Sky ride adventure at Crown Regency Cebu

I've lived in Cebu for almost three years and yet I never had the chance to explore and experience the sky ride adventure in Cebu's tallest hotel -Crown Regency located in Fuente Osmeña. After six months in my home sweet hometown Dumaguete, my travel mates decided to go to Cebu and have fun. Experiencing Crown Regency Cebu's sky adventure activities is just one of the things they plan to do in Cebu and since I never had the chance to take that opportunity I never doubted to say NO to their tip offer. So on August 27-28,2011, off we go to Cebu!!!

Funny thing about that trip was the low depression weather that Visayas was experiencing. We planned that tip for almost a month and then suddenly the weather wasn't cooperating. We planned to leave Negros right after our shift. Everyone from the office was warning us and trying to scare us about the possibility of a disaster trip. But nothing can stop us from pushing through with that plan. So we checked the weather forecast for that day and we pushed through to Cebu. God must have definitely heard our longing as the weather kept changing as we travel from Liloan Wharf to Cebu City. Finally when we arrived in Cebu City everything just turned bright and sunny. The weather was with us!

First thing that we did when we arrived in the city was immediately take on a jeepney going to Crown Regency Cebu not minding our heavy bags and a possible pension house that we can stay for the night. Yes, we did stay in a pension house as we can't really afford the room rate in Crown Regency. Our budget was just enough to experience their sky rides and be able to go to our next destination the following day. So we took a jeepney to the hotel and then we decided to get sky walk, edge coaster, 4-D movie, and a dinner buffet package all for Php950.00 each.

We took our time taking pictures in the hotel before we decided to take on our first adventure---Edge Coster!!!!

with Kim and Love. Taken before the edge coaster ride

Picture taking is strictly prohibited during the activity as the hotel provides their own photographer and pictures should be exclusively bought from them. Yes, you've read it right. You would have to purchase your pictures from the hotel. Just a tip, if you want to keep memories/pictures of your tip, better bring some extra money as the picture cost much. Mind you, you will have to pay for each picture which costs Php250.00.

You can actually take a lot of pictures within the vicinity though. That's what we did actually. We took so much pictures within the area.

Edge coaster ride does not take that long. The ride would roughly be around five to ten minutes only. You get to ride on a tilting car which goes around the hotel rooftop. You get to control the tilt of the car so if you're scared of heights, there's nothing much to worry as you can just position the car in your most convenient tilt and enjoy the scenic view of Cebu city. The surprising part of the ride was the first corner of the hotel rooftop. The car would automatically tilt to 50 degrees and you are literally overlooking on the jeepneys, taxis, cars and motorcycles making its way through Fuente Osmeña circle.  First thing you could think of is what would happen if you slip off your seat? Surely, you fall from the hotel's 37th floor to Fuente Osmeña circle flat dead.

still tilting after the first corner's automatic tilt.

The Hotel's 37th floor view from Fuente Osmeña Circle

if only Pierce wasn't that scared of heights...

the magnificent view of Cebu City!!!!

Second adventure we did in Crown Regency is the Skywalk. Everyone is required to wear a suit and is harnessed on the walk. Located at the 37^th floor of the hotel, you almost get to see the entire Cebu province at 360 degrees.  The view up there is truly amazing! So if you’re not scared of heights, I am pretty sure you’ll enjoy the experience. Everything from up there is magnificent! You can take pictures, courtesy of the hotel of course which you can purchase at Php250.00 per picture after the activity. If you go there as a group, you get to have one tour guide for the sky walk and one photographer. We were then toured on the walk which surrounds the entire 37^th floor area of the hotel. Only thing there is it’s literally located outside the 37^th floor where’s there no glass wall or any support you can hold on to as you walk except trust the harness you’re attached to. Hmmm, I guess the most challenging part (especially to those who are scared of heights)  of the skywalk is when the photographer would ask you to have a solo shot taken on the edge of the walk.

 

After the skywalk we grabbed a lunch at Chowking Fuente Osmeña Branch as lunch wasn’t part of the package and we haven’t eaten since we arrived in Cebu city that day. We headed to our pension house after eating lunch to get some sleep. We stayed in Jones so it wasn’t that tiresome to travel. We opted to do the 4D movie by night after we take the buffet dinner we paid for.

Speaking of the dinner buffet at Crown Regency, the food is super delicious!!!! It’s definitely worth what you’ve paid for. The food is another amazing thing you should not miss in the hotel. I am sure you won’t regret spending around Php480.00 for a buffet. You get to choose a variety of food from Japanese, Pinoy style lutong bahay, sea food, pastas, and a lot more. There are a lot of desserts to choose from as well. Just make sure to get there with an empty stomach so you get to taste their cuisines as take out is definitely a NO NO.

Cebu City's panoramic view at night just outside the window....

After dinner we went to the hotel’s 18^th floor to watch a 15-minute 4D movie. We decided to go for the horror one. I can’t really remember the exact title of the movie but it was like A Night in the Museum where all the stuff turns real or alive by midnight. That feeling you get when a lot of mouse running through your legs and feet was the most memorable part of the movie for me. The feeling was indescribable. I’m not sure if it feels yucky or what have you but the effects were great. Kim was indeed screaming at the top of her lungs the entire time we were inside the theater. Unfortunately for Lovely, she was a little bit wet that night since she was seated in the middle part of the theater where water sprays out of nowhere every time the dinosaur gets a little impatient with its prey.

That’s how we ended our adventure in Crown Regency Cebu. Afterwards, we went to 22^nd street, a famous comedy bar in Cebu City to while away the night for our next day trip.   -maja-

 

Laag

The best thing about being single and having friends with the same interest as you have is you get to agree on almost all things or matters instantly. This goes the same for my travel mates. Yes, I do consider them my travel mates because all we do is think about the best places we can go to and discover before we could finally say that we are ready to settle down.

I'm not saying though that we have all the money we can spend and splurge for traveling but we normally plan all our tip ahead of time so we get a heads up on how much we would need to save to get to that "dream place". Thus, I've decided to create this blog so we can share the places we've been to or might go to through the coming years. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of you out there who are also interested in discovering new places and meeting new faces.

EL Laagan. I decided to name this blog El Laagan as the second word in bisaya (vernacular) means someone who can't just stay in one place. Seriously, it's a vernacular term use to refer people who love to travel and go to places. Who knows you might just see one of the places you might want to go to on one of my posts one day?

Enjoy life and as they say make the best out of everything! :)