Aziza Paradise

Puerto Princesa


Best described as an urban – and urbane – resort, Aziza wows right away with a soaring open-air reception area that reflects the hotel's leaf theme. It's flanked by two restaurants and a nice-looking pool that inexplicably lacked pool furniture on our visit. All rooms are well appointed; shoot for one with a balcony overlooking the pool and lush gardens.

The fancier villas have plunge pools. There's also a nightclub on the premises. It's north of the airport, a 10-minute tricycle ride from the centre.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Puerto Princesa attractions

1. World War II Museum

1.95 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. Palawan Heritage Center

1.99 MILES

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

3. Environmental Enforcement Museum

2.02 MILES

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

4. Palawan Museum

2.16 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

2.47 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

6.78 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…