Travel and Lovelife: 2014

If you want to process NSO certificates, such as Birth, Marriage and Death, you may get it from NSO office located at the ground floor of Gaisano South Building, Colon Street. You may also process it to a Travel Agency but be aware of the service charge. Few of the travel agencies I visited in Lapu-Lapu City were the Wow Travel located at ground floor of Gaisano Island Mall, and the travel agencies in Marina Mall. It costs 500 pesos for NSO Birth. I haven't ask for the Marriage and Death. You'll get it for about 3-6 days after you gave your requirements. It's quite long to wait if you're in a hurry and expensive but the good thing is it is hassle-free. By the way, Cebu Normal University (CNU), no longer cater the processing of NSO Birth. I processed my NSO Birth in CNU before.

If you're out of budget and want the quickest way to get it, you go to the nearest NSO office in your City or Province. Most of the people when asked about the perfect time to visit the NSO office in Cebu City, they would say that better process it early morning like on or before 6 am to be sure that you'll not fall in a long line. But in my case, I went there at around 11:30 am because I visited first those mentioned travel agencies. For me, the line was just normal. Only few people were there to process. The first thing you must do is to get a form of Birth/ Marriage/ Death. Fill-out the form you want to process. After that, get a priority number at window 1 or window 2. Don't forget to bring your ID/ ID's. You will be needing it when getting the priority number and when claiming it. Someone will announce to which teller you will pay the 140 pesos for the NSO Birth. It is much affordable compared to the 500 pesos. Right? Hehe.. After paying the said amount which corresponds to the NSO certificate you want to process, you will claim it to the assigned schedules depending on the time you were able to process it. In my case, I was able to claim it an hour after. Very quick!

I processed my NSO Birth last December 3, 2014.

I attached 2 pictures regarding of the steps, payment and schedules.

I hope you found this information helpful.

---Agus Hotel---

How to get there:

From the airport, you can ride a taxi going there for a hassle-free. But if you want a bit adventure, you may ride a jeepney going to tamiya terminal. From the terminal, ride a motorcyle going to Gaisano Grand Mall. If there are motorcyles who will go until agus road, much better since you don't need to ride another motorcyle. If there's none, then ride another motorcyle going to agus road all the way to AGUS HOTEL. Once you're already there in the agus road, there's a big sign "AGUS HOTEL" from the left side. To make sure you'll not get lost, you may ask someone to give the exact direction. Be sure to ask 2 to 3 persons for you not to be fooled.

Details:

It was February 25, 2014 when we (my family) decided to celebrate my brothers' 24th birthday at Agus Hotel. We had an easy access upon going there since we have our own car. The moment we arrived, someone went to us to ask if we will be having a day use. And we said yes, and he asked us about the payment. So, we paid immediately. He said to us, he will just give the receipt later. Few minutes later, I realized that it was a tricky strategy. What if, they will say that they haven't received any payment yet well in fact we did already? So, I looked for the guy whom I gave the money and asked for the receipt. I waited for about 5-10 minutes I think because he has to go inside the hotel to get it. After that minutes, I got the receipt.

The place was nice. You're like having a day-use in a resort. The pool was big enough for us because when we went there, it's like we rent the entire pool privately. It was only our family, a teen barkadas composed of 5 persons, and a family who is preparing an afternoon birthday party on the other side of the pool which was not started until we got home by around 4:30pm. My family enjoyed a lot. What if many will be interested and want to come here? Do they have limitations to the number of occupancy?

Needs Improvement:
- For me one thing that is really important when it comes to this type of business is the Shower Room / Toilet. Yes, they have a toilet near the hotel but it seemed not usuable because the door knob has rust and cannot be locked. Too dark when you closed the door because there's no fluorescent lamp or even light bulb to give some light. Though they have an area near the pool which has shower room for females and males but not usuable because it wasn't maintained. They don't let the guests used it anymore. Maybe they have lacked of budget for the maintenance.

- Cottages: A bit rustic. There were parts of the cottages that were damaged.

- Restaurant/ Small Store: Before, inside the cave-like structure foods were present there to cater the needs of the guests. They could buy foods there before. I haven't asked the staff there why they stop it. What if guests would want to buy something? Do they have to go outside just to buy their needs?

- Some parts of the pool is unclean. There's some bubbles and fallen dry leaves. I think, during the time when we had swimming, the water was unclean. I wondered how many times per week do they change the water on the pool?

- They must have an area or a booth so that guests could determine easily where could they give the payment for the day-use.

Entrance Fee: Php 150.00 (4 years old above)

: Free of charge (3 years old below)
Cottages: Php 300.00
Php 500.00
Php 800.00

You may bring foods and drinks as many as you want: no corkage fee
Open: 7:00 am - 9:00 pm
For inquiries and reservations: please call their hotline no. : 516-7282 / 236-9013
Room Rates:
Superior Room - Php 2,750.00
Deluxe Room - Php 3,250.00
Semi-Suite Room - Php 5,000.00
Agus-Suite Room - Php 6,000.00