Great? I was away for a weekend. a spur of th emoment thing. Trying to get away from life for a while. Landing on the Cebu airport, the display for Plantacion Bay greets all the travellers as you pass through the baggage claim. On the center was a huge booth complete with palm trees and of course a clerk complete with a wide brim hat, grey uniform and boots. I could not remember if its a zookeeper's uniform or a hacendero. Anyway that got us excited.
We headed to the resort. The staff was friendly and eager to help you. The food was surprisingly not not great.
But it was the lagoon itself. Advertised as Spanish colonial, the architecture and landscape was really at a lost. The villas are actually modern with takes on some Bali inspiration. The dreadful thing was the artificial lagoon with that awful artificial brown waterfalls with the black boulders on the rim and sand all over the rest of the place. Its like somebody never thought of how these things really occur in its natural setting. For someone who is used to going to the extent of an adventure just to see good beaches, this is not your thing. Its like going into a sanctuary of dead corals.
For service and food, I would give this place a rave for food that can relieve a breakfast craving and great service that can pass an english test. For the amenities and the architecture, I would give this place a rant. It never did advertise itself as a tropical getaway, but a spanish colonial resort is so far from what it is.
No comments:
Post a Comment