Parrots Boutique Resort — Hotel in Roxas

My partner and I stayed here for two nights and overall we thought it was great!||||Positives:||This is one of the highest rated and expensive places to stay in Port Barton, so we expected it to be quite good. Compared with most accommodation in PB, it is modern and new.||We loved the pool, which was great and refreshing when chilling there. Though this place is a bit further down the main Bonifacio street than most hotels/hostels, it is close to the Fat Cat Café, and only a 10 minute walk to the beach anyway, as PB is small.||The room was lovely and spacious, and aircon worked well. The bed was comfy, and the balcony area is great for chilling!||The bathroom is nice and spacious too, but the second day of our stay, we noticed the tap/toilet and shower water had turned very yellow. I don’t know if they pull the water from the local stream or if it is filtered at all but this was weird and worrying especially when showering. The toilet water was brown/black for that day and the final day we left. The bathroom also has a lot of bugs falling from the roof, as there is no false ceiling in there like in the room. There was a musty/musty smell in the bathroom the whole time. Obviously, we were in a small isolated town in the jungle, which still doesn’t have stable supplies of electricity or water, and they do their best to provide a hotel service. ||||PB is getting more and more popular, so I assume a lot of infrastructure will be coming down the line to support sustainable development of the area. ||||We loved the resident cats who are in and out and chilling. The staff were all lovely, and made us decent breakfasts and brought to our balcony to eat, which was lovely!||||There is a water refilling station which was great. We paid 50 pesos for the hotel to bring us to the bus station via tricycle, which was reasonable. ||||Areas for improvement:||Apart from improving the water situation is that the driveway in should be paved and street lighting if they can make this investment, as it becomes very swampy when it rains, and hard to navigate after dark with the phone torch. Additionally, for the breakfast, they should add the option of poached eggs to the...

My partner and I stayed here for two nights and overall we thought it was great!

Positives: This is one of the highest rated and expensive places to stay in Port Barton, so we expected it to be quite good. Compared with most accommodation in PB, it is modern and new. We loved the pool, which was great and refreshing when chilling there. Though this place is a bit further down the main Bonifacio street than most hotels/hostels, it is close to the Fat Cat Café, and only a 10 minute walk to the beach anyway, as PB is small. The room was lovely and spacious, and aircon worked well. The bed was comfy, and the balcony area is great for chilling! The bathroom is nice and spacious too, but the second day of our stay, we noticed the tap/toilet and shower water had turned very yellow. I don’t know if they pull the water from the local stream or if it is filtered at all but this was weird and worrying especially when showering. The toilet water was brown/black for that day and the final day we left. The bathroom also has a lot of bugs falling from the roof, as there is no false ceiling in there like in the room. There was a musty/musty smell in the bathroom the whole time. Obviously, we were in a small isolated town in the jungle, which still doesn’t have stable supplies of electricity or water, and they do their best to provide a hotel service.

PB is getting more and more popular, so I assume a lot of infrastructure will be coming down the line to support sustainable development of the area.

We loved the resident cats who are in and out and chilling. The staff were all lovely, and made us decent breakfasts and brought to our balcony to eat, which was lovely!

There is a water refilling station which was great. We paid 50 pesos for the hotel to bring us to the bus station via tricycle, which was reasonable.

Areas for improvement: Apart from improving the water situation is that the driveway in should be paved and street lighting if they can make this investment, as it becomes very swampy when it rains, and hard to navigate after dark with the phone torch. Additionally, for the breakfast, they should add the option of poached eggs to the...

In a nutshell the reason for the two star review is this hotel should not be open yet - it is still under construction. Most of the rooms smell of paint / are not yet open. Everyday there is full on construction work going on from 9 - 5pm; around 15 people working.

We recommend you do not stay here until the building work is complete. Once finished this will be a nice place to stay although it is expensive for what is a pretty basic hotel.

Pros: beautifully designed staff are helpful in recommending restaurants spacious rooms good aircon great coffee nice location, close to everything but quiet at night

Cons: lots of construction workers within the hotel currently so it is incredibly noisy throughout the day (9-5pm). One day we wanted to relax by the pool but it was impossible. This hotel will be nice in a few months but it has opened too early. no sun loungers by the pool limited / no hot water in the showers & awful WiFi rooms not cleaned unless you request this service but you are not told this upon arrival (we don’t mean changing sheets etc, which they do every three days for environmental reasons (which we agreed with), but they won’t even tidy up/wipe the floor/make the bed) cannot flush anything down the lavatory but the bins are not emptied daily so it is very unhygienic it is priced at the very top end of Palawan hotels although it actually gives off quite a ‘hostel’ vibe. There are lots of communal spaces, a fridge to get drinks from, kitchens to cook in etc. No problem with this but I think the owner should focus on either eco upmarket resort or go for the traveller hostel. If the latter the price needs to come down. If the former a lot of work needs to be done to make this worth its...