Palo Alto Bed & Breakfast

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Surrounded by tall trees in a rambling complex 3km north of the airport, Palo Alto is a refuge from the city's traffic and noise. The 19 rooms are set amid beautiful gardens and some front a shady pool. The disabled-friendly rooms have flat-screen TVs, nice bathrooms and traditional art, but could use more furniture.

It's a 10-minute tricycle ride into town, or take the nightly 6pm shuttle. Much of Palo Alto is made from recycled ipil from a decommissioned power plant (logging of this dark wood is banned in the Philippines).

Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

  • Iwahig Prison & Penal Farm

    Iwahig Prison & Penal Farm

    6.9 MILES

    About 15km from Puerto, this penal colony invites visitors to drop in and mingle with the prisoners. In the gymnasium of the central compound, inmates…

  • World War II Museum

    World War II Museum

    1.68 MILES

    Just east of the centre, this is an interesting, privately owned museum set up by Eugenio Mendoza, whose father was a member of the Fighting 1000, a group…

  • Plaza Cuartel

    Plaza Cuartel

    2.44 MILES

    Behind the Immaculate Concepcion Cathedral (c 1872), this restored WWII garrison is the site of an open-air war museum and shrine to American prisoners of…

  • Environmental Enforcement Museum

    Environmental Enforcement Museum

    1.8 MILES

    In the Pasyar Travel & Tours complex, this is a worthy and important museum that displays confiscated chainsaws, boats, dynamite and (sometimes) animals…

  • Nagtabon Beach

    Nagtabon Beach

    14.15 MILES

    This beach, on the northern side of the isthmus, has several hundred metres of white sand and shallow water good for swimming. Jeepneys from San Jose…

  • Palawan Museum

    Palawan Museum

    2.1 MILES

    Housed in the old City Hall building adjacent to Mendoza Park, this newly modernised museum has two floors of exhibits about the ethnological and…

  • Palawan Heritage Center

    Palawan Heritage Center

    1.87 MILES

    This museum has touch-screen videos and a hologram that outline Palawan’s history and explain contemporary economic and environmental challenges. There's…

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Nearby Puerto Princesa attractions

1. World War II Museum

1.68 MILES

Just east of the centre, this is an interesting, privately owned museum set up by Eugenio Mendoza, whose father was a member of the Fighting 1000, a group…

2. Environmental Enforcement Museum

1.8 MILES

In the Pasyar Travel & Tours complex, this is a worthy and important museum that displays confiscated chainsaws, boats, dynamite and (sometimes) animals…

3. Palawan Heritage Center

1.87 MILES

This museum has touch-screen videos and a hologram that outline Palawan’s history and explain contemporary economic and environmental challenges. There's…

4. Palawan Museum

2.1 MILES

Housed in the old City Hall building adjacent to Mendoza Park, this newly modernised museum has two floors of exhibits about the ethnological and…

5. Plaza Cuartel

2.44 MILES

Behind the Immaculate Concepcion Cathedral (c 1872), this restored WWII garrison is the site of an open-air war museum and shrine to American prisoners of…

8. Iwahig Prison & Penal Farm

6.9 MILES

About 15km from Puerto, this penal colony invites visitors to drop in and mingle with the prisoners. In the gymnasium of the central compound, inmates…