3D2N CDO-Camiguin-Bukidnon Trip Series: Going to Paras Beach Resort in Camiguin

Our first destination was Camiguin. From airport, we headed directly to Balingoan port for the ferry going to Camiguin Island. It's the only way to reach this island and it's also my first time to ride a RORO boat. After this trip, i swear to myself not to ride a RORO again. Kwento about it later. Enjoy sana ang camiguin trip kaya lang bigla akong nagkaron ng monthly period. Kainis dba?

 

The small port of Balingoan

Ticket to RORO going to Benoni port of Camiguin costs P160.00 each for one-way. You will also pay less than P5.00 for the tax yata yun. Tickets to and from Camiguin is not included in E-Philippines package. 

Travel time from Balingoan to Benoni port is almost one hour. When we arrive in Benoni Port, our service in Camiguin was already there and it took us another 30 mins land trip before reaching the famous Paras Beach Resort in Camiguin.

Paras Beach Resort was once a family vacation resort of the Paras family until it opened to public sometime ago. It was the famous resort in Camiguin and lots of tourists prefer the Paras Beach resort and i read a lot of positive reviews from the net.

 

The reception area

 

 The lobby in the reception area. The place was well-maintained and the people are very friendly.

 Checking-in...

When we arrived, all of us were given this souvenir necklace from the resort.

 

The camiguin island. Maliit lang pala talaga ang Camiguin kaya by ferry lang ang way to go there.

Welcome to Paras Beach Resort!!! hehe

 

The inviting pool of Paras Beach Resort.

 

We arrived on Sunday kaya medyo konti na lang ang guests. Mostly foreigners ang nakikita namin sa resort.

From the package that we got, the resort gave us 2 Family Lofts rooms.

 

Our room key

The rooms were really big. A big family of 6 to 10 can stay in 1 loft, actually all of us can stay in one loft but since we were given 2 family lofts room, apat lang kami sa isang room.

Hubby and I stayed on the loft at sa baba yung dalawa naming kasama. Tig-isa silang kama. hehe. We loved the bed because its so soft and comfy, the aircon was so cold at ang sarap matulog with the fluffy pillows.

 

The view outside our room.

The white line that you see in the photo is the white island, it's 5 minute boat ride from Paras Beach Resort that's why its recommended to stay in this place.

 

Hangin' around the place. 

When we arrive in resort at around 10am, the first thing that we did is to eat lunch after settling our things in the room. We were so hungry that time kasi naman ang layo talaga. Mga PG lang ang peg.. We were also scheduled for our Camiguin tour that same day kaya after we had lunch, nag-rest lang kami ng almost 2 hours then we leave na for the tour. (on my next post)

Planning of going to Camiguin? Here's the room list of Paras Beach Resort in Camiguin.

 

You can also get tours from this resort.

Paras Beach Resort's Aqua Sports..

Camiguin Tour on my next post!

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3D2N CDO-Camiguin-Bukinon Trip Series: Going to Cagayan de Oro

dRemember we scored a P1,200++ roundtrip ticket to CDO last time in Cebu Pacific's promo? We got the earliest flight departure from Manila bound to CDO and the late flight back to Manila. At first i was hesitant to join kasi naman kaka-sendong pa lang dba? Pero according sa mga nakausap namin, iba palang part ng CDO yung na-sendong and the water rafting goes back to operation last December 28 pa kaya gora na kami. We had the 3 whole days with this trip. Bonggang-bongga nga!

Since we have the earliest flight, hubby's colleagues went to our house past 1am and my father-in-law drove us to terminal 3 at exactly 3am in time for our 4:30am flight. Aga no?

Hubby's colleagues

Four of our travel buddies was their first time to ride the plane and they were excited with this trip. Hindi nga yata nakatulog sa sobrang excitement! hehe

Travel time is more than an hour so we slept at the plane and woke up when its time to land at the Lumbia Airport in CDO.

 

Welcome to CDO!!!

Truly that this city is city of friendship kasi lahat na yata ng tao d2 naka-smile at very friendly :)

Malayo palang kita na namin yung name ko dun sa tour guide namen aka manong driver. hehe

And this is our service...

See? Comfortable kaming lahat...

Our first day is Camiguin so after he fetched us in Lumbia airport we drop by in Jollibee to have breakfast before heading to our destination. The service brought us to Balingoan Port and took us more than 2 hrs of land trip.

It was advisable talaga to get a package kasi ang lalayo ng bawat tourist destination ditech!

On my next post is Camiguin. Watch out!

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3D2N CDO-Camiguin-Bukidnon Package from E-Philippines

Prior to our trip, i was browsing lots of blogs about CDO trip to know if its easy to do it by ourselves or its more comfortable to get a package. My officemates were suggesting to avail the E-Philippines package because they experience really good service with them.

First, we were looking at the table (See image below) to know how much it will cost us. The rate below is quoted per person. Before deciding on which package to get, i have to read reviews and look for some photos first in the internet.

 

We chose the Mallberry and Paras beach resort for our accomodation and the final rate was P5,531.00 per person. 

After paying the complete amount. They send us the travel voucher together with the itinerary for the trip days before the trip.

Why i like E-Philippines?

During our trip, the E-Philippines staff were communicating with us if we need anything or asking how's our trip. They were very accomodating at mabait talaga sila...

Our service for the whole trip.

The van was really clean and almost new. Always advance pa sa meeting time. We're a group of 8 and kami lang ang sakay ng van. Kung sa iba yun malamang pinag-sabay-sabay na lahat ng client with the same itinerary.

The van driver

The driver that was assigned to us were really nice and easy to talk to. Sya pa ang tagakuha ng picture namin pag group picture. They also served as our tour guide kaya during the trip he was talking and making kwento about the place na pupuntahan namin.

One more thing that i liked with them is that they don't take advantage of tourists. Take example in the Del Monte Clubhouse, i was telling him to join us in our lunch and it was our treat to him for being nice. He just said "No mam ok na po ako, may baon po ako. Kayo na lang po, i-enjoy nyo po ang food and place d2".

Overall, E-Philippines service was really good. From start of the trip until we got home maganda ang service nila. I highly recommend it.

You may check their website here.

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