My cousin will be attending a seminar for a few days at the Diamond Hotel near Roxas Boulevard in Manila. Since her limited budget prevents her from staying in this five-star hotel, she is searching for an affordable place to stay along Roxas Boulevard which is near to the seminar’s venue. I am sure there are still available places like this. Anyway she is not really particular on the luxury of the place, available Jacuzzi, expensive log furniture and amenities. As long as it’s a comfortable place to stay, she’ll be fine with it. Any suggestion?

It is really my dream to stay in one of the famous hotels in Tagaytay and what else could it be than Taal Vista Hotel. We always stay overnight in Tagaytay but not yet in Taal Vist. We would only stay there to dine and stay for a moment before checking in some affordable hotels in Tagaytay. That’s why it’s a dream come true for me when we finally got to stay in Taal Vista last weekend. It’s my wife’s gift for me for Father’s day. A dream I thought will only be come true if I claimed my disability insurance or lotto winnings.

Taal Vista Hotel is the most popular place to see every time you visit Tagaytay. Your visit in Tagaytay will not be a complete if you will not see this oldest and historic hote. It was named as one of the landmarks of Tagaytay City that is overlooking the Taal lake and volcano.

Every time we are in Tagaytay I always tell my wife that someday I will really stay in this hotel. It finally came true when my wife decided to check in last weekend with me and my son.

As Malacanang declared May 3 as national non-working holiday, we will be having long weekend this coming week. I am sure people are now busy searching for a getaway place and planning for an out of town trip.

Beautiful places to stay includes Tagaytay area and Rizal. These places are cool and away from too much heat in Metro Manila.

A cheap or affordable cool beautiful place especially family friendly, with modern bedroom furniture, wifi, pool or along the beach area is perfect during summer for the family.

During the heights of Typhon Pepeng in Pangasinan, we happened to be there in the area celebrating our yearly religious activity. It was a Thursday morning and we were supposed to go to Baguio City but due to the heavy and continuous pouring of rains, we thought it would be risky if we continued as we would be caught on slippery roads or maybe even possible landslide. So we decided to go directly to San Fernando La Union instead to see Thunderbird Resort in Pura, La Union.

The Mediterranean design inspired by Santorini Islands of Greece captured us at first glance. The place is nice, peaceful and overlooking white sand beach South China sea. The sixty-five hectare resort has sports facilities and amenities like the Cliffs Golf & Beach Club, swimming pool, basketball area, water sports, jogging path at the boardwalk. The place is also conducive for meetings and conferences. They also offer a five star accommodation from deluxe room to deluxe suite.

Sadly we were not able to stay there and missed a chance to take more photos of the place because of the strong winds and heavy rains. My brother in-law who were with us didn’t want to stay near the sea at that time. But given a chance to visit again the Northern part of Luzon, we will really try the comfort and luxury of this resort. Places like this are where luxury, comfort and peacefulness collide. Also Outer Banks vacation rentals are really dream places to stay.

Last holiday my wife and I decided to have another thrill adventure. We didn’t really plan to stay overnight apart from to visit Tagaytay to discover new restaurants and places to stay. We just decided to pack things for over night in case we will discover something exciting.

We told ourselves that almost all of the hotels would be fully booked since it’s a long holiday during that time. We did not even bothered to try any place in Tagaytay and headed further to Batangas instead and see some of the resorts that we saw in the internet. But due to the traffic congestion at that time that we were in Tagaytay, we decided to have our lunch there before going straight to Batangas and it was 2:00 pm already when we left Tagaytay.

On our way to Batangas, we passed by the Evercrest Golf and Country Club in Nasugbu. It is not our first time to see the place but the last time we were there was new year’s eve of 2008. We never realized that this was the time and chance to stay in the place. Luckily the club had a current promotion which is discounted overnight stay in the place.

We had a great stay that night although they didn’t have wi fi connection in every room apart from that in the restaurant and they only have local cable channel. If you want a quiet and relaxed atmosphere in the place you’re staying in, this is a place to stay for the family. No need to have central vacuum anymore since the place is surrounded by nature and green grass of the golf course.

You can let your kids swim in the swimming pool from the club near to the place for free since it is still part of the club. The breakfast area in their restaurant is so refreshing and relaxing too since it overlooking the golf course. I look forward to come back and stay in Evercrest again.

Another long weekend is up coming by August 29-31 since August 31 is a regular holiday. It is National Heroes Day here in the Philippines. Since it falls on a pay day (end of the month) I am sure as early as today Filipinos are now searching for a better, nice but cheap place to stay overnight for the family. As usual, outside the Metro are hot spots like Antipolo,  Rizal in the east, Batangas, Tagaytay, Cavite and Laguna in the South and Bulacan, Subic, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan and Baguio in the north.

If you have money outside the country trip is also a possibility but you have to sacrifice your Friday. Near places like Hong Kong and Singapore are possible places if you have money. You might also consider orlando vacations.

Hopefully we could find a nice out of town since we are planning to have an rest and relaxation spree out of town as well. Metro Manila is so hot for the past days because of some low pressure area in the country and we need a cooler place at the moment.

I will never forget our two days stay at the Heritage Hotel in Pasay City, Metro Manila. It was a once in a lifetime stay where we were accommodated for free for two days inclusive of buffet meals from breakfast to dinner. It was almost an indefinite stay courtesy of the airline where we booked because the plane where we were supposed to board accidentally became out of order.

During our trip to Belgium, our airline had to postpone its flight due to technical problem which was why all the passengers of that flight were given a complementary stay at the Heritage Hotel.

It’s too bad that we had to secure another flight to be in Belgium the following day because of my sister in-law’s wedding occasion. If not we could have stayed in the hotel for a couple of days more. We’d better enjoy our stay there while we were there without our choice. After all, we were housed in a suite room, although I think they didn’t have walk in tubs especially for my wife who has undergone caesarean during her giving of birth but its bathroom is really nice.

With a hotel this beautiful, one wouldn’t mind having another delay of flight.