Paolyn's houseboats with green solar roofs, moored in a turquoise lagoon between the limestone cliffs of Coron Island

The only accommodation on Coron Island

Don’t just visit the lagoon.

Sleep inside the attractions, twenty-four hours a day — eight solar-powered houseboats in the limestone lagoons of Palawan.

Coron Island · Palawan · PhilippinesEight houseboats. One extraordinary lagoon.Discover Paolyn

Rooms from: ₱11,412 / night
From the airport: 45 min
Off the grid: 24 h
Guest reviews: 4.9 / 5

What makes it different

There is no electricity and no fresh water on Coron Island, so we make our own — A houseboat's solar roof seen from above over 200 kW of solar on the roofs, light and water around the clock, and not a drop of waste in the sea. Eight houseboats, The Bamboo houseboat lit at night sixteen rooms and over three hundred people, most of them Tagbanua, who call this lagoon home. Paolyn staff in their blue shirts

Why sleeping here matters

The lagoons before the crowds

06:00The lagoon is yours

Breakfast on your own deck

We serve breakfast from 6:30, so the boat can leave by 7:00 — while the lagoon is still glass.

06:30 · Breakfast on your own deck

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Day-trip boats from Coron Town9:00 – 16:30

You, sleeping in the lagoonyours aloneyours alone

Houseboats

Pick your kind of floating

All 19 rooms and houseboats

The setting

Four lagoons, one address

National Reserve since 1967, Marine Reserve since 1978, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1990 — and the ancestral land of the Tagbanua Tribe.

Private Italo-Filipino restaurant

Dinner in the next lagoon

A restaurant houseboat open only to guests who sleep over, so it never fills with day-trippers. Fried calamari, carbonara or pasta al nero di seppia, crab or king prawns in coconut milk, crêpes with Nutella — cooked fresh from that morning’s Coron market.

Free delivery to your private deck, if you would rather dine there
Extra-virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar from Modena on every table
Mostly Italian wines, cold beer and cocktails

The restaurant Open the menu (PDF)

The restaurant deck with bamboo lounge seating over the lagoon

Guests dining at night under the restaurant's string lights

Coron Island at your door

Every lake, reef and wreck, with its price

Plan a private speedboat day

Entrance fees are per person and go to the Tagbanua Tribe Association — they are not included in the boat price. Pins are approximate.

Relief map of Coron Island, Busuanga and the islands south of it

Eco-friendly, and fair

Off the grid, on purpose

Coron Island is a National Reserve, a Marine Reserve and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Solar roofs make the power, waste water never touches the sea — and most of the people who look after you are Tagbanua, the tribe that owns the lagoons.

How it works