Palm Grass Hotel

An ordinary hotel, we chose it because of the pool, but in the end it turned out that it was not well maintained, dirty and not serviced at all

We flew to Cebu by plane from. Palawan, we hired a white taxi to the hotel (precisely white, this is important), in which, according to the meter, we got to the hotel for 300. And the managers of the yellow taxi run around the room and offer a taxi for 743 (like a fixed official price). We checked in quickly and took a deposit of 2000 pesos in cash. They offered to leave our passport, but we quickly realized that we still needed to go to the port that day and buy tickets to Bohol, and without a passport they would not be sold. They immediately asked how much a car would cost to the place where they swim with sardines and turtles; apparently there were no organized tours, because the women immediately started calling some numbers and in total they said that the car would cost 7,500 (it fits 8 people, so it’s quite profitable to travel with a group) + 575 tickets (on the spot it turned out that this is a fee for the guide who swims with you). The main value of the hotel is its location: the very center of city life, around pharmacies, shops, restaurants, about a kilometer to the port and park with an ancient fortress, from there it’s a stone’s throw to the cathedral, Magellan’s Cross and other attractions. The hotel is quite shabby: I won’t write about the quality of the renovation or something in the style of “renovation from the 90s”, I usually don’t find fault here, but the sockets work poorly and there are few of them, the Internet is weak and constantly crashes, you have to reconnect several times. There is no cooler with drinking water, when cleaning you are given 2 small bottles of water, there is no tea leaves, but there is a kettle and a refrigerator. Weak water pressure in the shower. It is very inconvenient to open the closet - in order to put something there, you need to get behind the bed and pull your hands out from there. The bathroom has soap, shampoo, toothbrushes and toothpaste. But there is a blanket, not a sheet on the bed. Breakfast starts at 6.30 and is quite decent.