DAVAO CITY—After opening its Chocolate Museum a few weeks ago, a garden resort here will soon offer a first of its kind service in Mindanao and the whole country—a chocolate spa.
Rhea Pañares, Malagos Garden Resort marketing coordinator, said the chocolate spa will become one of the regular features that will be offered to customers and visitors of the resort.
Pañares said the chocolate spa, which is expected to start during the celebration of Kadayawan festival this August, will utilize waste materials from cacao products such as the cacao husks that can be turned into soaps and scrubs.
She stressed it will not be a “usual spa but a wellness retreat where clients can stay for two to three days for a full wellness immersion.”
The resort opened its 280-square meter chocolate museum, also considered the first in the Philippines, last March 8. The museum is drawing more tourists, especially on weekends.
The museum is an interactive cacao and chocolate-related installation where visitors will be familiarized on how chocolates are made starting from harvesting.
Visitors to the museum, she said, are also allowed to tour a nearby cacao farm.
The museum is also a source of information to visitors on the wonders of cacao and chocolate-making through infographics, audio and video presentations and interactive displays.
It was set up to entice visitors to venture into cacao farming and production.