TEN7AVENUE: Budget Hotels

Homitori Logo

Homitori is a place where people can stay in a hostel or dorm accommodation, whether transient or monthly transaction. However, previously, the place is a warehouse that is converted to a useful compound. I have heard a lot of good things about the place that some of their guests say such as: 1) it is very clean, 2) affordable, and 3) convenient to many places and public transport, but I haven’t been inside until I got invited to see their amenities and it got me surprised!

Homitori Event Place

Homitori is located at Sta. Ana Avenue corner Bangoy Street, Davao City. The place is at the center of the city inside the vicinity of Davao Chinatown. The place is a block-wide in the avenue where first I thought that it is only a place for room accommodations. But I am wrong…they have a lot of amenities inside.

Fitness Gym

Sport Facility

Event Venue

Function Room

Cafeteria at Homitori

Homitori is home to a fitness gym, cafe, sport facility and function rooms that are all at an affordable price and can be customized according to your needs. The Homitori Fitness Gym is very affordable at P100 daily for a regular class schedule and a promo of P1200 per month with 1 month free. They have a cafe area where guests can find time to stay at and can be used as a meeting venue for as low as P3000 with P1600 consumable of food items. The most special place I think in the compound is the very big sport facility that is very clean and well-maintained with beautiful rubberized floor can be played with 3 sport such as basketball, volleyball and badminton; the facility can accommodate 200 guests on bleachers and can be used also for big events that can house 700 guests or more depending on the set up as low as P1500, wherein you can also use the shower room, comfort room, drinking fountain and shot clock. Aside from the big sport facility, they have more function rooms for special occasions or even meeting/seminar/review needs as low as P800 but more options for bigger venue.

Room Accommodation, 4 in a room

Toilet Room

Shower Room

Okay, let’s not forget about the rooms for accommodation. Their rooms are well-maintained, and the place for the men and women are in separate buildings. Since the set up is a hostel or dorm type, the bath and toilet room is common but nothing to worry about because there’s a lot of cubicles and the facilities are kept clean and orderly. By the way, the accommodation is for as low as P220 daily with breakfast or P4500 monthly with breakfast, too.

Homitori Tour Participants

Indeed, I am very amazed with the cleanliness that the facility has and it is well-maintained knowing that the facility is already existing for 8 years now, everything looks great! Garbage bins are also being setup in many locations that will really remind you to throw your trash accordingly. Then, there are signage that will help you to be reminded always, including emergency plan - that’s a BIG THUMBS UP, for me! Maybe one of these days, I can try it there or let some of my guests to stay there as they visit Davao City.

Again, thank you for the invitation! For more information about function bookings, you can ring these numbers +639992279610 or +639992279611.

Me and Ms. Sey of Homitori

Thank you for visiting my avenue, www.ten7avenue.com!

People traveling usually choose a place to stay where it is safe and comfortable. It is an additional thing to consider when the place is near to some basic amenities like places to eat, have a relaxation and a convenience store or a mall. There is huge market for that in the Philippines, especially among those in business and leisure travel. Hence, GoHotels serve the need and it has many development of budget hotels nationwide - completing 18 all in all within the year!

The colors green, yellow and white are dominantly associated with the GoHotels. Yes, from afar, it is distinct; the brand of budget hotels of Robinsons Hotels and Resorts.

In Mindanao, GoHotels is happy to have two operational budget hotels in the cities of Davao and Butuan. Soon, another will open in Iligan City, near the Robinsons complex. Hopefully, more developments will arise in the island where there is much need of their services.

L-R: Mahipus and Lim answering some questions

Ms. Jacquelyn Lim, Assistant Marketing Manager of Robinsons Hotels and Resorts, an arm of the Robinsons Land development, together with GoHotels Lanang-Davao Branch Head, Ms. Mariel Mahipus, had a time for discussion over dinner with some friends from the Davao media and digital influencers regarding the plans of Robinsons Hotels and Resorts and operations in Davao. According to Lim, they are considering any expansion depending on the need and whenever there is a Robinsons project in the area. As such is manifested where there is Robinsons Mall, there are nearby GoHotels or Summit Hotels unless the hotel is a franchise. Both of them (Lim and Mahipus) said that the initial reaction of guests when Martial Law was declared over the whole island of Mindanao was cancellation of their stay but opted to use their room in the future - as such after the liberation of Marawi from the terrorists. Mahipus, meanwhile, said that so far, occupancy rate of the Davao Branch is getting high as more events are conducted in the nearby convention center and some international competition like the Iron Man 70.3 Davao. There are those free independent travelers (FITs), too, who opt to stay in their hotels.

Davao’s branch is one of the biggest outside the Metro Manila that has 183 rooms, from the third to the eighth storey of the building. Rooms in the Davao branch is a bit bigger compare to other branches as it has 16 sqm area and room rates range from P1588.56 to P1890.56. Good thing that complimentary water is now available starting March 2018, unlike before that there is none. A room can either have a twin bed or one matrimonial bed (1 and 2), and the bath and toilet rooms are separated. Then, each floor has one room with connecting room - usually fit for family who wants such an arrangement. In every storey, there's a common area with an alfresco environment where guests can eat food (3). It showcases also a function hall that can accommodate 200 pax at their Kadayawan Hall (4). The hotel is also home of Sundays (5), a modern home cooking restaurant - wherein their food is very good, and a spa at the ground area.