Singapore Cheap Accomodation

It looks like we cannot all stay in our friend's place by October. They could only adopt 2person and I guess 2 person on the other house as well or more. We are a group of 7 adults and 1 child. So instead of staying with our friends. We will just rent a dormitory type or a private room. Hopefully it would all be cheap. I'm now researching for possible inn, hostel.

Requirements should be:
- easily accessible in Singapore train stations
- clean
- safe or looks safe
- with private restroom and shower
- Airconditioned

Optional:
- with Wifi
- with hot shower

I'm looking for a backpackers hotel that allow children. Hopefully I could find one soon.

Looking forward

I've been looking forward for our vacation trips this September and October. I already filed my vacation leaves.

Starting off ...

When: September 3-7, 2011 (5Days/4Nights)
Where: Bohol
What: My 29th birthday celebration with John

Here's our already planned itinerary:
Day 1 - enjoying the hotel/beach
Day 2 - DANAO Extreme Adventure
Day 3 - Countryside Tour
Day 4 - SeaSide Tour
Day 5 - Souvenir shopping

Next ...

When: October 13-15, 2011 (3Days/2Nights)
Where: Boracay
What: Trip with Emerson friends

Actually we would be arriving at Kalibo at October 13 (12:40AM). But there won't be any trips going to Caticlan at that time. So I asked a friend to have us booked at a nearby inn. Then in the morning we would be travelling to Caticlan then boracay.

No itinerary yet, but I guess it would be beach bumming, island hopping, reef walking, parasailing (if we can afford it) and bar hopping.

Still 3 months from now, so I need to exercise for my boracay body. ;)

And finally ...

When: Oct 28-31, 2011 (4Days/2Nights)
Where: Singapore
What: Trip with College Friends

We will be staying with our other college friends that are now residing in Singapore. We will visit the Universal Studios, Sentosa, Singapore Zoo, Marina Bay Sands, etc. We haven't finalized our itinerary yet but we'll get to that.

Now that leaves me with 3Vacation Leaves to spare. :(

It looks like I'll be at the office during Christmas and New year. Since I'll use 2 leaves for John's bday and 1 leave for the next Singles retreat. I just hope there would be a lot of holidays to be declared. (goodluck!)

Tagaytay Grand Villa

We had our outing last May 7-8 @ Tagaytay. Original plan was to look for a private pool at Pansol, but fear of not finding a good place, we did a last minute research and found this in Tagaytay. This cost 12k good for 10pax. Lucky for us since there are no other guest occupying the place. It's not that good because the place feels creepy. The kitchen is dark and the walls needs repainting. The billiard pool is old. The water is cold.

I think this is the biggest planning ever. We are really excited for this.
We had a FB event page so we could discuss everything.
We even have our checklist for the things to bring/menu for the day...

Call time is at 5:30 but we left 6:30 since we are still waiting for some late comers.
The Ong family encountered problem with their car so they just decided to follow and arrived after lunch.

While we are getting ready to leave

The garage

The room, we were assigned 2 rooms

Enjoying the coldness of the water & doing jumpshots

We spend our time, eating, cooking, singing, drinking and laughing.

Dinner

(Parang lahat ng pic babyjan nagbibigay ng alak... hehe)

Truly a place is as good as the people in it.


Till next time

Pasyal

I've been wanting to do a travel blog (with details) for all those travellers like me who is looking for tips and comments about places they wanted to go. But forgive me since this would be just a summary of the past vacations I had.

US Trip (Hawaii/Massachusettes/New York) (July - Sept 2008)
~ business trip (but mostly pleasure) for company training. We had a stopover overnight at Hawaii, then stayed 3 months in Massachusettes, a weekend in New york, and another night at Hawaii). It's hard to summarize the experience but I totally love the surroundings & clean air. A far cry from Philippines. I had fun at Six Flags and I so love New York & Hawaii.

~ I love Autumn ~
~ I love thrilling rides @ 6 Flag ~

~ I love the clean beach @ Hawaii ~

~ I love Empire state at night ~

Bolinao Trip (May 2-3, 2009)
~ Summer trip with my Cisco friends @ Bolinao, Pangasinan. We stayed at Villa Soledad for a fun inuman session. On our way home, a side trip to 100 islands.




Pansol, Laguna (May 9-10, 2009)
Overnight summer trip with Emerson friends (stayed at Coracasa resort)



Club Manila East (June 5, 2009)
Seachange first company outing



Davao Trip (Nov 2009)
highlights: Pearl farm (day tour) and Outland adventure for zipline (definitely wanted to try this again)





Splash Mountain (Apr 9-11, 2010)
A relaxing 2 nights stay. We tried the scary water slides which are only open on summer weekends.


Splash Island (May 1, 2010)
This would probably the first and last that I'll go to this place. UNCLEAN bathrooms/restrooms. There is no lap pool just water fun slides/rides/river. But still I enjoy it with the company of my college friends.



Subic (May 29-30 2010)
In celebration of our 100th month anniversary. We tried tree top adventure and stayed at Grande Island resort. We got the promo rate (50% the usual I think) so the price is okay for that place, clean and nice rooms, buffet dinner, breakfast and lunch :D

~ When I already gather the courage to try tree drop, the queue is so long :(

~ Kever! haha... alang paki-elamanan :p

~ Uwi na ..

Palawan trip (June 18-21, 2010)
With emerson friends, Underground River, Island hopping @ El Nido, City tour at Puerto Princesa (Crocodile Farm, Bakers Hill). I super love the beaches, I will definitely go back to Palawan! (probably Coron) ;)

~ Underground river ~

~ snorkeling and there's Nemo!

~ breathtaking views

Bicol trip (July 1-4, 2010)
John's grandpa's 20th death anniversary. I joined his family in the celebration and the same time went to see the famous Mayon. Also, went to CWC (to wake board). I think given few more hours I'll be good at it :D

~ Mayon volcano (perfect cone , but no longer that perfect)

~ me wakeboarding

up next my Tagaytay trip (with all the details that I could manage)