My Trip Up North (second of 5 parts)

The Hotel was called Sea & Sky Hotel & Restaurant.  It is an old hotel, with the typical design of hotels constructed in the late 70s and early 80s.  It had an old-fashioned restaurant, with stained tablecloths and curtains just beyond the reception lobby and a rectangle-shaped swimming pool at the basement.  Cleaned regularly with a high concentration of chlorine, no less.

What I liked about the hotel was the family room they gave us.  It had two queen-size beds each with a roll-away cushion underneath it.  There was enough space to do the tango in and my brother's two small kids made full use of it by sprawling out while watching TV.  There was a terrace which afforded us a fantastic view of the La Union Bay and sunset.  Lastly, it had a bathroom fitted with a marble bathtub, and whose bath area also looked out onto the bay.  One could see the efforts of the hotel management to modernize by covering the old concrete walls with tiles.

That night, we had dinner at the downstairs restaurant.  Having psyched myself to the small proportions as seen in Manila restaurants, I kinda got carried away with ordering and we ended up with one dish too many.  We had fried chicken, sinigang na baboy, pinakbet, mushroom soup and pancit guisado.  Anyway, it was alright with the restaurant for us to bring the pancit upstairs, so that we could have it for breakfast.

 So after staying there one night, we were on our way to Vigan, Ilocos Sur.