Snow World Cebu

Tucked into the back of a small strip-mall about an hours drive from Downtown Cebu is this quaint little amusement park called Anjo World. Within this park is Snow World. Now, I come from the Midwest, and I know cold and snow, but to a Filippina, this is an exotic world! They provide coats (and, for an additional fee, gloves, earmuffs, and shoes, if the ones you wear would be slippery in snow). They provide an adjustment period in the front, where the temperature is about 40F or 2C, so that your sweat evaporates and the Filippinos don't get hypothermia. Then they let you inside to their "winter wonderland" and walk around the two stories, before shooting down their ice-slide. Picture-taking is not allowed, and they have staff everywhere to enforce it. Instead, they will gladly take pictures of you, then sell the prints at the end for 200 PHP each. To a westerner, it is pretty lame. For your Filippina partner, it is utterly fascinating. I recommend it for a date! You pay an entrance fee to Anjo and an additional fee for Snow World for a total of ~1100 PHP per person. They are open Wednesday through Saturday I think.

Although it is located within Anjo World, a separate admission fee (can be purchased together with Anjo World) is required. I was told that it was -10 degrees Celsius inside the building, but it didn't feel that cold. You can purchase earmuffs, gloves, and hats at the entrance, but gloves are all you need. You can borrow jackets for free. Photography is not allowed inside the museum🚫, but photographs taken by a dedicated photographer are sold at the exit (250 pesos/photo).