Thanks to my SIL, who has lots of friends (rich friends) hehehe. We were invited to use her friend's condo unit in Pico de Loro.
The place was nice with lots of things you can actually do but we were not able to do all because of the limited time and not waking up early to leave manila.
It is a beach and country club by members only but if you no someone you could be invited as their guest, you do not necessarily have to stay in their condo unit, you have an option to stay in Sands hotel located inside the beach and country club. you can visit the website for more info.
It is a long drive to from Manila to Batangas around 2.5 to 3hours depending on the traffic and stopovers.
Warning: Bring plenty of food as the place is really far from other food establishments, you will be forced to order from the country club and their restos which I will give a full review later.
Some of the great shots of pico de loro Taken by our A.
infinity pool by the beach. This is the beach club.
This is the unit where we stayed.
Then everything went downhill when we ordered our dinner. We went out to eat at their
country club. We ate at their Lagoa Restaurant. It was full since it was a Saturday night, but do note
this was the last week of May, so it was the remaining weeks of summer. The staff should have been
prepared with the number of people going there by now.
Looking for a table for a group of 8 was a feat, we managed to look for one and we were the ones to look for tables to put together take note. We started to order around 7:00 pm and as you well know when you have swam to your hearts content, more than likely you are very hungry.
We ordered some fries, pasta, sinigang, pinaputok na lilapia, fried chicken, in short very basic, no frills food as I have said we are very hungry, look at us in that picture above.
come 7:30 pm, still no food comes to our table, not even the french fries for heavens sake. We can not even call on to any waiters/waitresses to follow up on our order. But we do see a lot of them just passing us by. After several times we tried to call the attention of the staff, they said the food was coming out. Our food did come out around 8:00 an hour for the french fries, sinigang, pasta and chicken to arrive aftern an irate complain from us.
As we were eating, we can not finish the food served, the sinigang was too salty, the french fries tasted like it was cooked from old oil (maanta). We ordered the chicken, supposedly as it was indicated in the menu, chicken quarter but to our dismay and without any explanation it became a measly chicken fillet. The food was ugh, mas mabuti pa kung sa carinderia kami kumain. And the price were not a joke.
around P250 to P350 for a dish.
We asked for the manager to complain, and what do you know, even asking to complain to the manager we had to wait for another 30 mins. hahaha. Really for a supposedly high end country club,
it was not what we have expected.
Hay, we left so hungry and while complaining and the manager standing beside me, I even found a piece of hair on my bowl of rice.
The place was great but the restaurant service was really poor. Hope they find a way to improve it.
Well, we capped our trip by eating in Tagaytay at Leslie's.
Having that hot bowl of soup just saved the trip. All well that ends well, right.
