Marriott Cebu

... where i could find my Rent-A-Spaceship. :-)  Apparently, Hertz has no station at the Airport. A Taxi drove me to them. Mariott-Hotel in Cebu City. 1(one) hour drive from the Airport and the opposite way i needed to go for my Hotel. When we arrived, ...

This is the best city ...

...  Unfortunately, this lead to long check-in lines at the commuter airport. We took a cab from the airport to the Marriott, about 30 minutes.  Traffic got increasingly bad the closer we got.  The roads are clogged with a mixture pedestrian ...

... change a small amount at the airport and seek better rates in the city, a tactic that has paid off in the past.  The Marriott Hotel, however, was a full 2 pesos / dollar LESS than the rate I got at the airport.  At the mall, the rate was ...

... got to the Ayala area it was still very early, so we walked around trying to orient ourselves. We found our way to the Marriott Hotel and went in to freshen up and see whether there were any meals worth coming back for. Their breakfast buffet was about ...

After two busy days, I promised Zel we would play things by ear on Friday.  The weather forecast a day earlier wasn't good enough to plan much in the way activities.  We wound up spending the day listening to music, watching TV, and chatting ...

By the time I had finished writing yesterday's lengthy entry and processing the pictures, we had missed breakfast and went straight for lunch at a Thai restaurant called The Banana Leaf.  The main gimmick at this restaurant was your "plate" was a ...

... Yesterday, loaded up on drugs that might be useful.  I have an international outlet adapter, and a portable surge protector.  The Marriott has 110V outlets, so it won't fry my equipment.  The country typically runs on 220V, I did buy a ...

... my nails done (again), one final deeeeelish Italian meal with Gianna, and one last swim in the Marriot's outdoor pool at the resort, before hopping onto my Cebu Pacific flight to KL ... Very very sad to leave the Philippines, but have resolved to get a 2 ...

... here and stay for 2 months next time, wahaaaay! That should give me enough time to actually go to Palawan, and possibly even Cebu (which I've been getting rave reviews about). Why didn't I get to Palawan? Mainly because I spent so much bloody time on ...

... the hotel. You must take into careful consideration of the hotel you choose. The buses usually stop at the following hotels: Mariott China Hotel, Hotel Landmark Canton, Hu Wei Da. For more info about the hotels stops and schedules, checkout the ...

... express checkout" when I merely call the front desk and tell them I'm leaving.  This would have been a bad idea at the Marriott in Cebu, however, as someone named Agnes attempted to charge a milkshake binge to my room. The trip home was a ...