

anywhere from 2 to 6 taxi's were almost always parked out front, so transport was readily available. ayala mall is right across the street, but as aussie jo pointed out, it could be a bit of problem crossing the street during peak hours. in the mornings and early afternoons i would walk down a side street and go under the flyway – much easier as there is considerably less traffic. no issues bringing in guests, only late at night (after 10pm) will they ask for and hold a lady's identification until she leaves.

gripes: really none worth mentioning except the breakfast buffet. an international layout of food, but no english translation for many items. imho if they want to cater to an international crowd they should do a better job of stating what a dish is; and not take it for granted that everyone will automatically know what a particular item or entree is.

[Chicochulo]

Honestly, I don't care one bit about who sees me walking into the lobby of any hotel with a cute little Pinay. However, I did have an interesting experience at the Water Front Hotel. I was bringing my GF back from the beach and it was later in the evening. We were both sun baked and a bit messy from an all day adventure. My cute little GF was wearing a pair of hot pants and a skimpy T, when we arrived at the hotel. The lobby was full of mature PH guests mingling after some sort of formal event. The looks I got were incredible. At first, I thought I had shite on my shirt or something similiar. Both the men and women were having a real go at me and my gal. It wasn't until I got into the elevator that I realized that I just experienced 'the walk of shame. ' I smiled and thought nothing more of it. Just enjoy the looks and keep on walking.

CC

[BionicMan]

There is no reason to worry about "walk of shame" - All the hotel workers have seen everything.

A friend of mine has been a concierge in his youth, doing night shift. He was well trained by the main guy to close yes, not to bother, an if needed pick up the right girl from a lsit of providers, in case a customer called from his room needing some night companion. In SEA receptionists and lobby workers have seen all and more!

[Member #4351]

Yep, I would stay but let the ladies see themselves out.

Why not out the back way to Ayala or did you want to get her a cab? The good thing is that when they arrive they can just sit in front of the elevator. Door opens, you motion inside and no one sees anything (except for the 5 guys watching the security cameras installed in the elevator and everywhere else in the hotel).

[Red Kilt]

No point in bringing girls back to any hotel unless you are completely diffident about what people say or think.

Some guys may forget what their EWRs for the evening are doing on the other 364 nights of the year.

I was chatting to one of the front door security guys at Waterfront Cebu one afternoon and he told me how there are some of the hotter bargirls around who are very well known to them. He described one girl to me who usually waits until she finds a guy who is staying at either Marriott or Waterfront before she agrees to barfine. He said that they see her at Waterfront regularly and sometimes 5 or 6 times each week. She is bar fined every night and alternates between Marriott and Waterfront.

You cannot avoid having various people knowing exactly what you are doing and where you have been so if you feel uncomfortable about it then you are probably in the wrong hobby.

[Sammon]

Its a natural feeling. I think most of us get that. Its guilty pleasure for no reason. Hehehe. When I was in manila and staying in a condo. I just could not bring my date upto my room and drop them back in the reception. I just text them my room number and tell them to show I'd in the counter and directly come up.

But sometimes, its unavoidable, some girls insists to be shown till the reception. If its a regular date no issues. New girls always insists. If you staying for long term. Be discreet, if for short term vacation, you could be more bolder but for the sake of long time mongering. It would be best to avoid these scenes. In the long term. We would be termed as sex tourist and nothing more.

To those who say. Be shameless, who cares, its your money and life etc etc. Just don't look long term or care for anyone else in the team. Just imagine 10 guys had already done this just before 4 am and 10 more guys would do with a hot filipina in arm when you go back to your room. All being shameless. How would that look to Filipinos?

They will say. Ohh the parade of shameless tourists and hookers starts again. We will all start losing respect of whatever we have and it won't be too long when the whole place becomes a cesspit. Give Respect. Take Respect.

There is no reason to worry about "walk of shame"

All the hotel workers have seen everything. All young especially non-bargirls want you to meet at the front door because they do not want security to ask them questions or make derogatory remarks. However when I went out together with my Ormoc gf wolf whistles and comments are common. Girl got little uncomfortable. After I explained her the facts of life and told her that any girl with a foreigner gets this she calmed down and ignored them.

All the same it is not easy for small village girls to understand.

All we can do is escort them in and escort them out and show them respect irrespective of if they are bargirls or regular girls.

[Starchild2012]

Had a lady with me at Marriott and she wanted to leave at 4am in order to get home and keep her reputation with her cousin. She wasn't a working girl or regular hotel visitor.

I did suggest it would be better to leave at 6am as there would be more people in the foyer.

Anyway, she asks to be escorted out of the building as not sure where to go. Down the elevator we go and walking through the foyer with a stunning Filipina I am observed by the following:

1 x Front desk staffer.

1 x bag xray operator.

1 x concierge.

1 x door opener.

1 x taxi caller.

1 x cleaner.

Not exactly what I wanted at 4am in the morning.

So, one draw back of the 5 stars is the staff levels. Although everyone is discrete I did feel like a dork.

Verdict: Yep, I would stay but let the ladies see themselves out.

Its a natural feeling. I think most of us get that. Its guilty pleasure for no reason. Hehehe. When I was in manila and staying in a condo. I just could not bring my date upto my room and drop them back in the reception. I just text them my room number and tell them to show ID in the counter and directly come up.

But sometimes, its unavoidable, some girls insists to be shown till the reception. If its a regular date no issues. New girls always insists. If you staying for long term. Be discreet, if for short term vacation, you could be more bolder but for the sake of long time mongering. It would be best to avoid these scenes. In the long term. We would be termed as sex tourist and nothing more.

To those who say. Be shameless, who cares, its your money and life etc etc. Just don't look long term or care for anyone else in the team. Just imagine 10 guys had already done this just before 4 am and 10 more guys would do with a hot filipina in arm when you go back to your room. All being shameless. How would that look to Filipinos....?

They will say..ohh the parade of shameless tourists and hookers starts again..we will all start losing respect of whatever we have and it won't be too long when the whole place becomes a cesspit...Give Respect..Take Respect...

[Frenzy3]

I don't know why they call it a Walk of Shame. You just had sex last night and now everyone knows it. Sounds like a Walk of Win to me.

The shame is that she is leaving,

Or that you just sexed a girl old enough to be your daughter, rember these are the places families hang out not the short stay motel