Lucena-Pagbilao Grande Island

We went to South Waters Marina Club in Lucena last holy week. It is our Uncle Peter who organized the trip, we were a group of 28, it's a family get together which we usually set every holy week. I don't really find the resort superb, instead it was just so-so. They only got few rooms available which is good because the place won't be overcrowded. They have many amenities like billiards, pool, tennis, horseback riding, then you can also tour the whole island driving a golf cart. Guest are not allowed to bring food and drinks (even chips and water), that's ok with us.
The rooms need more improvement, there's only 1 DIM light bulb. the cabinets are all dirty, we have to clean em up so we can use them. anyway, we spend the first day doing nothing just relaxing. one really good thing about the resort is it really got a lot of trees, and i oh so love the smell of fresh air uhumm...
They only got 1 resto, affordable food and yummy. the only thing i really hate was they have the guts to tell us we cannot bring in chips when they can't sell us any and the fact that they closed 9pm. how the hell are we gonna have snacks if we got hungry???
the next day, we went to Pagbilao Grande Island, it's a 1 hr boat ride. The ride to Pagbilao was a little bit scary( it was my first longest boat ride ever), we cross pacific ocean just riding a not so big banca. We saw the famous Pagbilao sandbar but sadly we didn't get to step foot in it since the water was a little bit high. there was a portion where in the middle of nowhere the water was just as deep as our bilbils (hehe), the water was so clear and we can see fish swimming. when we arrive at Pagbilao I felt haven. powdery white sands, beautiful rock formation, it was like a mini elnido and boracay. I never knew there's still beautiful beach in luzon. Yes, Bolinao's white sand are beautiful and according to my dad, Paguspod sands are fine ans white (I can't seem to remember a lot about it since I've been there 14 years ago) but Pagbilao, Quezon has the best sand I set foot on. If i will be given a chance to visit the place again, i will never think twice. It is a vacation to remember.
Back to South Waters where we spend the rest of our vacation, we rode golf cart and tour the whole island. We ate a lot of their turons for our snack and i love their pancit lucban.
On our way home, we stop by my favorite, Kamayan sa Palaisdaan in Tayabas, only 15mins(with the traffic) from South Waters. As usual their food are so so so yummy. too bad my favorite dish ginataan na sugpo with paco leaves was not available. anyway, their liempo are very delicious, we ordered sugpo with pechay, although not as yummy as sugpo with paco leaves, the dish was still to die for. There's a manglalako (vendor) selling pinipit we brought some and it's really really sinfully delicious.
Picturan na!!!