Palau Accommodations

[jklassy]

Hello All -
I'm doing a liveaboard out of Palau and have a couple days afterwards before my flight home. Can anyone recommend a decent, reasonably priced hotel? PPR is too expensive for me. My travel agent recommended West Plaza Hotel. Anyone have any experience with them?

Thanks,
Julie

 

[maddmike]

I think there's a bunch of West Plaza properties in Koror. We stayed one night in 2001 at one of them (I never knew which; we were only there from midnight to 8AM). It seemed standard motel-ish. Nothing fancy, nothing terrible.

Caroline's is great. Beautiful view, quiet setting on top of a hill, friendly & helpful staff, access to PPR beach (which is quite nice).

The best meals we had were the big banquet at a Chinese place (recommended in Moon's Micronesia Handbook) and the Tandoori parrotfish at Seahorse Indian restaurant.

 

[Cacia]

Hello All -
I'm doing a liveaboard out of Palau and have a couple days afterwards before my flight home. Can anyone recommend a decent, reasonably priced hotel? PPR is too expensive for me. My travel agent recommended West Plaza Hotel. Anyone have any experience with them?

Thanks,
Julie

Excellent choice. I just returned from there and we loved West Plaza Malakal (sp?)! The best thing is you are not hostage to the shuttle routine because you can walk to Sam's if you feel like it. It was a small taxi ride to some great dinner spots (Taj, Dragon Tei, Thai). We paid 70 /night. the rooms are very new. Try and get a ground floor room, they are the delux. We tipped the guy who picked us up at the airport (from the Plaza hotel) and he came in a told the desk person to give us a delux room. ??? (I would try that again.) PPR is overrated in my opinion. I stayed there and thought the food was so-so. Have a wonderful time! There are several Plaza hotels, the one in town did not look as new.

 

[Shasta_man]

We stayed at PPR and enjoyed it.

For us, after spending the big bucks on the BBE, a nice resort is a nice ending to a vacation. For us, it's always why fly all that way to stay on the awesome boat in this awesome place to save $100 to stay at Motel 6? It's a drop in the bucket. To each, his own.

Nice view out of the room. The room was comfortable. Service was very good. Food was good, but resort priced. Food is not included of course, so you can eat where you want.

 

[BikerManiac]

Can you guys post how much you are paying for the airfare to Palau?. I need to find tickets to either Yap or Palau for end of March. But I will be in Asia (HK)

Thanks

Trip planning is so stressful

 

[Code Monkey]

I think there's a bunch of West Plaza properties in Koror. We stayed one night in 2001 at one of them (I never knew which; we were only there from midnight to 8AM). It seemed standard motel-ish. Nothing fancy, nothing terrible.

Yeah, there are several. Our travel agent told us that _which_ West Plaza you choose makes all the difference. Some, apparently, are old and dirty but others are nice.

We stayed at the West Plaza Coral Reef and it was a bit motel-ish but fine -- clean, comfortable, and new. There isn't a restaurant in it but there's a different West Plaza hotel nearly across the street that has an okay place to eat. You can get a taxi for $3 to take you into town (or $7 to get you to Kramers, a restaurant we really enjoyed). There's also a mini-mart about 2 doors down.

 

[Cacia]

We stayed at PPR and enjoyed it.

For us, after spending the big bucks on the BBE, a nice resort is a nice ending to a vacation. For us, it's always why fly all that way to stay on the awesome boat in this awesome place to save $100 to stay at Motel 6? It's a drop in the bucket. To each, his own.

Nice view out of the room. The room was comfortable. Service was very good. Food was good, but resort priced. Food is not included of course, so you can eat where you want.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I loved the week I was there at the PPR. Its just that to be able to blow the extra 1,500 dollars on storyboards and Dragon Tei, etc was more fun for me. I think I paid over 300 a night though. I have a killer ocean view at home in Hawaii so to pay extra to have ocean view just does not thrill me enough to pay for it. Funny, the service at the West Plaza was ...well I really felt it was so personal and friendly. One day my boyfriend did not eat his very beautiful papaya at the Red Rooster and the nest day, the chef gave him watermelon, ripened to perfection. He said "we noticed yesterday that you did not seem to like papaya." that was the attitude about everything, very personal and sweet. When I stayed at the PPR, the dive shop called us every hour for like two days. It became this huge joke. They kept reconfirming our dives, every time a new person rotated through the shop. It was just so funny. It is a beautiful resort and the snorkeling was nice, all those clams and giant blue starfish.

 

[Shasta_man]

<<attitude>>

Ah yes, the people are so very nice.

We had a good experience as well. I seem to recall $200s but I can't recall actually.
We end up paying a bit for it, but it's a smooth ride.

As I said, actually gender specific, sorry! Ha, to each their own on value. We only spent a couple days coming in and out to the BBE.

After that trip, it's only liveaboards now.

 

[Mike Veitch]

I agree with Catherine, i always stay at West Plaza Malakal. Its a two minute walk from Kramers, a great restaurant and place to hang out.

When in a place like Palau how much time do you really spend in your room?

 

[Cacia]

I agree with Catherine, i always stay at West Plaza Malakal. Its a two minute walk from Kramers, a great restaurant and place to hang out.

When in a place like Palau how much time do you really spend in your room?

Uhhhh......actually quite a bit.

It was a very, very nice room.