Hotel Joselina (Main Branch)

So this was previously called Pensione Joselina and they became a hotel.

Joselina was one of my choices based on my online 'research'. But for some reason, flying in from Manila and before going onwards to Sta. Ana, Hotel Roma prevailed in my mind.

This time however, having just arrived from Sta. Ana, before moving onwards to Cauayan tomorrow, I opted to experience Hotel Joselina, instead of going back to Hotel Roma.

Not a bad choice. Not a bad choice at all! Than to re-do Hotel Roma, that I already liked. This time, I got to experience another accommodation facility in Tuguegarao City :)

As my rented van entered Tuguegarao City from Iguig, driver asked which branch of Hotel Joselina did I want to be delivered to. Argh, that made me do some quick thinking! I have seen the outside of the new branch in Caggay while traveling from the airport to Hotel Roma. I read the reviews (not all of them were good) on the original branch. But it is at center of town just a block away from Hotel Roma actually. So I said "main branch"!

Thus, to the main branch I was "delivered" - and I conditioned my self not to expect much. When I asked, all types of rooms were available. That made me a bit jittery. That 'probably' meant, this was really 'not a hotel of choice' as said in the online reviews.

I opted for a bigger room with two beds... even if yes, I was alone (as always)...

I can't recall my decision factor here. Probably the online reviews :) I was probably lucky, or the reviews are not really on the dot, because I was amused and I liked my room 201.

Now now... if I thought Country Inn By The Sea was eclectic. This one is even more!

Look! This was my TV desk whatever it is called...

Yes, That tree branch triggered my amusement. Those protruding leaves actually served me a good purpose. That is where I hung my shirt and other stuff for easy access! But do you notice that seemingly out-sized drawer handle also made of wood? It's everywhere!

This is the 'dresser' just across from the TV (between them is the door)...

It is functionally everything, right? Except that, the materials and their shapes and sizes are outrageously "kawaii"! Look at the mirror frame, it is the same kind of crude thick wood hehe, purportedly supported and fixed in place by another block of wood. Aliw!

Look here... this is the cabinet... with an even bigger wooden handle!

I was laughing when I started touching these rather humongous things. They seemed to me like new technologies direct from  "Flintstones University" working just fine in 2015!

Yes the cabinet had normal things inside, like clothes hangers. Plus this...

A clever contraption to hang your jeans, and many other things, right?

Oh, and this is probably where I might have been 'lucky' during this stay. The toilet was "updated" enough, and it did look and smell clean to me, with properly functioning hot/cold showers - contrary to many I have read online. Therefore, I was lucky?!

Well, actually, if we talk about size, I might frown a bit. Then again, even the newer hotels, inns or pensiones I see all over the world nowadays are really just about as big.

I submit, I may not have been that meticulous on this aspect.


Okay, out at the hallways, things are even more eclectic, like this...

That "round thing with a square hole" down at the lower landing is some kind of an 'ancient whatever', something like a humongous coin made of wood - but too big, and I am sure very heavy! At the upper landing, you can see a bit of snippet of a jar, right? I wasn't able to capture that well on camera, but those are jars there. Yes, plural!

How about that black thing by the column? Looks like a "humanoid" standing on guard, right?! Its driftwood or old chunk of a tree that they salvaged, painted and polished!

I swear, if some nephews and nieces were with me, I could have made up creepy stories about this place, and none of them would go out of the room without 'adult companion' hahaha!

Lastly, that thing that looks like a window and labeled "EXIT" is, a joke, right? OMG its real! That small a thing, probably just 3 or 4 feet tall, is really THE emergency exit!

Here take a closer look! I asked a staff who gamely opened it to show me... it really is! 

In case of emergency, climb about 4 steps up the stairs, crouch and insert yourself into that "hole" then run down on that shaft of darkness, that will lead you out unto the street! Haha! Indiana Jones? Lara Croft? Is there really light at the end of a tunnel?!

I told myself, in case of emergency I would still use the regular stairs going down and out hahaha! This is just the second floor anyway and c'mon! I will run down to that big wooden coin, then down again to the lobby and out!

But I reminded myself... run only if its an emergency. Otherwise, be careful...

Look at that... matisod mo isa dyan... basag! And always hold on to the hand rails. Be careful where you hold on to or lean on... Like that innocent ledge (crevice) on the wall?

Eto kasi yan.... Puro glass din!

Isang maling hawak o sandal pag naka-inom ka... goodbye interior design hahaha!

So okay, let's cut this here. I have other photos of other bigger driftwood standing by other hallways or hanging by the walls, but this is getting too long hehe.

I may have found or encountered things I wouldn't like if I stayed here 2 days or more. This is an old pensione, in the old center of the old Tuguegarao, in the first place.

But, as I experienced this old Pensione Joselina, spruced up to now become the 'new' Hotel Joselina Main Branch, it amused me, I even want to congratulate whoever made this place weirdly nakakatawa! Yeah, the place made me smile!

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