5 Affordable Places to Visit in Tagaytay This New Year

Location: Tagaytay Picnic Grove Complex, Tagaytay

Entrance Fee: PhP50

Start your year with a fun family picnic at Tagaytay Picnic Grove, one of the famous and affordable places to visit in Tagaytay! Take a beautiful, unobstructed view of the Taal volcano and lake while feeling the fresh Tagaytay breeze brushing your face. Stay at the built-in cottages or lay a picnic mat on the grass. You can do recreational activities, including horseback riding, cable car riding, and ziplining at the place. For a fee of PhP50, you can already have a relaxing New Year celebration.

Location: Cuadra Street, Brgy Asisan, Tagaytay City

Entrance Fee: PhP100

If you feel like teasing your brain, the Puzzle Mansion is the best and most affordable place to visit in Tagaytay for you! Home to rare and unique jigsaw puzzles, the Puzzle Mansion was a bed-and-breakfast place until it was transformed into a puzzle museum. Its collection contains 1,028 jigsaw puzzles assembled by Guinness World Record holder Georgina Gil-Lacuna. Aside from the Tagaytay view, you’ll see puzzles of all sizes, shapes, and genres. Some are even inspired by famous paintings, landscapes, and even cities.

For PhP100, you can enjoy the most mind-boggling museum in the South. Indeed, one of the most affordable places to visit in Tagaytay.

Location: Hollywood Subdivision Road, Brgy. Tolentino East, Tagaytay

Entrance Fee: PhP130

Attention, art lovers: this one is an affordable place to visit in Tagaytay! Aside from Tagaytay’s view, Museo Orlina showcases the creativity and artistry of world-renowned and internationally-acclaimed pioneer and foremost glass sculpture practitioner Ramon Orlina. Various forms of delicate glass sculptures, including paintings on glass, stained glass, lead crystal, and optical glass, can be found inside the museum. Museo Orlina will welcome you to Tagaytay with a cheap entrance fee of PhP130, but a discounted rate of PhP100 is given to senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs). To book a reservation, fill out the tour reservation form that you can find on the museum’s official Instagram page, @museoorlinatagaytay.

Location: Tagaytay-Nasugbu Hwy, Tagaytay City

Menu Prices: Start at PhP30 (for a classic Taho)

Balay Dako is a crowd favorite for dining in the South. From the classic Taho (tofu topped with tapioca pearls and syrup) at PhP30 to the all-time favorite Sinigang na Baboy (pork cooked in tamarind soup) at PhP560, you are sure to take your taste buds on a fun gastronomic ride. It’s one of the best and most affordable places to visit in Tagaytay that serves Filipino comfort food that will repeatedly make you want to see it. The resto also offers indoor and outdoor dining areas that give you a lovely sight of the Taal Volcano, making dining twice as refreshing.

Balay Dako is open weekdays from 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM and on weekends from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM.

Location: 7310 Pulong Sagingan Maitim, 2nd West Maitim II, West, Tagaytay City

Rates: Start at PhP1,200

Wash away all the stress and worries of the past, and welcome the New Year with a relaxed mind and soul at the Nurture Wellness Village. The village is a famous spa that uses ecotherapy, a healing method by and through nature. It offers different spa treatments to heal and rejuvenate your body: Haplos Kalinga Touch Therapy, body massages that use soothing strokes and aromatherapy oils; Pampering Natural Facials, face massages that help revitalize the skin; and the Traditional Filipino Massage, which involves indigenous therapeutic massages influenced by natural healers. Even without the Tagaytay view, this is one of the best and most affordable places to visit in Tagaytay when you want to start the New Year relaxed and healed.

Nature Wellness Village is open from Monday from 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM and Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM.

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