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Novie's Tourist Inn

3.0 star property

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Reviews

6.2 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • Spa
  • Bar
  • Breakfast available
  • Parking included
  • Housekeeping
  • Laundry

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Sitio Lugadia, Barangay Corong-Corong, El Nido, Palawan, 5313
  • Corong Corong Beach
    8 min walk
  • Banana Boba
    2 min walk
  • El Nido Transport Terminal
    9 min walk
  • El Nido (ENI)
    18 min drive

Room options

Family Room

  • Sleeps 8
  • 4 Double Beds

Family Room

  • Sleeps 10
  • 5 Double Beds

Basic Room, Sea View

  • Sea view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Premium bedding, bed sheets

Standard Double Room

  • 215 sq ft
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

Family Room

  • Sleeps 6
  • 3 Double Beds

Basic Quadruple Room

  • Sleeps 4
  • 2 Double Beds

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About the neighborhood

El Nido

With a stay at Novie's Tourist Inn in El Nido, you'll be near the beach, within a 10-minute drive of El Nido Main Beach and Corong Corong Beach. .This spa inn is 13.5 mi (21.7 km) from Nacpan Beach and 0.4 mi (0.7 km) from El Nido Public Market.
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What's nearby

  • Corong Corong Beach - 8 min walk
  • Marimegmeg Beach - 2 min drive
  • Bacuit Bay - 2 min drive
  • Caalan Beach - 4 min drive
  • El Nido Main Beach - 6 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Bella Vita El Nido - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪Ver de El Nido - ‬2 min drive
  • ‪Oppa Dryft | Fish - ‬2 min drive
  • ‪Bulalo Plaza - ‬14 min walk
  • ‪Kopi & Bake - ‬2 min drive

About this property

Novie's Tourist Inn

Inn with a full-service spa, near El Nido Main Beach
Novie's Tourist Inn offers 28 air-conditioned accommodations with fans. Beds feature premium bedding. Bathrooms include showers with rainfall showerheads. Housekeeping is provided daily.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the inn's full-service spa. Services include massages. The spa is open daily.
Make yourself at home in one of the 28 air-conditioned guestrooms. Bathrooms feature showers with rainfall showerheads. Conveniences include fans, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Relax at the full-service spa, where you can enjoy massages. Additional features at this inn include complimentary wireless internet access, tour/ticket assistance, and barbecue grills.
Enjoy a meal at Holy Grill or snacks in the inn's coffee shop/cafe. Mingle with other guests at the complimentary reception, held daily. Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge. Cooked-to-order breakfasts are available daily for a fee.
Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, luggage storage, and laundry facilities. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free self parking is available onsite.
A complimentary manager's reception is offered each day.
Holy Grill - Onsite family restaurant.
Manu Brew - Onsite coffee shop. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Happy hour is offered. Open daily.

Languages

English, Filipino

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Electric car charging station on site
  • 24-hour roundtrip airport shuttle on request for a surcharge
  • Free self parking on site

Food and drink

  • Daily cooked-to-order breakfast available for a fee: PHP 150 to 220 per person
  • A bar/lounge
  • A coffee shop/cafe
  • A restaurant
  • Coffee and tea in common areas
  • Free daily manager's reception

Restaurants on site

  • Holy Grill
  • Manu Brew

Things to do

  • Full-service spa

Family friendly

  • Laundry facilities

Conveniences

  • Laundry facilities
  • Limited-hour front desk
  • Luggage storage
  • Safe at front desk

Guest services

  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Housekeeping (daily)
  • Tour and ticket assistance

Outdoors

  • Barbecue grill
  • Garden
  • Terrace

Full-service spa

  • Massage
  • Spa open daily

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Accessible airport shuttle
  • No elevator

More

  • Built in 2011
  • Designated smoking areas

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Premium bedding

Bathroom

  • Rainfall showerhead
  • Shower
  • Toilet paper
  • Towels provided

More

  • Air conditioning
  • Fan

Policies

Check-in

Check-in time starts at 2:00 PM

Check-out

Check-out before noon

Special check-in instructions

This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply); to arrange pick-up, guests must contact the property 72 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation
The front desk is open daily from 6:00 AM - 1:00 AM
Front desk staffed during limited hours

Access methods

Front desk (limited hours)

Pets

No pets or service animals allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
1 child, up to the age of 2 years, can stay for free if using existing beds when occupying the parent or guardian's room
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Important information

Optional extras

  • Fee for cooked-to-order breakfast: approximately PHP 150 to 220 per person
  • Airport shuttle fee: PHP 750 per person (roundtrip)

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts cash

We should mention

This property does not have elevators
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms
No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property
Construction is underway at a neighboring building and there may be noise disturbance from the construction work

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Novie's Tourist Inn Reviews

Reviews

6.2
Rating 10 - Excellent. 7 out of 73 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 24 out of 73 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 18 out of 73 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 13 out of 73 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 11 out of 73 reviews" "

6.2/10

Cleanliness

7.4/10

Staff & service

9.0/10

Amenities

6.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Jelly Angel

Traveled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
It was indeed a great stay! All the staff are very friendly and so accommodating. Special mention to Ate Joy and the other front desk Ate (I can't remember her name) Kuya (the night shift duty all around the staff. They were all helpful in assisting me to use the facility for working at night in the lobby area. Looking forward to staying at Novies but this time with my family. Novies is a safe, clean place, with easy access to almost everything. Thank you for a great stay!
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2024

4/10 Poor

Donald

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Look before reserve
The staff where pretty good, but the room poor I guess you get what you pay for. Shower was cold no hot water, lots of ants and your always itchy. So called blackouts where there is no power half the day and during the hottest time of the day, power in room but no air-con they say due to generator. But we never heard one and the meter on the pole was working lots of power, they are shutting of aircon with separate switches as we seen when we complained about no air. Our last night I heard voiced then the sound of breaker clicking off and the aircon, its very hot at night sleeping with no air-conditioning.
Stayed 6 nights in Feb 2024

4/10 Poor

Zak

Traveled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Good location bad water supply system!
Room # 30 wouldn't recommend to anyone severe water pressure problem in the bathroom, for couple times there was no water at all in the morning, we used bottled water to wash face. No wifi was available during our 5 day stay.
Stayed 5 nights in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveler

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
Good staff and cold showers
Overall stay was decent. The staff was helpful and tentative. However, the hardware of the place was sufficient at best... The room itself was spacious, but warm water wasn't available through the showers so get ready to take a cold one after returning from breezy late-night scooter rides home.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Room comfort
Housekeeping is almost non existent.. never cleaned our room unless sudden rain cause flooding in the room, sheets and towels were not changed daily or alternate days, altho staff n owner are friendly
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2018

4/10 Poor

nina , philippines

Disliked: Staff & service
Robbed
The overall stay was ok besides two of my friends were robbed. We didn't know they left their money in the room if we did we would of told them not to or at least lock it in the suitcase like we locked our electronics. But we def locked the door and still someone came through and took their money from their wallet. Talked with the manager and the front desk girl but all they said was this never happened before and didn't do or say much of anything else after that. We couldn't wait to get out of there. Didn't even stay our last day there.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2018

2/10 Terrible

Marta

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
No water in the room in 48 hours !!!!
We stayed at the hotel 2 night and in that time we didn't any have water at all in the room. We commented the situation twice to the receptionist, the first night at arrival and again in the morning without any solution. In the evening after an all day out , we complained about no water to the owner who was really rude to us and told us that we could leave the room straight away and he could returned the money back, It was 23 hours at night. He didn't apologized or give much solution that to leave the hotel ...

8/10 Good

Larry

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The hotel is cozy and comfortable. The staff is helpful and very kind.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2018

8/10 Good

pat, connecticut

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Mnative experience
The staff was very accomodating and provided excellent service. Lala at the front desk was very helpful and very attentuve to our needs. A very cozy place to sleep in. My only complaint is the plastic covering on the mattresses. Very noisy when you move or the person sleeping with you and makes it feel warmer.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2018

6/10 Okay

Alma

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Customer service was really good, they were very accommodating and gracious esp Maria.they offer great deals for the island tours.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2017

6/10 Okay

Verified traveler

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Not so good. Our room was not cleaned for the whole duration of our stay. The room and bathroom had unpleasant smell. Staff though were friendly. Mr. Ramon, the owner, was kind enough to ask his son to drive us to the van terminal on our departure from the place.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2017

4/10 Poor

Douglas

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Los of bugs...not clean.. don't recommend
There was a cockroach in our first room which was really far from the front of the inn and then my family transferred to a room closer to the front and there were moths outside the room every night when someone's wanted to leave the room we had to turn off the lights just so the moths didn't get in. The food and service was good but the overall cleanliness of it was really bad. Lots of bugs and no hot water and the wifi was bad it barely worked. The people were really nice and very helpful but overall at least for my family...we will never stay here again.
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2017

8/10 Good

Khan, Japan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
great view and service
The view from the room was amazing, you can really see pretty much all the islands in the area. it was a very pleasant stay; a cosy, clean room and friendly staff. I booked a tour with the front desk, it all went very smoothly. The hotel is a 10 minute walk from the bus station and a 5 minute tricycle ride into the city centre. The facilities are clean and accessible and there's free coffee available all day long. The only complaint is WiFi, it's pretty much non existent, didn't work for me at all, neither in the room nor reception. I still recommend this hotel, I really enjoyed my stay.

6/10 Okay

No Name Nothing, Citizen of Heaven

Liked: Staff & service
Inexpensive, quick, uninformed booking, exotic loc
We booked online about a month in advance, primarily for location and price. We were uninformed about the place or the unit(s) themselves. Check-in was stressful because we thought they knew we were coming, they didn't. And they had no idea of what we had reserved until the regular receptionist returned about 14:45, (when ck in was 14:00) and put us in a place high on a cliff with little room in it. We then asked about something bigger and we ended up in another room, much more accommodating. The bathroom was natural stone with tile & large. The water could be sandy or rusty at times, why? The people tried hard to accommodate us. The units are more attune to being an older cultural type of structure. We were told the owner wants to keep the facility like bamboo with thatched roof type of ambience, which is okay, maybe even great for backpackers, (which is a lot of their business). They were building more units. They do have a restaurant and they do sell tour packages but we didn't use them. They work strictly on cash which is why we chose to use other facilities. They restrict the use of a/c, electricity from 10am-4pm. One evening the electricity was out causing some stress. The only TV was in the reception area. They had some inadequate Internet WiFi near the reception area but it was weak and many people would try to use it in the evening.

2/10 Terrible

Oli, Belgium

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Rude people and dirty rooms
After facing issues with rude staffs during check-in, we finally had a dirty family room. Holes and stains on the bed sheeds. Spider web and dust everywhere. Poor quality of the furnitures. I would not advise that place at all.

6/10 Okay

Robert

Not great
Clean quiet room. Cold water shower. Bad wifi. Free morning coffee - decaf only.

8/10 Good

Decelaine

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
I like the proximity to everything
Attendants are very accommodating and nice.

8/10 Good

Peter

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very good needed a room for 5 last minute.

8/10 Good

Verified traveler

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
average hotel comfort
No hot shower, food very basic and lacking variety. Staff and manager could have been more dilegent in accommodating clients starting from hotel transfer at the PPS airport and back. Garden view of the hotel is very impressive with beautiful plants surrounding it.

8/10 Good

Aaron, Denver, CO

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A great place outside of town
Novie's is a nice, quiet place to stay that's only a 5-minute trike ride from El Nido. The property is very lush and overgrown, and the rooms feel pretty private (although the walls are pretty thin!). However, we experienced constant power outages during our stay, due to some heavy rain (though, I guess, normal for this season?). Novie's also has signs posted that they only have electricity during certain hours of the day, but I don't think the schedule applied while we were there. Other than that annoyance, the place is a nice budget choice!

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveler

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

6/10 Okay

Bob, Abu Dhabi

Liked: Staff & service
Cheap hotel but prone to power cuts and lack of wa
See above..friendly staff...just a bit basic otherwise fine staff like a drink at night!

6/10 Okay

John

Good budget option
We had a noisy room, due to local cockerals - earplugs reccomended

6/10 Okay

Christopher, UK

Liked: Staff & service
3 star hotel with good service
Stayed in a family bedroom with a/c for 2 nights. First impression it's what your expecting for a 3 star tourist inn. Everything is a 3 star standard but the service I would give would be a 4 star. Reason because in el nido they have daily blackouts or brownouts which they call it during specific times in the night. The a/c didn't function so i compained as i had a 19 month old toddler who hates sleeping in the heat. In a matter of minutes the reception guy quickly escalated the problem and rrquested the backup generator to feed into our room. During the whole 2 nights we slept peacfully in the cool ventalated room. The price is reasonable too. It won't break the bank and it great if you want to stay in if you have activities which el nido have, and i mean they have a lot of activities if your looking for relaxation it not for you. A place for you sleep and shoot out to enjoy the sights, views and activities. Highly recommended.