The Dolphin House Resort
April 25-28, 2014
When we found out that we could dive with thousands of
sardines, we were definitely in. We did
a little research, found a place to stay, and booked our plane tickets. Cebu Pacific really is a great airline with
which to fly. The flight was right at
one hour, so it seemed once we were up in the air, it was time to come back
down again. Both flights going and
coming were delayed due to President Obama’s visit to Manila. On Monday when we landed, we passed right by
the Presidential Plane and got off of our plane in plain view. It really was kind of cool…
The Dolphin House was a great place to stay. They had a driver waiting for us. What should have taken one and a half hours
took three – the drive through all those little towns takes forever. Getting behind jeepneys, huge tour buses,
bikes, bikes with side cars, scooters, scooters with side cars… you get the
picture. At one point in the ride we had
to go over a mountain, pretty curvy. Our
driver had his driving music on, and at the curvy point King of the Mountain
came on. Believe me, he felt like the
king of the mountain driving like crazy!
Once we were safely off the mountain, I asked him how often he made that
particular drive. He makes that drive
two to three times a day! I definitely
do not have the patience for his job. I
tipped my hat to him…
The resort itself has a rustic feel to it; however, it is
beautifully decorated. When we arrived
Edi and I received leis with beautiful, fragrant flowers. They each had a small gift woven into the
reeds. Edi’s had a free drink voucher,
and mine had a beautiful pearl necklace in it.
Our suite had a treehouse feel as the bedroom was upstairs in the loft
with the seating area and bathroom downstairs.
We had a gecko friend that greeted us and hung out both inside and
outside of our room…
The food was delicious.
The restaurant was open air and every meal we had was beautifully
presented and quite nice on our palates.
I think my favorite meal was breakfast as the coffee was divine and the
seaside table gave us a fabulous view…
They offered happy hour every day from 5:00-6:00 which is great after a
day of diving. On Sunday, during happy
hour they had an informational seminar about crabs. All of the dive masters were there and we
just hung out with our cervezas, learning about crabs, and having good, fun
conversation. We had a side seminar about
trigger fish as the dive master had to save me from getting attacked by one on
our dive. It turns out it is nesting
season for the trigger fish, and they get quite territorial. The particular fish that came after me got
the dive master instead. He had quite
the bite mark in his fin!
All of this brings me to the diving. The set up at the resort is convenient. The boats make it easy to get out and in, and
the dive masters are knowledgeable and approachable. Our sardine dive was incredible! I felt like I needed to be listening to Enya
on this dive! We also did an airplane wreck
which was a lot of fun. On both of these
dives we saw two turtles – eating, swimming – it was awesome! Our last dive was a shore dive on the house
reef- we saw two turtles on this dive, as well!
It too was a beautiful dive. The
only thing is we should have gone diving at high tide instead of low tide. We had to walk out in the water on this
cement pathway until we could actually float in the water and put on our
fins. When we got back from the dive,
the tide had gone down even more, and we couldn’t get to the pathway. Thank heavens for fin booties!
It was a great weekend trip, and we had a great time. Now, we just need to plan our next tropical
destination J
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