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**Jun aka Pekto** · June 27th, 2015 11:43 PM

Anyone remember the Tropical Palace at BF Paranaque? I can't seem to find it Google Maps. Just wondering because I used to go there a lot.

**bloowolf** · June 27th, 2015 11:53 PM

It's still there but not a hotel anymore. As I recall, a religious group leases it.

**CVT** · June 28th, 2015 12:03 AM

Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto

Oh. There used to be an alley beside Petron. I used to take that as a short cut to get home. The mayor's house is also by that area. I used to pass it on the way home.

Yup, I remember that alley as we used to take it to go to Philam Village on our bicycles....

Those were the days.... Taking the back roads from our place to RFC via Balagtas/Manggahan > Greenview/Manuela and then to Fernando's in Philam....

Fernando's is not there anymore. A building is now being erected where it used to be.....

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**jut703** · June 28th, 2015 01:08 AM

Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto

Anyone remember the Tropical Palace at BF Paranaque? I can't seem to find it Google Maps. Just wondering because I used to go there a lot.

Tropical Palace got burned down in a fire, and was subsequently abandoned.

**_Cathy_** · June 28th, 2015 01:26 AM

Originally Posted by jut703

Tropical Palace got burned down in a fire, and was subsequently abandoned.

You lived in the South? I have friends who live near the area and I refuse to drive there alone at night hehe

I haven't gone back in over 10 years. Is it still there? Abandoned?

**jut703** · June 28th, 2015 01:28 AM

Originally Posted by _Cathy_

You lived in the South? I have friends who live near the area and I refuse to drive there alone at night hehe

Yep, grew up there until Grade 6. Then I went to Pisay so we moved up north.

**Jun aka Pekto** · June 28th, 2015 03:11 AM

Originally Posted by CVT

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Yup, I remember that alley as we used to take it to go to Philam Village on our bicycles....

Those were the days.... Taking the back roads from our place to RFC via Balagtas/Manggahan > Greenview/Manuela and then to Fernando's in Philam....

Fernando's is not there anymore. A building is now being erected where it used to be.....

I remember Fernando's as well. It was the first supermarket I know of which sold freshly cooked burgers. Giant ones too.

One of the things I did every Saturday morning was play in a HS soccer league at UST. Once I got back, I went swimming at the Philamlife pool during the afternoon.

If you passed by the Riguera's place, then you probably passed by our place too.

Other things I remembered...... Shakey's Pizza with live bands. A couple of my female cousins (from here) also spent several months there. They're Caucasian in appearance. Every HS boy for miles around kept trying to get a glimpse of them. They liked it too. I mean they wouldn't live there forever. But, they wouldn't mind visiting. They visited some more since, staying at my mom's place.

Not sure why Cathy's apprehensive about the place. Are we talking about the same location in Las Pinas?

**_Cathy_** · June 29th, 2015 04:03 AM

^ Because Tropical Palace it haunted daw. And it does look haunted.

**Jun aka Pekto** · June 29th, 2015 04:23 AM

Originally Posted by _Cathy_

^ Because Tropical Palace it haunted daw. And it does look haunted.

Ruffa and Mike don't think so.

They use the ruins as a prop.

The Ruins of Tropical Palace Engagement | Adie+Eric Â» Ruffa and Mike Photography

It's a shame though. A couple friends of mine and I sometimes ate or went swimming there. Both of them are long gone now. I think they both moved back to the US a couple of years before I did.

**CVT** · June 29th, 2015 08:13 AM

Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto

Ruffa and Mike don't think so.

They use the ruins as a prop.

The Ruins of Tropical Palace Engagement | Adie+Eric Â» Ruffa and Mike Photography

It's a shame though. A couple friends of mine and I sometimes ate or went swimming there. Both of them are long gone now. I think they both moved back to the US a couple of years before I did.

For a while,- there were some organized fishing activities in that area. Not sure these days.....

That area is about a kilometer away from our place.... (again, our 'backyard')....

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