📍El Nido, Palawan (2022)

Hi, its me your girl Maria, I just wanna share with you my travel experince in El Nido, Palawan last month (September 15-19, 2022) I had a lot of fun with my boyfriend even though theres a reported storm in kalayaan islands still, the tour must go on! hehe anw, I'm just happy to be back here in Manila safe but the experience is quite exciting <3

Itinerary

09SEP - DAY 1

My shift ends every 12am and right after my shift ends, we already gather our things to go to NAIA T3 for our 5am flight to puerto princesa. upon arrival, our tour operator pick us up for our land travel going to el nido. Travel time is approximately 5 to 6 hours. (there will be one stop for early lunch at your own expense)

we arrive at El Nido drop off point around 12pm, there's a lot of tricycle where you can ride and tell them where is the hotel you'll be staying. 

luckily, our hotel let us check in early without charge. we fix our things and ask our hotel staff to get us a motor rent because we're going to nacpan and lio beach. Its already 6pm when we got back to our hotel. Nacpan beach is so beautiful, we just rent a chair and chill  with 1 bottle of beer. 

sadly, we don't have much of photos at lio beach because of heavy rain

16SEP - DAY 2

Day 2 is for our El Nido Tour A (sadly secret lagoon is close due to bad weather) our tour guide pick up us at lobby and guide us to where we can get our stab for boat ride. Our boat guide is very kind as well as boat staff to be our photographer. Weather is not that good but still El Nido is so beautiful. Waves is kinda scary but still tours is permitted by the coastguard so i guess its safe. hehe

17SEP - DAY 3

Same scenario, our guide pick us up at the hotel lobby, and we went for our Tour C, this time the waves is kinda calm compare yesterday's tour. Sun is shining which is good. 

heres a short tiktok video compilation (follow nyo ko haha) https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRbdtF3o/    https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSRbdEk4r/

18SEP - DAY 4

On this day, our van transfer pick us up at the hotel so we don't need to ride a tricycle. We arrive at Puerto Princesa around 3pm and we request to drop us off at baywalk plaza, we just chill there for a awhile, took some pictures and eat meryenda because food at the airport is expensive and its not that far from the airport. Our flight is 8pm and we spent the rest of our time to rest at the boarding gate.

Expenses

RT airline ticket (cebu pacific air)- 2600+ (we got this on promo)

Land arrangement tour (tripidito travel)- 6100 (all-in)

Hotel: Rodriguez Lodge, El Nido

    * RT van transfer pps-el nido-pps

    * 4D3N accommodation with complimentary breakfast

    * Tour A with lunch 

    * Tour C with lunch

Motor rent - 500 (24 hours)

Day 1 dinner - 180 (karinderya)

food stock - 200 (bili kayo ng 6L water as per our guide a lot of tourist report having lbm because of water) hindi kasi hiyang sa tubig doon.

Day 2 dinner - 350 (i forgot where we ate but its just near city hall)

Day 3 dinner - 880 (i forgot where we ate but its just near gusto gelato)

Kayak rental - 300 per tourist spot

Snorkeling gear - 100 per day

Aqua shoes - 100 per day

Big lagoon entrance fee - 200

Entrance fee - 200

Things you need to know

1. confirm RT airline ticket and hotel accomodations DOT accredited.

2. Valid ID & Vaccine Card or VaxCert

3. You need Spass for your el nido trip you can register early it doesn't matter. : https://www.s-pass.ph/

4. If you want hassle free just like ours you can book here : https://www.facebook.com/tripiditotravel

5. or if you just want to book accommodation this is where we stay : https://www.facebook.com/losregaloslodgepalawan

( malinis ang lugar, comfy ang room, mabait ang mga staff at malakas ang wifi nila hehehe kahit malakas ang ulan hindi kami naka experience ng internet issue goods for freelancer jan at malapit sa floating dock at sa mga kainan)

6. in my experience, smart/tnt have more stable data signal. dito/globe is not working for some area in town.

Though, September is rainy season, our trip is still pretty amazing because rain pours a lot at night, and for me who works at home, travelling is one of my reward and pleasure. I hope you can get some information about this post and see you on my next blog. bye! <3

 "Always choose your happiness"