Crossroads

Have you ever felt the need to go but still can not because there are still a lot of strings hanging?

I feel that now. Yeah I so feel that now.

So easy to make a decision, yes or no, left or right, black or white, leave or stay. But the hardest part is to act on the decision you've just made. I pray God give me strength to act on it. I need strength, I need guidance, I need a push.

Hotel Kimberly Staycation Part 2

It's 3:00 pm, coffee break muna. But I'll blog first the second part of our weekend getaway in Hotel Kimberly, Tagaytay.

Photos below are the game room and lobby.

Foosball

Basketball

Arts Area

Billiards

Table tennis

Reception

Entrance

Lobby

Bonfire

Marshmallow roasting

Wreck it Ralph

Dining area

I was not able to take pictures of the playground. In the playground, there's the monkey bars, swing made from tires,  slides, obstacle course, great for office activities.

 For you to be able to use the game room, approach any person in the reception area, leave an ID and they will give you the ball or paddle of the game that you want to play with. Huwag kayong mahihiya sa reception coz they're the nicest people I've ever encountered in all the hotels we've stayed in. Walang exception, lahat sila napaka approachable.

Ang ganda talaga dito for family, friends or company bonding. If there is a downside of this hotel, it's the poor wifi connection. But who needs internet when you have lots of activities that you can do. Yung pag gala pa lang sa farm nakaka ubos na nang oras e. Besides, pag walang internet wala ka talagang choice kungdi makapag bonding. Why did we go here in the first place, para mag bakasyon diba? Kung mag internet lang e di sa bahay na lang. Divah???

O sige till our next staycation. Hope you try Hotel Kimberly, enjoy talaga.

Hotel Kimblerly Tagaytay - Recommended Weekend Getaway Part 1

I am sorry for the late post, but I had deadlines to attend to in the office last week. Now I am in the office and I am blogging. Boohoo! I know, I know, I am bad but it is 5 minutes to lunch time and I am really out of sync with my *** right now, well, actually for awhile now. I have been contemplating for almost two years already whether to stay or go. I chose to go. Now the question is when?

Anyways, on to our post. We enjoyed a long weekend during the last weekend of August due to the celebration of National Heroes' day. As early as May, I had already booked at Hotel Kimberly because I had already anticipated long weekends already for the succeeding months.

I was looking for a highly-rated hotel in Tagaytay, and as expected,  my searches would always come up with Taal Vista and for me that is too pricey. So I just looked for a "recommended for family" hotel and Hotel Kimberly came up in my searches.

I read almost all reviews in Agoda and most of them recommended the hotel because of the following activities that kids will enjoy:

1. Mini Farm

2. Swimming pool

3. Playground 

4. Game room with foosball, basketball, billiards, table tennis, air hockey

5. Movie night with free popcorn

6. Bonfire with marshmallows

7. Horse-back riding

Upon reading this I knew that this is the one. We are going to enjoy in this hotel while relaxing. Indeed, true to their reviews, we enjoyed our overnight stay in Hotel Kimberly. Aside from all the above-mentioned activities, the staff are so friendly. They never fail to greet us with a smile. I soooo love this hotel and I highly recommend this hotel in Tagaytay if you are staying as family specially with kids. We booked a deluxe twin room from August 27-28 and took the Carmona route going up Tagaytay. No traffic noted, probably because people are used to taking Sta. Rosa going up.

Let me photo-blog first so that you can see how wonderful this hotel is for family.

The room, with toilet and bath and balcony. Downside of the balcony, we were drying our swimsuit under the sun, and we totally forgot about it upon check out. Our fault, our bad!

View from the balcony

Rooms and toilet are clean. No molds noted during our stay. No "amoy-kulob". Sheets were soft and mabango.

Below pictures are the different angle of the pool area where you can take your breakfast or order snacks in the afternoon. There was the gazebo where we had the movie night. It was supposed to be outside the pool area, but it drizzled so the staff pack it up and set it  up inside the gazebo.

Gazebo

We had our after- breakfast- coffee here with some desserts

Their mini farm with farm animals. The signs said the animals are for sale. I did not ask the caretakers. The farm is located behind the pool area separated with plants, bushes and trees. It's a huge land housing various animals such as pheasant, turkey, sheeps, pigs rabbits, ducks, hens, guinea pig and horses. There are three horses, but there is only one horse where they allow kids to ride for P200 for 30 minutes. The other two horses are too "makulit" to be rode on according to the jockey.

Feeding time is at 9:00-10:00 am and 4:00- 5:00 in the afternoon. The Kuya allows the kids to feed the animals with leaves from trees. Wyeth had a fun time feeding the sheeps and rabbits. Just be cautious with the sheeps. If you want your kids to feed them, alalay lang kayo, kasi they're too strong for little kids. I had to hold my son's hands so as not to be pulled by the sheep. I just forgot to ask hubby to take our pictures, because even me I enjoyed feeding them.

These animals are domesticated. I observed that they are used to people and when they see people they make "pa-cute" so that you will feed them.

So there! Exciting isn't it? But I have to end this Part 1 of my post. Next post I will feature the game room, the lobby, the bonfire and movie night.