Dive-Monster Rhoody

The demand for a nice hotel when coming to Dumaguete is getting bigger almost each month here. During high season it’s hard to find something up to date and most places are fully booked. Since a couple of weeks is a new Hotel quite central in Dumageute City.

Obdulias Business Inn is located next to BDO-bank and the Cathedral. It has a modern design and rooms starting around 700 peso. The rooms are spacious and well designed and with the elevator also accessible for elder guests without any problems. A restaurant in the same building offers international dishes including Thai and Indian cuisine.

Another edition to the Dumaguete Hotel scene is soon to open. Hotel Nicanor will open for guests in a few weeks and is about 2 minutes walking distance to Lee Plaza and the Boulevard. With 44 rooms Hotel Nicanor is one of the biggest Hotels in Dumaguete and can accommodate more than 100 guests. Hotel Nicanor is related somehow to the same Family which runs Hotel Palwa and that puts quite some weights on the shoulders of Katrina, the manager of Nicanor. Why?

Hotel Palwa is top of my “favorite-hotel-list” in Dumaguete because of the friendly staff and the lovely Frontdeskangels. Some of Nicanor’s future FD-staff is at the moment in training there and I must admit the staff-recruiter has a good taste… hehe

My Friend Kim has always a pleasant stay at Palwa and it will be hard to convince him to try something else… But as he puts me in charge for his booking he also might have no chance. The only problem would be if he is not happy he will drown me in SMB.

I am pretty sure the future will bring some more Hotels to Dumaguete, I’ll keep you informed … and there is always www.dumagueteinfo.com

cheers

Rhoody

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It’s been a year or so since Kim and Tom left Dumaguete City due to some ISP problems an some other reasons. After more than 12 month Kim packed Tom in his hand-luggage and carried him down to Hotel Palwa. They were in company with Mike (my Typhoon-diver) Lyka and Big C (who’s real name should not be mentioned).  

The first evening we met at “the fat austrians” place named Casablanca where we discussed the plans for the next 4 days. The problem was to squeeze in some diving between dining and drinking. As it was thursday night we decided to have a few cold ones at Why Not, where we got kicked out around 3 in the morning.

Girls just wanna have fun

Hungry again we went to Mama Marias Pizza and ordered 2 pizzas. It was probably the worst thing the boys and me ever tasted in Dumaguete. The cheeze they are using is one of the worst things you can imagine and kills the rest, whatever things you want on the Pizza. That in combination with soaky warm beer and noisy Philippino Drama from the Television….

Mama Maria… a absolute double NoNo !!!

Some good hours of sleep and late lunch at Coco Amigos. Kims typical order a Jalapeno soup and a Cordon Bleu.

Waitress : the soup first?
Kim: Yes,please.
Result: the soup came first and the Cordon Bleu not even 10 seconds later… next time he better orders with a time to deliver…

On the way there we met Will and Maureen, also two of my Open Water Students who joined us for a great night out. The 4 girls went to Why Not to have some fun without us old, fat, drinking guys. We remained at Mikes Waterfront Cafe and managed to drink all his SML.

 Around 2 am we joined the Girls in Why Not and had a few last ones before we all went home to get some good hours of sleep as diving is on the program for tomorrow…

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