Showing posts with label serviced apartment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label serviced apartment. Show all posts

Saturday, 18 June 2011

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. 



Thursday, 16 June 2011

Living /Dining/Kitchen area


The first picture above was taken from the doorway of the 2-bedroom ground floor unit so this is what you see as you enter the dwelling. This is a combination of living room, dining room and kitchen area all in one open space area. The two doorways in the background leads to the bedrooms while the one on the left side is the bathroom. The bedroom on the right side is good for a couple only while the bedroom on the left side is good for 4 paxs only. We rent out the place as a whole unit and not on a per room basis. This means that whoever books the place has full use of the house all by themselves without having to share the house with another group.


 This second picture above was taken from another angle showing the picture window in the living room and a 5-galloon drinking water dispenser which is just behind the door. Just above the water dispenser is a local map of Baguio City. My husband has made a list of most of the "must-see" local tourist spots in the city. This will serve as a guide for our guests specially for those who are coming to the city for the first time. This will cut back on the time you spend in planning where to go and what to see while in Baguio City because you simply choose from the list and go from there. This is readily available for our guest's use but please leave it behind when you go so the other in-coming guests could use it too.  





The last picture above shows the cooking area. Many of us enjoy cooking and eating together as a family.  This is actually a good way of bonding activity for the whole family because everybody pulls their own weight in helping out and preparing the food while chatting and catching up with each others life at the same time. Some of our guests prefer to cook their own meals rather than eating outside of the house. This is no problem since we provide basic cooking facilities such as a 10-cup rice cooker, a 2-burner cook stove with cooking gas including basic pots and pans, a refrigerator, and dining/eating utensils. We only ask that you segregate your trash from bio-degradable to non bio-degradable wastes materials and put them in their proper basket that we have provided for just for this purpose. You see, we do practice proper waste segregation in our barangay so we invite you to do the same. Since this is a self-serviced residential unit, doing basic house keeping chores should be observed just as you do in your own home. We expect you not to leave unwashed dishes including pots and pans on the sink unattended after you have used them. Please observe cleanliness in the kitchen at all times. You would not want to invite flies inside the house that would land on your own food, would you?







Tuesday, 14 June 2011

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.