Butuan Gastfamilien

In Butuan für Urlaub seit 5 Jahren. Freundliches Personal.. aber als wir gingen, ich habe nicht bemerkt, dass der Schwimmbad unter Reparatur war, so dass es ein wenig enttäuschend war. Ich werde sicher, dass ich nächstes Mal anrufen.

Jedes Mal, wenn ich nach Hause komme, ist Watergate mein Zuhause.❤️ Meine einzige Ruf weg Freund, Kate, verdient ein großes Schreien, weil sie mir immer bei meinen Buchungen helfen wird. Ich weiß, es gibt Zeiten, dass sie nicht zu Hause ist, sie findet immer einen Weg, mich zu helfen. Das ist eines der guten Dinge, die ich über Wassergate liebe, sie sind bereit, zusätzliche Meile für ihre Gäste zu gehen! ❤️ Mein aktueller Aufenthalt hier in Wassergate wurde extra, weil sie eine willkommene Notiz für mich in meinem Zimmer vorbereitet. Ich fühle mich so besondere! So ein süßes Geste von euch Jungs! Besonderes Dank an Eri für das warme Willkommen und den Rest der Watergate Familie. ❤️ Wirklich der Ort, den Sie lieber wären. ❤️

We've stayed at this resort several times over the years but just went back for the first time in 4 years and were quite disappointed. We booked a Premier Deluxe room thinking it was the largest/nicest (it was the most expensive) and also because none of the newer rooms were available. These rooms obviously have some major deferred maintenance which would have been fine since it was just one night but it also looked like it hadn't been cleaned properly in months or years? Super dirty tile floor, dirty toilet, just dirty all around. They are obviously prioritizing their nice new rooms but they could at least keep the original rooms clean. Unfortunately we probably won't be coming back. Staff were all still really nice and check-in was smooth. Oh one other downside of this place is every time we've been there there's been large weddings or gatherings and it can be noisy.

The Grand Palace Hotel was a real let-down, starting with not living up to what they say. They claim to provide tea & coffee in the rooms, but there's no tea. Their web site says they have an airport shuttle, but they don't. Breakfast was disappointing too. Only 2 juices. Luckily one was usually pineapple. As well as the usual lukewarm breakfast items, they had some random cakes that were as bland as cardboard. Fortunately, you can walk through the Annex, cross the road and a few metres to your right is a bakery that sells doughnuts for 6 pesos that are vastly better. The hotel has guards with assault weapons and dogs. Seems pretty ridiculous and unsafe. Also the dogs spend most of their time living in cages alone next to the swimming pool. I had two bookings here, the first in a big king room. (They call it a ”matrimonial” room!) The WiFi mostly didn't work. It's totally inadequate for the number of people who use it, especially if a big business group comes in for a conference during the day. (The DHCP server just runs out of addresses and you can't connect until someone else disconnects.) Even when it connected, it wasn't very fast. One other issue I had was the appearance of cockroaches every so often. The small single room was a vast improvement, as well as being half the price. While the single rooms have no windows, they have two massive advantages. Firstly, fast WiFi that works. The single rooms are in a hall behind the reception area and have their own access point that works brilliantly and isn't overloaded. Secondly, the small room doesn't have so many places for roaches to hide. I didn't see a single insect intruder. Note for those who might be confused by this site: The information and reviews on this page are for the Butuan Grand Palace Hotel. There is also an Annex. Tripadvisor currently has the headings swapped.

One of my favorite travel stories took place here at the Almont Hotel. First a little description of the setting - the hotel is situated on a typical Spanish style town square with an old colonial Catholic church and a central small park with a bandstand and small kiosk businesses around the square. For the second time I was stranded in Butuan, this time due to a delayed flight from Manila arriving close to midnight causing me to spend the night there before continuing on the next day. Remembering my pleasant previous stay at the Almont, I checked in there a little after midnight into a pleasant second floor room. I had just fallen asleep when I felt someone shaking my bed! I woke up but there was nobody there! Ghosts? No. an earthquake! I had experienced earthquakes before so jumped out of bed grabbed a sheet, wrapped it around myself and headed out of the room and down the stairs and into the street joining the other hotel guests who were similarly wrapped in sheets and bedclothes all excitedly milling about while the ground was still shaking.! Suddenly all the power in Butuan went out and with it all the lights as well! It was a starless, moonless night and the square was pitch black and several screams and louder talking arose when suddenly a bright white cross appeared in the sky! I'm sure that everyone fell to their knees in prayer, certain that the end of the world was at hand and this was the Rapture. We were going to meet our maker! Gradually a few generators came to life - the first being the one in the church which was responsible for lighting the cross at the top of the steeple. We were all saved! And given a second chance to atone for our sins! I hope you enjoyed the story as much as I enjoy retelling it again and again! BTW Butuan as well as much of the Philippines is no stranger to earthquakes with many small tremors every year. But the Almont was completely undamaged and I will feel safe there the next time I stay there!