A few nights back we were having a few drinks with our neighbors, they mentioned that one of the local residents, while playing golf at the Fairways and Blue Waters, chance upon a helicopter landing and saw Brad and Angelina with their kids going down. He tried to say hi but a but they had overprotective bodyguards. Theywere also saying this is the second time Brad was here. They stayed in the Shangrila. My sister in law met and chat with an employee of the hotel, while waiting to be re routed to kalibo because of the Zest air plane that overshot the runway, asked if if it was indeed true. That person only gave her a guilty smile.
Anyway. We went to Solana Lounge and had sunset cocktails which had this view, we literally sat on that cabana. That is the private beach of Shangrila. They have 2, one is shared with club Panoly.
The drinks were good, the service was good too. They had this great ashtray, that people would like to take home. They said that their signature drink is the lychee martina, but too bad they only had 2 pieces of lychee (which is actually quite disappointing for a Shangrila, i would think they grow everything)
Shangrila was just amazing, you feel that you are no longer in the country. I haven't seen the rooms and Daisy from the guest services said that the lowest is about 14k a night which is actually not bad, if you're a couple plus 2 kids. They have the same adventure zone in Shangrila mactan. They have their own jetty port, a big jacuzzi pool and an upcoming italian restaurant that is situated on the cliffs, which is made to be the most romantic spot in the island. They have a building complex as housing for their staff, thencarved the side of the mountain for their access road.
The hotel looked like a few billion bucks, and probably is.
(coming up: food review)
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Interesting.. I live on Boracay and everyone I know that works there, expat and local, say the opposite. I know several hundred people personally here and you know how much Filipinos like bragging about meeting famous people - so far, not a single person has made that claim. I can certainly tell you that if they did come here, no-one recognized them... and those Shangri-La local workers haven't ever kept a secret before... hehe, to the point that I wouldn't have a confidential meeting/conference there.
ReplyDeleteBut eitherway.. lucky you for staying there. I'm jealous. ;)
Thanks for the comment, as they said no need to expose the source. just sharing a story heard, please take with a grain of salt =)
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