Category: Cebu

  • Airbnb Stays in the Philippines

    Airbnb Stays in the Philippines

    Admittedly, I mainly use Airbnb when I don’t want to suffer through Manila traffic, but I have stayed at some unique stays outside of Manila too!

  • Bantayan Island Travel Expenses and Notes

    Last August, I finally bit the bullet and booked a flight to Cebu to finally make it out of the city and explore Bantayan Island. It just so happened that I won Airbnb credits at a contest, and there was a beachfront house listed. Perfect. Traveling for almost 12 hours from my house to Sta.…

  • Review: Harolds Hotel in Cebu City

    In our family Viber group chat, my brother expressed his interest in joining the Cebu Marathon in January 2015. He’s excited by the lechon-shaped medal, but he laments that the rates for the good hotels are all too high. I told him to look for Harolds Hotel. He searched for the hotel on Agoda, and…

  • Paradise found in Badian Island Resort and Spa

    When asked what kind of place I would like to go to care of Agoda.com, my answer came quickly: the beach. Living in the city all of my life, getting the chance to see and be close to the sea is always a thrill, even if I can’t swim that well and scared of very…

  • Dinner at Zubuchon and island hopping with Islands Banca

    It was already 10pm, and I still don’t know our itinerary. The flight was at 9am the following day and while I have packed already, I still need to make sure I have everything I would need for the activities they have in store for us. As 11 o’clock roll by, our itinerary finally comes…

  • Radisson Blu Cebu

    As I mentioned in my previous post, I was in Cebu last week. I, along with Melo, Noemi and Eric, were invited by Radisson Blu Cebu for the opening of the Thai Food Festival, which runs until October 9, 2011. Radisson Blu’s lobby Of course, it’s par for the course for us to experience first…

  • Good eats in Cebu

    Aside from the Philippine Blog Awards’ Visayas Leg, we had another mission in Cebu: to eat, and to eat well. Lucky for us Cebu has a lot of great homegrown restaurants that not only serve good food, but are also quite affordable. Abuhan’s beef pochero. Photo from file because I couldn’t be arsed to take…

  • Cebu, revisited

    This is actually the fourth time I’ve been to Cebu, but there’s still a lot more that I haven’t been to in the city. I was alone when I first set foot in the island, there were two of us when I returned a a few months after, and there were three of us when…

  • Travel Expenses: Cebu 2008

    I was looking through my archive and in my personal files and I was surprised to find out that I didn’t have any spreadsheet on my first Cebu trip’s expenses. I’m pretty certain I wrote down all my expenses, but I guess after tallying it, I passed out because it was pretty darned expensive. I…