Staycation no. 2: Hotel Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila

A day after we checked out of Crown Towers, we checked in at Hotel Sofitel. We have stayed at this hotel a couple of times already.  Whenever we stay here, it feels like we are not in the city because it's kind of isolated. There are no malls, restaurants or even convenience stores nearby. The bad thing is, you need to eat at the hotel unless you ride a car to go out.

We arrived around 11 am because we plan to eat lunch buffet at the Spiral buffet.  Luckily, the hotel room was immediately available upon check in.

We relaxed a bit then went back downstairs to eat lunch. We ate a lot. We were so full that we did not plan to eat dinner anymore.  Hahaha! After lunch, we went straight back to the room to rest and wait for the food to be digested before going swimming.

A few minutes to 4 o'clock, we went down to swim.  The pool was not full of people unlike the other times we stayed here.  It's because we went on Holy Wednesday this time, when people were not on vacation yet. The water temperaure was good. I wanted to try the water slide because it looked like fun. I climbed up to the top of the slide, but once I sat down to get ready to slide, I panicked. I did not know if I was supposed to sit down or lie down. I lay down and i slid down so fast and plunged into the water.  It was really bad. Water went in my nose and it hurt. I forgot to pinch my nose on the way down. We did not stay at the pool. After about an hour, we went back to the room.

As I said earlier, we did not plan to eat dinner anymore but the kids got hungry so we decided to order food for room service. The kids were impressed when the food arrived in a rolling table, complete with table arrangement.  They said it was so fancy.

The next day, we had buffet breakfast.  Right after, the kids and I decided to go swimming again.  At around 11:30 am we went back to the room to shower and get ready to check out of the hotel. We claimed our welcome drinks, two glasses of mango shake, while waiting for the check out process. We were also given free peanuts and chips together with the drinks. It was a good hotel stay as usual, that's why we often stay here.