At the moment, we are accepting guests through reservations only. Guests of Alfonso Hotel are also welcome to Alfonso Hotel Farm where you can enjoy the large swimming pool and horse-back riding. The Farm is also suitable for corporate functions, seminars, retreats, team building, wedding receptions, group accommodation, etc., for just about any gathering.
From the hotel, Alfonso Hotel Farm is about a 20 min. car ride and is located in Barangay Pajo, close to Alfonso Town proper.
The 1.7 hectare property includes a horse-back riding facility, dining area, pavilion, volleyball court, a nicely landscaped creek to cool off, a swimming pool to plunge into and much more.
Now let us introduce you to our equine friends. We have a riding school which is already open for beginners. In our 6 stables are Charm, an American Saddlebred, Snowball (white as the name suggests), Pogi (a champion in harness riding), the gentle Showgirl, Biba our star and Pande (because her coat is the colour of Pandesal).
All of our saddles are imported and well-padded to protect the riders’ bottoms. You will have an instructor who will teach you how to approach and mount your horse, hold the reins, guide the horse etc. One ride is P500 per person, up to one hour, and this will take place in the bull ring. In one hour, you should be able to at least walk your horse in the direction you want it to go. This may sound easy, but because the horse wants to eat grass, or let’s say, go right instead of left, or not want to move at all, it could be challenging. Your communication skills with your horse will be put up to the test.
Riding paraphernalia: Long pants, shoes with flat heels and preferably a long-sleeve shirt.
Please visit www.alfonsohotelfarm.com for more details.
A Reportage from Alfonso Hotel Farm
If you visit the Alfonso Hotel Farm on the weekends, you are sure to hear Prof. Linda Kimpo projecting her voice to the members of our small dance production group, consisting of an unusual bunch of eager dancers: our construction workers and cooks. In the beginning, it started off kind of like that movie, “Shall We Dance.” The dancers, who first came in front of Linda more out of obligation than interest are now starting to practice even after work-hours. There seems to be a genuine passion for the folk dance that Linda is teaching.
A friend of the family, she is at the Alfonso Hotel Farm on most weekends. She choreographs the folk dances in its most traditional way, and she brings the same ardour as when she teaches in UP and Ateneo. I heard someone say that you see her university students practicing steps between classes so that they won’t flunk her class. She must be one tough cookie at school.
As the lessons at the Alfonso Hotel Farm progress, the dances are becoming more entertaining artistically. Being a renowned dancer herself, nobody can escape her trained eyes or ears. Hence you would hear her grunt and see her grimacing and her eyes rolling, occasionally. But there is a sense that this is going somewhere. In fact their first performance was held on the first week of August. Of course, she was reluctant to agree to a performance that was not complete yet. But by the end of the year, I am told that they will perform regularly and am sure impeccably so.
What blows me ways is to see the familiar faces who were once building the farm with those huge biceps carrying sacks of cement are now treading on the bench with their female partners with delicate steps. We are all excited to see the end-product.
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Website: www.alfonsohotelfarm.com
Alfonso Hotel Farm and Resort 
