MINERVA BC NEWMAN
CEBU CITY – Seda Central Bloc Cebu celebrates its third-year anniversary with an interesting Do-It-Yourself (DIY) activity with “Sweets and Scents” with a group of media friends, content creators and bloggers on February 11, also a prelude to Valentine’s Day Treat at the hotel.
Seda Central Bloc’s pastry chef, Ritche Vano guided the group for DIY with sweets or ‘make your own chocolate’ with dark and white melted sweets with mix nuts and one’s own creativity and competitiveness in creating the most beautiful chocolate molds.
The winning chocolate creations got prizes like staycation for a day at the hotel, dining at its Misto restaurant and more.
Next, the group was making candles with various scents guided by Jessamae Tilar of Quinn’s Candles and Crafts that has a shop at SM Seaside mall. The group chose each own scent that include, Jasmine, Vanilla, Lavender, and many more with dried tiny flowers and leaves as décor for the scented candles that were created.
The DIY “Sweets and Scents” media event was creatively fun but, the sumptuous dinner at the hotel’s Misto restaurant capped the day with happiness and gratitude.
The Seda Central Bloc Cebu
Seda Central Bloc Cebu opened on February 12, 2020 and a week after, the pandemic and lockdown came. Despite the challenges of having no travels, the hotel not close down due to few long staying guests from the BPO industry and no employee was retrenched.
“Given that Seda is strategically located at the heart of Cebu I.T. Park, majority of the business came from corporate accounts in the BPO and IT industry. At the present, Seda is now hosting international and local travelers both for leisure and business travels,” Hotel manager, Ron Manalang shared with the group a bit about the hotel in its three years of operations here.
Manalang thanked the group for staying and supporting them in many of its events and promotions that help greatly in the hotel’s sustainability in business. “Thank you for making our brand known to the public,” he added.
Thrina de la Calzada, the hotel’s director of sales revealed that Seda Hotels’ adopted Philippine Eagle, Mayumi, has become the mascot for the brand.
The hotel is helping preserve this endangered species through the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) and for guests, a donation is automatically made to the PEF from bookings at Best Available Rates, De la Calzada said.
RMA with Seda Central Bloc General Manager Mr. Ron Manalang
Seda Central Bloc Director of Sales Ms. Thrina de la Calzada with RMA
RMA with Seda Central Bloc Front Office Manager Ms. Loren De Guzman
Manalang and De la Calzada are grateful that they were able to manage it through. Both are hopeful that Seda Central Bloc Cebu will have better years as travel and tourism are now on a rebound and hotel traffic has been felt since 2022, they bared.
