Largest Christmas Tree Park in PHL unveiled in Bacolod

By: Glazyl Y. Masculino

BACOLOD City – Property giant Megaworld unveiled a new attraction here – the largest Christmas Tree park in the Philippines last Wednesday.

Harold Geronimo, Megaworld senior assistant vice president and head of public relations and media affairs; Jennifer Palmares-Fong, Megaworld Bacolod vice president for sales; Deana Claveria, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Suntrust Properties Inc.; and Jerry Rubis, first vice president for sales, marketing, and training of Suntrust Properties Inc., led the ceremonial lights on of around 250 Christmas Trees at the Forbes Hill here.

Dubbed “Forbes Hill Christmas Forest,” hundreds of Christmas Trees decorated with thousands of dazzling colored lights coupled with holiday songs were placed all over the main road of Forbes Hill located along the Bacolod-Silay Airport access road.

“This is the first time for Bacolod City to have a park filled with hundreds of Christmas trees,” Fong said. While others are into putting up giant Christmas trees and dancing lights, we thought of introducing something unique and different, she added.

The biggest Christmas Tree park is situated beside the iconic Bacolod welcome marker which is the country’s first Las Vegas-inspired welcome marker inaugurated last year. It is open to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Visitors can drop by the park as they walk around and take photos at the Christmas Trees that light up in a brilliant display of colors. It will run every night until January 5, from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m.

“We are very glad to introduce this attraction as our way of celebrating Christmas in Megaworld,” she said.

The 15-hectare Forbes Hill is the first upscale village inside Northill Gateway, one of Megaworld’s two townships in the City of Smiles.

Also rising at the eastern part of Bacolod is Megaworld’s second township in the city, the 34-hectare The Upper East, the city’s first masterplanned mixed-use community that will host the city’s modern central business district.