Estancia — Hotel in Tagaytay

The place is mosque-like, even in the dinning room but not the rooms. We stayed here in August last year. Its a resort hotel so you have to walk your way to your room or ask kuya to drive you there. Its not a very long walk, I'd say.

The room was clean and spacious. Two beds, a couch, coffee table in the terrace, kiddie bar which you have to pay 1k for in advance but is refundable if you didnt take anything, a kettle?, bathroom would fit another bed as its really big! It has a bathtub and a long counter, mirror, bidet and you can request for a mat.

The beds are quite big. I think its made of metal because its super heavy it was impossible for me to move it. One can sleep in the couch as its bed-like. The terrace, sadly, doesnt seem to have the Taal view compared with other hotels.

The pool is big enough and clean, too. Careful as there's quite a deep part and I cant remeber it having at least a waist-deep part for kids. Sauna is right beside the pool. That I enjoy so much. You have to make a reservation, though. Other activities are playing ping-pong and billiards. I think there's a jacuzzi, too, but the water seemed a bit dirty to me so a didnt take a dip.

Breakfast is included. Not unlimited coffee😥 hehe but the food is good. Typical breakfast: rice, tapa/tocino/bacon, coffee. Back in AuGust last year, it was freezing cold eapecially from late afternoon to morning. So we really enjoyed having our breakfast with the windows open.

Nice, Clean, cozy, spacious room. Number of facilities. Just missing the Taal view and maybe more...

This place is a dump. And the owners know this for the simple reason that the photos online are strategic enough to not reveal the sordid and dilapidated details of the rooms. What really makes my skin crawl is the audacity of the owners to charge premium prices for your stay despite this. Have the decency to do the minimums before you price gouge.

My husband who is not a local decided to book this based on last minute choices during the Xmas holidays. What a great way to ruin the holidays by staying in a room that hasn't been renovated since the 90s. Had I known this was the quality, I would have rather stayed at a straw shack for a tenth the price we paid.

This is how bad it got....when i went to the reception to complain, another guest ahead of me (a Filipino guy) was already raising hell about the room quality and the pricing. He checked out on the spot and huffed in fury as he stormed out of the hotel.

I was told by staff that a local Filipino Chinese family owns this. Explains a lot doesn't it? Greed. Dirty. Audacious. And sheer nickle and dime-ing the guest who knows no better. Such little respect for customers and how explicitly so - lets not even hide it. This indignant resignation on their property.

I can only watch in excited anticipation as this toilet of a hotel goes down the drain. My only hope is that it doesn't grip any more poor customers in its deceit. If you're reading this and deliberating staying here, spare...

We stayed there for 3 days, and had a nice time there. If you go there in february there will not be that many guests. The staff is nice and help-full. We booked some small huts with a nice view to the hils with alot of trees. if you are planning to see the taal vulcano, I will suggest you use the tour the hotel can offer. you get picked up be a nice couple in a car, they drice you to another resort where u will be pickup by a boat and sailed to the island with the vulcano, there u will get on a horse and ride to the top of the Vulcano. then u can give the guide a drink costs aproxx 50 peso (1US$). after that u will get down again to the boat and sailed back to the resort, where they have prepared a nice meal for u (choose the tilapia, it's so fresh and from the lake you just sailed in). the tour takes aproxx 8 hours, and you might say it's expensive, but if you should buy the taxi-trip, the boat-rise, the horse-ride and some taxes to go at the vulcano it will be the same price. here you also get a nice meal and u don't have to pay all the time u just pay in advance at the hotel.

If I'm ever are going back to Taal Vulcano, this will probably be the place I stay again, even though it's a little outside Tagatay, and takes like 20 minuttes to walk to the town. (if you do that the filipino's will think you are crazy, coz everyone takes...