Havaianas MYOH 2011 in Power Plant Mall

Published May 5, 2011 | By

Every year, Havaianas conducts the Make your Own Havaianas event and this year, it’s going to be in Rockwell again.

Havaianas lets you travel in personalized style this summer at Make Your Own Havaianas 2011 from May 12 to 16 at the Rockwell Tent. Make Your Own Havaianas is your passport to mixing and matching travel-inspired limited edition soles, straps, and pins. Be a jetsetter and a trendsetter at the same time with Make Your Own Havaianas 2011, May 12 to 16 at the Rockwell Tent, event starts at 10am. Visitwww.makeyourownhavaianas.com.ph for more details.

And here’s the news:

Two Havaianaticos Head to Hawaii!

People usually head to Boracay for the fun, sun, and the gorgeous white sand beach, but for forty Havaianaticos who visited the country’s most popular beach from April 15-17, it meant being one step closer to winning the ultimate summer vacation to beautiful Hawaii. After 100 summer-loving two-member teams from all over the Philippines took part in the regional leg of the Havaianas “Always Summer: Race to Hawaii” last April 9 in Bonifacio Global City, Metro Manila, the twenty teams with the fastest times were flown to Boracay, courtesy of Seair, to go through a series of fun and exciting challenges and find out who would come out on top.

Upon arrival, the finalists were greeted with special summer essentials from David & Goliath, Hawaiian Tropic, Sony, and Havaianas. They stayed at the Tides Hotel Boracay and, although competing against each other, contestants quickly became friends.

For some of the Havaianaticos such as Angela Quijano and Felcris Tajo, being a part of the Havaianas “Always Summer: Race to Hawaii” finals was already a dream come true.

“We love Havaianas because of the designs,” shares Quijano and Tajo. “But when we found out that we were a part of the [Havaianas Always Summer:] Race to Hawaii, we were really happy.”

Although some of the contestants breezed through the challenges in the regional leg, this wasn’t the case for the final round in Boracay. Teams had to accomplish fun and unique tasks that included identifying the ingredients of the delicious mystery shakes provided at the famous Jonah’s Fruit Shake and Snack Bar, digging into the sand to find secret summer items, discovering famous Boracay landmarks, and even inflating a life-sized inflatable Havaianas flip-flop raft.

In the end, it was Michael Balcita and Bernard Rebollido from Team Rosa of Baguio City who prevailed. They will now travel in style with luggage from American Tourister for a 6-day/5-night, all-expense-paid vacation for two to Hawaii – the land that inspired Havaianas.

“The challenges were really fun and challenging and we had a hard time accomplishing everything,” said Balcita and Rebollido. “We’d like to thank Havaianas for all of this. We really had a great time.”

The Havaianas “Always Summer: Race to Hawaii” contest is one of the highlights of the Havaianas “Always Summer” campaign, a year-round celebration of summer. Havaianas believes that summer never goes out of style and that Filipinos can live out the spirit of summer every day, all year round, with a positive attitude and a sense of enthusiasm.

“We’d like to congratulate Michael and Bernard for winning the Havaianas ‘Always Summer: Race to Hawaii’ contest,” said Anne Gonzalez, Managing Director of Havaianas Philippines. “We’d also like to applaud the rest of the Havaianatico participants for living the fun-loving and happy spirit of summer every day.”