Tagaytay is a tourist city so it’s fairly easy to look for accommodations before the wedding. It’s just a matter of choosing the one that will fit our budget. At first, we found this small resort hotel that has a very nice Tagaytay view. We decided to rent the whole place to keep it exclusive for our relatives and some guests. I explained that we would rent the whole place for bridal preparations. I thought I made that clear so I made a deposit which was equal to half of the whole rent. We were happy with the booking until…
A Bad Venue Story..
We visited the place to do an ocular and we were approached by the care taker. He guided us around and while doing so, explained to us the terms of the accommodation. The terms were ok at first, but then he said - read this: everyone who will enter the place will have to pay a fee!!! Yes! E-v-e-r-y-o-n-e, meaning even the makeup artists, photographers, drivers and visiting relatives! That’s stupid! We paid for the use of the WHOLE PLACE! Why would they charge for entrance fees again?! Since that was just an insane policy, we decided to cancel our reservation and have our deposit refunded. We thought that was the end of story. But we were wrong. They said our deposit had been forfeited! What a way to make money… is that even legal, DTI?!
Anyway, after kilometric texts and ear numbing phone calls, it was a good thing that I was able to retrieve our deposit. That was a traumatic experience and we were ready to report the incident at the Tagaytay City Hall! We needed a new option, badly.
Now, here's the GOOD one!
And so our search was on for a new hotel. It didn’t take long for us to find a new one. Several months ago when were scouting for a pre-nup venue, we initially considered the Crosswinds Swiss Luxury Resort.
This resort is Swiss inspired and going inside the property suddenly transports anyone to some Alpine town. The mixing of the colors around the place is so relaxing.
We will be staying in one of their Condotels: the Grand Quartiers. Crosswinds is being developed by Vistaland so I assume this property is owned by the Villars? I hope Crosswinds would erase the bad memories of the White House**. I was happy we had that argument with White House, otherwise we would not have been able to stay in the really awesome Crosswinds.
