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A July 2008 trip to Subic Bay by marseilles

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Bathroom at Herbie's Mansion Photo - Herbie's Mansion, Subic Bay, Philippines
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Herbie's Mansion is a little two-star guesthouse along Waterfront Road, in Subic Bay. The two-storey structure has twelve air-conditioned rooms (each with cable TV and hot & cold water), a small verandah where you can eat your free breakfast or order meals, and a tiny bar downstairs that serves drinks. We were first put in room #7, a small double room with a window looking out onto the lot beside us (where construction was ongoing on a new establishment). The water heater, however, was broken, so we asked to be moved to a different room and ended up across the hall in room #11. The rooms on this side of the hotel didn't have windows because they lined a firewall.The charge for their...Read More

Member Rating 3 out of 5 on July 13, 2008

Herbie's Mansion
Waterfront Road
Subic Bay

Kites and sails on the beach  Photo - Subic Bay, Philippines
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This was my first time to attend a windsurfing regatta in Subic. In Caliraya (where my husband usually windsurfs on weekends), most of the windsurfers are campers, so during Caliraya regattas, we're in our campers and tents. In Subic, we lived it up a little more, because most of us were billetted in the resorts along Waterfront Road (except for a few die-hard Calirayans who insisted on sleeping in their campers, in the carpark, haha!). Distance-wise, Caliraya and Subic used to be about the same road distance from Quezon City (in Metro Manila, where we live), but with the new Subic-Clark expressway, Subic is closer ... or at least, it takes less time to get here. The new expressway is gorgeo...Read More

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