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My family set out another journey last September. We are heading to Manaog to have my Kuya's car blessed. We drove at around 2am and reach the Church at around 5:30 am. It was dark and a lot of vehicles are lining up to have their car blessed. I'm disappointed because the blessing was like 30 seconds. It wasn't sincere or holy in anyway. A splash of Holy water then mumbling a prayer and off to the next vehicle. It's not what it used to be very disappointing. Then we had breakfast and drove to Tondol. It was spontaneous so I didn't make a research and so did my Kuya. We got to the beach at around 11am .
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| Breakfast |
The beach is nice. White sand, only a few people were swimming. I fell in love with the place. The only problem is they asked around and there are no comfort rooms, that would be okay but there are no restaurants. We didn't bring any food with us so it was disappointing. I recently searched places and found a lot of home stays in the area.
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| Tondol Beach |
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| Is that Potipot? |
So we went ahead, my brother wanted to go back to Dasol, Slim and I haven't been there but we have a little time and driving to Dasol would take another 3 hours so we decided to try a resort along Eguia that they saw before when they went to Dasol.
The resort is Fiesta Grande, this is just a day trip and we are tired so we got a room for a few hours. They gave it to us for 1750, we checked in at 1pm and will check out at 6pm. 1750 FOR 5 HOURS? Our drivers need to sleep so we got a room. We ate lunch at the resort and the kids swam on the pool. The pool is a bit dirty. After resting a bit Slim and I went to the beach.
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| Our room |
The beach is clean and the water is warm. The sand is also fine, not white but because its fine walking barefoot is doable..
Upon checking out in Fiesta Grande we were disappointed. We found out that they charged us twice for the food. We ordered one serving and they decided to charge us per head. That's fine if it's Hotel like but it was just ordinary and the serving is not that big too. I mean the place is okay and we know how much the food cost. That means dinner will not be at the resort. This trip is a bit of a disappointment because we didn't stayed in Tondol and the overcharging. But since we were together it's okay. We know that not all trips will be enjoyable just like life there are ups and downs.
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| We had dinner at Wimpy's Burger Subic. |
We'll probably go back to Tondol once we have made a research. Tondol looks untouched, perfect if you're looking for a white beach near Manila.
ESTIMATED EXPENSE:
GAS 1800 RT
TOLL 1500
HOTEL 1750
FOOD 2500
TOTAL 9300 (5 PEOPLE)
****UPDATE 11/10/15****
Upon research here are places you can stay in Tondol
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| I got this from Tondol White Beach FB Page |
