We stayed for 2 nights in Cagayan De Oro planning to visit some nearby places. We stayed at the Pearlmont Inn along Limketkai Drive (it’s walking distance to Limketkai, CDO’s biggest mall) and it’s so easy to commute from the hotel to almost anywhere because there are jeepneys that pass right in front of the hotel.
I wasn’t able to take photos of the hotel but it’s an old inn that’s well maintained and clean. The staff are very friendly and the ala carte food is really good. We tried ordering calamares, chicken mami, barbecued spare ribs, seafood soup with century egg and everything was so yummy! No wonder, it’s popular for special events like weddings and debuts (everytime, we would go back to the hotel, we see people in Barong Tagalog and gowns!).
The only downside staying at Pearlmont Inn is that it doesn’t really offer tour packages to guests. Maybe because it caters more to special events and business people than tourists. So if you plan to stay there, make sure you make travel arrangements with a tour operator in advance or like us, just ask around how to get around since it’s really very easy to commute.
Anyway, we didn’t really have plans to explore CDO and do the usual whitewater rafting experience; we just made CDO our base station.
But in between our daytours, we were able to go to CDO’s Night Café and Market at Divisoria. Night Café and Market is held every Friday and Sarturday from 6 pm to 2 am. We went there to try the grilled seafood and barbecue. Yum-yum!
While in CDO, we were also able to drop by Limketkai Mall, the biggest mall in the city. (CDO also has an SM Mall and currently being built, an Ayala Mall.) At Limketkai, we discovered this toy store at the ground floor - officially it’s Toys for the Big Boys but from outside, all I can see in the signage is “Barbie”.
Anyway, the store has lots of branded and imported toys not available in Toy Kingdom or Hobbes & Landes, including collector’s items of dolls and action figures. But what I splurged on are games. I got Boggle Slam Card Game, Clue Card Game (they’re out of stock in Manila), Yahtzee Hands Down Card Game and the Battleship Game. Educational, fun games I can play with my pamangkins this summer.:)
