Around Fairways & Bluewaters

This was the road view from the window of  our room. Across was the panoramic view of the sprawling world-class golf course of Fairways & Bluewaters, Boracay. And wt# was wrong with me??? I didn't even bother to snap a single photo of the lush greens fairways. And we were there inside Fairways & Bluewaters for 4 days with nothing but bluewaters and fairways!! wt#!!!!



See, I even snapped some of useless greens but none of the beautiful fairways, just few feet across where I was. Blame my lack of  inclination for golf. Maybe later when I get the chance to play golf, you'll see nothing here but golf.golf.golf. haha.



I know I promised you a tour of the resort ( for those who haven't been there yet, stay with me. and if you've been there already, whatelse you're waiting for? go browse other blog, haha ).


Beach holiday here could be boring if you start comparing it to the busy loud long white beaches of stations 3,2,&1 of  Boracay. Especially if  you don't "golf". Wt#, isn't the name of the resort a give away already?? Yet, the privacy and luxury provided compensate for the lack of noise and vibrancy and that's quite fabulous for old hen like me. Not so much for my teens thu' . So I tried to balance it for them. We kindah had 60/40 of both Boracays. That_ I would share in my coming post. But now, here let's go around the resort.

It was easy to get spoiled here. Generous shuttle services were provided both  for around resort and around town.



Inside the resort,they used e-shuttle like this. I've seen similar version of it in other resorts in the country.



I'd say the hotel lobby was the ugliest part of the resort. It was tired and outdated. Opposite of the brand new villa we stayed-in. It seemed to be the  oldest structure in the resort. Definitely in need of total make- over to match the rest of the resort.

The resort / hotel has the following facilities :

• Exclusive clubhouse
• Food and beverage outlets
• Mari's Spa (Salus per aquam)
• E-jeepneys (24 hour shuttle service inside the resort, as well as pickup in D'Mall every hour until 10 PM)
• 40 new eco-friendly golf carts 
• Over 250 well-appointed guestrooms
• 18-hole championship golf course
• 4 private beach coves
• 2 Infinity Pools (the biggest freshwater pools on the island)
• La Terraza Restaurant 
• Ballroom/Convention Hall 
• Meeting rooms
• 24 hour security

* yep. I copied pasted again. from their website. haha.

Buffet breakfasts were served at La Terraza Restaurant with awesome ocean view. The food? Oh well, later at my food blog. I've started posting some of our Boracay food trips there. If you're keen about food. jump here.

Daughters were excited to have their morning swim after breakfast. Seemed like we were too early cos the first pool was under treatment when we came. It was the elevated one Did you notice that beautiful rock structure at the background?



I'd be happy to have some photo ops there, but it was currently close to the public.






Daughters insisted on swimming pool, so we went to the one right down the beach.



We walked down to one of the coves of the resort. Let's ignore the awesome white beach for now.. you gotta drop by again later for the rest of them on my next post..



Cos right in there we reached the other infinity pool...



It was so pretty facing the vast ocean, we immediately  got off the camera and enjoyed the water. So if you wanna see the beach coves and some more of the resort..

abrupt ending here.
it's going too long.
gotta stop here.
don't you think so?

see you later ;)

I'm A Sinner

Whoa!!! It's grandmaMadonna!!!

wt#?

.. she still got it!

.. on her concert last week at Madison Square Garden, NYC.



In my bucket list, to see even a single Madonna concert, before I die.

Another dream come true..



..mine_ not yet,__ but hers!! ahh I'm jelly#* hehe. I grabbed those photos from my friend's fb account, with her permission thu'. :)

Zorb @ Boracay

Older daughter had mentioned early on our Boracay trip that she was  interested in one only and only one adventure activity_ zorb. Then randomly, I spotted an e-shuttle service of Bubble Boy Zorb right down the road of the resort we were staying. We didn't have to go out of our resort. We were at the right place for zorbing cos it was exactly  where we were_ at Fairways & Bluewaters. If  you wanna see our room, you can scroll down after this post or jump here. 

Daughter just got lucky cos no opposition party around ( the dad, haha!). No problem with me, I was as eager as she, haha. I actually had done almost all sea activities in Boracay : helmet diving, parasailing, banana boat, flying fish , island hopping, paraw sunset sailing, jetski.. but yet missed out land activities of the island like this zorb so I wanted to try too.

So the orb/inflated ball with us inside would roll downhill from this bamboo slope

It was a package of two rides. First was the hydro.One by one, with upper half body first in, they pushed us inside the orb with water in it. The entrance hole was quite narrow so it felt like a fish thrown in a aquarium bottle. Okey, ok_ I've never been a fish in my life, but I've seen a fish being thrown in a bottle, haven't you? haha. It looked exactly like that!!

We positioned like this. The water was just tummy level. Its purpose was to aid us glide inside the orb while it was rolling down the slope.

Then it was time... @#$%^&*. haha. It was so fast and furious!!!.. I didn't know what happened next!!

I thought the bones in my arm crumbled cos we literally went up.down.in-between, all around of each other while the ball was rolling. haha. I guess the ride was not really for three persons and ideally for two only. Yet it was so fun we couldn't stop laughing even off the orb.



Then the part two challenge_ the harnessed ride. Younger daughter and I decided to stop torturing ourselves, haha!

My braver older girl said yes! It was the extreme zorb. Thu' harnessed, it's more challenging cos the rider would roll the way the orb rolls. Unlike in the hydro ride where rider just glides inside.






We asked the girl photographer of Bubble Boy to join the ride cos it needed two riders for balance.

.. and the rolling begun!!!!!

.. inside daughter kept on shouting incomprehensible words, haha. Until the ball reached the bottom.




Well, ask her about it :)

Boracay2012: Our Room 1

Glad I was able to take a photo of the beds not yet messed-up-to-the-max. I had to shout to my girls, whose first instinct upon entering a hotel room would usually to muddle a perfectly done beds, to please off the beds first so I could take even just a single quiet photo. Done. haha. So this was the room we stayed at Fairways & Bluewater, Newcoast, Boracay, almost two weeks ago

The room is very masculine. Just like a few good men I know, it's straightforward, practical and well equipped. I miss you so much husband *insert luggage full of heart here*. Yet effeminately comfortable. It got all we needed. 

• Air conditioning

• Bathrobes
• Coffee/Tea Maker 
• Complimentary bottle of water
• Daily newspaper (available at the restaurant)
• Desk
• Hair Dryer
• In Room Safe
• Wireless Internet Access (subject to charges)
• Ironing Board (upon request)
• Mini-bar (subject to charges)
• Non-smoking rooms
• Refrigerator
• Satellite/Cable Television
• Shower

*above (list of amenities) I copied-pasted from their website cos i hate typing bullet items. But here I could assure you I got them all in our room.

There was one thing lacking thu'. According to our needs, and not included in the hotel's list. Good ass phone. Yes no phone in the room and we were housed on the 3rd level! Not that I needed phone to do outside call, we have cell phones ofcouse st..id cupid!! But the reception/concierge desk was down at the ground floor. No elevator in the building. So if we did need anything, we had to get down ourselves. I wasn't able to ask about why no phone. The possible reason would be between the following :  a). the particular building we stayed-in was so newly built, it hadn't completed yet its facilities fully. b). it's a damn resort concept, haha!

The masculine vibe sways up to the bathroom. I particularly admire the choice of  floor tiles here which perfectly suited a beach hotel/resort room. One of my girls got the whole bathroom floor flooded with water (wtf# she normally uses bathroom like that, haha) but in a very short while, the floor dried up real fast. By itself. Without any floor mopping done.

From there on, I noticed that the entire room had the same dried-up fast floor. So clever and practical. You know how always beach resort's guests enter the room with wet and sandy (especially there in Boracay ) feet, that floor really works.

This was our window view. No ocean view, just greens and open sky, but...

..at night or on an early dawn when the blinds were drawn..

.. the view turned into a silhouette painting..nice or not? 

We were actually housed in one of the infinite nos. of  villas inside Fairways & Bluewater. 

This is how it looks outside. Quite a modern building. Lots of this around the resort. This is no. 26, if I remember it right.????

Across our villa is  another type of villa. I saw other types of villa also but no pics.. Fairways & Bluewater Newcoast is madly huge!!! In exaggeration, almost as big as the whole station 1 white beach or is it a lot bigger??? Seems like. 

Later I'll try to make a post on around the whole resort. 

Got tons of photos here.

Gotta share.

See ya:)