I ONLY used that title for effect, but no, I didn't get to smoke sigar and sip red wine while on speedboat last week. We packed light and the decision to hire a speedboat by the hour came in the last minute – or at least after I made sure there was still some money left in my pocket.
It was the third straight summer we hightailed it to Boracay, the past two years timed for Maxi's birthday. Every single time an experience, so I listed up a few things I observed while vacationing in the hottest destination this part of the tropics.
1.It was perfectly cool to hang around and even walk the whole town without a shirt on. That's regardless of what shape you're in. And from what I saw, the ratio of those sporting a well-toned body is 50-50 to those who don't.
2.I have the license to have an ice-cold beer anytime of the day. The earliest I recorded was 9 a.m. just right after breakfast and the wife absolutely had no complaint about it.
3.You can have fresh seafoods cooked as you like it, but it would cost you almost five times more if you decide to have it by the beachfront than in talipapa which is far less fashionable place to eat while in Boracay.
4.Hotel prices along the white beach have big discrepancy, like it's $300 (or its peso equivalent) a night in Discovery Shores, which lies on the same stretch as Marzons which asked for a little more than $50. We planned to stay out most part of the day, and only need a room to sleep so that should be no-brainer.
5.People can still get hurt in the calm, crystal-clear waters. While we're taking a walk one afternoon we chanced upon a crowd milling around a drowning victim.
6.SEAir is true to its advertising claim of 35-minute flight from Manila. I timed it from takeoff to landing and it clocked just 27 minutes.
7.Topless sun-bathers are extremely rare in Boracay. Women no longer undo their bikini top and when some of them do, they're mostly the ones you don't want to see naked.
8.Nobody reads the newspaper in Boracay. You also don't feel like checking out the TV while you're there.
9.There are plenty of water sports to get into, but the best one for me is people-watching because it doesn't cost me anything and I never had to get off from where I was sitting.
10.Mavi doesn't know who the hell Aga Muhlach is. He passed by us in the airport on the way to Manila and he was short and ordinary looking wearing big shades and faded shirt. Anne Curtis looked radiant even when not opening her wide mouth to smile. Both Mavi and Maxi recognized her.
11.Wearing shades on the beach looked cool, but it leaves racoon marks around the eyes which would then force you to wear shades within the next few days until the color in your face are even matched.
12.Watching school of fish of different colors and live coral reef landscape is more fun on TV than when you're peering at them yourself in the open water meters from the rented boat. If you don't know how to use the snorkel, it's twice as worse.
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