Karlo Pacana
Why You Should Try Cebu City Marriott Hotel’s Friday Night Seafood Buffet
Your alarm clock rings, you check your phone and an event reminder pops up, it’s your special someone’s birthday, and you start to panic early in the morning. Add to that, it’s a Friday and you still both need to go to work in separate companies in Cebu Business Park. Thankfully, shift ends at five in the afternoon.
You decided not to call her the entire morning since you’re still conceptualizing your game plan. With a stroke of insight, you were able to come up with a five-step romantic date idea. The only problem remaining was step three: looking for a restaurant near your work area that’s quite intimate, uncrowded with a fancy vibe to it.
You assess and discover a number of dining options in Ayala Terraces and also some hotels with dinner buffets. Though there are quality restaurants, you skip the mall option due to the surging crowds on a Friday night. Other hotels have good buffets but lack a fine level of class and exclusivity in them.
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Then you remember a workmate telling you about his funny experience at Cebu City Marriott Hotel wherein he accidentally slipped on his way to the hotel because he was busy updating his Instagram account without minding his steps resulting to a sprained ankle. The hotel’s clinic staff immediately responded with medical assistance and asked him if he needed some crutches, a wheelchair or an ambulance with which he laughingly turned down, requested for an ice pack instead, telling the staff that he’s used to sprains in basketball and slowly walked to the buffet in tolerable pain since he believed that his starving stomach was more of an extreme emergency.
Your workmate was then guided to Garden Café and was asked to relax his injured foot while the staff served any food and drink he desired from the buffet right at his very table. He jokingly told you that for the first time in his life, he actually felt like royalty at Cebu City Marriott Hotel because of the high level of service quality that’s personal yet professional.
You approach this workmate of yours to ask about his comment regarding the dining experience. He then told you that the presentation was first class with see-through kitchens with chefs preparing your food at that very moment.
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You could also personally prepare tinola with your choice of fresh ingredients while requesting the chef to cook crabs and lobsters in Singaporean-style. He also told you that the international buffet spread was very diverse that his tastebuds went crazy with various flavors from Asia and the West.
Moreover, their desserts were made in-house and that you could choose to eat them by the pool for a change in ambiance. His answer impressed you so much that you decided to call Cebu City Marriott Hotel at (032) 411 5800 to reserve a table for two. Now, you’re ready to commence step one of your date idea.
You call up her bestfriend from work to meet you downstairs at about three in the afternoon. There you are with a bouquet of freshly-cooked French fries with an attached handwritten note to it saying happy birthday telling her to meet you later after work. No doubt the surprise bouquet you sent through her bestfriend made her laugh since the days of roses and chocolates are gone.
A few minutes past five, you’re now outside her office building with her favorite frappuccino with steps two to four sealed in three envelopes telling her that each envelope contains an itinerary in random order, with which you actually rigged beforehand in the order you desired for the date to go smoothly (arcade, dinner, roofdeck bar) and indeed, the three-step combo was a sure hit. Waiting for her to go to the restroom, you slipped in two tickets for Coldplay 2017 at Mall of Asia Arena in her bag for the last and final step.
Unsuspectingly, you take her home and she thanked you for her best surprise birthday yet, sealed with a kiss. Arriving home dead-tired, you immediately dozed off. Checking Facebook the next day, there’s a notification on messenger from the birthday girl telling you that she wants to break up with you, just kidding. Well at least not yet, since she just already paid for both your hotel and roundtrip flight. Take me with you?
