Maryland Beach Resort, Nasugbu, Batangas

We finally had our much-awaited Team Building last January 6-7, 2015 at Maryland Beach Resort in Nasugbu, Batangas. We originally planned for this team building last December but we postponed it due to typhoon Ruby, which had its eye on Batangas, on the supposed day of our team building in December.

After our shift last Tuesday (4AM-1PM), we waited for our van, which arrived around 4PM, and went to Nasugbu, Batangas. I was half-asleep the whole trip, but was aware that we missed our turn at Sta. Rosa Exit but managed to be on-track. We passed by Tagaytay City and finally arrived at Maryland Beach Resort in Nasugbu around 7 or 8PM. Access to the beachfront was already closed by the time we arrived at the venue but their main swimming pool is open for us.

Our team mates brought food (I guess from Nasugbu Public Market) and we had our dinner of lechong manok. After the festive dinner, we dipped in the pool, played Charades, and had a drinking session afterwards. We had a fun game while drinking and I ended up being totally drunk. I slept around 1 or 2AM and woke up the next morning around 7 AM.

The beachfront was amazing and has nice, fine, black sand. It was so fine that we can go to the water without getting our feet hurt. No corals or any living marine life – just the ocean and the fine, black, sand. I was surprised that the temperature was not freezing cold – it was warm in the ocean and the sun’s ray doesn’t hurt much.

Maryland Beach Resort is a nice place, although the shower room and the comfort room have a lot to improve. We got two rooms – and it’s spacious with its own toilet and bath. I don’t know how much exactly our team leader paid for these two rooms but it’s close to P6,000. It’s value for money I believe since we stayed here for 24 hours. The kitchen and dining area is spacious and we’re lucky that the resort is not fully-booked during our stay. Unfortunately, there is no videoke machine available (I guess they have a strong restriction on it).

It was a nice team building. I enjoyed it a lot. If given the chance to be back at the beach this summer in Batangas, we’ll probably choose Maryland Beach Resort again.

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Cattleya Resort (Dominique), Antipolo City

Cattleya Resort is located at Sitio Ibabaw, Barangay San Roque, Antipolo City. It’s like a private subdivision with several pools. We had our team building here last July 21-22, 2014 (overnight) and it’s a nice place.

The pool area that we got is named Dominique and the main selling point of this resort is the fabulous view of the nearby cities of Pasig, Quezon and Marikina. Dominique has a “kubo”, two smaller “kubo”, shower room and toilet, a kitchen and grilling area, and the main dining/videoke area. It also has a small gazebo, seesaw and swing, and of course, a nice pool area with an outdoor tub.

Unfortunately, Dominique is available only for 12 hour duration (until 7am the following day) although we are allowed to come as early as 5:00 pm the previous day. The only downside to this resort (aside from the time) is the lack of sleeping areas. I guess, they really intend to keep the guest awake the entire 12 hours. Good thing there were 4 beds (generally used for sunbathing) that we used to sleep.

From Pasig, I rode a jeep to Tanay passing by Antipolo. From Ligaya in Pasig, it’s around P22 to Unciano Hospital (Circumferential Road) in Antipolo City. There’s a tricycle station that took me to Cattleya Resort for P15. We’re 4 people in the tricycle so if you’re going solo, it will be P60. I walked around 100 meters to Cattleya Resort and just to the right of the gate is the Dominique Pool Area.

The water of the pool could be very cold since this is on top of a mountain and it could be foggy during the morning. I visited their Facebook page after our team building and they have a discount in August and September. I guess those are their off-peak months. The price we paid is P7,500 and that includes the overnight use of the videoke.

Having tried Pansol, Laguna for overnight swimming, I would still prefer Pansol for overnight team buildings. Cattleya Resort’s advantage is that it’s near Manila (around an hour or two depending on traffic). The view is also great. The price could also be pricey for 12-hour duration.

The signage to Cattleya Resort.

Some of the houses you’ll passed by as you go to Cattleya Resort, Antipolo City.

One of the numerous gazebo of Cattleya Resort. To the right of this gazebo is Dominique.

View of Manila.

The pool (Dominique)

More views of Manila

The two smaller “kubo” of Dominique.

Capiz shells were used for the lanterns

The pool (viewed from the elevated portion of Dominique where the kubo are located.

Is this considered as a gazebo?

The pool was swarmed with “gamu-gamu” around 6-7pm. Good thing the pool attendant cleaned it before we swam.

Although it said that the use of the videoke is up to 12 midnight, we were able to use the videoke until we left at 7am the following day.

There’s a half-court at the entrance of Dominique.

I love the use of Capiz shells in their lanterns

The kitchen and grilling area of Dominique, Cattleya Resort.

A foggy morning when we left Cattleya Resort.

The two smaller kubo

This kubo is the only sleeping quarters Dominique has, which sucks. Most of the resorts I’ve visited in my previous team buildings has 2 or more rooms for sleeping.

BuzzNet Tags: Dominique,Cattleya Resort,Antipolo City