Okay guys this is part of the email i got from pansacola. Posting this so you can read:
this is a mail i sent to meralco lucena people last summer. i hope it shows how we work. you will find more pics of the place in facebook nga pala, and pics of happy people who have gone there. the page is ‘Pansacola Beach Resort’. re how to get here to Mauban, you can either ride a JAC Liner bus from cubao or buendia, to Lucena City. from lucena, you either ride a bus from the Grand Terminal to Mauban, or go to SM or Pacific mall and get on a van to here. if you are bringing a car, a cousin runs a camping site on the eastern side of the island and their website has a map on how to get here. type cagbalete.com and villa cleofas will appear. when you have made the necessary arrangements and wants to confirm a reservation, you will have to deposit an amount to BPI savings account #8859048529 under romel pansacola. you must then tell me when you have deposited so i can confirm and list it down, and please bring the slip when you come to facilitate computations. have a great day!
i don’t know how and what you found out about our island, so here goes additional infos. cagbalete is a white sand island about 40 mins out of mauban. it has an area of about 1,610hectares. our place is at the southern end which means we are at a point nearest town. ours is a small manageable place that has just nine structures that can be slept in, though i have to mention that not a few guests chose to sleep right on the beach. we have group sleeping arrangements and different sizes of huts to accomodate different group sizes. two of the bigger huts have a maximum capacity of 20pax (4k ),available only for catered groups, four have max caps of 10pax ( 2k ) the tree house wt a cap of 6pax ( 1.8k ) and 2 smaller huts wt caps of 4 each (1k). when we say maximum cap, it means people have to add 100pesos for numbers in excess of the cap. that is to say if a group of eleven chooses the 10pax cap hut, they have to pay 1.6k. the two bigger huts have their own t&b in them while the smaller ones share common t’s&b’s around the area. we provide guests wt mattresses, beddings and pillows. we are not connected to the luzon grid pa, so power is by gen set. light is on from 6pm to 10pm when a group rents, and up to 6am when we are serving food to guests as we need light to cook breakfast. there is a videoke for the musically inclined..and not, though we have a tone down time(10pm) and shut down time(12am) if there are other groups in the place.
we offer a meal package for a minimum of ten persons that costs 800/head/day. that is 3 meals and 2 snacks na. meals always have meat or poultry, seafoods and veggies. dessert may be any fruit in season or leche plan. snacks are of the native kind. next are some of the choices we pick from. for the meat, we have crispy pata, chicken pork adobo, pork spare ribs bbq, inihaw na liempo, chicken curry, chicken and pork caldereta, lengua(when available), callos, lechon paksiw, sinigang na spare ribs, kandingga, tinolang manok, lumpiang shanghai, chicken and corn. for the seafoods are; mutya ng cagbalete, calamares, buttered shrimp, sinigang na isda, inihaw na tambakol, crab sotanghon, shrimp sinigang, ginataang alimango sa kalabasa, tininghing kuray, kinunot(kabatiran), kinilaw bisaya. for the vegetables; pako ensalada, chopsuey, ginatang laing, ginataang langka, ginataang pako, pinakbet, tortang talong, tortang patola. let me clarify that we pick the combination for all the meals we serve and part of the experience is to guess what the cook will concoct at that time.we are open to suggestions and requests naman as we have also catered to vegetarians in the past. groups that want to better bond while cooking, no longer have to lug their cooking utes from their homes as we rent out a small kitchen for only 30/head /day.
there are two ways to get to the island; by public ferry and by private boat rent. the ferry leaves for the island at around 10 to 11am so we advise guest to come before ten. the afternoon trip is at around 3:30pm. there is a 15mins walk to our place from the island disembarkation place. the ferries leave for town around 7:00am and after lunch at around 1pm. ferry fare is 40 one way. boat rent starts at 3k for a cap of around 10pax, 4k for a cap of 20pax to the ferry itself wt a cap of around 50pax and costs 7k. prices quoted are back and forth na. if you know any boat owner in town, you might get a better price. you can see from the ferry schedule the advantage of a private boat rent; you get there sooner and can leave way past the 1pm ferry trip back to town in a private boat, so you can maximize your time in the island.
the main activity here is swimming. because of the gentle slope of the sand, the beach is very safe for kids, though i have to say the safest for kids is when they are within arms reach of older folks. the water recedes some distance during low tide, which makes it ideal for beach games such as volley ball, soccer, frisbee and tug o’war for company games.
please get back to me if you have more queries and concerns. we hope to see you all in the days to come. thank you for the inquiry.
romel and fe pansacola
