Lipad Na: Travel to the Philippines

Are you looking for a place to go to this Holy Week or Easter Season here in the Philippines? You may want to take advantage of Marco Polo Plaza Cebu’s Great Easter Getaway Package.

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The Hilton Cebu Resort & Spa offers a special package exclusive for Philippine residents. Of Hilton’s total rooms, 10% will be on sale all year round.

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The Costabella Resort, the name of which translates to “beautiful coast,” is located in Mactan, Cebu, Philippines. It is located 20 minutes from the airport and offers its guests a private, white sand beach.

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Here’s yet another resort in Cebu which we will probably want to visit in the coming years: Badian Island Resort and Spa. The resort appears attractive, as we see from its website or as we read in feature articles, but the distance (ranging from 2 hours and half to 2 hours and 45 minutes) from the Cebu International Airport keeps us from visiting it while our kids are quite small.

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This is one resort in Cebu that we have not yet been to. It is on our “to-go-to” list although I guess we will have to save a lot before visiting the place becomes a reality. I just checked their website awhile ago, and the rates now range from USD 300 to about USD 900 per night! Yes, that expensive. So at the back of my mind, even if the place does seem beautiful, you think that you could have gone on 3 trips with that one trip at Pulchra.

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Yet another alternative resort in Cebu is the Maribago Bluwater Resort. It is again 15-30 minutes from the airport.

The most memorable thing there for my kids would be the swimming pool with the slide and the playroom. Activities are not as organized, nor as plentiful as in Plantation Bay or Shangri-la Mactan. Prices/rates are more reasonable.

To read more about our Maribago Bluwater Resort experience, please read:

Maribago Bluwater
www.viloria.com/maribago-cebu-resort/

or you can visit their official website at:

www.bluwateresort.com/main.html

Plantation Bay is another resort which is conveniently located about 15-30 minutes from the Mactan Airport. We visited the place when my daughter Ali was barely a year old (she’s now 4) and the resort is quite kid and baby-friendly.

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I read recently in the newspapers that Alegre Resort now has a spa too. That may be a reason for you to check this resort out. You may contact them at (032) 254-9800 or (02) 634 7505 to 07.

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We visited Shangri-la Mactan when my son Adi was a little over a year old. He’s nine now so you know that that was a long time ago. We are due for another visit soon — if I had my way.

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Cebu is about an hour away from Metro Manila by plane. You can also reach it by boat (e.g. Super Ferry). It is located in the Visayas, although, most of the time, it feels just like Manila. It is also where the Sinulog Festival in honor of the Sto. Nino (or the Child Jesus) is celebrated every third weekend in January.

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