5 Resorts Where You Can Cool Down On Summer Season in Bacolod

Location: Villarosa Road, Brgy. Punta Taytay, Bacolod City

Operating Hours: Daily, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM

Resorts Negrense is a 14-hectare resort paradise along the beach of Punta Taytay and is one of the ideal places to cool down and spend your summer vacation in Bacolod. You will surely love the place not just because of its proximity to many convenient landmarks but also because of its facilities. It has restaurants, cottages, nipa huts, a swimming pool, a viewing tower, and a kiddie playground that families will enjoy. By next year, it would have opened its bigger and better hotel accommodations, thus completing your Negrense vacation experience.

Location: Alangilan Road, Brgy. Granada, Bacolod City

Bantug Lake Ranch is a park that embodies the serenity and beauty of nature, making it an ideal Bacolod tourist spot. It has a man-made lake, a vast garden, and a swimming pool perfect for people who want to enjoy the lax, peaceful lake while drifting on their boat. The ranch has a boating lagoon, where you can rent your boat for PhP50 and swim for a fee of PhP120. If you feel like riding a horse along with the surrounding grasslands, you can ride one for PhP150, good for 15 minutes. Bantug Lake Ranch is a great place to relax, especially for intimate couples who love to commune with nature for the summer season.

Location: No. 37 J.R. Torres Avenue, Bacolod City

Palmas del Mar Bacolod is one of the go-to resorts for tourists and locals in Bacolod City during the summer season. This five-acre resort offers various amenities such as a five-lane lap pool with slides, two kiddie pools, and a Mediterranean pool with its Jacuzzi. There is also a jogging path and an in-house gym, a well-landscaped garden, and its very own restaurant, all for your care and convenience. The entrance fee goes for PhP60, and the swimming fee is set at PhP130 for regular patrons and a discounted price of PhP100 for children and senior citizens.

Location: St. Francis Village, Brgy. Taculing, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental

The Water Garden at Forest Park Resort in Bacolod City is an ideal venue where you can bring your friends or family members to unwind amidst the tranquility of clear-turquoise water. This Bacolod resort is a cut above the rest because of its enormous swimming pool that can accommodate up to a thousand simultaneous swimmers at any given time. It also has various facilities such as a lazy pool, path walks, gazebos, mini-zoo, villas, canopy trees, and a grand pavilion to house 500 people. The entrance fee, which includes the swimming fee, is PhP120 for adults and PhP100 for children. If you want to stay in the resort overnight, you can rent one of their villas to accommodate up to six people for PhP5,888.

Location: Golden Field Commercial Complex, Bacolod City

Operating Hours: Daily, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM

Caribbean Waterpark and Resotel is the place to be if you want to enjoy a peaceful vacation without leaving behind the sophistication and grandeur of the urban scene. The resort’s three marvelous swimming pools have two big slides and an outdoor Jacuzzi. If you go hungry, you can have your meals on the complimentary picnic tables and chairs. Guests can also spend the night in one of their air-conditioned rooms for rent, ranging from PhP2,300 to PhP6,200 a night. However, if you want a more comfortable shelter, nipa huts are also available for rent for only PhP400 (small) and PhP500 (large).

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