Hacienda R Resort: Calamba City, Laguna

My college friends decided to have an overnight swimming in Laguna. When I was told were going to hit a resort with a hot spring, I easily said yes! I enjoy having night swimming on a hot spring. It soothes body and you can swim all night long for as long as you can. It is also a celebration of my friend, May. So it was fun! I joined my college mates together with their friends and office mates.

From Las Pinas, it took us only 45-minutes to get in Pansol where you can find a lot of resort situated on the mountain foot of Mt. Makiling. The trip was fun because it was filled with memories during those college days.

We hit Hacienda R Resort. It is in front of Monte Vista Resort and Hotel, just across the street. It was a nice place just along the highway or main road. There's even Max's Chicken Restaurant on the other side of the street, but off course we did bring our own food. Such great place to enjoy a peaceful night in Pansol, Calamba, Laguna.

The resort was big. It has three main pools. There are air conditioned rooms, cottages and tables are also available. There is also a swing in front of the store. The pool waters of the two resort is cold unlike the bigger pool, it is HOT! We choose to stay and swim there so we will not be freezing.

The bigger pool was I think around 7 feet deep and it starts at 5 feet. Enough for those who can swim and for those who don't. LOL. People there were very accommodating. It was great night to chill with my friends. We did bring some balls to play with. It was a lot of fun.

We also enjoyed karaoke. We sing and dance. We did that maybe because we have that courage after we already had a bottle of beer. LOL. Overall it was a great night and it is a relaxing place to be at.

Little Bridge Resort: Taal Batangas

Summer outing 2009 with the team of "Cool it sa Tag-init" of our institution was great! And as a member of the committee who took in charge of the programs and parlor games, you need to have that high energy booster for you to be able to work and entertain people. I was one of the emcee who took care of the program so it is a challenging role for me.

We stayed at Little Bridge Resort in Taal, Batangas. More or less an hour from our company. As you travel, you can view the scenery of Mt. Taal from Tagaytay City and you will pass by on the great Fantasy World.

The view from the main purpose hall is fantastic, where there you can view Taal Volcano. The sand of the beach is color brown and the water is not clear. But what can you expect it's made of ashes maybe from the eruption of the volcano. Also there are some scattered plastic bags on the beach. You would not like to swim there for sure.

The purpose hall which good enough to handle a hundred people would be enough for parlor games as well. Quite big and it is where the videoke machine were displayed. You can sing out loud and possible your raging voice will be heard all around the resort.

The resort is big. It has also two swimming pool. One is bigger and deeper. Make sure you know how to swim when you go there as I recalled there is no lifeguard.

You can also enjoy sun bathing like what I did... I enjoyed that moment! I am not aware that my friend took a shot when I did that. I like the shot and I asked a copy of it so here I am sharing it.

You can also rent a boat from the shore so you can travel on the lake. It was great to do that so you can see some corals on the area. It was a memorable time to start the summer season of 2009.