Name: By the Sea Resort Hotel
Address: #99 National Highway, Barretto, Olongapo City, Baretto, Baretto, Baretto, 2200, Philippines
Rating: 6

24-hour reception

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Subic Bay International Airport

Diosdado Macapagal International (Clark International)

By the Sea Resort Hotel

Baretto

New and improved rooms and restaurant. I always stay here. The staff is friendly and pleasant. The pool is secluded and relaxing. Only steps away from the beach. Lots of bars within walking distance. You can find local cuisine as well as American food nearby.

Btw stay at BTS

No blanket for the bed just one single sheet, had to wait till 8am because the only person who can give me a blanket is the housekeeper and now they want to charge extra money.
The place is a dump cockroaches all over bathroom and no safe in room and tv has on and off connection.
The breakfast is a joke avoid, ordered omelette and came and was pitiful sight with slightly half warmed toasted bread with no butter.

There are much better hotels to stay at.

No Blanket cockroaches all over bathroom

Advice to visitors...Stay at the new building its better 

Staff are good

I am a little bit concerned about how they sanitize the room since they dont use disenffectants in cleaning. They just wash toilets with water and clean without dissenfecting

Ok but not that good

It's a relatively new facility (in 2020), so it's in good condition. (End of February pretty quiet) Essentially clean. Rooms with individual air conditioning (but loud). Hot water in the shower. Door lock at the bathroom door is functional. Ordinary pool area. In our two rooms, toilet sinks are installed incorrectly, so every time water starts running out, with the result that the floor is always wet and black footprints are immediately distributed throughout the room.

Common Philippine standard

Been here twice and both times I was disappointed. Although beachside, the dark grey sand doesn't look very clean or inviting. First time we were here, the food servings were so small, each viand seemed like measured by teaspoons. The last visit, at least 5 of us were stricken down by tummyaches, vomiting and diarrhea. Wont recommend this unless there's nowhere else to stay and if you are simply interested in the red light district.

For Lack of a Better Option

It was a family room accomodation.  Beachfront location, clean and huge room with 1 queen size bed, 1double bed on the floor ( no bed frame). With mini ref, no coffee/tea maker, no oven.
With 4 complimentary bottled water, toiletries and 2 free breakfast. Toilet with water heater and bidet but no cleaning rags in front door and toilet. Room price a bit expensive for me coz its lacking some items for a hotel room.
They have restaurant but a bit pricey, though food was good. There are many eateries outside the establishment, 7-11 and Divimart supermarket are nearby the location.
Swimming pool-small and dirty.  We opted to swim in the beach, which is clean and clear.
Hotel and restaurant staff- all accomodating.
Clean surroundings, safe and very peaceful at night.

Holiday getaway

The resort have improved from previous years because of the new building and rooms are very promising. The room rate is somehow average and the resto meal prices are reasonable. The shore was clean and neat. There is a good space for car parking.

There are still some renovation ongoing and i hope they continue to improve especially their service in the future.

Here are some of the few things we observed and i hope they improve more.
1. Toiletries is somehow lacking.
2. No floor mat or rag which cause toilet or room to flood when wet.
3. No kettle for hot water. 
4. No complimentary coffee or tea.
5. Majority of the towels are dated. I hope they have matresses compare to the thin linen.
6. No elevator. It will be a burden for old peeps if you are located at the 3rd floor.
7. No rack to hang wet clothes or at least a toilet wire hanger.
8. Resto breakfast is limited 
9. Food serving need to improve.
10. No visible life guard.
11. No one offer or even assisted for our luggages when we arrived and checked out. I hope service crew smile sometimes.

Overall, the hotel at their current rate is decent and fair. We will continue to come to this place because the location is good and accessible to many options. Im hoping they made some adjustment because they are just few improvements away to deserve a five point rating.



Nice promising resort near Subic Freeport.

Would quickly have the understanding on the difference between being greedy and having a business. The owner would obviously care less about your experience since you're already checked in (oooops! Too late.) paid for a room enough for 4 persons, ended up with a double sized bed along with a single floor mattress; i had to basically accommodate my family first and ended up sleeping in the car due to shortage. To add, i had to prep the floor mattress by myself since the old guy who worked there just gave and left me with it. Breakfast came, was on a good mood since bfast was included but the place wont disappoint with disappointments, (lol), had to sit, wait, and be ignored for over an hour. Whats more frustrating and sad is, i got skipped as i see new visitors coming in, and not to rain down on guests esp our good foreign friends but, its just sad as filipinos have this mentality of ignoring their own once they see them foreigners coming. Got this negative profiling attitude. Point is, beach area is not that well taken care of, room is not worth it, food is edible at least, and place is terribly understaffed. Their staff somehow managed to compensate on all the inadequacies of the resort. Sad; im not going in for the third time.

Book at your own risk.

pros
1. easy to locate beside the highway
2. beach front with pool
3. excellent wifi
4. free breakfast
5. clean spacious room (new building)
6. parking space is huge
7. nice accommodating staff.. all smiles from front desk, wait staff, housekeeping and etc. 

cons.
1. beach front is clean but neighboring resorts and residences is dirty
2. if its low tide u can reach an area of the beach that has rocks and metal that can injure u
3. the pool has murky water dont know if they clean it regularly
4. check the prices
5. it can get noisy at night due to loud bar music from other establishment and the highway

Nice hotel

We had our wedding day in this hotel in May 2019. What could I say to those who are considering this venue? We signed the contract in advance (in more than 10 months before the event) for the total package and paid more than a quarter million in peso. So,  what did we get on our special day?

Despite that the manager was reminded in advance that we need a judge, PRIEST (minister) arrived instead of the judge on the wedding day. As a result, we were not even sure if the wedding will take place or not. Manager fixed her mistake and found a judge after few hours, but needless to say what stress we had to experience.
Wedding coordinator (same manager) was not there to help with the wedding coordination (she was too busy fixing the issue with the judge probably?). As the result, the bride and guests didn’t know what to do, where to go, pictorial was hectic, the bride was not aware that ceremony has already started and she was almost late, rings were nearly lost. That only added to the stress and tiredness. 
Ceremony itself was darkened by the lack of proper technical means. Music for the ceremony was played via the CELL PHONE… to make it louder they simply put a microphone next to it. Microphones themselves were barely working. So, the judge had to start without the mic and the most of the guests were not able to hear the speech of the judge. Fortunately, they were able to fix microphones before we said our vows, so, at least, guests could hear “I do” properly. 
Wedding MC (same manager again) did not deliver. Wedding reception had a proper opening, but after we cut the wedding cake, MC disappeared and never came back. There was no proper closure for the reception. Our guests were left wandering – if it is the end already or not yet? They forgot to add special effects (bubbles) even it was metioned in the contract. 
Because of the mistake with the judge, marriage certificate was released much later, that affected our honeymoon, as we had to go back to Olongopo to fix it. Later we also noticed that because of the all the hurry and rushing they made a mistake in the wedding certificate that needs a correction. 
If we talk about food, in my opinion the quality below average. Spoon and forks needs urgent replacement, as they look pretty old. General attitude of the personnel is not welcoming, everything is done in a reluctant manner (with a few exceptions). That also includes managers who were not able to communicate properly. My emails were ignored or replied only after 2-3 weeks. Some waiters were extremely rude to our guests. 
As a conclusion. The wedding was not a complete fail, BUT it was very-very near to it. I would not recommend anyone to experience this. If you like the locations of this venue, please make sure you have your own food, your own MC, your own coordinator. Do not rely on this hotel, they  will only remember when its time to pay the bill.

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