Tourists urge to avail of hotels
outside the city
By Mortz C. Ortigoza
DAGUPAN
CITY – Rooms in major and medium scales hotels in this city have been fully
booked a week after the start of the
month long Bangus Festival 2017 that began last March 31.
City Tourism
Chief Sharon Maramba said as of late March hotel rooms in this City proper were
already filled up through reservation.
“Nag booked
para sa mga judges sa Gilon-Gilon Festival of the North pati iyong (inaudible)
trainers wala na po that’s three weeks ago. So we don’t have enough hotels,”
she stressed during a press conference held at the Atrium in CSI Stadia last
April 6.
As of the first
week of April, she cited, hotels and resorts at the outskirts of this
burgeoning city would have already been booked, too.
“So in terms of occupancy sobrang mataas o fully
booked na sa city (proper) na hotel. Fully booked na sila”.
Maramba advised tourists to avail of hotels at the neighboring towns of Mangaldan, Calasiao, Binmaley, and Lingayen.
Maramba advised tourists to avail of hotels at the neighboring towns of Mangaldan, Calasiao, Binmaley, and Lingayen.
The major draws in the
month long celebration for foreign and local tourists are the
Festivals of the North where participants from here and other cities and
towns in Luzon, garbed in their local customs, strut their street dancing
prowess and Bangusan Street Party dubbed as the Kalutan, Kainan,
Kasayahan Ed Dalan that has been a perennial biggest street party in the
Philippines.
The Festivals
of the North will be held on April 28 while the Bangusan Street Party
will be on April 30.
According to the
data of the Tourism Office, there are 763 rooms of hotels, resorts, town
inns, and pension houses here.
Hotels and
resorts here are Star Plaza Hotels (Department of Tourism’s accredited) with 86
rooms; Leisure Coast Hotel Resort with 49 rooms; Lenox Hotel (DOT accredited)
with 40 rooms; Luxor Hotel (DOT accredited) with 26 rooms; Dagupan Village
Hotel with 25 rooms; Hotel Le Duc with 25 rooms; Ciudad Elmina Fishing Village
Resort with 20 rooms; YMCA with 16 rooms; Hotel Monde with 10 rooms and;
Ragtime Suites with 6 rooms.
Town Inns and
Pension Houses with 408 rooms are Albert Lodge, Barangay Apartelle, Cabana Inn
(second biggest with 42 rooms), Crisologo Traveller’s Inn, Dalas Lodge, Gayaman
Lodge, Gelymar Inn, Hao-Wei Inn, Inn Asia Dagupan, Justin Cottage, Mascara Inn,
Minda’s Cottage, Nel-Ars Inn, Nena’s Bed & Breakfast, Nice & Relax Inn,
Nobili’s Inn, Rose Plaza Inn, Solid Star Lodging Inn, Sun Drive Inn, Sunshine
Lodge, Tondaligan Park Inn, Towngate Inn, Value Star Inn (the biggest with 96
rooms), and West Gate Motor Inn.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR BANGUS FESTIVAL 2017:
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