Green One Hotel Mactan; The perfect homebase while exploring Cebu

ENJOY THE SUN AND SIGHT! Green One Hotel is the newest hotel destination in the rural sea side of Lapu-Lapu City in Mactan Island. Amidst the landscape beauty of the historic island, everyone can witness the enchantment and natural wonder as everyone visits the stunning pristine beaches and marine sanctuaries nearby. Green One Hotel is also a perfect home base in Mactan for foreign travelers who wanted to have a holiday and enjoy the activities such as island tour, diving and parasailing after doing business in Metro Cebu. The hotel is situated in Sitio Lawis, Suba-basbas, Lapu-Lapu City and only 20-30 minutes away from the Mactan- Cebu International Airport.

ACCOMMODATION: Green One Hotel features a total of 24 elegant rooms and suites with contemporary interiors and a lush garden and sea view creating a relaxing, refreshing and comfortable feeling. Each deluxe room is equipped with a split type air-condition, wide screen T.V. and a 10ft. refrigerator and also furnished with 1 queen size and 1 single bed, hot and cold shower with full bathroom amenities, bath tub, private balcony, and kitchenette with living and dining area for the Family Suite rooms, internet can be accessed in all areas. The hotel also features a club house swimming pool, a Japanese restaurant and 24 hrs. Security services.

GREEN ONE ENGLISH ACADEMY: The hotel has an in house English Academy that teaches English Language to foreign students. Their ESL faculty had undergone an intensive Methodology Training from Technical Education Skills and Development and the Department of Education. With different programs offered to suit one needs, one can be assured of achieving your goal, with the best training with the most updated curriculum our academy had offered.

DINING EXPERIENCE: The hotels Japanese Restaurant offers a variety of delectable food options prepared by the hotels chefs with fresh, organic and healthy ingredients.

BUSINESS AND EVENTS: Green One Hotel is a quiet and discreet place ideal venue for seminars, business conferences other company events. A perfect setting to unwind, relax and enjoy the scenery with an extraordinary experience worth for everyone’s memory. Our trained event planner can help you anytime to make your event more meaningful and successful. Other hotel services include Airport Shuttle, Babysitting, and Doctor on Call, 24 hr Front Desk, Gift Shop, Laundry, Parking, Sightseeing and Island Hooping Tour arrangements. GREEN ONE HOTEL is located at Sitio Lawis, Suba-Basbas, Lapu-Lapu City Cebu, Philippines Green One Hotel 618 Sitio Lawis Suba-basbas Lapu-Lapu City For further information one may contact the hotels trunk-line number (+63)-032-495-1329.

EXPLORING SAN FRANCISCO, CAMOTES AND THE INVITING SANTIAGO BAY

It was Wednesday afternoon that we decided to depart from Lapu-Lapu City our homebase going to Danao City. From Danao City we had to take a 2 hrs boat trip via Jomalia Shipping’s Roro Vessel going to San Francisco in Camotes Island which costs Php 200 pesos only for an air-conditioned sitting accommodation. As planned initially we will stay in San Francisco for 3 days and jump off to Ormoc City via motorized pump boat and stay for an overnight before going back to Cebu. We arrived in Consuelo Port in San Francisco almost midnight already because of the delays. Though they have good and wide roads I was surprised to know that there’s no public transport in the island except for this for hire single motorcycles locally called Habal Habal but anyways I am not interested to announce my disappointments of the inequality of the economic progress in the province of Cebu let it be on a separate article and not here. Anyways, we were welcomed by our host with our favorite Manok Bisaya or the native chicken papaya soup before we say good night for the long trip.

I was not able to sleep well maybe because it’s my first time or just im too excited for our first day in exploring San Francisco. We were planning our itinerary and we decided to start our day with tasting the early morning harvest from Camotes Sea. When we arrived at the local public market we were a little disappointed since there’s not much produce on that day and since its holy week sea foods are scare and expected to be a bit expensive. But it did not stop us, finally we had bought few kilos of seafoods, after our Breakfast neighbors comes in to welcome us. Our host let us barrow their single motorcycle and we decided to have a short tour of the nearby resorts in Mangodlong, The Mangodlong Rock Resort and Mangodlong Paradise. At Mangodlong Rock Resort you will just pay Php20 pesos for an entrance fee and you can already use their amenities inside the property. We took our lunch at the resort before we proceeded to Santiago Bay Resort few kilometers away from Mangodlong. We did not stay long in Santiago Bay since I felt im dehydrating already. The temperature is almost 37 degrees Celsius already and it’s very ironic since news on TV tells us that a storm is coming on Sunday. Just to recall the horrors of the super typhoon Yolanda that did not spare Camotes Islands from devastation and is still very fresh from the memories of the locals. Camotes is a group of Islands midway between Danao City in Cebu and Ormoc City in Western Leyte. After our short tour we ended up feasting buko mixed with condensed milk and powdered grahams locally known as lamaw. Our first day was mostly a get to know and make some friends in the neighborhood with a karaoke show down until late in the evening.

Our third day on the itinerary was to visit the tourist spots of San Francisco. We rented 2 single motorcycles which the driver also acts our guide. Our first stop is Lake Danao where I had to sample kayaking inside the lake for only Php50 for 30 minutes, we proceed to Timubo Cave and we paid Php20 pesos per person for the entrance fees then to the Town proper of San Francisco before we decided to go home. Our guide tells us that there are plenty of tourist spots to go but we decided to go home since its too hot already and we unexpectedly got wet because we were mesmerized with the pool inside Timubo Cave and we decided to have a swim.

It’s a long hot day for us and we need to take a rest and freshen up. We will experience Santiago’s pride later. The long coastline, very fine white sands and the most amazing people we meet. Santiago White Sands is adjacent with the Santiago Bay Resort and is a public beach where one can set up small tents for overnight camping. There are plenty of shops and restaurants around the area. Its Friday night and our last night in San Francisco, we meet plenty of locals that opted to live in Cebu for work and had just taking advantage of the long holiday for vacation on their birthplace. Our night was a blast, full of fun and laughter’s and amazing stories of experiences. We woke up very late on the next day, and decided to cut short our trip instead. Our plan for an overnight in Ormoc was not realized, the coming typhoon that makes in the headlines changes direction northward sparing devastation in Bicol areas and Quezon province and we decided to go back to Cebu. With us are our funny and crazy stories, a message was sent to whom by someone. “What happens in Camotes, Stays in Camotes” but me? I can’t resist of sharing this to everyone. Though life in Camotes Island is slow paced my short vacation means I will have the sand, the sea and the sun all day to enjoy. What could I ask for more, my very first vacation was a blast.