Tips to Make the Most out of your Business Trip

A trip to Gensan City can be fun regardless of if you don’t have a budget or if you have one

For both choices, it might be hard for you to stay away from the company’s planned itinerary. But a trip to Gensan might become more interesting if you follow our tips below.

To help you get started on having a more fun time in Gensan City, consider doing our tips below:

Those who prefer to splurge can have the luxuries offered by the high-end hotels like Greenleaf Hotel, Avior Hotel, Columbus Plaza Hotel, OYO 459 Offshore Hotel, The Horizon Suites and Arcade, Reddoorz KCC Mall Gensan, Hotel Giorgio, RSG Microhotel, Hotel San Marco, Grand Summit Hotel, 3G Garden Hotel, Driggs Pension House and more. Hotels sometimes provide chauffeurs leading you to locations they have pre-determined.

For the budgetarians, you can stay in nice hotels for affordable prices. They usually offer free breakfast meals but sometimes there are none at all. There are nearby carenderias or local restaurants that provide a hearty meal.

There are a lot of activities offered by Gensan. In nearby municipalities there are plenty of natural attractions, but in the city proper itself there are nice places you can go to for an hour or two with business associates or by yourself.

To avoid a hotel-meeting-hotel lifestyle for the rest of your business trip, visit some of the malls in the city. There is Gaisano Mall of Gensan, KCC Mall of Gensan, Robinson Gensan, SM City, Veranza, RD Mall, and FitMart.
If you don’t want to blend into a crowd but instead wants to relax in a cafe, you can go to the AB Star Suites, Mangga, General Santos City
and check out Drey’s Kitchen Cafe. It might be better if you go for cafes found in Downtown for easier access. Café Sienna, The Cabin Brewery, BakeBros. Resto Café, Nursechefs Marbel, and J.CO Donuts and Coffee Veranza Mall are some local favorites.

Plenty of first-time travelers can underestimate the roads and routes of Gensan City. Some abstain from exploring even Downtown thanks to the confusion they can get from the public transportation system. The humid air and traffic at peak hours is not very inviting to those who just want to explore the city.

On times that you have an appointment far from the city, it is good to have your own rental unit that you have all to yourself. Unlike public transportation where you have to wait for the entire vehicle to get filled before traveling, a self-drive rental gives you freedom of movement.

A good rental car from Gensan Rent a Car can be easily arranged. With our diverse selection of rental vehicles at affordable rates, you can go to your business meetings in style and have more liberties when exploring Gensan.

Explore the local options and skip from the fast food chains. When you’re in a new location, the best way to get to know the place is through their food and people.

The Home of the Champion, General Santos City, is more than Tuna and Manny Pacquiao. Along with the beautiful scenery of beaches and mountain peaks, this city serves as a pit-stop for travelers in the Region of SOCSKSARGEN.

GenSan is rich in agricultural produce like corn, coconut, pineapple, asparagus,banana and rice, and tuna; making it the ‘Tuna Capital of the Philippines and havingthe world record for having the largest tuna display in the world. Shopping in GenSan is popular and so does is its food items, water activities, and festivals.

Dine in GenSan
Grilled Tuna Belly Most restaurants in the city offer menu that’s centered on their precious tuna fish. The tuna of General Santos is of premium quality thus it can be used as sashimi and tourists should try that. Other dishes of tuna that everyone must try are kinilaw, sinugba and tuna lechon. While tuna is its main fish offering, there are a lot of seafoods for everyone to try and rest assured, these seafoods are fresh.

Where to Eat
Being a city makes General Santos a place where there are many choices in terms of dining, shopping, and attractions. Here are some of the restaurants worth visiting.

Ranchero’s Grill and Seafood Restaurant
Rancheros Grill and Seafood Restaurant located in National Highway, General Santos, Mindanao, Philippines The reviews of this restaurant show that they have good food. They serve tuna but people particularly love their Baby Back Ribs. They serve different seafood meals which include Pampano fish and baked oysters. They also serve dragon fruit which is gaining popularity all over the Philippines. They’re open daily from 9:00am to 10:00pm.

Tiongson Arcade Tiongson Arcade
Location: Tiongson Street, General Santos City, Mindanao, Philippines Much like Dampa sa Libis, Tiongson Arcade offers the best raw seafood and you can have them cooked for you in different ways. This place is good for large groups of people and visitors looking for budget meals that are delicious. Don’t forget to order grilled tuna from this place.

Lola Sisay Seafood House
Lola Sisay Seafood House Location: Jose Catolico Avenue, General Santos City, Mindanao, Philippines Lola Sisay is a buffet restaurant offering a wide variety of dishes with strong focus on fresh seafood. Guests also love their vegetable dishes like Ginataang Langka and Chopsuey and they also put lechon on their menu for an additional price. They serve their buffet selection at 11:00am to 2:00pm and 6:00pm to 10:00pm daily.