Thunderbird Resorts and Casinos Poro Point — Hotel in San Fernando

5 stars for resort. Best for weddings, celebration of occasions, get-together with friends, casino gamblers, or golfers. There is free shuttle to shuffle u to the golf course, private casitas, or even the casino. The bedrooms are big and there are 2 queen beds in each room. There is a 2 person jacuzzi, but the motor is absent, so it is just a big bathtub. Separate shower. Lots of cabinets, drawers, a very powerful AC system, and 2 complimentary small water bottles. The TV has Cignal cable with HBO and some channels.

The resort developers developed the beach too much that only a patch of beach is left. They called it Fyra.

0 stars for Fyra Beach Club. There is no beach for swimming or surfing. It is a small patch of sand with fist sized rounded stones beneath the waters. The small patch of beach is light brown sand, not sure if it is man-made dolomite sand (like in Manila Bay) and just for show or photo ops. Since Poro Point is exposed to the sea, waves are strong, even in calm weather. Can't surf or swim here. If u get pummeled by the waves and fall down, u will end up with bruised knees, cut palms, torn skin, or even a bloodied face, coz the sands are riddled with these fist sized stones. My suggestion is that the hotel personnel comb the beach waters and rid the TONS of fist sized stones so as to make the beach swimmable again. I think they were left behind by construction or perhaps, intentionally mixed with the (man-made?) sand to make it harder to be washed away. The architect made a fatal mistake of developing too close to the beachline. Many of the known beach resorts have no beach to swim: Bohol Beach Club, Davao Pearl Farm, Shangrila Cebu, many of the Laiya beach resorts...they reclaimed too much up to the shoreline, and put up concrete pathways, causing the natural erosion of the beach completely. In the US, they have the 200' setback rule of developments from the beach line. This is to preserve the beach from natural erosion. Any solid concrete development near the shoreline eventually erodes the beach, until there is no more sand left. This happens when the government officials are not knowledgeable about beach shore line erosion as they allowed concrete structures too close to shore, and approves plans designed by architects who are not experts in beach resort designs.

They have 2 pool areas. The main pool is not clean as the water is cloudy and not crystal clear. The infinity pool near Fyra is clearer.

Get the pool towel from the main pool, and bring it up to Fyra. Just return it back where u got the towel. They have shower rooms near both pools for guests...

Stayed Feb 23-24

Not even gonna finish my stay to give a review because had a very bad experience. After checking in my room, I opened the faucet and small stones / sediments came out from it (on hindsight, this could have changed my night if I was brushing my teeth or washing my face on the first open of faucet). Toilet bowl flush wasn't working either.

Was transferred to another room and THE SAME ISSUES were there. It was already 11PM at this time so I decided to ask instead for bottled water to brush my teeth (too tired to move to another room)---only to discover they were charging if you asked for extra bottled water (something which "luxury" hotels don't do at all). Had to complain how would I brush my teeth then with dirty stone-laced water. They gave the water for free eventually. The Instagrammable buildings don't make up for the poor rooms. Could this be a one-off event? Probably. But hotels are expected to operate with consistency, and more importantly with standardized quality. For P15,000/night, this establishment which is more than 15 yrs old is such a rip-off. Everything is old---buttons in washrooms, showers, fixtures, lights---all antiquated feel, and totally remote from the Santorini promise it brags about. I didn't even spend for my own room as this was paid by a company. But imagine the feeling if you paid for this and got a horrible experience too.

Only redeeming value was the food in Olive Restaurant which was surprisingly good (had fish, paella, chowder). We skipped the pizza because 1 plate of it was ridiculously ~P1,500.

I would avoid this resort/hotel at all costs. There are far better establishments in Pangasinan/Pampanga/Baguio Area. This hotel needs to be shaken up for their lack of quality and I hope they get better competition so they...

Four of us stayed here from the 18th - 21st July 2022 in room 204. The room was okay but attention to detail is completely lacking. The toilet wouldn't stop flushing you had to keep pressing the button to eventually make it stop. The bracket for the air con remote was held up on the wall with one screw so everytime you tried to put the remote back it would be a balancing act, no hot water in the shower whatsoever. The place looks okay from a distance but is very tired needs lots of money spent to bring it up to any standard. Missing bricks in the steps, steps different hights, grass growing through the brick paving, cracked uneven walls, rusty and rotten doors around the pool area, embankment full of long overgrown weeds, swimming pool looks clean from a distance but when you in you'll notice the edge of the pool hasn't been cleaned for months possible longer. On there website you'll see pictures of palm trees and tulips but unfortunately the palm trees have been cut down leaving stumps and weeds are growing where the tulips would be, then there's these weird left over structures with parts of there roofs missing. Anyway we had dinner the first evening and I was ill the rest of our stay I can only put it down to the lack of hygiene because the following morning we all made my way down for breakfast but after seeing dead flies in the rice I decided to pass. While we sat there wild birds were flying around landing on tables and eating leftover food from people's plates. I was shocked that the breakfast area was open to the elements and not in a enclosed area away from flies and wild birds. Anyway I wouldn't recommend going here spend your money elsewhere it's very expensive...