#sugbutel

(A break from the depressing movie marathon)

I'm a birthday person, always was and always will be. I love giving the people special to me the best birthday they've ever had then try to top that the following year. And of course, I'd love that for me too.

For this year, my 22nd birthday, after all of last year's work, I wanted to have a five-day long vacation, out of town. So I searched the internet for seat sales - Bohol for only 199php! (not including tax). Grabbed the chance, booked for July 1-5.

A week before our departure, I finished as much work as I can so I wouldn't come home to a lot of back-log. Pulled an all-nighter to finish everything, packed my bag a few hours before flight, and finally made it at the airport on time. TADAA. Flight was delayed for an hour... and another... and pushed to a five-hour delay. And finally, it was cancelled. The airline offered to re-book our flight but the available date was July 3 only, and no matter how angry I get I know that wouldn't change anything about our cancelled flight. So we had it transferred to Cebu instead (which was also delayed for another 5 hours).

Arriving at Cebu around 1:00am, we had no idea what to do. We checked in at Sugbutel to get some good sleep after 48hours of working. The hotel have a cheap but really nice and clean rooms. They have dorm type rooms that are 250php (without linens) per head and 350php (with linens) and private rooms that starts 1,200php. The following day, again with the research, we decided to go to a nearby island, Camotes Island.

Off we went to the North Bus Terminal, a few blocks away from Sugbutel. For 40php/head, we headed for Danao Port going to Consuelo Port (180php) in Camotes Island. We got there and a guy with a single motorcycle was waiting to take us to Santiago Bay & Gardens Resort. We left the port at 5:30pm and got to Camotes around 7:30pm which again left us no time to explore the place, we just had dinner and slept.

We took an island tour the following day (500php) riding a single motorcycle.

There’s Danao Lake where you can rent a boat, go horse-back riding and they have a pool too.

Next stop was Timubo Cave, a few steps down from the entrance you’ll see a crystal clear pool of water!

We also took a stop at Santiago Bay’s sister resort, Mangodlong Beach Resort where they put up cottages on awesome rock formations.

Then we just relaxed at Santiago Bay’s pool and went jetskiing after.

The following day we headed back to Cebu City to catch a gig at Handuraw. An awesome bar with awesome pizza and awesome music!

  For our last day, we went to Crown Regency Hotel for an exhilarating Sky Experience Adventures. On top of the 38-storey building 400+feet, we tried their 4D Theatre, Edge Coaster, Sky Walk, Tower Zip and Cliff Hanger (wall climbing). Their amenities are pricey though. (http://www.skyexperienceadventure.com/)

  But before we leave Cebu, we just had to try their specialty Sutukil (Sugba-Tula-Kilaw), different types of cooking seafood and other delicacies.