Boracay Regency surges to over 600 rooms, suites
The Boracay Regency Group has further firmed up its distinction as the biggest luxury hotel group in the country’s most famous island destination.
This developed as the group, owner of the 285-room Boracay Regency Beach Resort, acquired the nearby 201-room Seraph Hotel even while completing the construction of the 120-room Regency Lagoon Resort as part of its planned expansion for 2009, thus bringing total capacity to over 600 rooms and suites.
However, the group’s acquisition of the Seraph Hotel has pushed the scheduled opening of the Regency Lagoon Resort from this December to April next year.
“The postponement will enable us to put everything in order since we suddenly have two new large facilities to attend to at the same time,” said Boracay Regency chairman and president Henry Chusuey.
“Seraph Hotel will then be renamed Boracay Garden Hotel, while the other with a 1,200-square-meter pool will be named Regency Lagoon Resort as planned,” Chusuey added.
Another 150 employees will be hired for Boracay Garden Hotel and 250 for the Regency Lagoon Resort in addition to Boracay Regency Resort’s current workforce of 550. This will bring the number of personnel to nearly a thousand.
“This (number of personnel) makes Boracay Regency certainly the biggest employer on the island,” Chusuey said.
“Our huge workforce is an assurance that guests receive the highest possible quality of service,” said Boracay Regency resort manager Dindo Miguel Martin Salazar.
“In the housekeeping department, for example, we always have a standby crew to immediately attend to urgent and unexpected requests of guests to make up their rooms,” Salazar said.
Nevertheless, Boracay Regency’s unusually large manpower contingent is very visible all over the place, from the airport to the land and sea transfers and in and around the hotel complex itself, all eager to assist guests.
The hotel has its own speedboats to ferry guests comfortably from Caticlan in just 10 minutes and vans to bring them from the island’s docking area to the biggest air-conditioned lobby on the island, from where they are then ushered into their respective elegant and luxurious rooms and suites.
The hotel has four types of guest rooms — superior, deluxe, premier and family. But there are two types of premier rooms — one with direct access to the pool and another without.
The hotel also has four types of suites — junior, executive, honeymoon and royal/presidential. Junior suites are also further classified into those with access to the pool and those without. There are actually three massive, crystalline swimming pools, one each for the north and main wings at the beachfront and another at the garden wing.
Located at the middle of the island’s four-kilometer white sand beach, Boracay Regency has the longest frontage of 125 meters that visibly dominates the landscape and makes practically everything accessible in just a short walk away.
Boracay Regency also has a grand ballroom, function rooms, fitness facilities, VIP lounge, business center, convenience store, and eight bars and restaurants that include a sunken garden pool bar.
The hotel’s Kai Regency Spa has separate Asian-inspired rooms for various health and wellness treatments, including Thai massage.
The hotel provides services such as airport transfer, laundry, island-activity booking, foreign exchange, uninterrupted water and power supply, and 24-hour security, among others
The hotel is surrounded by many aqua sports shops, shopping areas, entertainment establishments, and many other facilities that include even a golf course, helipads for chopper tours, a hospital, wet market, Internet cafés, and business offices, making it a truly complete destination for tourists from all over the world.
Such prime location, elegant amenities and excellent service have earned for Boracay Regency the first “triple A” rating among the hotels at the beachfront of the island during its first year in 1998 when it started out with only 43 luxury rooms. “Triple A” is the highest rating given by the Department of Tourism to deserving hotels in the resort category.
No wonder there are chartered flights to Kalibo from the cities of Incheon in Korea, Taipei in
This developed as the group, owner of the 285-room Boracay Regency Beach Resort, acquired the nearby 201-room Seraph Hotel even while completing the construction of the 120-room Regency Lagoon Resort as part of its planned expansion for 2009, thus bringing total capacity to over 600 rooms and suites.
However, the group’s acquisition of the Seraph Hotel has pushed the scheduled opening of the Regency Lagoon Resort from this December to April next year.
“The postponement will enable us to put everything in order since we suddenly have two new large facilities to attend to at the same time,” said Boracay Regency chairman and president Henry Chusuey.
“Seraph Hotel will then be renamed Boracay Garden Hotel, while the other with a 1,200-square-meter pool will be named Regency Lagoon Resort as planned,” Chusuey added.
Another 150 employees will be hired for Boracay Garden Hotel and 250 for the Regency Lagoon Resort in addition to Boracay Regency Resort’s current workforce of 550. This will bring the number of personnel to nearly a thousand.
“This (number of personnel) makes Boracay Regency certainly the biggest employer on the island,” Chusuey said.
“Our huge workforce is an assurance that guests receive the highest possible quality of service,” said Boracay Regency resort manager Dindo Miguel Martin Salazar.
“In the housekeeping department, for example, we always have a standby crew to immediately attend to urgent and unexpected requests of guests to make up their rooms,” Salazar said.
Nevertheless, Boracay Regency’s unusually large manpower contingent is very visible all over the place, from the airport to the land and sea transfers and in and around the hotel complex itself, all eager to assist guests.
The hotel has its own speedboats to ferry guests comfortably from Caticlan in just 10 minutes and vans to bring them from the island’s docking area to the biggest air-conditioned lobby on the island, from where they are then ushered into their respective elegant and luxurious rooms and suites.
The hotel has four types of guest rooms — superior, deluxe, premier and family. But there are two types of premier rooms — one with direct access to the pool and another without.
The hotel also has four types of suites — junior, executive, honeymoon and royal/presidential. Junior suites are also further classified into those with access to the pool and those without. There are actually three massive, crystalline swimming pools, one each for the north and main wings at the beachfront and another at the garden wing.
Located at the middle of the island’s four-kilometer white sand beach, Boracay Regency has the longest frontage of 125 meters that visibly dominates the landscape and makes practically everything accessible in just a short walk away.
Boracay Regency also has a grand ballroom, function rooms, fitness facilities, VIP lounge, business center, convenience store, and eight bars and restaurants that include a sunken garden pool bar.
The hotel’s Kai Regency Spa has separate Asian-inspired rooms for various health and wellness treatments, including Thai massage.
The hotel provides services such as airport transfer, laundry, island-activity booking, foreign exchange, uninterrupted water and power supply, and 24-hour security, among others
The hotel is surrounded by many aqua sports shops, shopping areas, entertainment establishments, and many other facilities that include even a golf course, helipads for chopper tours, a hospital, wet market, Internet cafés, and business offices, making it a truly complete destination for tourists from all over the world.
Such prime location, elegant amenities and excellent service have earned for Boracay Regency the first “triple A” rating among the hotels at the beachfront of the island during its first year in 1998 when it started out with only 43 luxury rooms. “Triple A” is the highest rating given by the Department of Tourism to deserving hotels in the resort category.
No wonder there are chartered flights to Kalibo from the cities of Incheon in Korea, Taipei in
Taiwan, and Shanghai and Guangzhou in China, all bringing in volumes of tourists to Boracay Regency.
The longest staying foreign guests are Russians, Australians, Canadians and British, but many guests also come from companies in Manila, Cebu and Davao.
“They take advantage of the hotel’s many facilities that cater to corporate events like marketing conventions, industry meetings and conferences, product workshops and seminars, and team-building activities, among many others,” said banquet and events manager Michelle Joven Molano.
“Our modern three-story convention center is the biggest on the island and can accommodate 1,000 guests. It also has six meeting rooms for various functions, all equipped with the latest audio-visual amenities, Wi-Fi high-speed Internet services, and even sound-proof facilities for breakout sessions,” Molano added.
For reservations or inquiries, call Boracay Regency’s Manila office at (632) 523-1234, e-mail at rsvn@boracayregency.com or visit www.boracayregency.com. The Philippine Star
The longest staying foreign guests are Russians, Australians, Canadians and British, but many guests also come from companies in Manila, Cebu and Davao.
“They take advantage of the hotel’s many facilities that cater to corporate events like marketing conventions, industry meetings and conferences, product workshops and seminars, and team-building activities, among many others,” said banquet and events manager Michelle Joven Molano.
“Our modern three-story convention center is the biggest on the island and can accommodate 1,000 guests. It also has six meeting rooms for various functions, all equipped with the latest audio-visual amenities, Wi-Fi high-speed Internet services, and even sound-proof facilities for breakout sessions,” Molano added.
For reservations or inquiries, call Boracay Regency’s Manila office at (632) 523-1234, e-mail at rsvn@boracayregency.com or visit www.boracayregency.com. The Philippine Star
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