Villa Fontaine- Japan

i am glad we were booked here during my last visit in Japan. i love the cozy, cozy place and its accessibility and their basic amenities and the free buffet breakfast!



my home for about 4 days in Tokyo. this is in the Kayabacho area. they have several branches all over Tokyo and Japan.


the buffet breakfast mainly consists of salads, breads, hardboiled eggs, juice and coffee.



and my nightly treat has always been this hot mint bath to soothe the tiredness and the cold. yey!

in Osaka, i stayed at another of their branch which was in Shinsaibashi station.


this is located just one station away from Namba which has the airport express, this train could already take us to the airport for barely one hour.



and my room even has a foot massager. i only got to use it once in my two day stay because, well i didn't have the luxury of time. :(




they have more food varieties for their free buffet breakfast too.

their website is at http://www.hvf.jp/eng/ must be nice going back to their place again.

Grandpa's Inn-Vigan

i went back to Vigan this month with my family and this time we stayed at Grandpa's Inn. I discovered this place when i was doing my research on places to eat and chanced upon someone else's blog about how good their food was.

we went there with my friends last summer for dinner and indeed the food was great! it was cheap too especially with their exceptional service and cozy ambiance. my apologies as i don't have pictures of their food since they were wiped out before we remembered to take shots haha!


we stayed at the calesa room which was truly unique in itself having 2 calesa beds and one double bed and could accommodate up to 4 people.



there was free wifi in the rooms too. and the staff were very helpful and courteous.


i will surely miss this place. we had such a great time during our stay there.

city econo inn-hk

i'd like to call it divine intervention...

just bef0re we checked out at macau, i asked our concierge to write our HK hotel address in Chinese characters so i can just hand it to our taxi driver. he had to call the hotel and i had to pay another 21 hkd for it and i was told that there was no reservation under my name. hmm, i panicked a bit when i remember that i failed to give my complete name when i reserved for our room via email.

the entire time that we were on the ferry boat to hk i was praying really hard that hopefully, miss jenny, the owner remembered me. or if there was indeed no reservation then hopefully i could have another room asap. i hate travel booboos really and would really feel bad about myself if ever there's one especially with how obsessed i could get in planning out itineraries. i was hoping i'd have any internet connection in Macau so i could have finalized our reservation details but it was pretty hard communicating with people who couldn't speak english that well.

i was praying too that we could have a good enough taxi driver.

well anyway, we got to HK and thankfully we did got a good taxi driver, in fact i even owe him a few dollars since he didn't have any loose change for my 100hkd. our meter read 16 hkd but i only had 10hkd then and my 100hkd. he took the 10hkd saying he's got no other change. i felt so ashamed of myself hihihi. kung dito sa Pilipinas yan, nakow! as if papayag ang drayber, hmpf!

oh, and we did see miss jenny at the backdoor of the hotel. we actually entered the wrong door but she was there because the elevator that day needed to be fixed. and although she didn't get my name, she did remember that two Filipinas we're checking in that day and even recited my mobile number which was on my email signature, yey!

fortunately they also sell discounted disney tickets and even exchanged our money both US dollars and our remaining Macau patacas, too convenient indeed!



there's free wifi too and the place is really nice, clean and cozy. nice, nice place that i miss it already!

rm guesthouse

there's this inn/mini-hotel which we discovered in dumaguete. apparently, most of my suki hotels then were fully booked because of the Buglasan Festival, the Uni-games, and some other conventions.



located just across the St. Paul's Academy, it is but one tricycle ride away from the port and airport and the downtown Dumaguete area.



the room is ornately furnished. it's a bit small but it has all the basic amenities naman. and it's just PhP 550.00 for single accommodation.



what i love the most about this place is their food! and it's pretty cheap too, most meals are at PhP 60.00, cakes and desserts for PhP 40.00. there's free wifi at the lobby too.



this breakfast set of hotdogs, rice and egg is just PhP60.00 and the caramel macchiato, which is so good by the way is just PhP65.00. argh! i wish there's some cafe like that here in Manila! hmpf!

anyway, they don't have any website yet but you may contact them at (035) 422-4000 or their mobile nos. 0917-474-2724/ 0910-227-5446.