Princesa Bulakna Beach Resort — Hotel in Maria

Our experienced with this resort is a huge mistakes. Siquijor is no doubt a very lovely Island. But I think this resort is not fit to served the tourists both local and international, why? i tell you why, March 30,2015 my Husband and I with my niece booked in the said resort for a a week stay which was eventually made into 2 weeks as an urgent business came up and there was no other place to stay. Anyway, I can say is everything was bad especially the management. We ordered our lunch on that very day we arrived in the Island, we Ordered lunch and waited for nearly 3 hours just to be informed that they run out of bacon, hams and some other ingredients of our order. They do not even give the guest water unless we have to asked them. Sinced we were so tired and hungry we opted to take our Snacks or Baon and ate it while waiting for the ordered food with less of the ingredients. This incident did not only happened once but the entire 2 weeks of our stay. Even during breakfast, I've seen so many guests eating biscuits and any other sorts just to fill the empty stomach before we were eventually served with the foods. My friends from the Island was left with no other option but to cooked and bring Us food otherwise we do not have something to eat. If you want to order lunch, from this resort you have to make a day before order. They do not clean the rooms daily, do not even put toilet papers. They need to be asked. They do not collect the plates, where cats and dogs can be seen licking on the plates scavenging for the left over foods.Even the Mananger of the resort is not reliable. On our last breakfast on that Hotel, I ordered Tocilog, Chorisolog and I think a ham and cheese sandwich for my hubby, again waited nearly 2 hours just to get tremendously mad of the food, Tapsilog and Chrorisolog but what we only saw on our plate was 2 sunnyside up eggs each plate, a pinky size tocino and a pinky size chorizo and half a plate of rice in each plate. I was mad, I even called the owner of the Resort. He just said sorry but what can a sorry do if for the whole 2 weeks we experienced total devastation. By the way, this place is located in Maria and the time we went there there were no other place to stay. All I can say, The resort is a total disgrace.... I will never recommend it to anyone and I will never set foot on that resort ever again. The pool was so filty. If you want to see Siquijor please do not stay in Princess Bulakna.... Siquijor is such a lovely Island its worth seeing but you need to stay somewhere else.the second time we went to siquijor for few days we decided to stay at Salagdoong beach, Its of no difference. Filty and the toilet set were broken. I even learned from one of their room boys that they do not even have a glass to give in case a guest...

We had reservations-for the standard Polynesian rooms which are furthest from the pool and restaurant-and changed our minds after getting a good look at the place. Do not let the pictures fool you, it is a schlep to get down the hill to the eating/pool area from these rooms-not to mention coming back up the hill. I had a small child in tow as well as an older guest. For fit people who also don't mind climbing, no worries. ||||Having said this, I should comment on the rooms we had reserved. Frankly they were four walls and a bed, with zero charm and no amenities. All cabins looked as if they had not seen visitors in weeks and the exteriors showed signs of disrepair. Not good.||||So we were expected to stay in a charmless room, schlep up and down steep stairs say three times a day-less if you were eating at their restaurant and/or swimming in the pool, playing on the beach. Since I specifically chose a resort with a pool, I was keen to see what the pool looked like. And it seemed fine but as the the owner had seen fit to contruct new cabins by the pool, there was a lot of noise and worker traffic to put up with. If you planned on using the pool, you would have had to have tolerated several men working next to you, at a slightly higher elevation; for most women, this is unacceptable. And the noise would certainly have bothered me. Was there not another time of year-or day-to work on the new cabins? At the very least, some effort should have been made to screen the work from the pool. No consideration at all. ||||We also had a look at another (family) room, at the foot of the hill, close to the restaurant, and found it as charmless as the others, only more expensive. By the time the manager was finally contacted-after an hour or so-and he offered the room at the same price as the others, we had long ago decided to leave. Since the resort is at the opposite side of the island from the ferry landing (and most of the other resorts), we waited some time for a ride back to another place.||||Don't let the pictures fool you. Unless you really are happy with a completely barebones place and/or mostly plan on eating elsewhere and using the resort only as a base camp of sorts, find another place to do it. As we later found out, there are cheaper, more guest-friendly, more accessible places closer...

Service and hospitality is superb. Spacious rooms also. It is quite far from the highway road so you would need a ride to get it. Have your guide send you off if you are checked in here. The manager was very accomodating and gave me a deluxe room even if I booked for a standard room since I will be staying here for a night. They were also considerate of my request to have my free breakfast cooked by 6pm even if their bfast starts at 7am. I commend their beef tapa breakfast that tasted so good.There is also a Balete Tree in their Nature and Orchids Park. Unfortunately there were no orchids during my stay since it's not their season. Their staff attends to your needs as well even when I needed hot water at night. An infinity pool is also available and a beach front with cottages are nice to relax and lounge...