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

Award-winning, iconic, unforgettable. We're staying 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.

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. In related news, someone's having a room party tonight, right?

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.

[OOC: Your suite assignments are here, and as always, NSFW posts go to private journals]

There are a variety of restaurants to choice from without even having to leave the hotel. The Indigo Restaurant, one of the most popular restaurants on the entire island, is open for dinner. Its unparalleled wine program offers Indigo diners Boracay’s best selection of wines by the glass, along with prestigious bottles of leading labels from old and new world wineries. (This is probably only exciting to the chaperones.) Sands Restaurant, with spectacular views of the ocean, perfectly capture the vibe of barefoot elegance that Discovery Shores is known for. Forno Osterio, an Italian restaurant serving lunch and dinner, puts a Sicilian flair to its otherwise eclectic menu.

Because after a day of fun, who doesn't want to do an hour on a treadmill?

Not you, Steve. You don't count.

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. And they're open until 11! Come get a back massage to unwind from the day.

It's time for another amazing sunset! If you haven't gone on a boat trip to see it, enjoy it either on the hotel's pristine section of beachfront (and conveniently close to the Sand Bar and its happy hour specials), up on the Roof Lounge with its own infinity pool, Jacuzzi, and 360 degree view of the entire island, or ignore both of those in favor of the Discovery Shores pool on the ground level. It also has a poolside bar and butlers armed with inflatable toys and snacks. #winning.

[OOC: Put where you are in the header so we can come and join you!]

Boracay, called "The Best Island in the World" in 2012 by Travel + Leisure magazine, is the Philippines' top tourist draw, fuelled by explosive growth and a tsunami of hype. The influx of visitors caused the Philippines government to temporarily close Boracay to tourists for six months. This 'rehabilitation' period was used to restore the island to its former glory and it has since reopened with a limit on the number of daily visitors. The center of the action is dreamy White Beach, a 4km, postcard-perfect stretch of sand lined from one end to the other with hotels, restaurants, bars and dive shops several blocks deep. The beach path is typically awash with visitors. The ocean is full of romantic paraws (an outrigger sailboat) giving rides; colourful parasails fill the air. After perfect sunsets, live music breaks out, and fire dancers twirl their batons.

Edited 2020-03-02 18:10 (UTC)

You could sit on the strip of White Beach that the resort runs, but there are even more fire dancers out in the public areas, so grab a snack from one of the booths selling them and enjoy the show after the fantastic sunset. After the sun goes down, the entire beach turns into an impromptu dance party. Hope you like Bon Jovi and Adele...

This week would be one of opposing forces for Astrid. There was the pool and the beach, and both were appealing and both were harsh, both loaded with memories and thoughts, but that evening, the beach won out, maybe because it was a new place, maybe it was just because of the possibility of just getting lost in crowd, but there was also the sunset, the collection of more drink umbrellas, and some excellent people watching, as she found a spot that tried to be out of the way, just to watch, sometimes to draw, and just...exist.

Ahhhh, and it seemed Shunsui was faced with the one problem that was bound to arise in such a situation, and that was none other than the paradox of choice. When somewhere such as this, with so many options right at one's fingertips, where did you even know where to begin?

Luckily, he had a failproof solution to this issue, and that was simply to let the night (and the beautiful creatures of it) lead the way, by hitting the beach and the show, and finding some lovely little tour guide willing to point him (and hopefully accompany him) in the right direction.

And enjoy some sake in the meantime, naturally.

While the cruise seemed a good way to experience some things, the morning left Tisarwat feeling pretty content to just sticking to the beach right nowand soaking up the local flavor a little. She'd like to go explore some of the rest of the island a little, especially with the party atmosphere in the air, but that morning had also left her not feeling entirely her best, so this was a good pace for now. It was just the beginning of the vacation, after all, and she knew now that she might want to avoid too much having to do with the water if she could help it.

Well, it wasn't exactly a bush party, but when in Boracay...

Wayne ~~needed to complete the set~~ figgured he may as well get in the spirit of the vacation and hand out at the beach that evening, even if he was mostly just doing his thing of standing off to the side a little.

In jeans and flannel.

You could take a shirttucker off the farm, but you couldn't take him out of the tucked shirt.

Aplaya has a pretty great sunset-viewing spot, or you can try out any of the other restaurants on the island. Just let us know where you are.

Leave it to Amaya to wind up at the restaurant that ~~showed up first in a search for meat on sticks~~ that promised excellent pork skewers that did not disappoint and showed an awful lot of promise for other meat-on-stick endeavours throughout the trip.

She was a simple woman, really. And she figured at least pork was a meat that was less likely to get the radio squirrels all up in paws about her eating.

We're starting out serenely--two different snorkeling spots, with a boat ride in between them, dinner and drinks on the beach as you watch the sunset, and then ending up with a back massage at the Dream Spa. You'll even have time to go clubbing after, if you're ~~not old~~ up for it!

Sidon preferred to spend as much time in the water as Zoraly possible, so when an activity being offered lined up with that, he would be all over it, even when certain aspects, like the dinner, weren't quite as appealing. And since he was pretty sure the massueses had never had the opportunity to give a Zora a back massage before, it would be a fun first time experience for both of them!

And he didn't even need the snorkles or the boat ride!

Something called a 'Sunset cruise' was definitely something that did a good job of reminding Prompto that his time of enjoying sunsets would be ending here shortly. Best make the most out of what he had left before returning to Eos, where sunsets were dreaded, and to Insomnia, where the sunsets were burned away by constant light. Everything else that came with it on this little jaunt was just an added bonus, really, because this was pretty sweet.

Man. Sure, he had a few months still, but he was really going to miss this planet...

Boracay is justly famous (or infamous) for its nightlife, so make sure you try out at least one of the night clubs.
[OOC: And tell us which one so we can join you!]

Unlike the last trip, Summer actually was old enough to drink in this country, and she planned on taking full advantage of it.

And she was pretty sure she'd have to at least start her clubbing here at Area 51 based on the name alone.

Look, it wasn't like she was going to get much sleep with who her roommate was, anyway, right? Might as well just party it up!

Edited 2020-03-02 18:37 (UTC)

Well, this Exit was a very different Exit than the hole-in-the-wall dive that Rosa liked to visit when she was in Chicago ~~and the mun was dying to reference~~, but it was still a bar, and she could actually hold her drink and drink it, so she was feeling pretty good right about now.

I'm getting faster at OCDing, at least?

Boracay Island, Monday evening, March 2, 2020

HOTEL

Rooms 3/2

Restaurants 3/2

Fitness Center 3/2

Terra Wellness Spa 3/2

Pools and Beachfront 3/2

BORACAY

Beach 3/2

Re: Beach 3/2

Re: Beach 3/2

Re: Beach 3/2

Re: Beach 3/2

Restaurants 3/2

Gerry's Grill

Sunset Cruise 3/2

Re: Sunset Cruise 3/2

Re: Sunset Cruise 3/2

Nightlife 3/2

Area 51 Secret Party Facility

Exit Bar

OOC