fh_trips | Boracay Island, Philippines, Monday, March 2, 2020

Award-winning, iconic, unforgettable. We're spending the week at the luxury resort Discovery Shores Boracay Island. Perfectly positioned in Station 1 of White Beach, experience the powder-soft white sand, fiery sunsets and pulsating nightlife of the world-famous Boracay Island.

Up early!

Students are in one bedroom suites, which include a spacious living area, a nook, a bar, and a separate bedroom with two double sized beds ~~or one king for whichever makes better RP~~. The L-shaped sofa in the living area doubles as a sleeping space for two additional guests for when your room parties have gotten a little too exuberant. The chaperones are in premier one bedroom suites: two story, two bathroom rooms with private Jacuzzis that the students are super duper not invited to try out.

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Breakfast is served at Sands RestaurantSands Restaurant if you didn't breakfast in bed, or you can grab a snack by the pools or out at the beach. Lunchtime provides options at the Indigo Restaurant or Forno Osterio.
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Because at least a few of you will live this week...enjoy the hotel's cardio and strength training equipment and miss that weird old lady from last Spring Break.

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Through specialized services, treatments, and facilities, Terra is the perfect haven for guest to float back to reality at their own pace after the treatment. You have all day to explore their options--maybe try out a Thai foot massage today.

Half the reason to come to Boracay is the amazing white sand beaches. Enjoy the hotel's pristine section of beachfront (conveniently close to the Sand Bar), or go to the pools instead. There's a spot up on the roof infinity pool and Jacuzzi and the main pool on the ground level. That one also has a poolside bar, a kiddie pool, and butlers armed with inflatable toys and snacks. Well, the toys are inflatable. Not the snacks.
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Local dive masters will assist you as you scuba dive and take photographs of beautiful undersea plants and animals, then strap yourself into a parasail and sail above the ocean. It's ~~terrifying~~ so much fun!

You fitness-enjoying weirdos. Mount Luho boasts an altitude of 112 meters, making it the highest point on Boracay Island. The 2 view decks at the top of Mount Luho can easily be reached via cement staircases. Along the way to the summit, you may spot birds, monkeys and a Filipino version of the Tasmanian Devil. The panoramic view from the decks encompasses the beaches of Bulabog, Ilig-Iligan, and Lapuz-Lapuz.

If you've found something else on TripAdvisor you want to be doing!

If you're looking for something a little less hotel-y to eat, the stalls along White Beach have got you covered. Try out Sunny Side Cafe for breakfast, the variety of options inside Streetmarket Boracay, or try your luck at any of the other options around the island.

Boracay Island may be pretty small (7 km in length and less than 2 km wide), but there are no less than 17 beaches and coves of all shapes and sizes. You can head for the popular 4-km-long White Beach, or take a boat to the small and secluded Ilig-Iligan and Tambisaan beaches.

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"Oh, no thank you!" said Sidon cheerfully, holding up a hand and flashing a smile when the scuba gear was brought out. "I'll not be needing any!"

The parasailing part should be interesting, though!

Liam wasn’t generally a shorts and t-shirt kind of guy, but even he could be convinced to forgo his usual preference for being covered as much as possible when the weather was this nice.

He picked up a (non-alcoholic) cocktail from the bar before settling in on one of the lounge chairs to read one of the books he’d loaded on to his Global for just this purpose.

The masseuses at Terra were definitely in for a challenge today, as Amaya figured she'd best take advantage of their services. Her craft depended on her muscles after all! They were just as much a tool as a hammer or an anvil! And you had to take care of your tools!

And they might need to break out some tools for this one, considering Amaya's muscles probably had more knots in them than a macrame convention.

Summer was planning on spending most of her free time during the day (when, you know, not "chaperoning") by the pool or by the beach, soaking up sun and scenery, but that morning, she was sleeping. Despite the very large coffee she was clinging to.

She didn't mean to fall asleep while lounging there, she was hoping the coffee would wake her up, but she was rooming with Amaya, and had just been claimed as the latest unsuspecting victim to Amaya's snoring.

Honestly, she'd be surprised that whe whole hotel wasn't kept up last night, good god, woman!

At least poolside, Summer figured there was a better chance of someone waking her before they headed out to the day's activities.

Well, it was Monday morning, so it shouldn't be too hard to figure out where Wayne might be. Sure, they were on vacation, but all's that meant was just that Wayne wasn't cooking it. Still had to have breakfast! It was tradition!

And a good way to start the day, besides.

Prompto was not a fitness-loving weirdo. He was a slave to fitness, and while he usually took Mkndays to sleep in a little, the excitement of a new place had him up and ready to go. He figured, though, that a hike was a good excuse to avoid his more usual workout, and the photo opportunities? So totally worth it!

Even though a part of Astrid was reluctant, worried that all this sun and sand would be like salt in the wound that was California, she wanted to at least get some sketching in, and went out to enjoy the beach and a little bit of breakfast (and a handful of paper umbrellaz) before really setting off to settle on a spot.

This was going to be a mistake, but Tisarwat didn't have the foresight to realize it yet. She just knew she wanted to be more present and involved in this trip than the last, and was eager to try some new things.

She should really know by now that, for a person from space, she did significantly better when she just kept her feet on land.

But for now, she was just intrigued and a little excited...and very glad she'd found some decent waterproof gloves when investigating proper swimwear yesterday.

Rosa had carefully weighed out the amount of interaction with the kids she was supposedly chaperoning and the most potential for hilarious accidents, and the scuba-parasailing combo won by a landslide.

So she was there. Not admitting how cool it actually was and how she could scuba-parasail the shit out of everyone else, dammit.

Especially now that she could use her hands again.

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The fact that Shunsui was even up before noon might seem like a bit of a miracle...until you realized he'd pretty much just gotten up to relocate up to the roof lounge andi nto the jacuzzi there...to take a nap.

Sure, there were jacuzzis in their rooms, but this was a vacation, there were so many other places to discover for naps (and a much better promise of pleasant interruptions to those naps than back in the room).

Mae wasn't so much fitness-enjoying as restless and excitable. Bouncing her way up endless cement staircases just made this fantastical resort vacation feel a little bit like home.

Plus, you know, there was the glory of being up really really high. She was always a fan of that.

Boracay Island, Philippines, Monday, March 2, 2020

HOTEL

BORACAY

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Rooms

Restaurants 3/2

Fitness Center 3/2

Terra Wellness Spa 3/2

Pools and Beachfront 3/2

Activities 3/2

Parasailing and Scuba Two-Hour Trip

Climbing Mount Luho

Mod Your Fun!

Food

Beaches

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Beachfront

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Main Pool

Sands Restaurant

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Sunny Side Cafe

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Roof Lounge

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