Sheavens Resort: Stingy Owner, Ripoff Prices, Terrible Food!
Posted: January 26th, 2015, 11:12 pm
My following review is in regards to Sheavens Hotel and Seafront Resort on Baloy Beach in Subic Bay, Olongapo, Philippines, where we stayed at in January 2015. This review will be posted on all major sites that list this resort. The resort's website is: http://www.sheavens.com
Review: Sheavens Resort Takes Stinginess to a Whole New Level
The only thing nice about this hotel and resort is the lovely clean swimming pool with clear water. The view is also nice and the band at night plays good music too - though it is probably inconsiderate that everyone in the whole hotel is forced to hear their loud music without choice. But besides that, everything goes downhill from there and in preposterous ways too.
First, the room is pretty small, though it looks decent. For 2900p for a standard room, it is way overpriced. The wifi does not always work too. It worked on my smart phone, but not on my laptop.
But the worst thing about this hotel is its RESTAURANT and FOOD, which is appalling stingy and expensive. The food is very small portions and not even cooked well. They cheat on ingredients too. For example, their curry dish is not real curry, but a little curry mixed with mostly water. WTF? I've never had a curry dish with that much water in it before. The owner, who looks to be East Indian, ought to know better since he is making a mockery of his own ethnic cuisine.
Sheavens restaurant is even stingy in areas that it does NOT need to be stingy in, such as bread portions and hash brown portions. When I ordered pasta, they gave me a tiny piece of bread. But bread is very CHEAP and so one does not need to be stingy on that. And when I ordered an omelette, the hash browns that came with it were about 3 inches in diameter! It was the tiniest hash browns I've ever seen! Even for a baby it would be small! Dude, man, hash browns are VERY cheap. Go to the supermarket and you will see. Also, curry is cheap too. My girlfriend makes vegetable curry for me. She buys the curry sauce in her village, which is very cheap yet delicious. So the Sri Lankan owner has no excuse here for making his curry comprised of mostly water.
Thus there is no logical reason to have to be stingy on things like bread, hash browns or curry. It's as if the owner were trying hard to "look stingy" and compete for some "stingiest hotel owner" award by showing off how stingy he is on little things! LOL. It's crazy and defies reason.
To the owner of Sheavens Hotel in Subic Bay: Look man. There is an art form to being stingy. A smart person would be stingy on the expensive items, such as parmesan cheese, wine, fish size, tartar sauce, steak size, etc. But not on cheap things like bread and hash browns. Come on now. If you are going to be stingy, at least do it gracefully and intelligently. Don't just look like a cheapskate in things like bread, hash browns, or give curry dishes full of mostly water. That makes you look bad, and I mean VERY bad.
Furthermore, the owner cannot cite high costs of real estate in the area as an excuse for this stinginess. Right across the street is the Blue Rock Restaurant, where most of the expats in the area go to eat. There, the portions are BIG and the food is cooked well. So how can Blue Rock afford to give big portions but Sheavens cannot?
The owner, I heard, is from Sri Lanka and looks Indian. Yet he is stingier than even Filipino hotel owners. I never thought I would find a hotel that trumps the stinginess of local hotel owners. So this one takes the cake.
Now, I don't mind if a hotel has high prices as long as it gives you a comparable value and is generous. Nor do I mind a cheap hotel being stingy. At least both of these are CONSISTENT. But this hotel is the WORST combination in that it is expensive yet very stingy on what it gives you, such as with the restaurant food. Charging high prices while providing low value is in my book very HYPOCRITICAL, and immoral as well.
You see, a person should not sell something that he would not buy himself, nor should he charge prices that he would never pay himself. To do so is technically hypocritical and a double standard. I've always followed this rule, so I can't understand why others don't. It would weigh on my conscience if I was charging prices that I myself would not pay. Yet the owner does exactly that, so I don't understand how he sleeps at night.
In short, if you're going to charge high prices, then be generous or at least FAIR. But if you are going to be cheap, then charge low or reasonable rates. But don't charge high prices and be super stingy like that. That's the WORST combination a business or hotel can be.
What all this means is that even if you stay in Sheavens, do NOT eat at the restaurant. Maybe ordering a drink there is ok, but the food is ridiculous and unacceptable for the above mentioned reasons. Instead, go to Blue Rock Restaurant which is right across the street, where all the other expats and tourists are.
Due to the above reasons, I will be disputing some of the charges on our credit card by Sheavens and hope to get a partial refund.
Review: Sheavens Resort Takes Stinginess to a Whole New Level
The only thing nice about this hotel and resort is the lovely clean swimming pool with clear water. The view is also nice and the band at night plays good music too - though it is probably inconsiderate that everyone in the whole hotel is forced to hear their loud music without choice. But besides that, everything goes downhill from there and in preposterous ways too.
First, the room is pretty small, though it looks decent. For 2900p for a standard room, it is way overpriced. The wifi does not always work too. It worked on my smart phone, but not on my laptop.
But the worst thing about this hotel is its RESTAURANT and FOOD, which is appalling stingy and expensive. The food is very small portions and not even cooked well. They cheat on ingredients too. For example, their curry dish is not real curry, but a little curry mixed with mostly water. WTF? I've never had a curry dish with that much water in it before. The owner, who looks to be East Indian, ought to know better since he is making a mockery of his own ethnic cuisine.
Sheavens restaurant is even stingy in areas that it does NOT need to be stingy in, such as bread portions and hash brown portions. When I ordered pasta, they gave me a tiny piece of bread. But bread is very CHEAP and so one does not need to be stingy on that. And when I ordered an omelette, the hash browns that came with it were about 3 inches in diameter! It was the tiniest hash browns I've ever seen! Even for a baby it would be small! Dude, man, hash browns are VERY cheap. Go to the supermarket and you will see. Also, curry is cheap too. My girlfriend makes vegetable curry for me. She buys the curry sauce in her village, which is very cheap yet delicious. So the Sri Lankan owner has no excuse here for making his curry comprised of mostly water.
Thus there is no logical reason to have to be stingy on things like bread, hash browns or curry. It's as if the owner were trying hard to "look stingy" and compete for some "stingiest hotel owner" award by showing off how stingy he is on little things! LOL. It's crazy and defies reason.
To the owner of Sheavens Hotel in Subic Bay: Look man. There is an art form to being stingy. A smart person would be stingy on the expensive items, such as parmesan cheese, wine, fish size, tartar sauce, steak size, etc. But not on cheap things like bread and hash browns. Come on now. If you are going to be stingy, at least do it gracefully and intelligently. Don't just look like a cheapskate in things like bread, hash browns, or give curry dishes full of mostly water. That makes you look bad, and I mean VERY bad.
Furthermore, the owner cannot cite high costs of real estate in the area as an excuse for this stinginess. Right across the street is the Blue Rock Restaurant, where most of the expats in the area go to eat. There, the portions are BIG and the food is cooked well. So how can Blue Rock afford to give big portions but Sheavens cannot?
The owner, I heard, is from Sri Lanka and looks Indian. Yet he is stingier than even Filipino hotel owners. I never thought I would find a hotel that trumps the stinginess of local hotel owners. So this one takes the cake.
Now, I don't mind if a hotel has high prices as long as it gives you a comparable value and is generous. Nor do I mind a cheap hotel being stingy. At least both of these are CONSISTENT. But this hotel is the WORST combination in that it is expensive yet very stingy on what it gives you, such as with the restaurant food. Charging high prices while providing low value is in my book very HYPOCRITICAL, and immoral as well.
You see, a person should not sell something that he would not buy himself, nor should he charge prices that he would never pay himself. To do so is technically hypocritical and a double standard. I've always followed this rule, so I can't understand why others don't. It would weigh on my conscience if I was charging prices that I myself would not pay. Yet the owner does exactly that, so I don't understand how he sleeps at night.
In short, if you're going to charge high prices, then be generous or at least FAIR. But if you are going to be cheap, then charge low or reasonable rates. But don't charge high prices and be super stingy like that. That's the WORST combination a business or hotel can be.
What all this means is that even if you stay in Sheavens, do NOT eat at the restaurant. Maybe ordering a drink there is ok, but the food is ridiculous and unacceptable for the above mentioned reasons. Instead, go to Blue Rock Restaurant which is right across the street, where all the other expats and tourists are.
Due to the above reasons, I will be disputing some of the charges on our credit card by Sheavens and hope to get a partial refund.