Southern Leyte Divers: Don’t go there, or read this before you do.
Went to Leyte Philippines this past month (Feb 28-Mar 6) and stayed at Southern Leyte Divers Resort. They said I had a room at the "House" What a house of horrors that turned out to be. Arrived after a 26 hour flight around 3pm. Had a well cooked dinner, and kept waiting for the room to be finished. At 9pm, we were told we had to walk across a dark dirt bridge, across the highway to a private home because that was what all they had left to say in. When we got here, the house was empty of furniture except for a few guest rooms; our room had 3 beds shoved in it, with no place to put our suitcases. There was one full mattress, with one pillow, and no sheets or towels. After saying we needed sheets, towels and another pillow, we received a plastic table cloth as a bottom sheet, a top sheet and 2 pillows with dirty pillow case. I then had to beg for 2 towels and clean pillow cases. Which I finally got. While waiting we went into the bathroom, which was a catastrophe, and did not have toilet paper, nor anything else, like hot water. Only cold. We then had to beg for toilet paper. So we get a roll, which we put in the bathroom, but it disappeared the next day. So we had to beg again for toilet paper then again. Bur silly us, no water was to be had that morning, so no need for toilet paper.
Then I have to tell you about the dust in the closet about an inch thick, no hangers. And the bugs, since there were no windows and no screens in them, we were eaten alive, (I slept in an inch of deet) but still had 1000, bites by the end of the night, and after 4 nights I had had it, and was marked from head to toe. The people who stayed at the resorts had no bites.... I'm thinking the mattress had bed bugs as well.
The diving in Leyte was beautiful, but I strongly suggest finding a different resort, the owner, Gunter, didn't seem to care that we were living in such shabby conditions, and said that I should write a letter complaining to the company that booked my reservation.
I guess here's my letter Gunter.