It's my first time here at Thunderbird Resorts Rizal, located in Binangonan, Rizal, an less than hour ride coming from Ortigas City. If you are a looking for a perfect place to experience some leisure, entertainment, recreation, sports and relaxation, then I recommend you to try and stay here at Thunderbird Resorts. The 5 year old resorts sits on top of a mountain of Rizal and middle of the natural environment and operated by an international development company and well known in their other branches in Panama, Peru, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Poland, also here in the Philippines, which is the first ever in Asian, next year they will open in Daman, India. Thunderbird Resorts brings a luxury lifestyle to anyone who stays and escape from your daily stress and city life, have your relaxation without leaving the city for hours.
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They also have a branch at Poro Point in San Fernando, La Union, it is one of the most visited branch and heard that they are now launching a residential site blended with a Santorini style structure. Here in Rizal they are starting to expand, the state of the art Event Center is now in construction and it will be available soon to host lots of events and private functions, Rooms are being changed and remodeled for added luxury fun, Casino games also are one of the top activities here and starts to expand and add more games for adults.
I really like also their restaurants, Pool Bar, Cabana and Koi restaurants are nearby and ready to serve to their guests anytime. Golf courses adjacent to Eastridge Golf Club are offered for free to any guest who will check in, a free 18 hole game will be given to resort guests, no need to be a member, all you have to do is check in here and they will assist you to book a golf game.
Thunderbird Resorts also supports an environmental campaign and program, they have their own campaign and program to give awareness to the public about environmental sustainability. They organize lots of ground events and activity like fun run, tree planting, photo competition inline with the theme, the program is called "TREES" or "Thunderbird Resorts Efforts on Environment Sustainability", aims to cultivate a green culture to its employees, their practices, their guests to the community.
I stayed here for 3 days and 2 nights with some friends and we went around in a tour around the resort and also in Angono, Rizal. I just experienced first hand how they serve their guests, enjoy the food, have a nice relaxation, meet new people and get excited in playing casino games. Most of the guests here are Koreans and Japanese, but there are American guest who check in to relax and play golf of casino. In their Fiesta Casino area, most visitors and players are Filipinos, the casino is operated for 24 hours and they have this raffle every night to give away cash prizes and sometimes luxury cars, in some daily scheds they have live performances of popular artist like True Faith, Sex Bomb Dancers, Gaby Concepcion and many more.
And the most fun part for me here is that they have FREE WIFI connection and it is fast!
Rates of the resorts starts at P4,500 on weekdays and P5,000 on weekends, that's an overnight room accommodation, with breakfast for 2 persons, free 15 min. massage per stay (max of 2 person), P300 worth of Fiesta Casino Match Play, Free wifi and use of swimming pool. If you have an extra companion, just add P800 for them to stay in the hotel room and get an extra bed, breakfast buffet and use of the resort's facilities like the gym, spa and swimming pool.
This promo and reservation is till December 15, 2010.
For casino players, you can enter the resorts for free.
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Makati Office Rizal Poro Point
24F Salcedo Twr, 169 H.V. Dela Costa
Salcedo Village, Makati City 1227
Tel. No. (+632) 886.5555
Fax No. (+632) 894.3333
Email : info@thunderbird-asia.com
Here's a Google Map and pin point location of the Thunderbird Resorts Rizal, not that far away from Manila, its just a few min. or less than an hour ride if you are coming from Ortigas City, they also have pick up points located in Makati, Antipolo and some areas of Manila for casino players and resort guests. Just visit their website for info about the pick up points.
The front sign of Thunderbird Resorts Rizal and the view of the 2 level hotel room.
We ate our lunch here at the Pool Bar, it is located near the pool and infront of the hotel room, a few walks right after the front desk. I enjoyed eating their Steamed Lapu Lapu with Wok Fried Asian Greens, with Mango and Coriander Salso and Lemongrass Scented Rice. They have billiards for adults and videoke machine. Pool Bar is open til 11pm.
I like the style of the pool, it faces a great view of the mountains of Rizal and Laguna de Bay, at night you can see Makati and other cities lighting up at night, the lights blink like stars and you can see how far you are and not that far from Manila.
They have this jacuzzi that operates everyday, a 2-4 feet pool, lifeguard on duty, and a waiter nearby if you want to order foods at the Pool Bar.
Main door going to Thunderbird Resorts, their logo has a thunderbird animal, a mythical bird, and a letter T with a thunder sign on it.
Front desk, me and our blogger friends are on stand by here to wait for our key cards and room designation.
My key card for room 118. The key card is much different, because all you need to do is insert the card to the door lock machine and pull it out again to see the green light lits up and open it, no need to insert the card back again once you are inside to open up the electricity.
A view of the room lobby and a map of the ground floor, I stayed at room 118.
This is a nice room, two bed rooms, with 5 lamp shades, a dressing table, mini desk, a mini terraces, satellite powered TV. Everything I need is in here.
Round table and their Philips flat TV, under it is a DVD player.
Their cable tv is powered by Dream Satellite, and that's me having a photo op shot infront of the dressing table.
Bath robes, sandals, towels and hair dryer inside the cabinet, and my ever favorite water heater for my coffee.
Door knob signage, and also a mini refrigerator inside the cabinet, with lots of beer and sodas.
A view of the ceiling type airconditoner and a painting in the wall.
Lamp design and the white sandals.
Here's my desk where I work for 2 days inside Thunderbird Resorts, on the next pic is a view in my window and terraces.
here's what the hotel room looks like from the outside.
We went around on a short tour and they introduced this new room design to us, this have the same rate for around P4,500 or P5,000 and they added a new fixtures like that painting frame to add an activity to their guests and family, an office desk, sofa and table, and an entertainment audio system.
office table and the TV and audio set up for added entertainment
Here's the Presidential Suite priced at P15,000, the room is big complete with kitchen area, extra bathroom, guest area, living room, and nice bedroom and bathroom.
The living room and the kitchen-dining area.
Koi Restaurant is located on the top floor of Fiesta Casino, the only way to go there is to enter the casino and go up on the stairs to Koi Restaurants, I do hope that they have other entrance going to Koi, because going inside the casino with kids are not allowed.
view of KOI restaurant inside, and jade lion statue. Koi Restaurant is an asian fusion resto of Korean, Japanese, Malaysian, Indian, and Pinoy food.
table set up and a yummy blueberry cheese cake, one of their best sellers.
we ate our breakfast, and I love it! because they serve bacons, its a breakfast buffet and here you can enjoy eat your morning food and also work on your blog on the table, wifi access is also free here.
I just experienced a tutorial on how to play some casino games, this is my first time and its funny because this is the only resort that I allowed my self to learn to play some casino games. I play some games but its only via video games, but here in the real deal, you need to be serious and also know some of the house rules in playing. We learned how to play Baccarat, Black Jack, and Poker.
Irish Michelle is our dealer and she taught us how to play, she's a hustler in handling cards and these casino coins, she played some tricks and wow! we are very impressed, Learned a lot from her and that's me holding a training coin during the tutorial.
trying out some Baccarat, I can say that this is now my favorite game, because you need to bet for yourself or to the Banker, and the cards can now do the trick, my next favorite is Blackjack as it needs you to deal or hit that total of 21 in the card. Poker is very complicated and I just can't understand it, I guess I need more training. We saw the roulette,but we lack time and just move on our next game.
Fiesta casino is awesome! ahahaha.
Here we are infront of the Angono cafe, Thunderbird Resorts organized a day tour around Angono and we are here at the Petroglyph site, these tours can be organized via a tour agency, just ask the resort for some assistance.
Our lunch at Balaw Balaw, we tried their exotic cuisine, like eat frogs and crickets, I even tried that Bibingka Abnoy aahhaa and it was the star of the table.
Thanks to Thunderbird Resorts for inviting me to stay and try their hotel and services, I really like the resort and its my first time here to stay and wander the great views, places, arts and culture of Rizal. I like to go back to Angono and Binangonan, because there are lots of places to visit and see, I just browsed a coffee table book in the hotel and saw lots of great sites and attractions that are located in Rizal, no need to ride a plane or bus, Rizal is nearby and easy to access it if you are from Manila.
Thunderbird Resorts RIZAL
http://www.thunderbird-asia.com/
Makati Office Rizal Poro Point
24F Salcedo Twr, 169 H.V. Dela Costa
Salcedo Village, Makati City 1227
Tel. No. (+632) 886.5555
Fax No. (+632) 894.3333
Email : info@thunderbird-asia.com
