Foreigners Guide to Calapan City

Calapan City is well known to tourist because it is one of the route you can take to go to the famous beach resorts in Puerto Galera. Also Calapan is surrounded with beautiful beaches too. Although the sands are black on the coastal side of Calapan people enjoy their stay because of the beautiful resorts that Calapan City can offer and one of those is View Isle Beach Garden.

Its not that I'm judging my own people (I'm a local here) but sometimes they like to rip-off foreigners. I hated that cause I have a lot of foreigner friends. So if your a foreigner or a tourist here is a guide on how much the fairs would cost around the city.

Common way of travelling around the City of Calapan is by riding a Tricycle.

Normal fare from the Pier to the Main City is Php 20.00 - Php 40.00 per person.
Normal fare from anywhere to 2-4 km is Php 10.00 per person. If you exceed you can add 5 - 10 pesos

If they charge you with more than this, they are probably trying to rip you off. Best way is to tell them that your gonna report them to the TMO (Traffic Management Office). Do this by getting their numbers in front of the passenger seat on the glass pane.

If your trying to stay here for a vacation there are a lot of cheap but nice hotels. But if your staying for a month or two I would suggest renting an apartment which is cheaper. Let's say that renting a hotel would cost you Php 1000.00 - Php 3000.00 a day, while renting an apartment would only cost you Php 6000.00 - Php 10,000.00 a month. Pretty cheap huh. Well here is a currency converter for a better computation.



I'll be adding more details soon, this is it for now.

If you got questions fill free to comment.