Pre-honeymoon Honeymoon

So it’s not our real honeymoon.  We actually got this treat from the wedding we had last December.  Included in the package was a honeymoon 4-day/3-night stay at their selected hotels.  We chose Shangri-La’s Boracay Resort and Spa.  Here is the low-down on our stay…

Shangri-La’s Boracay Resport and Spa

The rooms are oh so lovely! But oh so expensive as well! Cheapest rooms cost around 20k PhP per night (good thing our stay was free).  They feature L’Occitane toiletries and provide fresh fruits everyday.  They also clean your room 3 times a day, I guess they must have realized beach-goers have a tendency to make rooms messier than usual.  Sand sand sand everywhere.  

This is the view from the balcony in our room…

While this is the view of the beach during the afternoon…

This is the second beach.  Looks pretty but there are quite a few small rocks on the shore.

Beach is nice but admittedly just so-so, at least for Boracay-level.  Shangri-La has 2 private beaches.  The perks are (1) lifeguard on duty - good for nonswimmers like us :) (2) very attentive staff that offer towels, water, and whatever you may need (3) privacy! noone will be bothering to sell you snorkeling, diving, massages, hair-braiding, etc etc! The only bad thing is the beach itself, the sand is not as powder-fine nor as white as the one at station 1 and 2.  It’s actually made up of small pebbles and ground-up seashells.  There tend to be a few bits and pieces of big rocks, so better watch your footing.  Boracay is also known for its long stretches of shallow shores.  Shangri-La’s shore is quite steep. Anyway, the good thing is that if you don’t like their beach, there is an assortment of pools nearby.

Location is not so good.  This hotel is quite far from the main area (d’mall), definitely NOT walking-distance.  Not unless you are uber-rich that you can afford to spend for every meal, you certainly have to go to the main area every now and then. There is a shuttle service that runs every hour during the day and every thirty minutes during the night.  The whole trip takes about 15 minutes.  However, I don’t think its frequent enough.  During the day, imagine if you miss the bus for a few minutes you may have to wait for a whole hour for the next one again.

In summary… did we enjoy? Certainly yes! Repeatable? Probably not.  Next time we would want to stay somewhere at station 1 instead.

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