Its been raining in the city for the past few days that it kind off dampens my desire to go to the beach and relax underwater. Beach is synonymous to sunny day, swimming and soaking up some Vitamin D but I so love water so during a rainy weather, I opt to go to inland resorts.
Best one I've been so far is Matin-ao Inland Resort in New Corella,Davao Del Norte - about a 20-30 minute ride from Tagum City. My friend/officemate invited our whole team to celebrate her birthday and it also served as a team building.
Matin-ao InlandResort has 4 swimming pools that differs in depth - the one in the lower level is a 6-7 ft pool, the one next to it was a 3 ft pool with a slide, the other two in their third level is a 4-5 feet pool and a 3 feet kiddie pool with mushroom posts.
The pools are nice, safe and very COLD - I think they water changes several times a day because I never really dived and stayed in the water but it never went warm, it actually grows colder. My friend said that the water they supply in the pool seems to flowing continuously throughout the day, so rest assured its very clean.
The entrance fee only costs 35 pesos and with that very affordable amount you can already enjoy any/all of the pools and grilling station in the resort, but of course, you have to pay 350 pesos to rent their open cottages. They don't bill for food corkage except for drinks and they also have a neat little restaurant where you can buy a full meal if you haven't brought any food. If you're looking for other activities while you're there, they also have a billiard hall and videoke found on their third level. But if you thinking about an overnight stay in the place they have fully air-conditioned rooms for 1500 pesos per day and 200 pesos per extra bedding.
If you want to visit the place, you might see another set of pools because last time I was there they were building a 12 ft and 10 ft pool, and hopefully they're already finished that so you can experience for aqua fun. As a reminder though,do bring insect repellants when you visit, the resort is charming but there seems to be lot of mosquitoes in that area.
Shout out: to the Teban Freaks. Talking about this resort drives me down to the memory lane of all of us being here and had a Christmas caroling competition! ~gyaaah!
nice place!! I think their 10-12ft pool is already open.. we should go there again!
ReplyDeleteplease can you have some info if i will going have a reservation of the rooms?...tnx.
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