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Hotel Kimberly Tagaytay Review

As I mentioned on my previous post, the pretty princess wants to celebrate her 4th birthday in Tagaytay. My first choice of hotel was Taal Vista since I was looking for Tagayaty hotel with swimming pool and a playground. Taal Vista was fully booked for our chosen date. Two other hotels with swimming pool and playground came up, Hotel Kimberly and Estancia Hotel. Reviews from Estancia Hotel are not great, where as Hotel Kimberly Tagaytay review are really nice. The hotel was fully booked too when I inquired.. realizing we can’t get a decent hotel with our chosen date, we moved our vacation a day earlier.

Another reason why I chose Hotel Kimberly over Estancia Hotel is the location. Hotel Kimberly is located a few kilometers away from the main Tagaytay Road (Tagaytay-Nasugnbu Highway)..which is a bit colder if you’re thinking of swimming..the hotel is located at Crisanto M. De Los Reyes Avenue, Barangay Kaybagal North Tagaytay (near Mahogany Market) and judging from the location, it would be less cold in the area.

Hotel Kimberly Tagaytay

Hotel Kimberly offers 4 kinds of accommodations:

Superior room P4,700 per night with breakfast for 2 (Queen Sized bed or twin bed)
Deluxe room P5,700 per night with breakfast for 2 (Queen Sized bed or twin bed)
Premier family rooms P6,700 per night with breakfast for 4 (2 Queen sized bed)
Kimberly Suite P10,000 per night with breakfast for 2

We got a Premier Family Room:

This is not the actual room where we stayed..but basically this is how it looks like (minus the extra bed, extra person is 1000PhP with breakfast).

Above the small ref is a set of coffee condiments with cups, saucer, teaspoon and water heater (and mineral bottle, 2 bottles are free)

Hotel Kimberly bathroom is very simple but the toiletries are complete and the bathroom is really clean.

Now comes the fun part: the indoor play room!

Hotel Kimberly indoor playroom has 4 table games (pingpong, billiards, Foosball, hockey), a small playground for the kids and an area with 3 running/ exercise equipment. Use of this room if free but you need to surrender an ID in order at the reception, and you are allowed to play two games (if you want to play pingpong and foosball, the needed game accessories will be given to you, if you want to play another game, just surrender the accessories and you will be given another set).

The birthday girl had fun at the play area, specially with this mini activity set.. she also enjoyed playing hockey, while the boys had fun at the gym area.

Outdoor playground was really cool.. the area was big and for a family with four rowdy kids, this is the perfect playground!

Hotel Kimberly has two swimming pools, one is 3 feet and the other one is 5 feet deep. Beach towels and floaters for the kids are provided by the hotel.

Hotel Kimberly Tagaytay has a dinning area that offers breakfast, lunch, dinner and meryenda. The receiving area is big and you can find some cozy corners with couches (makes you feel at home):

Our stay at Hotel Kimberly Tagaytay was a very pleasant one, in fact, the kids are asking for one more night at the hotel.

I can say that Hotel Kimberly Tagaytay is the perfect hotel for our family, spacious rooms, indoor and outdoor play area, 2 swimming pools, nice food and very nice hotel staff. I am overly satisfied with our stay at this hotel.

Mahat’s 10th Birthday Celebration

My first born celebrated his 10th birthday last October 24. It was also the day where the UN Parade was held and the Halloween party. SO what better way to celebrate his party but with a Halloween theme haha

Photo story:

Just like our New Dormer’s party, I used the Red Ribbon Birthday Budget Planner to plan for this party. They were 40+ in class (2 sections) and including the teachers and the school crew, that’s about 70 people to feed. My budget was 8000 PhP including the food, 3 dedication cakes, giveaways and game prizes.

I have a story to tell about the giveaways.. since hubby was arriving from Indonesia one day before the birthday, I asked him to buy TimTam since it is cheaper there.. at first I thought of asking him to buy chocolates at Duty Free for giveaways, kaso naman, mahihirapan pa ako mag pack.. so we opted for TimTam since it is cheaper nga and I don’t have to repack it…. the thing is, since we need 40+ of TimTam, he had to buy a new luggage bag for that.. there goes my kuripot moment hahaha (good thing he didn’t charged me the luggage bag he bought)

As for the cakes, we had 3 dedication cakes, one birthday cake for Kuya (he loves Mocha flavor), one Happy Halloween cake for Grade 4 (his class) and another Happy Halloween Cake for my Grade 2. At ang nakakatawa, sa dinami dinami ng cakes na binili namin eh wala pa lang kandila! woohoo! Hubby was the one who picked up the cakes and the food haha

For the food, we had Spaghetti and Palabok from Red Ribbon. We had Tetra pack juice for the drinks and a few bottle of sodas for the teachers.

All in all, I think I spend a little over 7000 PhP.. and yes I didn’t overspend again! That’s the good thing about using Red Ribbon Birthday Budget Planner . I am very prone to over spending, even if I plan it very well.. I don’t know why but with two parties I had using the Birthday Budget Planner, I didn’t over spend and may sobra pa!

It really helped that the planner gives you an idea on how much to allocate on the food, the drinks, the giveaways and of course the cake.. may party ba na walang cake? haha

Another that I like about the Birthday Budget Planner is, it is very easy to use. Even a non tech user can navigate very well with the lay out and the theme of the micro site.

And lastly, it makes partying very easy because of the suppliers listed on the website. You won’t have a hard time looking for suppliers and their contact details as it is already listed there (or you will redirected to a directory listing).

I think I will be sticking with the Birthday Budget Planner as my party partner (um except with the princess’ birthday….which is just around the corner.. err we’ll be going out of town for her party .. she already have a plan for her birthday..and I can’t insist my own plan, hay nako this little girl has a mind of her own.. at a very young age sobrang articulate na!).

How about you? Have you tried using the Birthday Budget Planner? How was it? Share with us your party planning story!

Our First Time Dormer Party: Sunday is Indeed a Family Day!

Natapos din ang kangaragan ko sa buwang ito! ayayay! At bago ako magkwento ng mga ganap kahapon at noong nakaraang linggo, share ko muna ang isang napakasayang salo salo kasama ang mga pinaka importanteng tao sa buhay ko…

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that we’re planning a party for our first timer dormers? O eto na, pagkatapos ng mahabang paglalakbay at pagtawid sa bundok at sa paglangoy sa dagat, dumating na ang mg sisterretes namin (obviously I was exaggerating, our province is one bus away, 3-4 hours travel time hehe)

With our budget of 2000 PhP, Red Ribbon Birthday Budget Planner gave us this breakdown:

Cake: 299 PhP
Drinks: 600.50 PhP
Food: 1200 PhP

I decided to treat them to Amber and this is what I ordered from their Shaw Boulevard branch:

Amber Pancit Malabon (good for 10) 550 PhP
20 Pcs Shanghai 160 PhP
20 Pichi Pichi 110 PhP
9 ocs Pork BBQ 180 PhP

Total of 1,000 PhP

Our cake, a Red Ribbon Dedication Chocolate Cake (junior size) for 299 PhP

Drinks was 2 bottles of soda, 120 PhP

Our total expense for this small salo salo was 1419 PhP.. ang bongga di ba? usually pag may party ako, na ooverspend ako.. this is the first party that I had where in I spent less than I am supposed to (kaya ayun, after ng party, takbo agad sa Ukay Ukay hahaha)