Hotels with Breakfast in General Santos

The rooms are comfy enough, and the A/C, though box type, is not too noisy. Breakfast is OK, and airport pickups are cheaper than a taxi. But... P2800 for the cheapest room is daylight robbery, and you even have to pay P350 extra per night for a fridge. You don't get hand towels, only bath towels. There's no room safe. And both TV (Sky) and wifi (PLDT) are absolutely awful. The TV channels keep breaking up and are almost unwatchable, and the wifi is extremely slow and keeps dropping out completely for minutes at a time. If you stay at this hotel you will end up using your mobile data just to avoid being driven mad by connection dropouts. The in-house wifi won't even load Wikipedia. What is it about Gensan hotels that stops them providing usable wifi? The Royale Hotel wifi is terrible, the Greenleaf wifi is terrible, the Grand Summit wifi is terrible. The only (just about) usable wifi is at the Microtel (which has awful breakfasts and is also seriously overpriced). I come to Gensan several times a year, and now I just resign myself to using massive amounts of mobile data every time I come. Gensan hotels, you are holding your city back.

This review is based on the premier room which is P4990/night. The room was basically OK with plenty of storage space and a big desk (but no spare power sockets anywhere near it). The sofa was torn in several places. The wifi was reliable but only about 8mbps. The king bed was actually 2 single beds with a ridge in the middle. The TV signal was bad and the picture kept breaking up. The room curtains don't shut out the light because the A/C unit is too big and gets in the way, and the windows are not double-glazed so the traffic noise is seriously loud. But the worst thing about the room was the bathroom, which was tiny and impractical. There are no spare shelves to put your toiletries, and the shower design causes water to flow all over the bathroom floor. To see the room service menu you have to scan a QR code, but the hotel's website is broken so that doesn't work and you have to get someone to bring the menu to your room. Breakfast was poor quality (pizza? really?) and the breakfast room doesn't seat enough people so you end up waiting around for a table. No fresh juices, only sugar-packed artificial stuff. I saw an espresso machine after breakfast but wasn't offered this choice when seated. Overall, the Avior is extremely disappointing (everything looks pretty but is very badly designed) and I won't use it again. It's definitely way, way overpriced. The premier room is worth maybe P2000/night, no more. I dread to think what the standard rooms are like.

I took a suite for a few nights (P3600/night) and, while calling it a suite is definitely a stretch, it does have a kitchenette and a separate day bed and window seat as well as the main bed. And despite the room being near the lobby, it was quiet at night. The room (in fact the whole hotel) is a bit dated - oak veneer and cream paint everywhere - and there are quirks (ceiling fan with no wall switch, kitchenette worktop light that won't switch off unless you reach in and unplug it). On the plus side, the bed is comfy and the A/C is quiet. There's a table and chairs as well as a desk, and plenty of storage including a laptop safe. The bathroom is small but has everything you need. The wifi, which is normally terrible in Gensan hotels, is actually good (60mbps, not many dropouts). Way better than the Greenleaf, Avior, East Asia and Grand Summit. The buffet breakfast is fine, though sometimes there's irritating background music in the breakfast room. Overall the Microtel is still a decent budget option and staff are courteous and helpful.

I booked a king suite with them and when it came time to go I was informed that the king suite was no longer available! With a ”no refund” policy in place, they took my money for a room the didn't even have! So they were willing to pay for my stay at a couple of nearby hotels instead. Both were worse dumps than this one. In their behalf, they were willing to work with me and we settled on a future stay at their hotel in a king suite. The room was not very big for a ”king” suite. TV reception was poor and the Wifi was abysmal. They don't have their own restaurant, instead using the one downstairs located in the little mini mall where they are located. It didn't offer much but it was OK for a quick bite before leaving for the airport. There is a bigger mall across the street, however half of that mall is closed due to a fire resulting from a previous earthquake. There is a 24hr convenience store located in their mini mall for snacks and drinks. I would have expected more for the money, but then this is the Philippines and anyone who has ever read Dickens could learn a ”great” deal about ”expectations”. Ha! (sorry, couldn't resist)

If you want a place just for the night - RSG microhotel will do. It is very affordable and the room is adequate. No luxury here. A few parking spaces available for private vehicles and commuter vans. Big buses will not be able to park here. Can be booked online. I was not asked what I wanted for breakfast - something which I found rather strange. However, I believe I could have specified what I wanted for breakfast. Just do not know if there would be additional charges for it. The hotel would do better if they improved the road leading to the hotel and if they placed a more prominent sign along the road to inform visitors where to enter.

The hotel is good, but it is often not booked. This is one of the best sprinkle shops in General City. No other hotel is incomparable in terms of facilities or services.

One of the best places I've stayed in while traveling. I literally can't find anything wrong with this place. The room's perfect; the windows open to the view of the road, but it's so quiet and peaceful, and you're also greeted with the beautiful yellow bells just outside the windows. The staff are really friendly and accommodating. Nang Yayang was very nice to us when we checked in. Also, the food! We had paksiw fish on our first morning here. Sobrang sarap! Tas tuna omelette on the second morning. Sarap! There's also hot shower, which was the icing on the cake. It's a quaint little place that feels like a home away from home. Will definitely come back here when we're back in town!

Maganda and has very nice and accomodating staffs. We stayed for almost 2 weeks now and so far so good naman.

The stay was good except for the space was really micro, and didn’t expect this to be that small. The aircon needs to be fixed as it seems to be too loud. It’s an economy hotel and good for brief stay. The rates are good and just as expected. Did not accept credit card payment? The place seems convenient to nearby commercial area

Stayed 4 nights on level 4. Only positives - halfway noise minimal due to us being near the carpeted area and the aircon was quiet as it was a split system. Negatives - Asked for the room to be cleaned once in 4 nights. 10 x 1 litre water bottles not thrown out plus wine bottle. Toilet paper not refreshed. Toiletries not replaced. Dirty cups and glasses not replaced. Breakfast - You get meal plans to choose from for breakfast. From memory 5 or 6 options. All bar one are Filipino foods eg Bangus (dried fish). Only western option is pancakes. Ask for it and get told no pancakes because of pandemic (April 2022) there's no flour to make them. Get the egg option and get handed bread. Main ingredient = flour. Next day get pancakes offered. Wow! Pandemic ended quickly. Picture has 3 pancakes but receive 2. Have to barter for 3rd pancake. I asked for the banana that comes with the pancakes as all I got was 2 lonely pancakes. Told there's a marketing issue (yeah marketing) and management didn't order bananas. The entire island is known for fruit and literally 20m away is a stall selling bananas. No bananas given for 4 days even though asked for every day. No syrup for pancakes and small amount of honey provided is crystallized so eating the pancakes is like crushing dry matter in your mouth and trying to swallow. This carried on for 4 days until checkout at 6am for our 7am bus ride. Tried calling every ten minutes at reception to place our breakfast order so we can get it at opening time of 6am so we aren't late. Every ten minutes called from 5am till 6am. Noone answered till 6am. Then told breakfast doesn't start till 6.30am. Told them we planned our day from what their menu says at the bottom ”breakfast only served between 6am and 10am”. We also tried organising at reception night before prior to 7pm and noone at reception. We then went downstairs and only asked for 2 coffees. Not even full breakfasts. Was told breakfast doesn't start till 6.30am. Couldn't even get our coffee to start the day. Lastly asked for taxi to get us to the bus terminal. We had 20 minutes to get there. Told it well be organised by reception. Wait 15 minutes and asked how long till they arrive. Then told they couldn't get a taxi. So we wasted 15 minutes. Now left with 5 minutes to spare my filipina fiance walks the main street searching for a taxi that doesn't exist. Meanwhile the 2 porters/ security/ cleaners point her way, talk in tagalog and laugh. A tricycle driver stalked her back to the hotel. She asks him how much and he proceeds to rip her off in front of the 2 employees. They never once insisted to the driver to reduce his prices or even offer to organise a tricycle for us. We took a few minutes to barter him down. So for what is meant to be one of the more expensive stays in the area, believe me you aren't getting what you pay for.