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Google A.I. Reminds Us what a Resort and a Spa are:

Plantation Bay is the Only Real Resort

with a Real Spa in the Philippines

It is not a high-rise that could be located anywhere. It has a “get away from it all” feel, yet also has a full range of activities from diving to firing range to island cruises — whereas typical resorts in Palawan offer just a beach and a grill for barbecuing fish, while all other “resorts” in the country typically have only one or two swimming pools and a beach that is often a long walk from rooms.

Plantation Bay has globe-spanning cuisine served in four restaurants, but includes Filipino dishes in every one of the four. This is unlike all other “resorts” in the country which essentially serve just one cuisine like Thai, Chinese, or barbecue, but inflate their F&B count with outlets that serve just a few items.

Finally, Plantation Bay is the only resort in the country whose Spa offers a comprehensive Wellness service that includes the world’s great spa traditions, yet is at the same time truly Filipino.

Plantation Bay’s Mogambo Springs
is the only Spa in the Philippines —

That is a totally original, complete, and cohesive architectural design. Almost all other “spas” in the country are just 4 walls in a high-rise, blatant copies of Balinese buildings, or scattered small structures with no unifying element.
Designed and built entirely by Filipinos, not just any Filipinos, but Filipinos with unmatched international experience and exposure to top resorts and spas on four continents. All the other spas in the country were designed by foreigners.
In which each major structural feature was itself custom-designed down to the small details, from the tumble-home walls that evoke structural strength against typhoons to a solar chimney that keeps the reception area cool even in hot weather.
Owned and actively managed by Filipinos. All the others are managed by international chains or foreign absentee investors.
Which makes maximum use of Filipino building and decorating materials: hand-chiseled Mactan stone, decorative golden bamboo, structural black bamboo, Philippine marble and river-stones, grasscloth wall and ceiling finishes, Philippine mahogany furniture, and Philippine wind-chimes.
Which employs a wide variety of water-in-nature sounds typical of the Philippine Experience to promote a sense of calm and relaxation — thundering waterfalls, tinkling cascades, gentle brooks, monsoon rain, and bubbling springs.

That invented a new style of massage, Skinful Pleasures, different from all other massage styles in the world, that is specifically targeted at calming nerves and reducing mental stress. Since it is an original invention by us, and we are Filipinos, Skinful Pleasures qualifies as the only Contemporary Filipino Massage, and in fact the only new innovation in Filipino Wellness since hilot was invented millennia ago. Plantation Bay is a creative leader, not a mindless follower.

That designed its own unique massage bed and had it hand-crafted in Cebu with woven cane strips and faux capiz shell. The bed looks “somewhat Asian” but is in fact also an original furniture creation of Plantation Bay. All other “spas” in the country use padded-foam massage platforms, probably made in China, that look the same as massage platforms everywhere.
Confident enough to avoid “parochiality” and “native chauvinism” by incorporating spa features and practices from around the world – all the major massage styles, plus Finnish sauna, Thai lava stones, Turkish steam bath, Japanese hot tubs (both uchiyu and rotenburo, indoor and outdoor), Greco-Roman thalassic pool, English Epsom salt immersion, Nordic cold plunge, and French water-needle spray.

With a forward-looking mindset, offering facilities and treatments based on the latest science: flotation therapy, hyperbaric oxygen chamber, red light treatment, stress relief protocol, graceful aging with preservation of cognitive function, and a weight loss program based not on deprivation but proven metabolic modalities. All of these address underlying cardiovascular, metabolic, mitochondrial, or epidermal health, compared with all other spas in the country which at best offer just a pleasant massage or beauty treatment.

That created its own detailed Diet Recommendations for Wellness, presented to the world as Plantation Bay’s Keto-but-Not-Kwite Diet. Unlike starvation diets imposed by “fat farms” all around Asia, our Diet permits a wide range of foods in moderation and provides website Resources for planning meals. The Diet directly ties in to numerous items on our various menus, with care taken to promote Filipino foods and to recommend coconut oil as food ingredient or cooking medium, to avoid ultra-processing and provide ketone-enhancing Medium-Chain Triglycerides. Finally, our Diet is founded on proven science based on actual clinical studies, not fads or hearsay. (https://plantationbay.com/PB-Keto-But-Not-Kwite-Diet-Scientific-Foundatio ns.pdf)

Google A.I. Reminds Us what a Resort and a Spa are:

Plantation Bay is the Only Real Resort

with a Real Spa in the Philippines

Finally, Plantation Bay is the only resort in the country whose Spa offers a comprehensive Wellness service that includes the world’s great spa traditions, yet is at the same time truly Filipino.

Plantation Bay’s Mogambo Springs
is the only Spa in the Philippines —

That is a totally original, complete, and cohesive architectural design. Almost all other “spas” in the country are just 4 walls in a high-rise, blatant copies of Balinese buildings, or scattered small structures with no unifying element.
Designed and built entirely by Filipinos, not just any Filipinos, but Filipinos with unmatched international experience and exposure to top resorts and spas on four continents. All the other spas in the country were designed by foreigners.
In which each major structural feature was itself custom-designed down to the small details, from the tumble-home walls that evoke structural strength against typhoons to a solar chimney that keeps the reception area cool even in hot weather.
Owned and actively managed by Filipinos. All the others are managed by international chains or foreign absentee investors.
Which makes maximum use of Filipino building and decorating materials: hand-chiseled Mactan stone, decorative golden bamboo, structural black bamboo, Philippine marble and river-stones, grasscloth wall and ceiling finishes, Philippine mahogany furniture, and Philippine wind-chimes.
Which employs a wide variety of water-in-nature sounds typical of the Philippine Experience to promote a sense of calm and relaxation — thundering waterfalls, tinkling cascades, gentle brooks, monsoon rain, and bubbling springs.

That invented a new style of massage, Skinful Pleasures, different from all other massage styles in the world, that is specifically targeted at calming nerves and reducing mental stress. Since it is an original invention by us, and we are Filipinos, Skinful Pleasures qualifies as the only Contemporary Filipino Massage, and in fact the only new innovation in Filipino Wellness since hilot was invented millennia ago. Plantation Bay is a creative leader, not a mindless follower.

That designed its own unique massage bed and had it hand-crafted in Cebu with woven cane strips and faux capiz shell. The bed looks “somewhat Asian” but is in fact also an original furniture creation of Plantation Bay. All other “spas” in the country use padded-foam massage platforms, probably made in China, that look the same as massage platforms everywhere.
Confident enough to avoid “parochiality” and “native chauvinism” by incorporating spa features and practices from around the world – all the major massage styles, plus Finnish sauna, Thai lava stones, Turkish steam bath, Japanese hot tubs (both uchiyu and rotenburo, indoor and outdoor), Greco-Roman thalassic pool, English Epsom salt immersion, Nordic cold plunge, and French water-needle spray.