My love hate relationship with this hotel continues. It drives me mad - I love the people who work there but the product is now so old that it is fast becoming unacceptable.
We stayed here for the 5th time in January 2020 and we took the most expensive room on offer -an Aqua Suite, at P10,000 per night.
The "aqua suite" is a bit of a misnomer - it is not a suite at all - it's a room with a bathroom and a view, over the noisy bar area, to the seashore. It's called an "Aqua suite" only because it's got an old jacuzzi type bath that just about functions but the fittings are falling apart. The adjacent shower works quite well, despite the shower fittings also being loose.
The fridge does not work (it was cooler in the room itself than inside the fridge) and after being told that the fridge was not meant to cool things (!) nothing was done. The security safe also required repair, as did the closet door. The electronic room keys also needed replacement a few times - it was very annoying having to tramp down to the Reception Desk to have them revalidated.
The good bits were that the free wireless internet worked very well, the food in the dining room, both dinner and breakfast, was pretty good and the outdoor pool was kept scrupulously clean by attendant Bangs.
The hotel seem to try hard to keep the public beach outside their hotel clean but they are fighting a losing battle - see my photograph of the beach 50m away from the hotel front. Not a beach I would like to sunbathe on.
As I say, a lot of the decay is being experienced by the hotel, all staff are super friendly and that makes up for a lot. Special praise to Dochel and Irene in the restaurant. They went out of their way to make our dinner/s special.
However, I think this stay will be our last at the Lighthouse Hotel - the prices are too high for the tired offering provided.