Comments on: Pagudpud

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:17:35 +0000

Hi Beach Lover,

I am sorry, I wasn’t able to see your message immediately. I hope you were able to explore the area more, all of the things to see and do is on this article plus a more detailed look on Ilocos Norte and Ilocos Sur in our other travel guides. If you have any tips/updates for other fellow travelers, kindly post it here. Thanks! Hope you had a great time in Pagudpud!

Ryan

By: Beach Lover

Beach Lover — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:12:31 +0000

Hi! Me and my family are now in Brgy Saud. I searched Pagudpud on my m0bile’s net to check what ‘Pagudpud’ means and found this site. :) Any suggestions where to go next? Hope u could reply soon. :) thanx.ü

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:15:49 +0000

There’s also Patar beach in Bolinao Pangasinan.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:54:53 +0000

Oh yeah, Zambales is not all about Pundaquit however, there are some nice islands in the North. You may want to check out Potipot Island as well. Cheers!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:53:06 +0000

Hi guys,

A 2 day trip would be a little bit stretching the limit… For a not so crowded beach… hmmm.. If you dont mind an 8 hour bus trip from Manila-Daet, Mercedes Group of Islands in Camarines Norte has a lot of nice almost deserted beaches. They’ve got white sand bars as well and you can try surfing even. Unless you want to fly into Laoag and then head out to Pagudpud then you can cut down your travel time. If you are on Facebook, check out Tourism Paradise Philippines fanpage, it has an album of some of the places we went to – you can check out Camarines Norte album there. For one closer to Manila, I think the beaches of Morong in Bataan are okay. There is the Sombrero Island off Anilao, Batangas as well which was small but very pleasant. :)

Check our destination guides on Camarines Norte, Bataan, and Batangas. I reckon you are based in Manila yes? Then those places are some of the areas we can recommend..

By: dingdong & anne

dingdong & anne — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:18:43 +0000

We are a couple planning to go out of town on a weekend and we’re looking for not-so-crowded beach destinations that would make a 2-day trip worthwhile. Any suggestions? (We were originally planning to visit pundaquit but got turned off because of reviews saying the place is being neglected waste-wise. We also want to see pagudpud but we’re afraid we might lack time). We are “inexperienced” travellers and would really appreciate your help. Thanks! :)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:38:31 +0000

Wow Api!!

Thank you for these information! This sure helped a lot of people! :)

Ryan

By: Api

Api — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:20:23 +0000

These are the buses that would directly take you to Pagudpud:
(I already provided a picture of the bus for you to have an idea)

RCJ Lines- 2×2 seating; regular aircon- Espana Blvd, Sampaloc Manila
Bus: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alfiesbuses/3656138721/
Interior: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alfiesbuses2/3838948333/

Florida Transport- 2×2 seating; deluxe with restroom- (Across RCJ Lines)
Bus: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alfiesbuses2/3816799051/
Interior: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alfiesbuses2/3838937667/

Maria de Leon Trans- 2×2 seating; Regular aircon- Dapitan cr. Gelinos St, Sampaloc
Bus: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alfiesbuses/3743627629/

–If you wish to ride on buses with restroom and bigger reclining seats, you could get one that would take you only up to Laoag. Then you could take a connecting bus (another hour) that would take you to Pagudpud. My best advice is Maria de Leon. Their buses are comfortable, their stops offer good food and their employees are friendly. Here are the interior photos of their super deluxe buses:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alfiesbuses/3731447794/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alfiesbuses/3680943041/

Restroom:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alfiesbuses/3681758804/

**I hope my being a bus hobbyist helped :-)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:22:34 +0000

Hi Pam, to go around Ilocos, we virtually walked, used the local tricycles. buses and calesas. There should be heaps of them but make sure you ask for the latest times they operate because some of them especially between towns has buses that operates until 4PM. From Maira-ira to Saud, we just hired a korong-korong by one of the guys in the area to take us – the korong-korong is r\the trike without the top, so we were basically whizzing on the national highway for 45 minutes for that – not very safe but it was a total adventure. There are regular buses from Pagudpud to Laoag but the latest would be around 4-5pm. There is an A/C bus but it leaves Pagudpud town at around 7PM for Laoag en route to Manila. Have fun in Ilocos!

By: pam dionisio

pam dionisio — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:27:02 +0000

hey ryan thank you for sharing info ou you trips. i just wanna ask you on how to get around ilocos? me & my boyfriend are planning to go to ilocos & we are not planning to go with a travel agency since it will cost more so i just want to know how to get around so we can go the the places that you’ve mentioned… thank you :)