Cebu Trip - December 2011

The brood traveled to Cebu last December as our post anniversary, post Christmas, and pre New Year vacation.  A family friend gifted us with a certficate for a three night stay for two rooms at the Crown Regency Towers in Osmena Blvd.

"Situated in Cebu, Crown Regency Hotel and Towers is close to Robinsons Plaza, Magellan's Cross, and Casa Gorordo Museum. Also nearby are Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral and Ayala Center" - From Tripadvisor.com (made a review there too!)

(Photo from Tripadvisor.com)

This was S's first trip so we were really excited, albeit a bit apprehensive.  We already knew she was more rambunctious than A but hey, it was just an hour on the plane :)  We packed a LOT for this trip.  A good number of clothes, swimwear, cloth diapers (which we use for their backs when they sweat), our own electric kettle, nebulizer, rubber shoes (we didn't want to just eat and eat and not work out), and the usual toiletries.

For this trip, we had reinforcement, we brought their Ate J with us.  We figured we needed the extra help lugging our things around and to keep the kids busy should the Hub and I decide to explore the city on our own.

We took PAL again, and if not for the snobbish, foreign looking male FA, the plane ride was great.

The hotel had two towers which had 38 floors, and our booking was originally at Tower 1.  We, as usual, requested for non-smoking rooms, and connecting or adjacent if possible.  Worst case would be separate rooms on the same floor.  Upon check in however, they had none of the above listed requests, but do note though that this was toward the end of December and a lot of people were on vacation. 

Upon reading the voucher, we discovered that the original, original booking was for a two bedroom suite, now won't that be sweet?! So we asked if they had an available suite instead, they said yes!  We'd have to check in at the 19/F floor of Tower 2. 

A number of elevator rides later, we were at the 19/F to get our room, which unfortunately won't be ready for another hour!  We didn't mind since we figured we requested for the change in room types.  An hour passed and they said, not for another 30 minutes :(  They did however, gave us free use of the massage chair room for free.  This room overlooking the river had about 20 chairs and they charged about P 100 or P 200 per hour, if I'm not mistaken.

Finally, keys to our room on the 17/F was given and we heaved a sigh of relief.

Room conditions and our adventures next...