Cebu Crowne Regency Plaza Sky Experience

Living the friggin' Xperience!

June 2, 2010-- So al(l)most everything happened on that day for Cebu. But the highlight of it all was the unexpected man-made Sky Experience Adventure we had at Crowne Regency Plaza Tower II! (to be exact and overly elated). I have to thank one of my high school friends who was snoopy enough to visit my facebook profile and learn about my dilemma on the whereabouts of tourist spots in Cebu.

To Lean, yeah yeah I owe you one! It was awesome! Voyeurism never honored the voyeur-ed this good.

So where did we left off... hmm yup right here!

We arrived at the hotel, which looked more like a backpacker's inn (the ones that were livable but not likable enough to praise) and did what all backpackers had in mind months before the actual travel, checked-in and went out. Easy as pancake.

Since Crowne Regency Plaza was only a few blocks away from where we stayed, we tried the cheapest transportation around, walking on our own two feet. WOW.

Anyway, we were ready to pay for our Sky Day Tour worth 888 pesos (US $18) when the unimaginable happened. The aforementioned companion forgot THE most important essential during vacations; the deniro, moolah, steak, money, kaching, johnny cash or whatever urban dictionary has yet to call it. Talk about too much travel titillation.

And so our cheap walking thrill went back to taxi fare and running. Or you could call it, "each's own paradox".

For lack of people to blame we considered the universal conspiracy.(Running thought pau: what if you (Ziel) no longer have money? hmm I don't have enough for both of us. noooooo) .

Thankfully, the money was not napped but abandoned on the top of her bed. I charge the mishap to our budget hearing plus excessive agitation before going out of the room.

ziel: magkano dadalhin (how much will we bring?)

pau: maybe bla bla bla amount.

ziel: ah eh di ito lang dadalhin ko? (this'll be the only things i'll bring?)

pau: oo blablabla (yup, continues on 10 minutes explaining the tour which was actually written down in detail)

Yup, it was because of too much organization. We went back just in time to have an hour to eat at Wang Shang Lo since the buffet starts at 10am and ends at 2pm. Because our last meal was the bread sticks provided by PAL, imagine our famine.

Talk about gluttony.

But we did get out fine, happy, (guilty)and contented

So after eating we went straight to the sky experience tour. Where we experienced the Edge coaster (bold font required to emphasize impact). It is a place I experienced hearing Ziel cursing for her life.

The Edge Coaster is the first of its kind in the country where you are safely and tightly fastened in a coaster that is tilted 55 degrees and revolves around the 38th floor. Whooooosshhh.

Here's the goings on in the elevator: we were on the 19th floor going to the 38th.That was it, nothing special. And the attendant who came with us suddenly disappeared when we were looking down the elevator/skyscraper. What a douche.

We celebrated survival through this pose.

and this pose.

For this, we just pretended that we went through with it.

also this one.

But these kids actually did walk the Skywalk (not Moonwalk, Skywalk).

This is the 38th floor where we had the Edge Coaster Experience, that's me under a hat.

The idea of showing that lengthy cable bridge was to point out that we were, honestly on the tallest tower hotel in the country (LOL). Yeah, I guess it doesn't work when I explicitly point out what it is for.

this is Ziel, pseudo-watching (we did not have any coins to drop) showing off her long legs (naks!)

We then went down to the 16th floor of Tower 1 for the 4D experience of the movie entitled "The Lost Island", (I know 4D experience is available in Manila or somewhere within a nearer proximity). Still, buying one ticket for the 4th dimension costs 100 pesos for students (US $2) while we got it as a package (almost as if it was a dead giveaway).

And I've learned that the 4th dimension involved the other senses as touch and smell besides sight and hearing. We got spit on by elephants, and drooled over by tigers. eeewww. Oh, and we fell some 100 feet off a cliff. Right there, the four senses and the four dimensions.

This is a not so flattering photo of both of us, but heck!It's 4D.

We asked Kuya to take our photo, he was more than willing and asked us to just pose and pose but I'm no longer putting the other photo(s) since they're practically the same. We were asked to pose but what can we do, we had limited modelling talent since we were looking forward to the next stop.

Lastly, we arrived at the Prana Spa to get our much awaited Sauna and full body massage. Don't get me started with the sauna that almost cooked me alive. It was a first that I would not be too sure to try again. But the bath after was too refreshing for my fats.

After around 40 minutes of sauna we had our full body massage. One word, heavenly. It was one of those times when time runs against you. Case in point, when the masseuse asked me to turn around so she could do my front massage I kinda thought I was still sleeping and never wanted to respond, dang that masseuse I was ready to reach nirvana (and I honestly thought it just lasted 15 minutes but maybe it did since there were no clocks around the vicinity. Ah conspiracy theory number 2).

Here's yours truly at Prana

and Prana

and Ziel with Prana.

and our after Sauna look. Cuhrazzzzy.

That was one of the best products of my mathematical budgeting travel skills Look at the breakdown:

Prana Sauna and full body Spa: 700 pesos (US $14)

Wang Shan Lo buffet: 400 pesos (US $8)

Sky Experience Entrance fee: 200 pesos (US $4)

Sky Experience Edge Coaster ride: 250 pesos (US $5)

4D Experience: 150 pesos (US $3)

That totals to a whopping 1700 pesos (US $34) while we only spent 888 pesos in total add to that the ultimate holistic first time experience: PRICELESS.

-pau