The JRJF Hotel near Tagum Terminal

Overall stay was good.

Lift was not working and it was difficult to carry our luggage upstairs.

The distance from hotel to terminal is very convenient

No extra tables and chairs for standard family room

Room spacious.

Bit stinks in the room where i stayed. 3 times i changed room. Blocked toilet. Not working the warm water shower. Bit dissappoint.

It was an overall good experience. Hotel was very clean and comfortable. The only issue was that they made us pay 1000 php for two bed sheets that had been made dirty with ice-cream from small children. They could be easily washed off as ice-cream does not stain. Also a bed sheet in Philippines cost around 250 php so we paid twice the cost of it.

The hotel was close to the public market and the price was quite low. The room was a decent size for the money. The staff were friendly and accommodating for the most part. There was hot water.

The property was situated on a road with a number of squatters living across the road and little kids running around on the road. There was a LOT of garbage around the area. The hotel property wasn’t too bad but there were quite a number of rats running around outside the building. There were also many homeless/squatters hanging around in the alley making noise as well as some sort of industry that started early in the morning. Noise is to be expected in the city but for us it was a bit much. There was a shortage of parking so we had to park in the alley several times which was quite dirty and out of sight of the security guard who was sound asleep numerous times during our stay. As well, the elevator was not working but they did carry our luggage up the stairs for us. As far as the room itself, there was no fitted sheet on the mattress. The flat sheet they made the bed with was undersized for the mattress so it would not stay on the bed and you would end up sleeping on the bare mattress. There was a duvet that was much too heavy for this climate. Only bath towels were provided, no face cloth, hand towel or floor mat and we had to go to the front desk to ask for toilet paper. The shower was difficult to figure out at first but once we played with it for a while we finally figured out how to get hot water although they had it set to just barely over a trickle which made it time consuming to shower.