Short Detours

    If you go on a working holiday/vacation with your family in Baguio City, you will need a place where your kids can be preoccupied while you work. There aren't that many hotels in Baguio who offer a play place for kids. In fact I have not seen one except Country Club that offers a day care service. But at Azalea, the play place is free. It is a thoughtful addition to vacationing families. :-)   You can do your work at the Tradisyon Restaurant sipping coffee while keeping watch of them play. For a family vacation, I think that is one of the strongest selling point of the hotel.  While most of the deluxe rooms have veranda's, you may be given one without. You should request for it when booking. If you want to maximize your experience, book a room located at the front side of the hotel. It has better views than the back and at the same time you can also watch out for your kids play at the play place should you choose to work in the veranda....

It's Panagbenga once again and blooming flowers dancing with the soft breeze are imitated by the street dancers as they follow the rhythm of the Panagbenga hymn created by Dean Macario Fronda. Graduating from its teens, Baguio's flower festival continue to attract visitors in spite of the issues faced by the organizers and the public officials. When the festival was conceptualize, it was to help Baguio rise up from the devastation of the earthquake. It was to help the tourism, which was one of Baguio's main industry, to rise again. It's likened to a flower that blooms again after slumbering during the winter, or in Baguio's case, the rainy season. It was also aimed to help agriculture most especially the cut flower industry that was the major product of nearby municipalities like La Trinidad. That was one of the reasons also why Adivay was originally scheduled on February so that the province of Benguet will also benefit from the spill over of the...