Name: GV Hotel Catarman
Address: F. Marcos St., Brgy. Narra, Catarman, Catarman, Catarman, 6400, Philippines
Rating: 6

Air conditioning

24-hour reception

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Smoke-free property

Security guard

No elevators

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Smoke Detector

Cable TV

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Pets Not Allowed

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National Airport

Calbayog Airport

GV Hotel Catarman

Catarman

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pets-allowed

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kitchen

My wife and I have stayed in the Standard Room of GV Hotel in Catarman, Northern Samar Province every summer over the past several years, usually, 3 nights per stay. The price had risen to 825 Philippine Pesos per night, about $17USD during our most recent stay. Payment is cash only but guests need only pay 1 day at a time. There is a 200 peso room card deposit refunded upon checkout. The room card is needed for electricity, so the room will heat up during vacant periods of a few hours (however, we found our Makati Shangri-La room card would work in the electricity slot). 

The rooms are minimal: almost like camping out with air conditioning. One double bed with a couple feet of space around bottom and one side. Two tiny bars of soap, a couple fresh towels and a roll of toilet paper each day if you ask for them. There is no hot water and no shower, one ladles water from bucket of cold water; this is refreshing. “Running” water in sink was more accurately termed “trickling” water.

This visit we had problem the entire day with toilet that won’t flush. After several rescues with a plunger, Manager Roy suggested we do not put toilet paper into the commode; soiled TP goes into trash basket. Even that did not work, and we finally gave up and left plunger in BR so we could unplug it ourselves. They did offer to change rooms on the 2nd day but we elected to tough it out. 

Be careful on the stair case: poorly lighted, steep and the pitch is almost 1 foot per step; results in a nice workout for the buns if your room is on the 3rd or 4th floors— no elevators— but a fall would ruin a visit.

Basic needs

Centrally located in downtown Catarman,it is easy to find transport.anywhere you go.It is well advertised coming from a chain of hotel.. It has about 20 rooms.of varying sizes. It is a budget hotel. No breakfast served, no wifi, no supplies. 

Budget Hotel

This hotel is very basic but fulfills its role for a quick overnight like catching the early plane to Manila. Rooms are tiny and WiFi works intermittently. Basic bathroom allows to do ones cleaning. AC is raher noisy. Situation in Catarman is excellent.

Very basic

Regular room, good for people looking for budget room, its very affordable. clean quite and accesible to everything. Seem like same, near shopping store and restuarants, walking distance to everything.

Experience of stay

I find it fairly canny of the management of budget hotels to keep visitors' expectations nice and low. "You get what you pay for" is very much a common mantra among such places, and in the case of this hotel, the facilities are quite literally drawn on the wall of the lobby: air-conditioned rooms, running showers and a place to sleep. 

In that, the hotel is pretty much a success. There's even cable television. 

Unfortunately, no matter how low its aim, GV ultimately misses the mark as, just as I checked in, I saw two big, fat cockroaches in my colleague's room. Now, cockroaches are a rather mundane thing; I have them running around my house all the time, and getting rid of them for any longer than a few months at a time is a perennial challenge. 

The thing is, this place is a hotel, and it's their job to keep their rooms clean, and while the cockroaches were not in my room, they could quite have easily have been.

The good news, though, is that my room was clean, the water pressure was good, and the bed was comfortable. I slept reasonably well.

Just as a place to sleep, I recommend this place with the reservation that the guest should check for cockroaches. To be fair to the staff, they take prompt action on such complaints.

Low Expectations...Met...Mostly

Hello! Me and my daughter had a vacation at Catarman, Northern Samar from may21- june13, 2015 we're staying at my mother in laws house. It's jus so happen that my biological mom came also to visit her relatives my sister and my mom stayed here at GV hotel. Then, i visited them around 7pm i went up using the stairs know at the door , but no one answered,. I went down again to ask the on duty guard but he jus told me he doesn't know. He didn't even ask me where is my room or am i a visitor. Weird. But then again my mom and sister went back the hotel, then we entered the room, oh i forgot, no CCTV's at the hallways, no telephone inside the room jus in case u have a visitor, just knocked haha i don't think its a safe place to stay even if it costs 600-700php/day. I won't risk my life. NEED IMPROVEMENTS GV HOTEL! God bless!

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