Hotel Sentro Legazpi — Hotel in Legazpi

Stayed here for a short work trip (with extended vacation days) over four days and three nights. Stay did not cross into the weekend. Cost was around P2,500 per night.

The location is very good and near Pacific Mall which will give you enough choices for meals and the Legazpi City Public Market which will give you enough choices for pasalubong (food souvenirs/omiyage).

LCC Mall, Ayala Mall Legazpi, and SM City Legazpi are also a short walk away (around 10-15min) and can also be reached easily through trikes or jeepneys.

The twin room itself is roomy with plenty of space for luggage. Aircon is window-type but strong enough to keep the room cold. An electric kettle is provided but no fridge. There is also a good amount of counter space for working and shelves to store some of your things. The clothes hanger rail is kind of unusual but works well enough. I would have liked to have hooks on the wall for your pants and small bags.

There is also a cable television that can play H264 mp4 files.

The washroom is okay. Toilet had a pretty strong flush, there is a bidet with good water pressure, and the shower has heated water. We did notice a slightly unpleasant smell from the bathroom (either coming from the drain or exhaust vent). Nothing too bad but those with sensitive noses or those who frequent ⭐⭐⭐⭐ hotels may be concerned.

The emergency light in our room did not work when we experienced a short power outage (

WARNING for Remote workers: Hotel Sentro’s Free Wifi blocks VPN logging, so You will not be able to work Remotely. Book somewhere else if you are a leisure traveler planning to work remotely! This isnt the hotel for you.||What is frustrating is that i emailed Hotel Sentro Legazpi more than a month before my reservation dates Dec10 -14, 2023. I asked them how fast their wifi and I informed that I’m going to be working remotely. They replied to me that their wifi speed was strong and they even included a screenshot of an internet speed test result. However, they missed mentioning that they restrict VPN access thru their wifi.||Unfortunately for me, I found this out when I was already in the hotel and ready to login for work on my second night. This caused me wasted time trying to troubleshoot the issue, not to mention incredible stress. On my third night, I booked a stay at Hotel Inigo, just so that I can work remotely, because I cannot afford to miss some important meetings scheduled on that day. On my fourth night, I filed a leave from work.||I tried to complain but the friendly/aplogetic frontdesk hotel staff told me that it is a hotel Policy that they “cannot” change. ||The hotel staff were incredibly polite, always willing to help, and very apologetic to my issue. However, my entire stay with Hotel Sentro got spoilt by this issue. Whoever decided on this needs to reexamine and change this policy quick, because restricting VPN doesn’t make any sense! Hotel guests need access to strong secure wifi and remote workers like myself connect to VPN to be able to login to their company’s respective servers. ||Hotel Sentro needs to be very transparent on what their Wifi policies are. They need to spell this out in their website, so that people like myself wont go thru this...

WARNING for Remote workers: Hotel Sentro’s Free Wifi blocks VPN logging, so You will not be able to work Remotely. Book somewhere else if you are a leisure traveler planning to work remotely! This isnt the hotel for you.

What is frustrating is that i emailed Hotel Sentro Legazpi more than a month before my reservation dates Dec10 -14, 2023. I asked them how fast their wifi and I informed that I’m going to be working remotely. They replied to me that their wifi speed was strong and they even included a screenshot of an internet speed test result. However, they missed mentioning that they restrict VPN access thru their wifi.

Unfortunately for me, I found this out when I was already in the hotel and ready to login for work on my second night. This caused me wasted time trying to troubleshoot the issue, not to mention incredible stress. On my third night, I booked a stay at Hotel Inigo, just so that I can work remotely, because I cannot afford to miss some important meetings scheduled on that day. On my fourth night, I filed a leave from work.

I tried to complain but the friendly/aplogetic frontdesk hotel staff told me that it is a hotel Policy that they “cannot” change.

The hotel staff were incredibly polite, always willing to help, and very apologetic to my issue. However, my entire stay with Hotel Sentro got spoilt by this issue. Whoever decided on this needs to reexamine and change this policy quick, because restricting VPN doesn’t make any sense! Hotel guests need access to strong secure wifi and remote workers like myself connect to VPN to be able to login to their company’s respective servers.

Hotel Sentro needs to be very transparent on what their Wifi policies are. They need to spell this out in their website, so that people like myself wont go thru this...