Smart Partners with Airbnb

It was an awesome morning to start with good news so I journeyed to 46 Mckinley Road and found a huge bed and breakfast place owned by Ferdie Ong already filled with some press people and fellow bloggers hungry for news about this new partnership. Imagine, the country's biggest network Smart Communications, and the leader in community driven hospitality company Airbnb is now joining forces to include Smart's 20 Million subscribers with perks completing Smart's hungry call for a smart life!

Here's what happened during the event!


SMART Partners with AirBNB by kumagcow

This indeed will make a positive impact on consumers lives. They have been partnering with world class brands in the past and this is just the continuation of that. Now that Airbnb is here, Smart subscribers now can access living in 34,000 cities, in 190 countries, in castles, villas, houses and barns, okay I'm kidding about barns. As their first salvo, they've got a great promo that will give you Php 2,500 worth of discount for a minimum of Php 8,000 booking at any Airbnb listed place here and abroad. All you have to do is text the code SMARTAIRBNB to 2855 for FREE so you can get your own personal code.

Now that right there, is a Smart move!

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A Special Afternoon at Discovery Country Suites Tagaytay

Had the pleasure of visiting Discovery Country Suites in Tagaytay City a couple of weeks ago with my Mom. As you may have seen on the Discovery Country Suites Facebook Page, I have dedicated a few words for her and I didn't even tell her it was posted there publicly. Discovery Country Suites also had a surprise in mind so when I asked my Mom to free her schedule a couple of days before that, I didn't tell her what it was all about. So when she went there and met the warm people of Discovery Country Suites, she didn't really know what she was in for. 

While they pulled her off and gave her a huge bouquet of flowers, a luxurious massage and a nice drink on the Discovery Country Suites lawn, they got us inside one of the function rooms in Discovery Country Suites Tagaytay and had us bake real deal chocolate chip cookies. 

They also got us to decorate these sweet treats so we could give it to our Moms later on with personalized dedications on them. I would have loved to show my finished product but we're too shy to do that on public blog posts LOL.

The Interiors

The place originally was a vacation house of the owners of the Discovery Leisure Company and they didn't quite use the space and spent time here only yearly. The smart thing would be to lease it out and they thought to have had a bed and breakfast even before other establishments of the same kind sprouted in Tagaytay. You can say that they were pioneers and with the renovations started immediately so they could accommodate people who would want to spend a weekend, a month, or several ones when they're in Tagaytay as this place just screams serenity, comfortable country living which you can travel a few hours from Manila. The interiors pretty much is an upscale woodsy shabby chic without the glitzy ceramic pots for tea and weathered furniture. I think it was really made to be a country home rather than a hotel-esque environment hence the look. The place gets packed during the weekends though so it's better if you book a few weeks so you could secure a room, or the whole house if you've got money to spend.