for room accommodations, you may stay at puerto pension. the rate is php1200, triple occupancy. the rate is already inclusive of round trip airport transfers and breakfast for 3 guests.
when doing your tours, arrange it yourself. some tour companies will charge you as much 600 per person for a city tour but if you just rent a van, it will come out cheaper. tricycle drivers even told us that they organize city tours for only php500 for 3 persons.
as for cheap flights, cebu pacific and PAL come up with promos every once in a while...
below is a detailed itinerary of our trip to palawan nearly a month ago:
http://manila-mania.blogspot.com/2008/06鈥?/a>Can you give any advice on how to enjoy palawan without having to spend much?
Everything in Philippines is already cheap. Especially if you are a filipino buying from your own people. If the cost of the trip is your main concern, perhaps you should just not take the trip. Its really hard to enjoy any trip if you are constantly having to haggle over every peso. How can anybody enjoy such a situation? The best way to make prices go down on things is to just not buy it. If Palawan is an expensive place to go then people should just not go there. Trust me, the prices will come down if that happen. Thats why tourist traps are so expensive and the off-path places are a bargain.
There are ';2 areas'; to go to in Palawan.
The first and the obvious is via Puerto Princessa. This you can access via PAL or Super Ferry. From Puero Princessa, you can already go to numerous places: crocodile farm, the St. Paul Underground River, island hopping at Honda Bay, the former Vietnames refugee camp, then southward is a totally different trip like visiting the Tabon Caves, etc...
The other area has to be accessed differently bec. it is at the northernmost tip of Palawan, the Calamian Group of Islands. (check out a Philippine map--it's quite distant from Puerto Princessa)
AIR PHILIPPINES travels to Coron (Island in Calamian). But Calamian is cheapest to access via SuperFerry (leaves Manila pier Friday afternoon, you get there Saturday about 7am).If you take Superferry, be sure to be awake by around 6am to see the splendor of the limestone cliffs that becons. We had a grand weekend (2days) coming home Monday afternoon, I think this is cheapest from Manila. Same ship will sail to Puerto Princessa and it takes another 8hours or so.Come Sunday afternoon, this same ship sails back to Manila...
In the Calamianes, probably due to the geography of the group of islands, there's a weather phenomenon, some sort of a ';squall'; (quick rainpour then stop, leaving a quiet mist-filled surrounding). We experienced this and it was amazing.
In Busuanga, DIVE LINK RESORT is excellent. Limestone formations, pristine (as in) beaches, superb dive sites. The cleanest lake in the country is in Calamian. There is also a hotspring right in the middle of the water between the limestone cliffs. And another one tha't like a swimming pool in a shore somewhere. This area is ';not accessible'; from Puerto Princessa in the sense that it is quite distant w/ mountains and rough roads and it is an altogether different area.
In Popototan Island, the farthest island westward (of Palawan and the Philippines) is where Coral Bay Resort is.
A number of resort owners there are Europeans. One owner once told me his story, pretty much like the Bible's ';parable of the lost treasure';-- he visited Palawan (Calamian), saw the beauty of the place, went back home, SOLD HIS BELONGINGS and went back to Palawan and bought a beachfront where he now runs his dive site.
The waters in the Calamianes are calm. just calm. excellent to island hop and even do watersports.
Just surf the website of AIR PHILIPPINES for flight details.
Note:DIVE LINK and CORAL BAY Resorts have a Manila Office.
Enjoy Palawan!
palawan with over 1,800 islands is the biggest province in the philippines in land area. there are many lesser known resorts (no a/c, no luxury) but you get the same nice beach. go where the locals go and not where international jet setters are.
http://www.philtravelcenter.com/philippi鈥?/a>
want to enjoy palawan without spending much? swim your way to palawan.. that way, you'll get to see the fishes and save money for the trip! ^,..,^
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