List of Iloilo Pension Houses

(City Proper Area)

Villa Sagrado
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 3370061
Location: General Hughes St., City Proper
Classification: Hostel and Restaurant

One Lourdes Dormitel
Contact Details
Website: http://www.onelourdesdormitel.com/
Telephone: (63)(033) 3384288, 335 8572 ; 337 8734
Location:Fuentes St., City Proper
Number of Rooms: 27 (air-conditioned)
Classification: Hotel and Dormitory

Chito’s Inn Penn
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 3376415
Location: Corner Jalandoni-de Leon Sts., City Proper
Classification: Pension House

Eros Pensionne
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 337-1359
Location: General Luna St., City Proper
Classification: Pension House

Ong Bun Pension
Contact details
Telephone: (63)(033) 3351271
Mobile: +63-9104335048 ; +63-9232520292
Location: Ledesma St., City Proper

Sarabia Charter Pension House
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 508-1853
Location: General Luna St., City Proper
Classification: Pension House

The Family Pension House
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 338-3284
Telefax: (033) 5083488
Location: Times Square Building General Luna St., Iloilo City
Classification: Pension House

Reverside Inn
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 335-0070
Location: 12 General Luna St., Iloilo City
Classification: Pension House

(La Paz District)
Casa La Granja
Contact Details
Website: http://www.casalagranja.com/
Telephone: (63)(033) 3203473
Location: Lopez Jaena St., Lapaz
Number of Rooms: 12 air-conditioned rooms and suits
Classification: Pension House


La Paz Plaza Pensione House
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 3208330
Location: Burgos St., La Paz District
Classification: Pension House


Iloilo White House
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 500-8958
Location: Dicen St., Mirasol Subd., La Paz
Classification: Pension House


Metro Iloilo Apartelle
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 320-5428
Location: 166 Gustilo Corner Jereos St., La Paz
Classification: Pension House


Rosa Maria Pension House
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 320-1442
Location: Rizal, La Paz
Classification: Pension House


Sports Front Hotel
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 329-3838
Location: Magsaysay Village, La Paz (fronting Iloilo Sports Complex)
Classification: Pension House


WVSU Hometel
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 320-0870 local 142
Email: hometel@wvsu.edu.ph
Location: West Visayas State University Campus, Luna St., La Paz
Classification: Hometel

(Jaro District)
Bavaria Restaurant and Hotel
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033)3202186
Fax: (63) (33)3202186
Location: Seminario St., Jaro
Classification: Hostel and Restaurant

Jaro Belleuve Pensionne
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 3209521 ; 3209522 ; 3209523
Location: Lopez Jaena St., Jaro
Classification: Pension House

Jaro Pension House
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 3202863
Location: DB Ledesma St., Jaro
Classification: Pension House

Lelac Inn and Jess Cafe
Location: Lopez Jaena St., Jaro (Intersection point going to CPU)

The Guesthouse
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 320-3075
Location: Nelly Garden Compound, E. Lopez St, Jaro
Classification: Pension House

Budget Inn

(located near Jaro Public Market, near Afrique's Gourmet, Jaro)

(Villa de Arevalo District)

Villa Rosa by the Sea
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 337-6953
Location: Calaparan, Arevalo
Classification: Resort

(Molo District)
Le Chateau de Iloilo
Contact Details
Telephone: (63)(033) 336-4518
Location: Lopez Jaena; Molo
Classification: Pension House

Highway 21 Hotel

Highway 21 Hotel

Contact Details
Website: http://www.ann2.net/hotels/highway21/
Telephone: (63)(33) 335-1839 ; 335-1840
Telephone (New Wing): (63)(33) 335-1852
Mobile: +63-9177224321
Location: General Luna St., Iloilo City
Room Rates: Php 700 – Php 1, 700
Room Choices: (Single, Superior, Standard, Mabuhay
Executive, De Luxe, Economy, Family)

City Corporate Inn

City Corporate Inn

Contact Details
Website: http://www.citycorporateinn.comze.com/
Telephone: (63)(033) 335-0166; 335-0545; 5081976
Mobile: (+63) 915-6502122; 918-4837911
Fax: (63) (033) 335-0545; 508-1796; 335-0166
Location: Rizal corner Guanco St., Iloilo City
Room Rates: Php773 – Php1,1,778  
(extra bed charge-Php278)
Room Choices: Single, Economy, Standard, De Luxe, Suite

Urban Inn

Urban Inn

Contact Details
Website: http://urbaninniloilo.multiply.com/
Telephone: (63)(33) 329-6724
Location: Luna St., La Paz, Iloilo City
Room Rates: Php 800 – Php 1, 300
(Additional Bed-Php 250)
Room Choices: Standard (1, 2, and 3), Executive, Double Beds (4Pax)

*Free use of Fitness Gym

Iloilo Midtown Hotel

Iloilo Midtown Hotel

Contact Details
Website: http://iloilomidtownhotel.multiply.com/
Telephone (PLDT): (63)(033) 336-6888 ; 336-8888
Telephone (Globelines: (63)(033) 509-6888
Location: Yulo St., Iloilo City
Room Choices: De Luxe, Suite

Harbor Town Hotel

Harbor Town Hotel

Contact Details
Webpage: http://www.skyinet.net/~harborth/
Email: harborth@skyinet.net
Telephone: (63)(033) 337-2384
Location: J.M. Basa St., Iloilo City
Room Rates: Php750 – Php1,350
Room Choices: Standard (Single and Double), Superior (Single and Double), Junior Suite (single and Double)

Century 21 Hotel

Contact Details

Website: http://www.ann2.net/hotels/century21/
Telephone: (63)(033) 335-8821, 335-8822, 335-8823
Fax: (63) (033) 335-8824
Location: Quezon Street, Iloilo City
Room Rates: Php800 – Php1,650
Room Choices: Single, Superior, Standard, Junior Executive (A and B)
Executive, De Luxe, Family Room

Colleges in Iloilo

Seminario de San Vicente Ferrer

Iloilo is also home to numerous colleges such as the Iloilo Doctors College which offers the degree in Medicine and Nursing, Western Visayas College of Science and Technology which specializes in Science and Technology related programs, the Western Institute of Technology (WIT) specializing in Engineering deciplines, De Paul College, AMA college, STI, Informatics, ABBA Institute of Technology, Cabalum Western College, and Colegio de San Jose and Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus, both run by the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul.

List tertiary educational institutions in Iloilo City.

    * Iloilo Doctors’ College
    * Colegio de San Jose
    * Colegio del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus
    * Western Institute of Technology
    * St. Therese-MTC Colleges
    * Western Visayas College of Science and Technology
    * St. Anne College of Iloilo
    * St. Augustine College of Nursing
    * Interface Computer College
    * STI College
    * AMA Computer College
    * Dominican College of Iloilo
    * Cabalum Western College
    * ABE International College of Business and Economics
    * ACSI Business and Computer School
    * Computer College of the Visayas
    * De Paul College
    * Integrated Midwives Association of the Philippines Foundation School of Midwifery
    * Asian College of Aeronautics
    * Great Saviour International College
    * Philippine College of Aeronautics, Science and Technology
    * St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary

Central Philippine University

CPU was founded in 1905 as the Jaro Industrial School by missionaries of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. It started as an Elementary Vocational School for poor boys who worked for their board and tuition.

Dr.William Orison Valentine, the first principal and the founder, worked for its incorporation and recognition by the Philippine Government.

To accommodate the need for tertiary education in the area, a junior college was opened in 1923 and the name of the school was changed to Central Philippine College. Senior college started to be opened in 1936.

When war broke out during the Second World War, the college’s buildings were destroyed. Eleven American missionaries were massacred by the occupying Japanese forces and several students, faculty, staff and alumni joined the guerrilla movement. Some died in the process. After the war ended, the college was reopened by remaining members of the faculty as well as by returning missionaries. Reconstruction was made possible through funds coming from friends at home and abroad. On the 1 April 1953, the college gained government recognition as a university, converting the college into what is now known as the Central Philippine University.

Currently, it is affiliated with the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches and maintains fraternal ties with the International Ministries of the American Baptist Churches (known before as the American Foreign Mission Society) and the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia. The university is also a member of the Association of Christian Schools, Colleges and Universities (ACSCU) and the Association of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia.

University of San Agustin

Augustinian friars from Spain belonging to the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus of the Philippines founded the University of San Agustin on July 15, 1904.

The university began as a preparatory school for boys during the American colonial period. It was granted government recognition on December 12, 1912.

During the Second World War (1941-45), the college was temporarily shuttered as the Philippines fought a guerilla war against the Japanese. The war led to the destruction of all the buildings, except for Urdaneta Hall, which at present houses the university theatre and the College of Pharmacy and Medical Technology. With almost the entire college in ruins, some friars advocated closing the school altogether while others pushed for its immediate rehabilitation.

The school was granted university status on March 1, 1953, a year before its 50th anniversary, making it the first university in Western Visayas.

West Visayas State University

The Quezon Hall, WVSU

West Visayas State University (WVSU) was founded on June 16, 1902, forming part of the early Philippine school system under the American regime. Known as the Iloilo Normal Institute and later the Iloilo Normal School, WVSU was one of the five tributary schools created to address the need to train Filipino teachers under the tutelage of the Thomasites.

In 1924, with the completion of its main building (now Quezon Hall) and laboratory school building, INS became a distinct educational institution itself. It was also when a secondary normal school program, which eventually became a four-year normal college course, was established.

The INS became the West Visayas State College by virtue of R.A. 4189 on May 4, 1965, offering courses in the university level.

It was named a Center of Excellence by the late Sen. Blas P. Ople and Center of Excellence for Teacher Education by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).

On January 27, 1986, the College became the West Visayas State University, integrating the Iloilo National College of Agriculture (INCA) into its system. In 1987, the University acquired the Don Benito V. Lopez Memorial Hospital which became the WVSU Medical Center, a 300-bed tertiary, teaching and training hospital.

The enactment of the Higher Education Modernization Act (1997) brought more developments in the University. In 2000, four CHED-supervised schools in Calinog, Janiuay, Lambunao, and Pototan were integrated into the WVSU System. The University Distance Education program through the Diploma in Teaching (DIT) course began in Summer 2003. By 2005, The Local Government Unit of Himamaylan entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with the WVSU for the establishment of the WVSU Himamaylan Campus.

The University is a member of the Association of Universities in Asia and the Pacific and one of the participating universities in the University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific.

University of Iloilo - Phinma

The University of Iloilo started as the Iloilo City Colleges (ICC).  It was established in June 1947 by the Hon. Fernando H. Lopez, then mayor of Iloilo City (then became the vice-president of the Philippines), who was imbued with the spirit of unselfish service to the youth.

The College of Criminal Justice has gained popularity in Western Visayas with its modern laboratory facilities like the infra-red microscope, the lie-detector, the questioned document kit, the interrogation and investigation room, practice court room, target range, and its latest acquisition – the paralyzer shield.

On December 17, 1968, the Iloilo City Colleges was granted the university status and became the 32nd University in the Philippines.

In 1991, the Department of Education, Culture, and Sports acknowledged the University of Iloilo as an Excellent School for the College of Criminology, now the College of Criminal Justice. In March 1993, a certificate of recognition was awarded to the College of Criminology for its “OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN THE PURSUIT OF QUALITY EDUCATION AS EXEMPLIFIED BY MERITORIOUS PERFORMANCE IN BOARD EXAMINATIONS – SCHOOL PASSING PERCENTAGE HIGHER THAN NATIONAL AVERAGE.”

On June 25, 1993, a month after the death of Former Philippine Vice President Don Fernando H. Lopez, the FHL Museum dedicated to his memory, was inaugurated.

The New Facade of the University of Iloilo - PEN

In 1998, the University entered into a contract with Net Curricula Incorporated in order to be among the pioneer schools in the country to integrate technology in classroom instruction in all levels – elementary, high school, and college. During the First Semester of 1998-1999, the Net Curricula installed industry-grade network and telecommunication facilities including structured cabling, branded workstations and servers, high-resolution presentation equipment, and licensed software.

In 2008, the university was acquired by PHINMA. It officially became part of PHINMA Education Network in April 2009. Its sister schools are Araullo University, Cagayan de Oro College, and University of Pangasinan.

Robinsons Movieworld

Robinsons Iloilo Cinema 1

Rio in 3D

MTRCB Rating: GP
12:15 PM | 2:25 PM | 4:35 PM

Robinsons Iloilo Cinema 2

Catch Me... I'm In Love
MTRCB Rating: GP
11:50 AM | 1:55 PM | 4:00 PM | 6:05 PM | 8:10 PM

Robinsons Iloilo Cinema 3

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MTRCB Rating: NA
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Robinsons Iloilo Cinema 4

Sucker Punch
MTRCB Rating: PG-13
11:50 AM | 1:55 PM | 4:00 PM

Rio
MTRCB Rating: GP
6:15 PM | 8:15 PM

Robinson's Iloilo Cinema 5

Tum: My Pledge of Love
MTRCB Rating: GP
12:50 PM | 3:15 PM | 5:50 PM | 8:15 PM

Robinsons Iloilo Cinema 6

Limitless
MTRCB Rating: R-13
12:00 PM | 2:00 PM | 4:00 PM | 6:00 PM | 8:00 PM

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Iloilo City - Location

Iloilo City is one of the most accessible cities in the Philippines. Its strategic location, about 283 statute miles from Manila through Antique waters and 337.6 nautical miles through Capiz waters, made it the business and government gateway to the flourishing region of Western Visayas.

Iloilo City is strategically located in the southern shores of Panay Island. The city faces Guimaras Island separated by the Iloilo Strait, making it a natural harbor and a safe anchorage for ships and cargo vessels.

This Queen Jewel of the Philippine South lies on a flat alluvial plain, mostly reclaimed lands of the former swampy areas due to urbanization and industrialization during the late 19th century to present.

the 180 barangays of Iloilo City are grouped forming the city-districts

Iloilo River is an estuary that separates the districts of City Proper, Molo and Villa Arevalo from the rest of the city districts, while Jaro River is fed by its tributary rivers, Aganan and Tigum and passes by the flood plains of the Jaro and La Paz districts.

The city has a total land area of 70.3 square kilometers and is divided into 180 barangays with seven city - districts.

History of Iloilo City

In 1566, as the Spanish conquest of the Philippines was underway and moving north toward Manila, the Spaniards under Miguel López de Legazpi came to Panay and established a settlement in Ogtong (now Oton). He appointed Gonzalo Ronquillo as deputy encomiendero, a position which would later become governor in later years.

In 1581 Ronquillo moved the town center approximately 12 km east due to recurrent raids by Moro pirates and Dutch and English privateers, and renamed the area La Villa de Arevalo in honor of his hometown in Ávila, Spain.

In 1700, due to ever-increasing raids especially from the Dutch and the Moros, the Spaniards again moved their seat of power some 25 km eastward to the village of Irong-Irong, which had a natural and strategic defense against raids and where, at the mouth of the river that snakes through Panay, they built Fort San Pedro to better guard against the raids which were now the only threat to the Spaniards' hold on the islands. Irong-Irong or Ilong-Ilong was shortened to Iloilo and with its natural port quickly became the capital of the province.

In the late 18th century, the development of large-scale weaving industry started the movement of Iloilo's surge in trade and economy in the Visayas. Sometimes referred to as the "Textile Capital of the Philippines", the products were exported to Manila and other foreign places. Sinamay, piña and jusi are examples of the products produced by the looms of Iloilo. Because of the rise of textile industry, there was also a rise of the upper middle class. However, the introduction of cheap textile from UK and the emergence of the sugar economy, the industry waned in the mid-19th century. Museo Iloilo is the repository of Iloilo's past.

The waning textile industry was replaced however by the opening of Iloilo's port to world market in 1855. Because of this, Iloilo's industry and agriculture was put on direct access to foreign markets. But what triggered the economic boom of Iloilo in the 19th century was the development of sugar industry in Iloilo and its neighboring island of Negros. Sugar during the 19th century was of high demand. Nicholas Loney, the British vice-consul in Iloilo developed the industry by giving loans, constructing warehouses in the port and introduced new technologies in sugar farming. The rich families of Iloilo developed large areas of Negros, which later called haciendas because of the sugar's high demand in the world market. Because of the increase in commercial activity, infrastructures, recreational facilities, educational institutions, banks, foreign consulates, commercial firms and much more sprouted in Iloilo. Due to the economic development that was happening in Iloilo, the Queen Regent of Spain raised the status of the town into a city, honored it with the title "La muy leal y noble ciudad de Iloilo", and in 1890, the city government was established.

In 1896, the initial reaction of Ilonggos in the outbreak of the Revolution in Manila was hesitant. Yet because of the Spanish colonizers blow by blow defeat by at first with the Katipunan and later by the Americans, Ilonggos later on got involved with the fight for independence. On the other hand, after surrendering Manila to the Americans, the Spanish colonial government moved their seat of power to Iloilo.

In October 1898, the Ilonggo leaders agreed to revolt against the Spaniards. By December 25, 1898, the Spanish government surrendered to the Ilonggo revoltionaries in Plaza Alfonso XII (Plaza Libertad today). Although the Ilonggos were victorious, the American forces arrived in Iloilo in late December 1898 and started to mobilize for colonization by February 1899. Resistance was the reaction of Ilonggos upon the invasion which went up until 1901.

In 1900, the Americans reverted the city's status into a township again, yet because of the continuous commercial activities and because it was an important port of call in the Visayas-Mindanao area, it gained cityhood status once more in July 16, 1937 incorporating the towns of Molo, Jaro, Mandurriao, La Paz and Villa de Arevalo.

However, prosperity did not continue as the sugar's demand was declining, labor unrests were happening in the port area that scared the investors away and the opening of the sub-port of Pulupandan in Negros Occidental, has moved the sugar importation closer to the sugar farms. By 1942, the Japanese invaded Panay and the economy moved into a standstill. During the Commonwealth era, Iloilo was prosperous and was popularly known as "The Queen City of the South".

During World War II, Iloilo was controlled by several Japanese Battalions, Japan's ultimate goal was to entrench itself deeply into the Philippines so that at the close of the war they could occupy it just as the Spanish and the Americans had years before. However, when Filipino & American forces liberated Iloilo from Japanese military occupation on March 25, 1945 the remnants of these battalions were held in Jaro Plaza as a make-shift detention facility.

By the end of the war, Iloilo's economy, life and infrastructure were damaged. However, the continuing conflict between the labor unions in the port area, declining sugar economy and the deteriorating peace and order situation in the countryside and the exodus of Ilonggos to other cities and islands that offered better opportunities and businessmen moved to other cities such as Bacolod and Cebu led to Iloilo's demise in economic importance in southern Philippines.

By the 1960s towards 1990s, Iloilo's economy progressed in a moderate pace. The construction of the fish port, international seaport and other commercial firms that invested in Iloilo marked the movement of the city making it as the regional center of Western Visayas.

Saint Paul University Iloilo

Impelled by the love of CHRIST, and on the invitation and support of His Eminence Denis Cardinal Dougherty, Bishop of Jaro, The Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres began their apostolic activities in Iloilo by establishing St. Paul’s Hospital in 1911.

With great desire emboldened by the formative component of their mission, coupled with the pressing need of the hospital for trained competent Catholic nurses, the Sisters under the leadership of Mother Josephine de Jesus opened the School of Nursing in June, 1946.

The year 2004 marks an important milestone in the life of the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres, their 100th year in the Philippines.

This year, too, on March 10, 2004, The St. Paul University System was awarded by the Commission on Higher Education to the six tertiary schools of the Congregation, namely: St. Paul University Quezon City, St. Paul University Manila, St. Paul University Dumaguete, St. Paul University Iloilo, St. Paul University Surigao, and St. Paul University Philippines in Tuguegarao as the lead University of the System.

On June 21, 2004, Sr. Carolina Agravante, SPC was formally installed as the first University President in a solemn but joyful ceremony held in the Marian Hall. In attendance were the academic circle of the city, alumni, members of the University System and the whole Paulinian Family of St. Paul University Iloilo.

University of the Philippines in the Visayas

UP in the Visayas

 UPV was created by merging three UP colleges: UP Cebu founded in 1918, UP Iloilo founded in 1947, and UP Tacloban founded in 1973.

It was during the term of UP President Onofre D. Corpuz in 1975 when an interdisciplinary Team within the University conceived of an autonomous unit which would become the country’s premier institution for fisheries and marine science education and research. This idea was fleshed out in a proposal entitled “Education Development Plan for the University of the Philippines in the Visayas” a six-volume report by an interdisciplinary team. The new university would evolve from the UP College of Iloilo and the College of Fisheries in Diliman which would transfer to its new site in the Visayas. Funding was to come partly from a government loan to be negotiated with the World Bank for the development of fisheries education.

On May 31, 1979, the Board of Regents approved the establishment of the University of the Philippines in the Visayas as an autonomous unit of the University of the Philippines System with its main campus in Miagao, Iloilo.

John B Lacson Foundation Maritime Univerity

The John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University was born from the vision of a young man who pursued his goal with a remarkable passion and zeal that set the tone of leadership in this institution. Master Mariner Juan Bautista Lacson, the founder, first started with a review school for marine officers in May 1931, thus foreshadowing the birth of the Iloilo Maritime Academy in 1948.

1972 marked the beginning of the expansion of IMA to John B lacson Colleges Foundation (JBLCF – Arevalo in 1973), (JBLCF – Bacolod in 1974), (JBLCF – Molo in 1976), and (JBLCF – Puerto del Mar Training Center in Guimaras in 1995).

Assessors from Commission on Higher Education declared the college to have established the best system for equivalency evaluation. It was nominated by CHED as having one of the best HEI Research Programs for 2006. Its greatest achievement by far is its having been granted university status, making it the first maritime university in the country.

Ilonggo Arts and Culture

The Lopez Mansion and Nely's Garden at Jaro, Iloilo City

Iloilo is a junction over which Malay, Spanish, Chinese and American cultures met in the course of centuries that stretches back to a rich pre-colonial culture and the arrival of settlers, the Malayans sometime in May 1212. Iloilo is associated with legacies of Spanish colonial era. Most noticeable is its architecture, particularly of churches and houses built all over the city and province.

Discover more about the Arts, Heritage and Culture of the Ilonggos and Experience the fusion of the East and the West; the Old and New Iloilo.

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