Old Manila Full Day Tour

4.7 / 5
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200+ booked
Rizal Park, Roxas Blvd Ermita, Barangay 666 Zone 72, Manila, 1000 Metro Manila
  • Revisit your history lessons as you stroll along the Manila's streets from past to present
  • Discover the Philippines' tragedies, tolerance, and triumphant recoveries from colonial influences
  • Visit some of Manila's oldest structures in Escolta and learn their stories from your knowledgeable guide
  • Then get to re-experience these attractions in their restored and refurbished state
  • Indulge in authentic Filipino dishes at Aristocrat and Dampa for lunch, two of Manila's iconic restaurants
  • Klook exclusive: Curated by Fat Girls Day Out, easily explore Old Manila for a day, a criminally underrated chamber full of history and culture

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Experience Manila for a day and discover its hidden charm beneath the chaos in this tour. Rise bright and early so you don't get stuck in traffic on your way to the meet up with your English speaking guide at Rizal Park. The first to cross off your list, Rizal Park (also known as Luneta Park) is an urban park along Roxas Boulevard and is pretty close to its neighboring block of Intramuros, a historic centre and one of Manila's oldest districts. You'll find here the statue of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines. Enjoy bird watching at the micro parks within the vicinity. A few more strolls into the restored park is the Planetarium, where you can watch featured shows on a digital projector. After that first round of culture, delight in Manila's hearty servings of authentic Filipino food at The Aristocrat Restaurant and Dampa. Aristocrat is known for their best-selling Filipino-style chicken barbecue while Dampa serves fresh-off-the-market seafood dishes. Next, you venture further into Manila's corners with every venue getting culturally significant than the previous – the National Museum, Cinematheque Centre Manila, Escolta, and Roxas Boulevard. The National Museum houses most of the country's artistic treasures and nowadays, with its recent restoration and low entrance fees, it's one of Manila's trending venues during the weekend. The same can be said about the Cinematheque Centre Manila with its dedication to revisit and digitize surviving Filipino films in its depository. Meanwhile, Escolta (what once was a CBD back in the day) is facing a tremendous rehabilitation and is now go-to place for local art communities and vintage merchandise. Near the end, watch the sunset along Manila Bay at Roxas Boulevard before your drop off service to SM Mall of Asia.

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Begin your Manila tour with a visit to Rizal Park for a morning stroll
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Capture the iconic Manila sunset by the bay in Roxas Boulevard
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Get a taste of art and culture in the fully refurbished National Museum
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Experience grit and luxury at Roxas Boulevard strip

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Very informative and can really gibe ypu the knowledge you need to know more about manila. The guide was very helpful and concern can really be seen with how they take care of the guests kudos to klook!

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Paula and Bianca were exceptional hosts during our Old Manila Crawl! We were amazed with what sights, museums, and history Manila had. An entire day was not enough to unravel everything around Manila's rich history and culture, but they were able to summarize everything well and discuss every important and vital aspect. We were taken cared of so well! We had bottled waters the moment we hopped on our car, we even had OPM(original Pinoy music) playing as we were touring around for us to live on our appreciation in every stop. Paula and Bianca were very hospitable and they really made sure we were taken cared of well, that we took our time in every location, and we understood the history behind every place and every detail we've encountered. Expect to feast your eyes on traveling through time from Old Manila to how Manila becomes this vast melting pot of cultures through this tour. I highly recommend this tour, not only to foreigners that would like to get to know Manila's grassroots, but also to Filipinos for them to grasp a better appreciation and love for Manila.

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Supposed to join the group tour but it happened to become private tour ❢ Guides are professional and they care about our feelings. All the spots are worth visiting with both historical and modern themes. Lunch is great, tried local foods and tastes. Feeling very warm welcomed by the 3 nice ladies ❢

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Booked this for two guests in town. Bianca was an amazing host, and our guests specifically appreciated the way she told the story and history of the places they visited and did not just overload them with a laundry list of dates and names. They got a real appreciation for the culture of the city, and we cannot thank Bianca enough for being such a fantastic host.

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Bianca was a brilliant guide. Thoroughly enjoyed our day tour around Manila. Now know more about the history of the Philippines, culture and cuisine. Thank you!

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Although there are only three groups, but with two tour guides, because the collection can not find a place, the tour guide also specially called, so smoothly gathered, the guide on the way enthusiastic explanation, a good trip

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Tour guides are very friendly and knowlegable to answer all questions. Guides constantly ask if we want to try anything we saw and asked about (Traditional ice cream cones were absolutely yummy) -- at no addtl cost. Before reading the rest of my review --- the destination tours and tour guides were absolutely great. We had a wonderful time at each of the stops. The full day tour pkg starts at 9am and ends early at 245pm with drop off at Mall of Asia [ though pkg states it would be 9 hours and ends with a sunset watch and then a drop off at the mall ]. Even though it ended early, if our transport was larger, this would have been 5 stars instead of 3 stars. Our group had 5 adults (3 middle aged + 2 very large senior adults) and add on the 2 large tour guides and a driver. The 7 passenger tiny-minivan really only fits 5 normal sized adult passengers comfortably with not much more room left. The 3rd row squished 3 in with my leg on top of my husband's (1 butt cheek up in the air) the entire trip. 2nd row of 3 ppl, staggered, could not move at all after door was forced closed. They were glued together by sweat until we reached the next destination.

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