Montemar Beach Trip and Historic Bataan
Beach buffs regulars to the twenty-five-years-old Montemar beach Club in southwestern part of Central Luzon will surely welcome the property’s recently stepped-up facilities to keep up with its growing trade and leisure markets.
Its no longer just the sun and the impeccable seashore that await everyone but a whole lot of perks to make weekend or weekday vacation therapeutic yet fun filled. There’s always something exciting that corporate groups, families or couples may engage in after a cool, invigorating day at the beach.
A mere three hours drive from Manila, Montemar Beach Club in Barrio Pasinay, Bagac, Bataan is also negotiable via an hour air-conditioned ferry ride from the port within the CCP complex. Chartered flights take about half an hour from Manila.
Bagac is about 151 kilometers from Manila and 27.82 kilometers from Balanga, the provincial capital. Ferryboats from Manila and other points end up at the port of Orion from where a shuttle service of the resort can pick up guests. Prior arrangements can be made to facilitate land transfer from the port to the resort.
Montemar was dubbed as such for its magnificent sky-meets-the-sea vista. Slicing through the hills of historic Bagac and the jade green waters of the South China Sea, the resort used to be exclusive for members when it started operations in 1979. seventeen years ago, it opened its doors to welcome non-members. Since then, the resort has gone through several facelifts to keep it on tip-top shape.
The triple “A” resort’s 12-hectares cove takes pride in its 87 Mediterranean style rooms made up of four premiere suites, two bedroom executive suites, 18 gallery rooms, 59 deluxe rooms and four garden rooms.
A vibrant tropical furnishing theme against the pastel interiors of some rooms provides a cozy cocoon within the resort. Some of the newly furnished rooms, on the other hand, subtly interplays the sleep-inducing beach design with soft hues for a more Zen-like appeal.
The indoor is not the only moo0d-booster thing within the resort. A plus factor for an over-all rejuvenating beach trip is the food. The resort has a main restaurant serving continental, native and other specialties as well as a bar for unwinding with a few spirited cocktails and hors d’oeuvre after sunset. Nibblers or hearty-eaters will not be disappointed with the resort’s extensive menu whether it’s a main meal or something in-between.
A beach holiday does not really mean an absolutely do-nothing-else but sleep, eat and swim or just laze around the beach. Here, one can’t simply miss the chance to rev up and play a favorite game or sport as everything is just within reach.
Hyperactive ones can switch from swimming and tanning to playing a whole gamut of water sports, while others may opt for lawn tennis, basketball, badminton and golf at the resort’s nine-hole executive course.
While billiard, darts and table tennis are better indoor alternatives, couch potatoes after soaking it up in the sun by the beach and all, may find scrabble, word factory and mahjong brain lifting.
Boats and kayaks and aqua-cycles are also available for rental and pony rides maybe set at the front desk if preferred. Fishing and island hopping are also worth trying if guests are not that adventurous for snorkeling, diving or jet skiing.
The resort has a hip blue-tiled pool and an equally stress-free tropical garden pool just in case guests would rather have a dunk in smaller baths. A souvenir shop sells shirts, beach wears with mostly aqua themed prints and designs among other novelty items and beach gizmos.
Perfect for out-of-town teambuilding and seminars, the resort has a relatively new conference building with excellent audio-visual equipment for small and big meetings. A business center can provide for all the secretarial services that businessmen-guests may require.
The new conference building is an ideal venue for seminars, business meetings and other banquet necessities for a group of ten to 100 persons. Function rooms can be laid out in theater, classroom, cocktails and formal sit-down meal styles to accommodate 150-300 persons per event.
Upon request, guests can opt for ballroom dancing, beach bonfire or other themed activities to make an event more exciting. There’s also a set up for bingo, folk singer and karaoke/ videoke anytime.
Going around Bataan is an exhilarating experience. Though famous for the Zero Kilometer Death March and Shrine of Valor located on the Mt. Samat, the province offers a scenic long-drive trip. From Manila to Bagac guests will be acquainted with some of the well-known places in the history-laden province. A boundary between Pampanga and Bataan, Dinalupihan is basically a rice and fish farming area buoyed with pastoral charm.
The next town Hermosa, popular for sweet, juicy mangoes, is less than an hour’s drive from Subic and about half an hour from Clarkfield. Orani, Samal and Abucay also teem with natural wonders such as springs and waterfalls. Morong, a part of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) has more than 9,000 hectares of watershed primary growth forest area.
The provincial capital of Balanga yields most of the livelihood produce like sugarcane, corn coconut, fruits, vegetables, as well as fresh seafood like prawns, crabs, oysters, shrimps, tilapia, milkfish and other shelled seafood. Pilar, Orion and Limay are also agri-producers, while Mariveles is known for round scad, grouper, mussel and abalone. It also has rich mineral deposits of granite, basalt and forest products like bamboo and vines.
Arlene Dabu-Foz, October 30, 2004, Manila Bulletin
Its no longer just the sun and the impeccable seashore that await everyone but a whole lot of perks to make weekend or weekday vacation therapeutic yet fun filled. There’s always something exciting that corporate groups, families or couples may engage in after a cool, invigorating day at the beach.
A mere three hours drive from Manila, Montemar Beach Club in Barrio Pasinay, Bagac, Bataan is also negotiable via an hour air-conditioned ferry ride from the port within the CCP complex. Chartered flights take about half an hour from Manila.
Bagac is about 151 kilometers from Manila and 27.82 kilometers from Balanga, the provincial capital. Ferryboats from Manila and other points end up at the port of Orion from where a shuttle service of the resort can pick up guests. Prior arrangements can be made to facilitate land transfer from the port to the resort.
Montemar was dubbed as such for its magnificent sky-meets-the-sea vista. Slicing through the hills of historic Bagac and the jade green waters of the South China Sea, the resort used to be exclusive for members when it started operations in 1979. seventeen years ago, it opened its doors to welcome non-members. Since then, the resort has gone through several facelifts to keep it on tip-top shape.
The triple “A” resort’s 12-hectares cove takes pride in its 87 Mediterranean style rooms made up of four premiere suites, two bedroom executive suites, 18 gallery rooms, 59 deluxe rooms and four garden rooms.
A vibrant tropical furnishing theme against the pastel interiors of some rooms provides a cozy cocoon within the resort. Some of the newly furnished rooms, on the other hand, subtly interplays the sleep-inducing beach design with soft hues for a more Zen-like appeal.
The indoor is not the only moo0d-booster thing within the resort. A plus factor for an over-all rejuvenating beach trip is the food. The resort has a main restaurant serving continental, native and other specialties as well as a bar for unwinding with a few spirited cocktails and hors d’oeuvre after sunset. Nibblers or hearty-eaters will not be disappointed with the resort’s extensive menu whether it’s a main meal or something in-between.
A beach holiday does not really mean an absolutely do-nothing-else but sleep, eat and swim or just laze around the beach. Here, one can’t simply miss the chance to rev up and play a favorite game or sport as everything is just within reach.
Hyperactive ones can switch from swimming and tanning to playing a whole gamut of water sports, while others may opt for lawn tennis, basketball, badminton and golf at the resort’s nine-hole executive course.
While billiard, darts and table tennis are better indoor alternatives, couch potatoes after soaking it up in the sun by the beach and all, may find scrabble, word factory and mahjong brain lifting.
Boats and kayaks and aqua-cycles are also available for rental and pony rides maybe set at the front desk if preferred. Fishing and island hopping are also worth trying if guests are not that adventurous for snorkeling, diving or jet skiing.
The resort has a hip blue-tiled pool and an equally stress-free tropical garden pool just in case guests would rather have a dunk in smaller baths. A souvenir shop sells shirts, beach wears with mostly aqua themed prints and designs among other novelty items and beach gizmos.
Perfect for out-of-town teambuilding and seminars, the resort has a relatively new conference building with excellent audio-visual equipment for small and big meetings. A business center can provide for all the secretarial services that businessmen-guests may require.
The new conference building is an ideal venue for seminars, business meetings and other banquet necessities for a group of ten to 100 persons. Function rooms can be laid out in theater, classroom, cocktails and formal sit-down meal styles to accommodate 150-300 persons per event.
Upon request, guests can opt for ballroom dancing, beach bonfire or other themed activities to make an event more exciting. There’s also a set up for bingo, folk singer and karaoke/ videoke anytime.
Going around Bataan is an exhilarating experience. Though famous for the Zero Kilometer Death March and Shrine of Valor located on the Mt. Samat, the province offers a scenic long-drive trip. From Manila to Bagac guests will be acquainted with some of the well-known places in the history-laden province. A boundary between Pampanga and Bataan, Dinalupihan is basically a rice and fish farming area buoyed with pastoral charm.
The next town Hermosa, popular for sweet, juicy mangoes, is less than an hour’s drive from Subic and about half an hour from Clarkfield. Orani, Samal and Abucay also teem with natural wonders such as springs and waterfalls. Morong, a part of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) has more than 9,000 hectares of watershed primary growth forest area.
The provincial capital of Balanga yields most of the livelihood produce like sugarcane, corn coconut, fruits, vegetables, as well as fresh seafood like prawns, crabs, oysters, shrimps, tilapia, milkfish and other shelled seafood. Pilar, Orion and Limay are also agri-producers, while Mariveles is known for round scad, grouper, mussel and abalone. It also has rich mineral deposits of granite, basalt and forest products like bamboo and vines.
Arlene Dabu-Foz, October 30, 2004, Manila Bulletin
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