What to expect in Astoria Palawan

Expectation vs reality, let me start this blog by saying that there are no direct flights from Singapore to Palawan, you will have to have a stopover in Manila and get a connecting flight to Puerto Princesa. You my want to check Philippine Airlines or Cebu Pacific for their flight schedules to Palawan.

From Palawan International Airport you have two options to get to Astoria:

Option 1. Van – there are few vans waiting for you outside the arrival area of Puerto Princesa Airport, just be careful with dealing with fixers and make sure you get a good bargain. Based in our own experienced people were nice and helpful that’s why we pick this option. during the time of our visit a van ride cost per head was P300.00, the driver is polite and helpful and will drive you all the way inside the Hotel’s property and will help you with your bags. Side note  just don't forget to tell your manong driver  to drop you in San Rafael Astoria to avoid confusion and to save travel time because aside from Astoria resort there's another Astoria in the city. 


Option 2. Bus – for you to take the bus you need to hop on a tricycle and tell “manong” to bring you to San Jose or bus terminal going to San Rafael.

The  TRAVEL It will take about an hour and a half drive on a zigzag road, so if you are not into this kind of drive I suggest to take a motion sickness pills, in our case we didn’t do that and lucky enough to reached the hotel without any incidents of sickness.

YOUR ROOM Astoria hotel has a mini kitchen in their bedroom suite complete with rice cooker, mini-oven, microwave, kettle and cutlery they also provide pots if you want to cook your own meal. 

Although you can find few sari-sari store outside the hotel premises fresh seafood and lives stocks are not available, we ended up eating process foods like sausages, meatloaf, corn beef etc., although we manage to find from vegetable and fruits, the white squash (upo) that we bought was already rotten and almost nothing left to cook. We got some freshly harvested sweet potato shoots or talbos ng kamote for only P5.00

OTHER FACILITIES Hotel also provide free use of dryer which you can find in the 1st level of the main building, well don't expect too much because you mind end up dissapointed this is just a normal dyer tub that is a bit old  and has a terrible sound once you start spinning, don't worry you'll get use to it. 

There are Karaoke room, game room and gym in case you feel like bored,  booked ahead of time if you want to use the facilities. There's an outdoor mini golf near the entrance to the premise of the hotel and oh there's a boat on top of the tree? tree house? hahaha a tree house in a shape of boat yes that's it. lol

The resort also has it own water park just walking distance from the hotel, guest can enter the water park on discounted fees like P350 for head for adult member and P650 for non-member.

Why I never mentioned the beach? go and watch my vlog and you'll know why.  LINK here

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