Sandbar Boquete Beach Club Puerto Galera Mindoro Oriental

Sandbar Boquete Beach Club is set in a lush green jungle and clear blue waters of Boquete Island, Puerto Galera, in Mindoro Oriental. Because of its location, guests can truly relax and commune with nature. They can actually experience the peacefulness away from the hassle and bustle of city life and some populous beach nearby.

Sandbar offers its guests 27 luxurious and well-appointed guest rooms that have great views that Puerto Galera has to offer. They can choose from the Suite rooms, Beachfront deluxe rooms and the Hillside deluxe rooms. Each room comes complete with private toilet and a full bath, vanity, internet connection, satellite TV among other basic room amenities and facilities.

The hotel offers an open air dining with its restaurant serving the best flavors of the island as well as international ones. With lounge music playing in the evenings, the restaurant ambiance is comfortable with its seating facing the Puerto Galera Bay. The restaurant offers local as well as international dishes for the most discriminating taste. Diving is very popular in Puerto Galera and Sandbar waters have excellent diving sites for beginners as well as for advanced divers. The Sabang Divers is the resort’s dive center that offers courses like open water certification through instructor level training drift diving, night diving, cave diving, deep diving and technical diving among other diving courses. Sandbar also rents windsurfing, sailing, skin boarding, kayaking, snorkeling, scuba diving and wave boarding equipments. The sails are all rigged and ready to go from 3.4m2 to 7.5m2. Just ask for the equipment you would like to use and it will be ready on the sand for you to enjoy. The hotel also arranges island tours where guests can truly relax and let the hotel’s efficient staff guide them on a tour that with exciting possibilities like sun-drenched, palm-fringed tropical beaches turned into exotic and romantic tailor-made realities to suit every guest’s personal need. A number of massage and spa services are also available at the hotel. You can have your massage at the beach or at the luxurious spas right in your own room.

Sandbar’s business center is always available for guests who mix business with pleasure. Guests can book the hotel’s business center for telephone, fax machine and computer for a minimal fee. High speed internet connection is also available throughout the hotel. Aside from business, you can also book with the hotel your special occasions and have it, any way that you want it. The hotel staff will help you to arrange it.

You can pre-arrange with the hotel so that you will be picked up by boat from Batangas. You can also arrange your own transportation to and from Batangas pier. The most convenient way to get to Sandbar Hotel from Manila is the Sikat bus and ferry service which departs daily at 8:00 A.M. from the Citystate Tower Hotel in 1315 A.Mabini Street in Ermita, Manila.

Parks and Zoos in the Philippines

The northern part of Metro Manila takes pride in maintaining two animal sanctuaries, Parks and Wildlife Nature Center and the Malabon Zoo. The former, located at the corner of Quezon Ave. and the Elliptical Road in Quezon City serves as the protection center for exotic animals confiscated from smugglers and illegal collectors.

A stone's throw away is the Quezon Memorial Circle, a park noted for its 30-meter-high monument of former President Manuel Quezon. Its underground chambers house the Quezon City Museum and Art Gallery. The Malabon Zoo and Aquarium, located along Gov. Pascual Avenue in Potrero, Malabon also has a collection of interesting fish and animals. It is open everyday from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

In Makati City, an air-conditioned zoo at the Glorietta mall is frequently visited by parents and their small children. The area also has a small playground.
From the CCP complex, one can proceed to Nayong Pilipino. This 32-acre theme park is also just a 10-minute drive from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). The park features scaled-down replicas of the country's top tourist destinations such as Mayon Volcano, the Banaue Rice Terraces and the Chocolate Hills.

A smaller park, which offers a venue for relaxation is also within close distance. The Paco Park, which was built as a cemetery in 1820, is now a frequent site of mini-concerts and musical performance by the country's finest artists.

The park is surrounded by trees and plants, which are properly identified. Behind the park is the Paco Hong Giarn Taoist Temple. Nearby are the New Swiss Inn, with bar, restaurant, and delicatessen, and the Park Hotel, with lounge, restaurant, and swimming pool.

Not far from the area is the Manila Zoo on Adriatico street. Manila Zoo, the country's largest and oldest, hosts international and indigenous animal species such as the Tamaraw and Philippine crocodile. It is open everyday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.