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March 15th 2010
Published: July 18th 2010
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Me and my sister decided abruptly one Monday morning to check in at Island Cove coz we can't stand the heat of the summer that we were experiencing at that time. So we called Island Cove to make a reservation and luckily there were available rooms eventhough we didn't reserved in advance. We reserved their Hotel Deluxe room which is a 2 Queen Sized beds with veranda and a bath tub for I think around P3000 for an overnight stay. After reserving, we together with our kids and yayas immediately packed our bags and hired a taxi to get us there.

We just checked in at the right time coz we arrived there a little over 2pm so we just put our bags in our room and took a quick nap then we decided to get a look at their zoo called the Zootique. We waited for the free ride from the hotel that will take us to the zoo and it quickly arrived. I was disappointed just by the sight of the poor animals at the zoo. As I saw it, it looks like they were not really taken cared of. I don't know if it was just the effects of El Niño at that time but they looked like they really needed water to drink coz they look exhausted. And I really don't understand why we were still charged with an entrance at the zoo when there were really nothing much to see. Then we had our picture taken with the little crocodile and there was a fee for it! We went at the Butterfly and Aviary House but we didn't saw a single live butterfly! Yeah, we saw a butterfly… a plastic one! So I must say that it was not worth seeing Island Cove's zoo at all!

Well after seeing the zoo, we went at Fishing Village to eat our merienda and I nearly had a heart attack with the prices on the menu! I thought with the prices like that, they might give a big serving on each of the dish, but I was wrong. We ordered pancit canton worth P200, we were four but it turned out only 2 persons can it coz of its very small serving. Then we also ordered a P120 special halu-halo but there really was nothing special about it, Chowking's halu-halo was even better and it only cost around P70 or less.
Since we really want our kids to enjoy our stay, we were still looking forward to use their swimming pool and with this one I must say that we all enjoyed it! Oceania Water Park is really big, and at that time we were the only ones who used the pool(well almost since we saw 2 or 3 guys by the pool and after awhile they disappeared). Its slides were really huge but I didn't get to try it coz I didn't saw any lifeguards and I thought what if something happens to me? We also enjoyed the jacuzzi at the pool, we all cuddled up there and my daughter enjoyed the bubbles. So overall I really liked our swimming experience there! Come nighttime, we just ordered room service for our dinner and settled down for the night.

Then in the morning, after we ate our breakfast, this time we used the hotel's swimming pool which is much smaller than the Oceania. As usual the kids go crazy again and didn't want to leave. After swimming, we just stayed on our hotel room until it was time to prepare for check-out. We checked out at 12NN and we were picked up by our taxi driver from yesterday.

Overall, we all had a good time coz the kids really enjoyed the pool and it was nice to unwind once in awhile and forget the stress at work or problems at home.


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16th November 2011

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My friends want go there.. pls. email me. :)

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