A-rena Homestay

The room is spacious and clean. The staff are very accommodating and helpful. They are easily contactable. They help me with all my queries and provided me with my needs. The daily breakfast was superb! I requested to serve it on a specific time and they did it which is fantastic! It was a wonderful stay at A-rena! 👌🏼

Just the bedroom door knob is broken. But everything is fine!

The room was exactly as the photos — the people running the homestay are the sweetest people. The room is probably the most spacious you'll find in the area, the bed is super comfortable to come back to after surfing, and the living space is perfect to chill. I was working from there and it was genuinely a home away from home. The heater works really well and the WiFi was flawless throughout my stay.

I love the room very spacious and beautiful arrangements and comfortable queen size bed

Very quite can sleep without disturbing

- The room looks decent and it’s nice to have your own livingroom -the kitchen is well equipped, but need to make sure you rinse everything before use. We did find moldy kitchen ustencils and the mat to dry the glasses was full of maggots one day (ok, this could go to the cons side too) -the mattress is really comfortable -you can use the washing machine for only 50pesos if you have your own detergent

-the bathroom door just has a sign to not close it, but you cannot poop with the door open; when you want to open it you put your finger in that hole and you can get cut very easily. -the bathroom smells bad from the pipes -the shower head was already cracked when we arrived and in a few days broke for good. We went to buy a new shower head by ourselves, but the shower set was so old, we couldn’t fix it. Their solution? “Sorry? We cannot fix it!” So we showered for 2 weeks with the hose, like you would wash a car -cold shower! Yes, if the power goes out, the shower heater resets and they have to start it manually. I’ve asked 3 times to start it and waited from 11am till 2pm to get it started. I was dirty and sweaty from the gym and just had to wait for them to come home and do it. - when the electricity is out, the shower water doesn’t have any pressure as well, is not only cold. -the room was cleaned only once in 1 month, and just because of e asked. How is the room cleaned? Just a swipe of the floor, that’s it! And I could swear it looked the same as before. -if you ask to unclog the drain or change the towels, they’ll do only that, even though the rest needs cleaning or the garbage empty. -the generator schedule is not respected. So, if the electricity goes out they have a generator, but they don’t use it all the time as is mentioned on their schedule. So from 1pm-6pm they won’t start it. But today, the electricity when out since 11 and they didn’t start it till 1pm how it was mentioned. -the starlink internet is not great and it doesn’t get to all rooms. We used our own internet cable directly from the router and it was decent the speed. Room 4 gets the wifi signal but the room 5 doesn’t get it at all. -the bathroom is not properly cleaned, not even after the e asked for it (please see the picture) -there is no process regarding the cleanness and maintenance.