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The Alta Resort in Mactan, Cebu

Discussion in 'Hotel and Travel reviews' started by Kuya, Sep 19, 2010.

  1. Kuya
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    Kuya The Geeky One Staff Member

    Rizza and I stayed at the ALTA Cebu Resort in October 2009 for 2 nights, I had origionally booked 3 nights but we left early. The resort itself is a long way off the beaten track and ALTA stands for American Language Teaching Acadamy, and so it is also something of an English school and is host to a lot of corporate events.

    This was the main problem that I found, as throughout the day you can hear the whoop whoos from the call centre training groups that arrive to have an afternoon team bonding session and so the place gets pretty noisy.

    They also had a so called zoo, which basically was a small area with a few Macaque monkeys kept in a tiny cage. Not too impressive and for a lot of visitors might be offensive, so overall not too good.

    When you go for breakfast they have a limited choice, although the Filipino breakfasts are perhaps best from the menu. They have sliced fruit laid out on a table with a few flies getting their most out of them, so not too enticing.

    The pool looked nice, but was often awash with corporate groups who arrive in their tens, and tend to stay around the pool area, often playng games and swimming. So for a couple who seem to be the only guest not in a corporate group, this can be very discouraging.

    Worse of all is the distance from Cebu city and how the taxis that are organised by the ALTA resort will charge double what a fair taxi driver from cebu city will charge, and there is no choice but to pay them as the location of the ALTA resort is in a very poor town in Cordova so there is a lack of local taxis available, walking the streets to flag one down did not seem like a good idea...

    The rooms were okay, with the shower just about managing to spray some water but at least it was warm. TV had such a poor signal we didn't watch it at all, but on a plus the rooms were sealed away from mosquitoes:like:

    As an idea, a place that provides free English classes and employs many from the local community I have nothing but praise for. but, the attempt to mix corporate events with "romantic" escapes does not mix on a resort as small as this one. In he end Rizza wanted to leave this place as there was nothing for us to do and boredom soon kicks in, so sadly it is a place I will not be visiting again.

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