Archive for January, 2010



Be Satisfied With Bohol City Hotels

Posted By stevenlocke on January 13, 2010 @ 12:48 am

Several Bohol hotels enrich the island of Bohol as being one of the famous tourist destinations in the Philippines. Each year there is a flock of thousands of tourists visiting Bohol making it a highly commercialized island endowed with beautiful cultural heritage architectures, heavenly beaches with pristine waters and white sands and wonderful scenic spots and diving areas.

Because of the true beauty abounding Bohol Island it has become a tourist center. The entire island of Bohol is scattered with various hotels that offer both cheap and luxury accommodation according to the taste and budget of Bohol travelers.

Bohol Hotels at Tagbilaran City

The main city of Bohol is Tagbilaran located at the southwestern area of the province of Bohol. It has a total land area of 3,270 hectares with a single airport serving the island. It is where the port of the island is located. There are notable hotels in Tagbilaran City that serve visiting island guests.

The Bohol Tropic Resort Club provides a luxurious accommodation overlooking the Tagbilaran Bay. It provides a suitable place to stay among travelers who like to savor the coastal air in Tagbilaran while enjoying spacious rooms and private bath in a fully furnished and air conditioned rooms.

Guests have the chance to have some fun in a one time complimentary River Cruise lunch from the hotel. This place is an ideal place to stay at a rate that begins at Php 4,000 for their quad rooms for a 3 days and 2 nights accommodation with an island trip on the second day.

Hotel Roca is located near the wharf and the airport of the island of Bohol. Room accommodation begins at Php 3,750 for a place situated at the center of Bohol’s commercial district. This package promo includes a daily breakfast and a one-time river cruise lunch, entrance fees and an island tour.

At Php 3,825 tour package accommodation you can stay at Metro center Hotel and Convention Center, which is a frequent spot among travelers who mix business with enjoyment. The same accommodation package offer applies as the other two hotels mentioned above.

Dauis Hotel

One of Bohol’s two towns is Dauis where you can find a resort-hotel inspired by a famous park located in New York. It offers a tennis court facility with a kids fishing center. This is the popular Flushing Meadows Resort and Playground, which is the only superlative resort-hotel in Panglao Island of Bohol.

Their accommodation starts at Php 6,325 while providing guests their expected comfort and convenience of an island vacation or business travel. The place is one surrounded by coral flowers and colored rocks. Flushing Meadows provides their visitors the luxury of savoring the splendor of the Mindanao Sea and Pamilacan Island.

Cheaper Bohol Hotels

While there are luxury Bohol hotels, there are also some hotels that offer a cheaper accommodation rate that suit every traveler’s budget. The Soledad Suites is the only boutique hotel in Bohol that offers an accommodation rate at a modest price of Php 2,000 a night.

They have 20 guest rooms each with private shower and bathroom, mini bar, telephone service and a cable TV. They also provide travel assistance as well as tour packages. The hotel is conveniently located at the heart of the commercial district of Bohol with only 20 minutes ride to various white beach of the island.

The Darunday Manor in Bohol offers a cheap accommodation of Php 1,200 per night. The hotel offers an inexpensive alternative for a first class accommodation that provides tourists and travelers their best comfort and convenience throughout their stay at Tagbilaran City.

The hotel also has a coffee shop, a spa and reflexology center that guarantee guests a truly relaxing stay in Bohol.

Tourists can enjoy the affordable rates offered by several Bohol hotels that ensure their comfort and convenience throughout their stay in the Island of Bohol.




Ideas Of Tourism in Italy

Posted By stevenlocke on January 7, 2010 @ 12:04 pm

Tourism is one of Italy’s major industries, employing some 23,000 people. Italy is the world’s fifth most visited county according to the World Tourism Organization, a United Nations agency based in Madrid. Popular destinations for tourism in Italy include Venice, Florence and Rome. This article will look at some popular types of tourism in Italy. Whilst the Mediterranean attracts a lot of tourists from Northern Europe who are attracted by its climate and its beaches, Americans are more likely to head to domestic destinations, to the Caribbean or to Mexico for those purposes. So this article will concentrate on other forms of tourism in Italy.

Historical Tourism in Italy

Rome, the “Eternal City” is the primary destinationfor historically based tourism in Italy. Once the seat of the world’s mightiest empire, Rome’s draw as a tourist destination continues to this day. The Coliseum is one of the world’s most famous and instantly recognizable landmarks, and is depicted on the Italian version of the 5-cent Euro coin. Built around 71 AD, its original name was the Flavian Amphitheater, named after the Roman Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus, who commissioned the building. It was the site of the brutal gladiatorial games where men fought to the death for the entertainment of the masses.

Present in a mere 0 Rome is actually a sovereign state in its own right.17 square miles – the same size as Tiananmen Square in Beijing! Catholics in particular will want to check out the Vatican, being the spiritual center of their faith, but even non-Catholics can enjoy the magnificent art and architecture contained therein.

Skiing Tourism in Italy

Italy is also home to a number of ski resorts. Mont Blanc, on the Italian-Swiss border, is Europe’s highest mountain and is cold enough for almost year-round skiing. Courmayeur is the ski resort on the Italian side of Mont Blanc and attracts visitors from all over the world, including the US. The resort’s website boasts that more languages are spoken there than at the UN.

Cortina is an up-market Italian ski resort in the Dolomite Mountains. Unlike Courmayeur, it is more popular with Italians than with overseas visitors, so it is worth visiting if you believe in going where the locals go when traveling. You may still spot the occasional American celebrity there – Sylvester Stallone, who filmed Cliffhanger in the Dolomites, has been known to pay the occasional return visit to Cortina.

Culinary Tourism in Italy

Italy is also famous for its food and wine, and there are travel companies that specialize in tours allowing you to sample various regional dishes and visit some vineyards too. One such is Cellar Tours, which offers tours of Italy that include samplings of wines, cheeses and balsamic vinegars. You also get to visit some of Italy’s most beautiful locations, and all trips are individually tailored to your needs. These are high end tours, where you get to stay in luxury hotels and are driven in your own chauffeured Mercedes. Ideal for a romantic getaway, or just for lovers of the finer things in life.




Freedom of speech still heavily suppressed in Cuba!

Posted By stevenlocke on January 3, 2010 @ 1:43 pm

Many of us started to believe that Cuba had become a more liberated country, and that the people were not held so tightly. There is something that has happened in Cuba that the Government may live to regret for quite a while.

Cuba is showing us once again how much they are prepared to stop the general public speaking about them, by locating a Blogger and attacking her on Monday! Yoani was attacked by Police in the Cuban government the other day for voicing her views on freedom of speech in Cuba. Cuban police quite often patrol the streets in plain clothes and after they had spotted her, attacked her and two other friends.

The Cuban government has only recently opened its arms to tourists and has not always accepted visitors. Now that this has happened, the government may need to show a softer side to their regime, to entice people to come back and hope that there isn’t quite such a big impact on tourism.

Cuba is famous for keeping freedom of speech on a tight leash and preventing those that want to be outspoken by detaining them. If you assault a Blogger, you will probably find that she is going to tell the world that you have done it, not really a very good piece of PR that your country would like. Not to mention that she can spread her message to the entire world after it has happened.

Holidays have been hurt by the current economic climate in the past couple of years, but now they are returning on the increase, Cuba needs to get these holidays or lose money and income, so what do you say would you like to go on a Cuba holiday, or maybe Maldives holidays, or some other Caribbean holidays sound like a better idea this year. Recently I travelled on Sri Lanka holidays, and that’s not exactly a quite place, but I would prefer it to Cuba at the present time.




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