Bedrooms

The picture at the top is what we call a "family bedroom" with a bed capacity that is good for 4 people only. Some people do not mind sleeping with a bunch of adults/children all packed like sardines in one bedroom but this is not allowed in our place. This bedroom has one double bed and two  individual single beds. All the beds are made of wooden materials with Uratex foams as mattresses. Bed sheets and blankets are all provided. There is a built-in closet in each bedroom. If you have some small children coming with you, we expect you to supervise them while they are playing because horse playing on top of the bed or banging the bedroom doors/closet doors and including the screen door in the main entrance are not allowed. Anything that is damaged by the guests will be charged to them from now on.

The last picture above is a smaller bedroom and it has one double bed which is good for two paxs only. That piece of red woven cloth material hanging on the wall behind the bedroom and just above the television is what we Igorots call "tapis" or a wrap around skirt. This piece of skirt is part of the costume of the women in my parent's hometown in Sagada and Bontoc Mountain Province. When you come home tired at the end of the day from touring around the city, then you can watch your favorite show on the cabled TV. We only ask that you tone down the TV volume when you are using it so as not to disturb anyone who could be resting or taking an afternoon nap and most specially after 10 p.m. so we could all rest for the night. So please be considerate enough because some people do have to get up in the morning for work/school and they do need some sleep you know. After all, this is not a karaoke bar or a hotel/Inn but a private residential house wherein you are considered as our valued guests, and as such, you are expected to act as one. 

Bathroom

Just a few pictures of the inside of the bathroom in the 2-bedroom ground floor unit. There is only 1 bathroom in this unit and it is shared between the two bedrooms. We do not rent out on a per room basis anyway so whoever books the place has the whole unit all by themselves. The guests need not share the bathroom and kitchen as well as the living room with another group of people so this will ensure the guest's privacy. We only ask that you MUST keep the bathroom floor dry at all times for sanitary purposes. Bacteria likes to thrive on wet surfaces so to avoid this, please use the bathing area to wash up and clean yourselves instead of using the toilet bowl.

Hot and cold shower is readily available in the bathroom only but not in the kitchen sink. We have sufficient supply of water for our guests use. Guests must bring their own personal toiletries including bath towels  as we no longer provide these things because of bad experiences in the past. Guest are not allowed to do their laundry but washing of light underclothes is okay. If the guests should want their laundry done, they can avail of the services of a laundromat in the mall. A pail and a water dipper is also provided for those who prefer to use these rather than the shower in bathing. If you want to use the shower, do open the water valve first before making any adjustments to the water heater according to the temperature of the water that you wish to use. Please keep the bathroom floor DRY AT ALL TIMES because bacteria multiplies fast in a wet environment. Lastly, please pick up your own mess on the bathroom floor after taking a shower so as not to clog the drainage in the shower area. It's just common courtesy for the next user, don't you think so? 

Lou's Cheap Transient House in Baguio City

Every month of February, we celebrate the month-long Panagbenga Festival or the Flower Festival in Baguio City. Many people from all walks of life come up to Baguio City just to watch the Street Dancing Parade and the Flower Float Competition Parade which is usually held on the last Saturday and Sunday of the month of February. Most of the Hotels, and Inns in the city are booked long before the actual event happens and that includes other types of accommodations as well. 

We have seen some enterprising visitors who pitched up their tents at Burnham Park or at Melvin Jones Soccer field just to have a place to sleep for a night or two. They sure could save a lot of money this way because they do not have to pay for a place to stay. They use the services of public comfort rooms to relieve and refresh themselves when nature calls but these facilities are not equipped with a shower. What is sad to see is that when they go back home, they leave behind their trash and it becomes an eye-sore for us permanent residents who have to put up with it until the garbage is collected.

Hence the reason why we opened up our humble home to accommodate some of these transients in the city with a reasonable fee of course for keeping the house clean and comfortable for them. Our rates are subject to change during the peak season, Holidays and Panagbenga or Flower Festival so please check with us first for the price quotation. There's nothing fancy about our place. It's just a private and simple residential house but we do our very best to keep it clean and comfortable for our guests. We do impose some house rules such as "NO ALCOHOLIC DRINKS ALLOWED" at our place and this is strictly enforced. It's only a place to rest and sleep for the night but it's definitely not a place to party. If we accept you as our guest, then we expect you to act as one and not trash the place or make the place like a pigsty. We expect our guests to clean after themselves and not throw cigarette butts or candy wrappers or any left-over food in just about anywhere they want to because we already provide waste bins for these. Put them in their proper place because we do practice and observe proper waste segregation in our barangay.

Some of the nearest landmarks to us are the following: Camp John Hay, Nevada Square, Panagbenga Park, FVR Building, Quezon Elementary School, Victory Liner main bus terminal, and SM Mall Baguio. The jeepneys plying the route in our barangay passes by the lake at Burnham Park before going to their staging area which is located at the Igorot Garden Park, this is already in the Central Business District area. The Baguio City Public Market is just behind the Maharlika Building which is located at the foot of Session Road and this is just a stone's throw away from the jeepney staging area. Just use the overpass in the park and it will bring you to the wet market. The regular schedule for the jeepneys plying the route in our barangay is every after 15-minutes interval and taxis do come by every now and then so it's not really difficult to get a transportation to bring you to wherever it is you want to go. To reach us and for further inquiries, please send an email to : inadalou@yahoo.com or call my sister-in-law Emy at this number 09499536441.