Booked a room through Agoda.com for Kingfisher Resort two days before our trip to Pagudpud.
I think I got traumatized by the bad service and failed expectations from a resort in Batangas we recently went to so I was postponing booking a hotel until the last minute.
I was browsing travel blog posts about Pagudpud when I came across a photo of a man and a woman seated outside a hut that had this faded wooden exterior, and I said I just had to be there.
I have to sit there. I NEED to face the water, feel the wind from the sea and understand that it is hard work that will allow me to enjoy this kind of relaxation, today and in the future.
My travelmates needed only a little convincing and I booked the trip using my ever-trusted BPi Mastercard.
Wednesday came and, as they say, it takes a lot of hard work to get to paradise. We endured a 10-hour neck-stiffening bus ride; me beside a stranger whose past-the-seat-border fats I used as pillow, and an hour tricycle ride with 30 minutes on rough road under the heat of the Ilocos Summer Sun, and finally, we got to Kingfisher.
And we knew that it was worth it.
We were welcomed by two members of the staff. One of them immediately took our bags while one led us to the spacious oceanside room we treated as home for the first part of our Ilocos trip.
The room was clean and spacious - very spacious. The three of us walked around without any trouble of bumping on each other or on furnitures.
The washrooms are shared but were very clean and aesthetically pleasing. I couldn't use the toiletries because my skin gets irritated by mild soap (yes, believe me) and my hair frizzes up and dies when touched by imported products, but it's great that they have toiletries for the usual type of people. (Ha! )
And then the beach: The calm beach of Caparispisan.
Although there wasn't the usual sound of waves crashing when you take an oceanside accommodation, the absence of water-human violence totally makes up for it.
Over-all it was a great stay.
It was absolutely remote, the 30-minute rough road made it really tough. But I'm willing to take a rough road for paradise.
Posted: Thursday, May 9, 2013/http://begin2013.blogspot.com/
I think I got traumatized by the bad service and failed expectations from a resort in Batangas we recently went to so I was postponing booking a hotel until the last minute.
I was browsing travel blog posts about Pagudpud when I came across a photo of a man and a woman seated outside a hut that had this faded wooden exterior, and I said I just had to be there.
I have to sit there. I NEED to face the water, feel the wind from the sea and understand that it is hard work that will allow me to enjoy this kind of relaxation, today and in the future.
My travelmates needed only a little convincing and I booked the trip using my ever-trusted BPi Mastercard.
Wednesday came and, as they say, it takes a lot of hard work to get to paradise. We endured a 10-hour neck-stiffening bus ride; me beside a stranger whose past-the-seat-border fats I used as pillow, and an hour tricycle ride with 30 minutes on rough road under the heat of the Ilocos Summer Sun, and finally, we got to Kingfisher.
And we knew that it was worth it.
We were welcomed by two members of the staff. One of them immediately took our bags while one led us to the spacious oceanside room we treated as home for the first part of our Ilocos trip.
The room was clean and spacious - very spacious. The three of us walked around without any trouble of bumping on each other or on furnitures.
The washrooms are shared but were very clean and aesthetically pleasing. I couldn't use the toiletries because my skin gets irritated by mild soap (yes, believe me) and my hair frizzes up and dies when touched by imported products, but it's great that they have toiletries for the usual type of people. (Ha! )
And then the beach: The calm beach of Caparispisan.
Although there wasn't the usual sound of waves crashing when you take an oceanside accommodation, the absence of water-human violence totally makes up for it.
Over-all it was a great stay.
It was absolutely remote, the 30-minute rough road made it really tough. But I'm willing to take a rough road for paradise.
Posted: Thursday, May 9, 2013/http://begin2013.blogspot.com/
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