The Chi Experience

Day 2 at boracay was more relaxed. To be honest I really had no idea what kind of experience it would be. In my mind I was thinking more of what Mexico was like during the all-inclusive resort. With Mexico it was more an excess of anything. You want beer? Sure no problem here’s a case. Food? Hell yeah, here’s a 24/7 buffet. The experience I went through, I realized the Shangri-La Boracay Hotel is more like an excess of luxury.

I started the day off in the gym at 6am. After passing out, I quickly shotgunned a bottle of water and made my way to the gym. It was a really odd experience.. if you’ve ever done Bikhrams Yoga before, they stick you in this little room like a sauna and you sweat your ass off while you’re doing Yoga posses (I’m sure there more to it..). The only difference between this gym and Bikhrams was that all the doors were open. After about 45 minutes I decided to head back towards the room. Turns out there’s a Korean wedding being held this weekend. Carmen and I noticed there was an excess of Korean people in the hotel and was like what the… very odd… you just don’t think Korean people would hang out in the Philippines a lot. I came back into the hotel room to find Carmen still sleeping away, so I fucked around on the computer a bit, until my stomach started growling. I couldn’t take it anymore so I ordered in room dining..



Breakfast was $40 I think.. fricken worth it. A part of me is thinking “what the hell, this the Philippines… I pay $40 for breakfast in Vancouver!”, but at the same time I remember we’re in the Shangri-La.. oh well good thing I saved up a lot.
After breakfast we take a shuttle into town. On the way there Carmen gave a face like D: “damn so ghetto” look… it’s really surprising the difference 0.5km out of the resort can make… I felt really lucky.. we ended up going into this street market area called d’Mall. There were a lot of shops that lead down towards the beach, and a bunch of little restaurants lining the beach. We ended up eating at this place called Epic which separated Site 1 beach and Site 2 beach. The different sites kind of separate the areas… so Site 1 has all the nicer hotels and Site 2 the lower ones, and it goes down all the way to Site 3.



Luckily Shangri-La Boracay is located past Site 1 on their own private beach. Haha.. we walked around and did a bit of shopping but honestly not very much stuff to buy. I ended up buying a pair of flipflops for $10 but they were womens billabong ones cause none of the mens flipflops would fit me properly  WHATEVS I DON’T CARE THERES HEARTS ALL OVER THEM.

We came back and met the Chief Concierge who hooked us up with a complementary speedboat ride to the resort and back, and we were trying to book para-sailing and the scuba sea-walk. He told us there was a typhoon coming, so we should just try again tomorrow to see how the weather was like..

Typhon you say… hmm.. I guess we should just go check out the Chi spa. I gotta say, HOLY SHIT, I’ve never been so relaxed before.

We paid for a 45minute head and shoulder treatment. I got my but rubbed a bit and all the other parts gone over with the massage… I didn’t realize how fast 45 minutes goes by when you’re in total and utter bliss… Carmen and I were in the same room while we were getting our massages.. she told me afterwards “I heard you snoring -_-.. you didn’t like it did you?” and I was like “haha no.. that was me going AHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhh” while he was working on my back.
Gotta find some time to go back there before we leave and do a foot and hand treatment o god yes. /megusta.



For dinner we went to this clifftop resteraunt in the hotel, which was beside these cabana’s that overlooked the cliff. The cabana’s were basically platforms with a bunch of cushions on them overlooking the sea. Because of the typhoon though, they didn’t want anyone down there. So with sad faces we sat at the bar.. We saw some other people going, psht it’s not raining right now fuck that shit and went down there anyways. We were like -_- damnit… the fuck, and went in to the resteraunt for dinner. Man I was so full… I think half way through the dinner I just wanted to go nap. Haha, but I knew we had to take advantage of everything as we don’t have too too much time here.


Halfway through dinner the lights went out. Like total pitch black, and everyone was WTF. The waiter told us the Shangri-La uses the most electricity on the entire island. It takes 10 seconds for the back-up generators to go up… At the end of dinner, the Food and Beverage Manager came out and told us we get a friends and family discount (thanks to Carmen) so we saved some money on that  I have to say the lobster we ate was the most delicious I’ve ever eaten 
We went out to the bar for more drinks and dancing, and Carmen fell in love with the philippino singer at the bar who sounded like james blunt. I got a bit jelly but that’s ok haha -_- whatever screw that guy. His voice is devine though, motherfucker.
Anyways its time to start day 3,
Later Days!