Ok. I know this is a bit late, but I still wanted to write a review of this wonderful resort at Bolinao, Pangasinan.
Originally, our choice of resort is the Sundowners Villas, but since it was not available on our chosen date which is the last week of April, we search for other resort in Bolinao, luckily we found G Beach Resort's website, it looks very presentable and attractive, have good reviews and most importantly affordable.
We depart here at Manila around 2am and arrived at Pangasinan proper at around 7am including all of our quick stops, after having a quick breakfast at some fastfood we then headed to Hundred Islands, which is our first destination in Pangasinan, our driver already has a contact there so we easily got a boat ride, 300php per person for boat ride including the life vest, there are vendors there that are offering a Snorkeling goggles for rent, as much as I remember it was 100php each, well some of us rent though, anyways we are a group of around 25 people and so we have to rent 2 boats. Although the owner of the boat makes us wait a bit long because there are no life vest available, it has been fine since the life vest that they gave us was new.
Ok, I don't really want to talk about our trip to Hundred Islands as it was not really good and satisfying but just to warn you, it was so crowded and the beach are dirty, actually the whole place is not well maintain, the boat ride that we rent said that we can have an Island hopping but it was not really an Island hopping, we just pass by the Islands and then they made us choose what Island they will drop us and pick the same at the agreed time, I think most of the boat rental there do the same as they wanted to accommodate more tourist rather than giving a fair service, one more thing is that the main boat terminal do not have enough shower room and don't even have enough water coming from the faucet. So all in all it was more of a nightmare than a trip, I wish we went to enchanted cave instead.
Anyways, let's move forward, after wasting 4 hours or more at Hundred Islands, we just drop by the market to buy lunch and seafoods to cook for dinner then head to the resort, it took us less than an hour to reach the resort from the market, G Beach Resort is almost at the end of the Patar beach so you have to pass through some rough road to get there, they have a sign all the way which we find very helpful, each sign has some cute saying on it, actually you will find a lot of cute sayings and tagline around the resort.
As we enter the resort, we were given our keys and the staff accommodate us to our rooms, by the way, at that time they only have 5 rooms just enough to accommodate a number of people enough for the resort so it won't be crowded for every guest to enjoy all of their facilities, the 3 rooms at the second floor is good for 5 persons and it can be rented for 7500php with breakfast good for 5, the other 2 rooms is good for 10 persons and can be rented for 11000phph with breakfast good for 10. Very affordable considering the rooms are very clean and a hotel like. Staff are very polite and accommodating, they actually gave us a complimentary Ice tea upon check in, just exact for the lunch that we bought from the market.
After eating lunch and resting a bit, we then went to the beach side to play the games that some of us prepared, we really had fun and almost forget that it's getting darker. Around 6pm already when we go back to the resort, actually the resort is a beach front one so you just have to go down a few steps and you are at the wonderful beach and a very fine gold sand already.
Some of us prepared the dinner and some of us enjoyed their warm swimming pool, yes warm.. so even if a wind from the sea blows, you won't really mind it, fancy lights by the pool also adds attraction to it. Although while we were at the pool the resort experienced black out, it was fine since it was back just a few minutes after.
After enjoying a boodle fight dinner, we had a little drink and chit chat at their area near the pool and facing the beach. It was a tiring but amazing day for all of us so went to our designated room after a few hours to get a good night sleep and have a lot of energy for tomorrow's another fun day.
Actually there is so much that happens but this post will have a lot of pages if I wrote all of it down. So let's just summarize this. :)
I woke up at around 7am and the breakfast was already prepared by the staff, they have a list of breakfast where you can choose and order them the night before. Free breakfast for kids. :)
So this day is for chilling or shall I say pictorial day? Haha.. so we just explore the shoreline of the beach and enjoy its waves...
After cooking and eating lunch, we then prepare for check out, I actually don't want to leave the resort but sadly it has to end, :( what a great stay anyways...
By the way for more info you can visit their website at http://www.gbeachresort.com/
they also have a facebook account https://www.facebook.com/GBeachResort/
I believe they have more rooms now because we saw some construction at the side that time for their expansion. And also just beside them and maybe the last at that area is another resort, I think it's a private one, and looks expensive, though we don't get to inquire.
Before exiting Pangasinan, we drop by another market to buy some pasalubong, the City's specialty there are dried fish like danggit, dilis, etc.
So there... I really enjoy our trip to Bolinao specially our stay at G Beach Resort, I would really love to go back and stay there again...
