Laiya Beach Resorts in San Juan, Batangas

We were supposed to book a room or cottage at the Sigayan Bay Beach Resort but for very strange reasons, the contact persons at that resort refused to answer our calls and text messages (perhaps their inner psychics sensed we’re serials killers and they won’t allow us within their shores) so we just booked one of the biggest rooms at Triple G Beach resort.

Riding a regular passenger jeep which we contracted from one of my wife’s relatives living nearby, we left our meeting place in Tagaytay at 10:30 in the morning of March 28. Two hours and a half later, everyone (especially the most excited ones who didn’t had breakfast before leaving) was so hungry so we decided to stop at the random space along the road for lunch. The random space happened to be under a cotton tree held captive by political posters of, what else, politicians.

After lunch, we were back on the road (like we really left the road) to find the beach resort. One more hour, a rough road and fifteen annoyed and impatient souls later, we passed by a public cemetery and reach what seemed to be a dead end. Someone had to convince himself/herself that we were lost and badly needed to ask for directions. Thankfully, an almost willing volunteer told us we’re more that one kilometer past our destination so we had to go back and eat more dirt. Finally we found what we were looking for.

Thanks to the resorts miniature sign board, we already saw that cluster of signboards but still had to eat dirt because Triple G’s was just too small to be noticed. So here’s a note – if you’ll come here in the near future, look for the Sitio Magalang sign. That will lead you to a cluster of beach resorts in Laiya, San Juan, Batangas.

The entry road to Triple G beach resort is very very narrow. You’ll have to maneuver your jeep carefully and don’t let your ears outside the windows if you don’t want them amputated.

That narrow road will lead to the Triple G beach resorts entrance (the photo was taken from the exit side)

Which will lead you to the rooms here…

Which will lead you to the rooms here…

and here…

to here…

and finally, to here.

There already were too many people to think that we’ve only been here a week before holy week. Imagine how much more people would be here during the holy week.

I believe the whole stretch of the beach is called the Sigayan Bay. According to the Triple G Beach Resort’s website:

TRIPLE G. is at the 7 kilometers long sandy beach of Laiya in the Sigayan Bay, close to the Verde Island passage. You can recover, sunbathes, swims and snorkels at the easily falling beach wonderfully. At our beach, we have a volleyball-court for our sporty guests and in the picnic area, you can test your voice with Karaoke. It is possibly to organize boat-trips to the neighboring islands and some day trips for our visitors.

The colored flags along the shore, somehow, mark each beach resort’s territories. Although, no one’s being prevented to go beyond their corresponding beach resort’s shorelines. In fact, I visited all of them to take pictures.

These photos are from the Laiya White Cove beach resort:

Based from the view from the shores, I will say that Laiya White Cove beach resort has the best facilities among the beach resorts in that stretch of white sands. If you want to book a room at their resort, you may contact their staff through the following:

Manila Office: Tel. No. (02) 925-2562, (02) 926-9348, (02) 994-7392, (02) 871-1235 TelFax: (02) 425-0161 Mobile: 09212707660, 09235966733, 09052854047.

Or email them at laiyawhitecove@yahoo.com

These photos are from the Kabayan Beach Resort (formerly Laplaya Beach Resort):

According to my researcher (a.k.a. my wife), there’s a swimming pool and an aviary inside the resort. I didn’t see any pool because I wasn’t able to penetrate (spy?) their inner facilities but the aviary was visible from the Triple G beach resort.

If you want to check if there really is a swimming pool or wanted to see the birds in the aviary, you may reach Kabayan Beach Resort management through phone at (02) 709-1470, (02) 709-0115, (0917) 6279357, (0917) 8963312 or email them at kabayanbeachresort@yahoo.com.

Okay, back to where we stayed, Triple G beach resort may not have the best beach resort facilities as compare to that of White Cove and Kabayan beach resorts but they offer the lowest rates (as compared to the other two, I wasn’t able to check the others). If you prioritize beach amenities, book your rooms at either White Cove or Kabayan but if you only want a decent place to stay, dine and keep your things secured while you bask in the sun or swim in the sea, book your rooms at Triple G beach resort.

Now tell me, why would you go to the beach? Is it A: to stay inside the best rooms in the universe; B: swim in a swimming pool; or C: swim in seawater and build sand castles? If you’re a moron, choose A or B but as for me and my daughter Tifa, the answer can only be the letter C: swim in the sea, build or destroy other beach-goers’ sand castles and sun-burn our skin in perfection. In fact, as soon as we put of things in our rented room, we changed immediately into our beach attires and started exploiting whatever the sea and the shores has to offer. These are what Tifa and I did in the water until sun down of day 1:

If in the land Tifa and I would play horse-horse, in the water we play seahorse-seahorse.

We caught this baby octopus which we placed inside my starbucks tumbler where it died a few hours after.

And as soon as Tifa woke up on day 2, she demanded that we go to the beach immediately. So off we went to swim and play in the sands.

What I really liked about Laiya beach is the big potion of shallow water. Or whatever it should be called. Ten or twenty meters from the shore, Tifa can stay in the water without having to take her feet off the sands. You know what I mean? If you can’t figure out what I’m trying to say, try checking the photo below.

Ten to twenty meters from the shore, the water is barely three-feet high. It means there are more fine sand under the water and the kids could still play without having to each sands that goes with every wave. Compared to the beach in Calayo, Batangas, the shallow water is only a few meters away from the shore and even in deeper portion, you could still feel the sands swimming with the waves. Also, in Calayo, the water level would suddenly become deep so there’s a big risk of the kids getting drowned even with proper adult supervision.

If you want to book a room at TRIPLE G Beach Resort in Laiya, San Juan, Batangas, you may reach their staff at 09159001570 and 639214667134 or email them at gemma@triple-g-resort.com

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