Parrot Resort Moalboal + Breakfast incl. on Website booking — Hotel in Cebu

As a couple, we stayed 4 nights at Parrot Resort, and overall we thought it was a great place! It is a little pricier, but worth it!

Andreas (owner) took the time to introduce us to the different parrots and explain some interesting information about them. Amazing creatures. Yes they can be loud, but we thought it was such a cool idiosyncrasy for a place to have! 😁

There are many rules at this place, and you are given a briefing on them when you arrive. The rules are printed out and stuck on walls everywhere. To some, it might seem like overkill or too controlling, but each one of the rules obviously came out of some annoying situation that arose sometime in the past, and if I was the owner, I would probably be making similar rules to make sure guests understand how to act on my property.

The restaurant food was great with big portions, but we also went to the food mercado just up the street which is fantastic to try too! The breakfast is self service, with plenty to choose from, and the staff will make your eggs how you wish, except poached 😔

We rented some snorkelling gear from here too which was handy. We also availed of the laundry service, and it is the best laundry service we have had so far in the Philippines because they actually use heated water (up to 60 degrees), whereas everywhere else in the Philippines it is all cold washes which doesn’t do the job mostly as the detergent used is cheap too. Our clothes came back smelling so fresh and they were much cleaner! Highly recommend!

The pool area is brilliant for chilling between activities/excursions, and plenty of sun loungers you can move to sunny area or chill in the shade. The staff, and especially John were all so kind and helpful.

The room was great. Beds are really comfortable which is so important!!We appreciated the thought put into the design, with tinted windows and the filtered water dispenser to refill bottles and provide boiling water. First time I’ve seen this. Every resort should have this! Additionally, the coffee pod machine is a lovely touch, and equally the big zapper racquet that I used to zap any mosquitoes that invaded. A/C was great in the room. WiFi was good everywhere in resort. The complimentary Tuktuk back to the Moalboal town bus station is a nice little service that is provided. Andreas has pretty much thought of everything and makes sure all aspects remain in good condition and nothing is broken.

Minor concerns/areas for improvement:

The snooker table is great but the 10pm cut off for the lights is a little early if you are enjoying and back after dinner, but being quiet The pool bar is lively but never gets to a level of business to create an atmosphere, so if you aren’t a couple like us and are with friends, there are other bars that are much more lively. This is just a function of it being a small resort. The blind for the window of our room was very hard for us to work out and make it stop at the point where it blocks out the light - the opposing layers kept settling at the same point no matter how much we tried, which resulted in the transparent strips always lining up between both layers. It sounds complicated but I hope Andreas gets what I mean. Maybe we were just dumb! I don’t see a reason why you couldn’t quietly use the gym later than 6pm if you just had headphones in. Surely it wouldn’t affect the people above if you are considerate. Maybe a rule to review? maybe adding the option of poached eggs for breakfast - it isn’t rocket science to make them and is another option to offer guests. suggest to finish paving the dirt track that leads off the main road to Parrot Resort. I know it is a shared dirt track, and it is paved on Parrot Resort property, but this would help entice more people into the restaurant, and make it more presentable. Maybe it is quite difficult to achieve approval/investment due to other house entrances coming off it. Just an idea anyway.

Overall, highly recommend this place as a base for yourself in Moalboal, especially for couples. The extra you pay makes a world...

Okay let' start with the positive: +Staff is very nice, and helpful with everything within their power. When our driver was several hours late we were allowed to store our baggage and sit at the reception/pool area until he arrived. The staff were 5* +Rooms are clean and the housekeeping is great +There was a warning sign that the hot water might run out in the shower, but never happened for us at any time +There's a gym, it's very barebones but it has a rack, dumbbells, a bench and two rings for pullups. With a good imagination you can get in a good workout +Billiards, Fussball and table tennis available for free (billiards are missing several balls tho) +Location is good

Neutral: *Breakfast is clean and tidy but barebones *Pool is clean but kid sized, around 6-7m x 3m, can't do laps or such

The negative: -What's advertised wasn't in the room, I had to show a video that a kettle is listed on their booking for them to get me a kettle (I asked for one but was told it's not included) -"High-speed internet" is considered to be anything higher than 25Mbps. In room 5 it's 4 mbps and dropouts at least once every hour, up to 5-10 minutes at a time. In the bathroom it doesn't work at all. This was really not what was advertised and I had to get my work done at the pool area for internet to not dropout and be a little bit faster (although not up to the legal limit of 25mbps at any time). -No bidet in the toilets -They have 8 parrots, living in pairs, in small cages around the pool area, they are of course very unhappy being locked up and the screaming can get completely out of control at times. To such a degree the staff has to put a cloth around the cage to try to calm down the birds. Breaks your heart to see them locked up (and the screaming is quite annoying if you're ever in the reception/pool area).

For the price we paid (almost 4kP/night) I'd say wait for a potential 50% off or such, it's a little too steep compared to other options.

PS. The day we were leaving (July 6th 2024) I overheard another gentleman wanting to talk the manager regarding the internet, because it wasn't as advertised and that they possibly had to cancel the booking, so I guess it wasn't...

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