Just a few weeks again, my associates and I had a year-end gathering (a convention we began a few decade in the past), and we selected Samal Blu for the venue – a personal by-the-beach resort in Brgy. Limao in Samal.
Right here’s a map going to the resort.
We booked this place for an unique in a single day keep for 17,000 pesos. And similar to some locations we booked up to now, it additionally had some issues that didn’t meet my expectations. Such issues might assist you resolve whether or not to e book the place or not.
Let’s begin with the issues that I preferred concerning the resort:
- It’s spacious; the widespread space, which included the eating and leisure space, was fairly enormous; we had loads of area to do for our Christmas program, together with parlor video games.
- It had loads of cooking units and kitchen gadgets; you’ll be able to put together your meals generously with out worrying about kitchen gear.
- The room was past expectations; it was good (at the very least the one we acquired).
- The seashore was just some steps away.
- We had the entire place completely.
Now, listed below are the issues that I think about among the drawbacks
- It’s removed from the freeway; we needed to stroll about 500 meters to the resort (in the event you carry your automobile, no drawback).
- We skilled a number of energy interruptions; fortunately, we had an engineer in our group who traced and solved the connection drawback – who discovered {the electrical} connection, which ran each the AC and water provide, was not put in correctly, so it tripped off a number of instances once we used AC and different home equipment concurrently).
- Just one individual in the home to take care of our wants; once we arrived, he was nonetheless getting ready what we would have liked – he needed to do all of the work.
- No free drinkable water (we had to purchase on our personal – good factor the workers helped us with the acquisition; nearest retailer nonetheless far-off)
VERDICT
The resort generally is a nice venue to host occasions – like household gatherings or getaways with associates. So, in the event you plan to e book, think about the professionals and cons I’ve shared above. When you suppose the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages, go!
As for my expertise, it may have been extra gratifying if we hadn’t encountered a number of energy cuts.
Listed here are some pictures I took from our keep:
