We are quite lucky with some aspects of our land, and one of them is our location at the confluence of multiple valleys slowly spilling water into our direction at points that are quite good for agriculture in the land behind us and for well water reliability below us.
As we have a great water supply for all of our shower and toilet and washing demands, it would be great if we could also use this for our drinking water supply. Then we could supply our own drinking water, rather than having to reply on having water delivered to us or going to buy it at the nearest water station 20-25 minutes drive away by our own truck.
We pay a slight premium for drinking water to be delivered to us by truck or by spending our own time and gas to go pick up drinking water with our own truck.
This arrangement does work out ok, but it isn’t nearly as efficient or as cost effective as it would be if we could invest in the upfront purchase of an advanced water system, and then supply our own drinking water, powered by our own solar power system, thus saving gas and vehicle maintenance and use.
Our estimate is that a water treatment system will pay for itself in saved time, gas, vehicle wear and tear, delivery costs and the margin paid to whom we purchase drinking water from within 3 to 4 years.
Already we share drinking water that we purchase and have delivered with the families of our staff, but our goal when we we have our own water treatment system is to share the produced clean drinking water with the multiple families surrounding us in our small beachfront community.
The treatment system would be the same as that used by the commercial entities we buy drinking water from, so we would have the infrastructure to actually sell water if we chose to do so, but we do not want the distraction of trying to do that, or to overuse our water supply, so we woull just choose to share drinking water with our surrounding community and staff as a small gesture of solidarity for the benefit of their families.
Welcome to consider a members’ package at Binga Beach to help us succeed and join in that success!
The Spring Member Package covers the cost of a very important part of our Phase 2 Expansion project, the Water Treatment System that will give Binga Beach the ability to create our own drinking water completely on our own, with our own well water and solar power energy.
Price: $11,500 – 1 System Available
– Purchase and installation of 1 brand new Water Treatment System. Naming rights of the system, it will bear your chosen name with a nice plaque/signage.
– 10 days stay per year, with food and beverages included, every year for 5 years. It is transferable, you can let any of your friends or family use it.
– $1 for every overnight guest at Binga during the year, paid at the end of the year, every year for 5 years.
– At the end of the 5 year period, the deposited money returned in full, $11,500.
Our lawyers at LMA Law will provide the contract for your review that ensures our obligation to the details offered here, while also protecting you as the potential partner and member from any liabilities of the resort. We will ensure transparency, limited liability, and adherence to the package deal offered. We are open to adjusting the contract we will share to address any concerns.
The structure of our offer is that of a membership arrangement conferring the perks, payouts and guarantees we lay out and limited to those.
Strong! Our company, by choice, financed all of our resort project with our own cash upfront, without any outside loans or debt, neither in the past or currently. We bought our beachfront property outright in cash and own the title outright, and similarly paid upfront for all of our projects like our large solar system, septic system, water system, large units and restaurant building. We are completely self sufficient “off of the grid”, have no debt, and are poised to generate revenue now for years to come.
Good! When we first purchased the property access to it on the existing roads was rather grueling on muddy and bumpy roads, but now there are many new roads and construction, drastically improving access in terms of effort and time required.
Also since that time a new airport opened up nearby in San Vicente, reducing the minimum drive time from an airport from 2 hours from El Nido to 45 minutes.
Further, some major real estate groups have also seen the potential for our area, being in a privileged and prioritized for promotion TIEZA zone, and have bought up many large parcels of land all around us for big tourism developments. Indeed, property values have doubled since the time of our purchase, and a lot of construction and investment is occurring.
Tourism trends post-Covid remain good for Palawan and the Philippines, and we have seen the island rebounding well in the past several years.
For reference, Binga Beach is located 2.5 hours south of Palawan’s main location attraction, El Nido, and is similarly north on the coastal to the other main attractions of San Vicente Long Beach and the backpacker hotspot of Port Barton. Most tourists travel a lot between these two popular towns, and we are a perfectly-positioned stop halfway in the middle.
For our Gold, Silver and Bronze packages, the most important benefits inclusion is the percentage of revenue for each year of the package of the sponsored unit. We will share information directly from our centralized booking engine provider, Sirvoy, where can see the occupancy history on a per-unit basis, and can filter it for any period of time.
Can see an example here, of the occupancy history of one unit, Beachside 1, for the year of 2024:
For reference, Sirvoy is our booking “channel manager” which functions as the central database in between all of our booking engine listings like AirBnB, Booking.com, VRBO, Trip.com our own website direct bookings, walk-ins and more to ensure we don’t accidentally overbook rooms, and it is the authoritative record of guest visits.
We will provide a quarterly progress report showing the occupancy history for the unit you have participated in (and also the whole resort) so you will know what range of payout can be expected. Note that there are big changes in occupancy for different seasons, in the rainy season from June to October we have much fewer guests, but make it for it in the high season from December to May.
For Spring, Mangrove, Solar and Ocean Club members there is a benefit of a certain US dollar amount ($1, $0.8, and $0.4) paid out for every overnight guest that stays at Binga Beach. An overnight guest is a single person staying in a unit for a booked stay for at least one night. A family of 3 staying in a single unit counts as 3 guests, though even if they stay multiple nights the count of them is still 3.
Visitors to Binga that only walk in for information, or a lunch restaurant visit for example do not count as overnight guests.
Just like the occupancy rates mentioned above, the counting of guests is tallied in our booking channel manager, Sirvoy. We will provide the information of the number of guests that have stayed at Binga so far every quarter, and pay the payout at the end of the year of their total at the end of the year.
Can see a filtering for a time period and the count of overnight guests in our Sirvoy system in this example here:
The expectation and history so far is that we have multiple hundreds of overnight guests every year.
As soon as you know what days you (or your friend or family you share your days with) wish to visit Binga, please check to see if they are available by looking at our Booking page here https://bingabeach.com/booking/ which shows live and up to date availability. You may choose any unit for your stay (you are not limited to choosing only the unit you sponsored), and once you see that the dates and unit you want are available, please contact us directly either by email or phone and we will manually set them aside for your stay.
Your 2 weeks do not have to be continuous, i.e. you may use one week plus multiple weekends, for example, and may use different visits for different persons, yourself or friends or family. Further, each visit can include multiple people, as long as they can match within the maximum occupancy of the chosen unit.
In the case of the project costing more, you as the client member will not be asked for any additional contribution. Any extra costs above the projected price will be for Binga Beach Brothers Inc. to cover to ensure the project achieves completion.
Since we have already built several other similar units and projects we are confident in our price estimates for current construction costs.
There are no maintenance, repairs, fees or similar for the unit – all such ongoing costs and upkeep will be covered by Binga Beach Brothers Inc.
Please feel free to reach out to David Le Smith, Partner and Property Manager, with all of your queries:
Email: david@bingabeach.com
Phone: +63 947 444 3597
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