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 Philippines travel tales
Our customers who stayed at Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino share their experiences.
Read about first hand stories on travel tips and guides, events, entertainment,shopping, food, business and transportation.
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Baguio city guide,
Bohol city guide,
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Cebu city guide,
El Nido city guide,
Manila city guide,
and Puerto Galera city guide.
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| C Dunham |
22 January 2005 |
Stayed at Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino - Cebu, Philippines.
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It is much cheaper to hire a taxi to take you on a Cebu City tour (US$30 for an entire van) than to go through a travel agent (US$25/person). Make sure you ask the driver to take you to a restaurant on Mactan Island at the fish market, where you get to select fresh lobsters, squid, fish, prawns, and other shell fish and have them cooked-to-order. Also, arrange for an all-day boating/snorkeling/island hopping tour through Tropical Island Adventures (on Buyong Beach). They will take you to the best snorkeling and diving spots around Cebu. A barbecue lunch is prepared for you on board. Cost is about $25/person, including food/drinks and snorkeling gear.
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| A Rimmington |
17 January 2005 |
Stayed at Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino - Cebu, Philippines.
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We found Cebu to be a great place for shopping, the taxi drivers were polite and honest. We were in Cebu during the Sinulog Festival. Cebu was very crowded and at times it was almost impossible to get a taxi and even when we did, it took hours to get anywhere, shopping at both Ayala and SM centres was great and good value for money, food is still good value in Cebu, and there is still places where you can get seafood
smorgasboard for p130, exchange rates were good for the Aussie dollar, and some of the best rates were at the currency exchange in the centre of Ayala shopping centre, all in all a wonderful trip.
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| R Trent |
04 January 2005 |
Stayed at Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino - Cebu, Philippines.
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We used the Nissan Car rental outfit in hotel lobby to book two driving tours of Cebu which let us see all of the tourist spots. Bring small change as most places visited required a small parking fee of between P5 to P20. Drivers are professional and full of info as well as great assistance in taking pictures for us. To get around Cebu, use taxis. All that we used had working meters and rides to various spots were: Ayala Center: P60; SM Cebu: P110; Fuente Osmena: P115; Airport: under P150.
Get out of the hotel and experience some of the great restaurants Cebu has to offer. We walked about 20 minutes from our hotel and found some unbelievable barbecue spots and Filipino restaurants. If you plan to stay in the hotel, the restaurants are great as well but you do pay "hotel prices".
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| C Lemons, jr. |
26 September 2003 |
Stayed at Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino - Cebu, Philippines.
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Cebu is a very fun and beautiful place with great nightlife. The great thing about the Waterfront is you never have to leave the place and have an enjoyable evening.
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| P Manning |
23 July 2003 |
Stayed at Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino - Cebu, Philippines.
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Location is excellent being just 5 minutes by taxi from Ayala shopping centre [and a decent lunch buffet at the Marriot]. The shopping centre named SM is a particularly good venue to stock up on basics such as underwear and socks and other basic clothing at truly good prices - the US and Singapore dollar go a long way there.
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| A Levin |
15 May 2003 |
Stayed at Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino - Cebu, Philippines.
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Take taxis to the nearby malls for cheap eats. The pizza in the hotel was okay, but for less than $2.00 you can go to a nearby mall and get all kinds of selection and great prices.
Taking taxis are a cheap way to get around. The hotel charges $6.00 for a car to pick you up or drop you off at the airport, but if you bargain with the cabbies they will get you there for less than $2.00.
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| S Ivery |
28 April 2003 |
Stayed at Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino - Cebu, Philippines.
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The only problem I had was with a taxi cab driver trying to "overcharge" for a fare to Ayala Mall.
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| K Imao |
05 March 2003 |
Stayed at Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino - Cebu, Philippines.
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This hotel is so convenient to take Ocean-Jet or Super-Cat bound for Bohol.
No problem!
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| W Kluge |
01 March 2003 |
Stayed at Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino - Cebu, Philippines.
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Downtown Cebu is always nice - but not a place to spend a holiday. However good starting point for island tours, diving tours etc.
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| J Feeney |
16 February 2003 |
Stayed at Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino - Cebu, Philippines.
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I visited my girlfriend there and didn't really go to any restaurants or take tours. The Tops was really cool, nice place to visit in the daytime to view all of Cebu.
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