My trip to Palawan
was actually planned by one of my friends in college. S was able to buy a deal
in Metrodeal for only Php 6000 per person, if I remember correctly. Vouchers
are really getting popular here in the Philippines, which I'm not really sure
is a good thing, since it's so tempting to buy every deal they offer on impulse,
which in the end makes you spend more.
Anyway, our deal included airfare, hotel accommodations and tours which
included lunch, not bad. The drawback is
the Underground River tour was not included, so we had to pay additional Php
1500 for the tour.
It was a very good
timing to go to Puerto Princesa, since it was just recently declared as one of
the New 7 Wonders of Nature. I really wanted to go, before it gets more expensive
and more people visiting.
We left Manila on
Thursday morning. Our flight is scheduled to depart at 7:30 am, but of course
it got delayed again. We rode the Airphil Express, which is one the budget
airlines here in the Philippines, even cheaper than Cebu Pacific. The plane is
ok, not too small like what we are
expecting. Like the Cebu Pacific, the airfare doesn't include food so you have
to buy food from their carts if you go hungry. Good thing, we bought donuts
while we are waiting to be boarded.
We arrived at
Puerto Princesa at about half past nine in the morning. It was cloudy when we
got there, and my friends told me there's actually an Intertropical Convergence
Zone so there's a pretty good chance that it will rain. We were fetched by our
travel agent and we rode their van to drop us off to our hotel. Our hotel is
the Legend Palawan, how posh. Hahaha. Well the truth is, we are actually just
staying at their budget hotel called Pads, which is also in the hotel building.
The rooms are smaller, and simpler I guess, but we are free to use the hotel
amenities and includes daily breakfast, so that's cool. We are not particular
about our accommodations anyway, since we just use it for sleeping. As long as
there's a bed, an air conditioner and a TV, we're ok. Continue reading here.
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