LAN BLESS PENSION HOUSE — Hotel in Coron

Accommodations are basic — you get a small room with a double bed (we were assigned to room 10), AC, a private bathroom, an office table, and a tiny mirror. I’d like to stress though that apart from the bed, which gave us a rather comfortable sleep, everything else needed a lot of work in terms of design, especially how it affects the functionality of the room: ||||We didn’t like the placement of the shower, which was directly in front of a large window, so this meant whoever was in the lot outside could see you showering. What we did was we removed the curtain from the inner window and placed it on the bathroom window (with difficulty, as there was no curtain rod on the bathroom window). There were also at least two signs in the bathroom saying we shouldn’t flush toilet paper into the toilet bowl, but the lone trash can in the room was placed in the bedroom so we had to transfer that beside the toilet too. Water pressure on the tap was strong, but really weak on the shower. Also, we would have appreciated basic provision for hanging wet clothes on (there was absolutely nothing!!). We had to hang our wet stuff on weird places, including the headboard and on doorknobs. Seeing as most tourists do island hopping in Coron and come home with wet clothes, placing hanging racks should have been a no-brainer. They can also replace the office table (which is frankly such a weird choice of furniture) with maybe an open (wall-mount) closet design where we can hang clothes, and maybe a smaller (wall-mount) surface for placing stuff on so the rest of the room’s bottom space can be used for bags (we only brought carry-on bags, but we barely had space with that humongous table hogging what remained of the floor area).||||They also serve breakfast rather strictly from 7:30 am to 9 am (if you’re going on a tour that departs early, forget about requesting to have breakfast earlier because the guy manning the reception in the evenings to early mornings, Bobby, seems to have a real issue with it). He vehemently explains that their cook doesn’t come in until 7:30 so. you. cannot. have. your. breakfast. earlier. Also, serving time is very slow. Of the four days we were there, we were only able to have breakfast there twice.||||There is wifi in the room, although it is (expectedly for Coron) slow.||||I will not stay here again, although their saving grace would be they had the nicest boatmen who took really good care of us during our two-day island hopping trip. They do have their private boat and we opted for a private tour, and everything in that respect...

We used booking.com to book this hotel and booked a room with a shower. When we were shown into room 10 there was a sink, a toilet and a tap at waist height. We complained and said we’d paid for a shower so got moved to room 12. ||Room 12 did have a shower in the bathroom, however the window in the bathroom was right in front of the shower and had no curtain or blind. So whenever I had a shower I was naked in front of all the boys playing basketball outside - not cool. There was also no toilet paper so we had to go and ask. There was also no bin in the bathroom so we had to move the bedroom bin into the bathroom as you are not allowed to flush toilet paper in Coron. ||Another downside was the air con in the room could only be reached by climbing onto the bed to reach above the pillows. When it was turned on it blew all the hot air into the bathroom so the bathroom was hideous to use when then air con was on - a major design flaw. ||We were 2 people with small carry on bags only, there was not enough floor space for both our bags so we had to put one on the desk and one on the floor. The room was tiny. ||It advertises that there’s WiFi - this is a tiny SIM card dongle that isn’t on all the time, is super slow which isn’t unusual for the area but this was especially slow and is only available if you sit at reception. I wouldn’t class that as WiFi available...||The road the hotel is on is not lit so it is a bit daunting at first walking back from the town at night. ||The only positive was that it was clean (although there was a used plaster stuck on the wall in the bathroom and the stairways were mouldy).||The staff were pleasant enough but unfortunately our experience here was pretty bad. I would advise to avoid booking here, which is something we’ve never had to say about a...

For hotel standards it covers your basics, good shelter, decent bathing utilities, very clean, and the staff are very caring and attentive to your needs, make a request, and they'd be happy to help you as much as they can, it's near to the markets to buy food, plenty of nearby restaurants and local shops, you're also allowed to cook your own meals in their kitchen for an extra fee of you like.. it's near the boat port (mandatory for island hopping to book a boat) which you can travel to by shuttle vans, or the local trikes to save money, and they also organise your island hopping adventures for you. Lan bless only recently been in business but are already excelling as a hospitality business, definitely a good option to go for in...