ATV Adventures Rizal — Attraction in Rizal

Another adventure for me and my love one! At the ATV adventures Rizal...vroooomm vroooomm vroooomm.

We've taken the long trail listed in their package tour. And we're very fortunate that day because we're the only one who booked for that trip. Hooray!

So, our trip covers ATV ride, the waterfall hike ans the river trail. Let me break it down the details of our trip.

ATV ride - it's a nice and bumpy road and I personally enjoyed it. As this is the longest trip I've ever had in my whole life in an ATV because usually I'm just in normal track. Plus the fact, you'll be able to see exhilarating view of the Sierra Madre.

River trail - this one could be a littlr bit of 50/50 for me. Because it's freaking hot 🥵. If you ever got a chance to look at my uploaded photos, go ahead and check out my partner's photo and you'll see what she did with her face haha. She's so hilarious 🤣. But as you reach the end, viola the stillness of the water in between the mountains, reminds me of my El Nido trip in Palawan. Almost similar image that I had when went off for the island hopping.

Waterfall hike - a refreshing way to get rid of the mud and dust from all over your body. As you soak yourself from a freezing water fall. I really had fun and to my excitement, i almost forgot that my pouch is still attached to my waist. Thank havens, that my phone is with our guide. Else, I won't be able to share some of the photos. So don't be like me, ehem...

For me, all in all I really love our journey. Though there have been some hiccups with our booking due to some environmentalists issue, our amiable tour guide Anjo made it more memorable and special. Hence, we're thinking of possibly getting the overnight or the 360 trail next time. And of course booking hopefully the same tour guide...

Misleading & false advertising.

We were very excited for our "New Forest Trail" which we paid 3k/ person for "3 hours". Turns out to be the exact opposite of what we expected.

we were literally "snailing" thru the road with trucks & cars. We're so slow that people who were walking were literally passing us by. We asked if we can go faster but they said thats all that is allowed. Pretty sure they do it that slow to fill up the 3 hour trail.

You drive with your slowass atv for 20 minutes on the road and 5-10 minutes on their "off road" which is really off putting to think that the trail we paid says "forest trail"

You hike down for to the falls that honestly isnt worth seeing ( filthy, murky) then from that , you go back in the same route.

We complained as soon as we were done trekking coz we felt it wasnt worth it so they offered us a side trail which we didnt do anymore coz its just another pavement road - not the forest that we were expecting and still wouldnt be enough to cover the 3 hours that we paid. We hiked longer than we are in an ATV.

We asked for a little refund since we only did the whole course for 1.5hrs ( including the time for introduction & how to use the atv) instead of 3hrs. We got our 500 pesos out of the 3k each that we paid .

We were also told that it was OUR FAULT that we had high expectations & we did it really fast thats why we finished...

The experience was not at all what I expected. It was a bit disappointing.

I had clarified everything prior to booking and going but was still met with more charges at the site. The trail was 60% pavement 30% random undeveloped village roads (yes mostly inhabited). There wasn't a time when I felt i was in the forest albeit being called a forest trail. The pictures on the website projects a different feel. It also advertises being a 3 hour ride but we were able to finish it in 2.5hrs even with two kids on our backs. Most of the time spent on the last part.

You get to the end of the "trail" where you have to pay a very cheap fee to enter a restaurant/campsite with a view of the mountains and Wawa Dam. This was optional by the way so if you did not avail of this it was only those random village "trails". The view is actually nice although I did not need an ATV to get there.

I gave it a 3/5 because the kuya trail guides were accommodating and nice. The experience wasn't particularly bad just underwhelming, although good for first timers to get a feel of...