Palawan island resort enhances leisure amenities
Travelers from all over the world returned recently to El Nido Resorts’ Pangulasian island resort following renovations to further enhance the guest experience.
Javi Hernandez, president of Ten Knots Development Corp., owner and developer of El Nido Resorts, said that guests revisit Pangulasian because they feel they can be left to themselves there to enjoy nature.
The resort, which has been cited by Conde Nast Traveller a number of times, was masterplanned to give guests privacy beginning with villas set some distance from each other and surrounded by greens.
Pangulasian is the top-end property of El Nido Resorts’ four island getaways in Northern Palawan. The three others are Lagen, Miniloc, and Apulit with each one appealing to a special group of travelers.
Guests who enjoy their privacy further have a one-kilometer stretch of ivory beach to themselves. The waves that hit the beach tend to be gentle owing to the location of the resort in the bay and provide a soothing rhythm to a holiday on the island.
Moreover, the resort has its own house reef teeming with abundant coral life just steps away from the beach.
Renovated common areas like the Amianan restaurant and a new beach bar lounge area have also been positioned to maximize views of the limestone cliffs of neighboring islets that change with the light. Hernandez explains that densities were kept deliberately low to allow guests to lose themselves to the natural surroundings and unhampered views.
Joey Bernardino, Ten Knots marketing director, added that the beach bar is what revisiting guests will notice as an improvement.
“It will allow guests a new area wherein they can soak in all the nature around them,” he said.
The rest of the changes included the refurbishment of the cogon roof at each other guest villas, furniture restoration, upgrading of the guest TV sets to 50 inches with new Bluetooth speakers, and improving the sewage treatment plant to ensure that marine life will feel welcome there.