Date
of Stay: March 15 - 16, 2008
RATING
(Scale of 1 to 10)
Location:
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Rooms:
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Condition
and Cleanliness: ********
Staff
Performance: ********
Room
Comfort: *********
Food
and Beverage: ********
Other
Amenities: ********
Value
for Money: ********
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| Subic Bay Yacht Club |
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| Entrance driveway |
Subic Yacht Club (SYC), the
premier yacht club in the Philippines, was built in 1998 at a cost of
PhP2billion. It exemplifies luxury and style at every turn.
Its exquisitely decorated 39 Club Rooms
has top-level amenities such as telephone, 29-inch cable TV, DVD
player, internet-wired connection, a minibar, jacuzzi whirlpool bath
with shower jets.
Aside from its Club Rooms,
SYC also has a 2 story presidential suite that has its own living, dining
and receiving areas complete with a spiral staircase, a study room with 2
terraces and an outdoor jacuzzi. The 17,000 sq. m. main clubhouse has a
64-pax home movie theater at the 4th level and 3 function rooms (the 50-pax
Victoria, the 50-pax Trinidad and the 20-pax Concepcion).
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| The Club Room |
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| Pool area |
Venues for nightlife at SYC
include a piano lobby bar (1572) offering relaxing piano music; a disco bar and
videoke joint and the 150-pax Jacques Lounge reserved for private
gatherings. Restaurants here serving everything from Southern Italian
cuisine (Cambusa Restaurant) to Japanese and Chinese favorites (the al fresco
Skipper Verandah and the Caracoa Restaurant).
There's even a casual deli
called Providores offering informal sandwich and potato salad meals as well as
vintage wines and spirits. The Recreation Café, beside the pool, serves
tropical drinks and light snacks (hamburgers, hotdogs, etc.) and other grilled
specialties.
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| The fitness center |
For the water enthusiasts,
the club rents yachts, jet
boats, speedboats, pontoon boats, Platu keelboats and water sports equipment
such as picos, lasers, Hobie Cats, wakeboards, knee
boards, water skis,
jetskis and scuba
diving and snorkeling apparatuses.
SBYC also has one of the
country's few certified US designed hyperbaric
recompression chamber for divers. They also offer escorted wreck diving. For sports
and recreation, there are basketball courts, world-class covered tennis courts
with a spectator area, an 8-lane, tenpin bowling center with glow-in-the-dark
alleys and pool tables; and a complete fitness center (Tetrix Virtual Reality
Bike; Virtual Reality Climber; Trackmaster treadmills, stationary cycles and
rowing machines; etc.).
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| The huge swimming pool |
The huge, 2,500 sq.
m., multi-level swimming pool actually has a beach with imported
powdery sand from Perth, Australia; twin water slides and a pool bar. The
spa has a sauna and steam room, massage/treatment rooms and separate
whirlpool spas for men and women featuring numerous jet tubs. For kids,
there is a daycare and nursery center, a children's pool complete with rafts,
chutes, rings, water jets and water toys for babies and young kids; a
children’s outdoor play area with lots of great play equipment and the popular,
educational and creative Little Fingers Art Workshop.
Subic Bay Yacht Club Resort:
Blk. 3, Lot 2, Rizal Highway cor. Burgos St., Subic Bay Freeport Zone,
Zambales. Tel: (047) 252-5211. Fax: (047) 252-6586. Website: www.sbyc.com.ph.
