Best Angeles City Apartment? Kandi Towers Review

I recently stayed at Kandi Towers apartment in Angeles for $50/night on Airbnb (~2600 pesos). I took some pics of the 70sqm, one bedroom ,10th floor unit with balcony, and the Kandi Towers facilities.

Hotel accommodation is often overpriced in the Philippines for what you get. You can’t find a nicer place to stay in AC than this for 2600 pesos / night. I’d rate it the best Angeles City room I’ve stayed in.

Balcony view of Mount Arayat

ABC Hotel for example is 6000 pesos / night for a 40sqm studio with comparable amenities (swimming pool, gym, rooftop bar and restaurant).

I wrote about Royal AmsterdamΒ being next to the bars and being good for your own wifi router – 2600 pesos would get you a Superior studio there without pool, gym, or rooftop.

Separate bedroom

Kandi Towers Daily Rental

If you’re new to Airbnb.com you can also sign up via this blog for a free $35 to put towards your first booking. There’s currently one Kandi Towers unit for daily rental listed on the site.

It’s often unavailable so try to book in advance. Here’s the listing.

LCD TV with Cable

Location

I’d also rate Kandi Towers the best Angeles City apartment on location as to get any closer to the action you’d need to be staying in a hotel.

It’s 500m to Fields Avenue, and 850m to Walking Street.Β 700m to where the ‘massage girl’ freelancers stand by Manson drug, and walking distance to the Perimeter bars too.

Kitchen

On Flora Street, Kandi Towers is a 15 min walk to HISO disco or a 100 peso trike ($2). There’s a trike stand outside the apartment. Google maps location.

Other Angeles City condos – e.g. Gardenview Apartments, Horizon Tower, Hensonville, Zeppelin Suites – are further out from the action.

Shower on balcony

A few others are about the same distance, in the vicinity of Kandi Towers – Grosvenor Square, Chatsworth Suites, Sofia Suites, and Kandi Villa.

Example Kandi Towers Rental Ads

31 Responses

  1. Heinrich cu says:

    I’d love to go places like that and taste the local girls
    But can’t do it anymore
    Since I’m already married πŸ™

    • jspill says:

      You still could πŸ™‚ Is it really cheating if you pay for it? It’s not like you’re going to fall in love with them and get remarried.

      • Heinrich cu says:

        True . Sometimes I see other girls pass by me and I say to myself
        I could be banging her and her and her
        But sad reality is
        I’m married lol

        I do pay for sex from time to time

  2. -Cam says:

    Looks pretty nice. Any thoughts about buying real estate SEA? I hear there is sometimes a problem with construction quality. My other concern is instability. I imagine that eventually in at least one of the SEA countries, the locals are going to get sick of the foreigners. On the other hand it would be pretty cool to own an apartment in paradise.

    • jspill says:

      I read that too, I don’t trust them not to mess something up either, e.g. you buy a Gramercy condo then they close the rooftop skybar down, cancel the 24 hour pool / gym (now shuts at midnight), and the building gets a cockroach infestation. I’d rather invest in something else and just rent.

      • NormalNomad says:

        Yup. Plus the fact of the matter is you never really “own” the condo, you’re basically just the exclusive renter, afterall, if you stop paying your dues, what happens?

        Owning a condo here is a joke.

      • RealGuy says:

        Yea, once theyve got your money, wheres the incentive to honor their part ot the deal? This the Philippines. Construction quality is low and youre buying a box in the sky with no permanent ownership after 50 years. Your ability to enforce the law isnt so good, especially considering the property developer has more money and connections than you do.

        Id only buy a condo if I thought I could make more renting it out than Id pay for the entire lifetime cost of it. But thats quite a risk and who knows what the futute will bring.

  3. Eddie says:

    Jspill..good article. I’ve never done Air BnB before… always done hotels. After this post, I’m really thinking about it now. So how many minutes does it take to walk to Walking Street? I’m really considering this place for March 2018. Thanks

  4. drifter says:

    I wouldn’t even think about buying a condo. Not even here in Thailand. Let alone in the Philippines. First, why tie up your money. Especially in a second or third world country. Second, your neighbors can be assholes. For instance, the guy right next to me is up at all hours. So at 4am he can decide to watch tv. Or he’ll wake up at 6 am, and boom. The tv goes on. And with concrete construction, you will hear your neighbor.

    With short term rentals, if there’s any kind of problem, with politics or a crazy girlfriend, you can throw a few things in the bag and be out the door in 10 minutes. That’s much safer.

    And I wouldn’t keep a lot of money in a bank out here either. Why? It’s so easy to transfer money.

  5. drifter says:

    I don’t get the whole owning things in a third world country. Why the need? These places love our money, so renting anything: a car, a motorbike, a home, is not that hard. What’s the obsession with owning it. It’s not like it’s only one of its kind.

    • -Cam says:

      I think the idea behind it is that rent is your biggest expense and it only goes up. Plus Condos are pretty cheap and owning a home is part of the Western dream. I’d love to buy a cheap apartment (<50k) in a country one day that is livable and has good construction that way I'll know that worse comes to worse I can chill there.

  6. WesBang says:

    Just stayed in this apartment for 8 days at the start of November, great place, great location.

  7. Skins says:

    Classy place. I emailed Kandi Realty and they said all of their buildings are fully booked for the next two months. Must be some hot properties over there. Oh well.

  8. NormalNomad says:

    Why don’t you update the blog regularly anymore Jspill?

    I know Dante quit but I thought this was your gig. Weren’t you using this as your income before Crypto took off?

    • jspill says:

      I have a job, this blog was just a hobby / beer money. My job bumped me up to more hours and then I got obsessed with cryptos too. I’ll try to get my mind back on the blogging game. My instagram game is strong.

      Thanks for all the great comments keeping it alive!

    • Oli says:

      Why did Dante quit? Sorry if already mentioned but I just discovered this blog a few days ago. I’m obsessed with it now! Lol.

  9. Andrew Douglas Berry says:

    Just stayed in Kandi apartments Excellent accomodation great pool People really good at reception..
    Would highly recommend.
    Close to all the action

  10. John cooper says:

    Can anyone help me find my lady friend name Thi Thu Ngan~,24 05/23/1994 Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam

  11. John Cooper says:

    Well I still have not gave up on you yet now it’s all up to you

  12. John Cooper says:

    Thi talk to me will you please I still mean what I said to you on that other you no I don’t like seeing you here I need you to come to me now that we can really talk to each other if this is how you want to be and the life you want to live then show your self and tell me to go away and I will. I’ll be out of your life for good I never gave up on you they made it where I could not answer any of you back and that’s the truth I don’t no why you would even work and help them you said to me that you never wanted to lose me you will if you don’t talk to me love I’m being nice to you I can’t say any more .πŸ’‹

  13. John Cooper says:

    Once again thank you for making me feel like a Carp one big ass fish

  14. John Cooper says:

    Thi Thu Ngan, you told me not to give up on you i am the person you were talking with on that other site they stopped me from writing to any of you lady’s I miss you I wish you would come Γ§lean and stop what you are doing and come and be with me and leave your past behind you .I no you no the difference between wrong and right I’m all the man you will ever need if your really wanting to be loved by a man who really cares and who will always love only you I will never.change your the one that said you wanted.me in your life I don’t no what more I can do .the airport you want to come to ssee.me is (P.S.P.)Palm springs international community airport. In southern California I wish you well.And hope soon you can find me love John

    Johnbartoncooper@gmail.com

    • jspill says:

      John I doubt she’s reading this blog lol but if you got banned on a dating site you can just clear your internet cookies, use a new email and add the new email address to your paypal in the settings, then use that new paypal email to pay, then write to her again. Possibly a free vpn extension too, like zenmate in chrome

      Or just search her name / phone number / email / city in facebook, any info you have, or Zalo, popular app with vietnamese girls

  15. John Cooper says:

    To be totally honest with you number # 1 I am a poor guy on a fixed income #2 I tried looking her up on Facebook but I can’t find her see I not all that smart on these computers i am on my tablet she the one who told me to come here and search for her that she on weΓ§*** some where I don’t no what I’m doing there is way to much here to look at I don’t want to give up maybe she gave up on me and dose not want to answer me I just don’t no what to do she is only 24 that’s a lot younger then I am it’s not really the sex thing I am after and I told her I would ΗΉot make any kind of a advancement on her and I told her now if she made a advancement on me I would not turn her down and thatΕ› the truth I never w9uld try to force my self on any one I am not that kind of a loser I don’t like to hurt anyone and never a women they mean to much to me I don’t sleep around with women just because I can I never been a whore or a slut I have never in my life cheated. On any lady that I was ever with f o r any amount of time a lady to me is my everything and she is the only one I want to with I could be the most faithful guy you will ever talk to buy that’s what make me me I wish I could find a faithful lady but the way that I’m starting to feel is God never made one I don’t no in all my life all I’ve seen is a lot of people who cheat on each other and to me that sad to see but I can’t give up on my dream of finding a faithful lady that is my soul mate my down fall is I’m poor and I don’t want to judge anyone it’s you and then who will find out ion
    judgement day that is why we all die to no if we passed the rest I no in your heart we are borned with the feeling of knowing wrong from right what you have done in your passed I can for give you as long as it stays in your passed what you do after we meet I will not ever for get and some things I will never ever for give you for and my love for you will be gone to where I don’t even want to look at you any more the only thing that will make me feel this way is if you cheat on me I can’t live like that it only shows just how much you love someone it’s very clear you don’t at all .And if a so called man ever let’s his mate cheat on him it only because he feel guilty for doing it to his mate all your doing is play into his low life games and these child molesters the things they get away with is to much for me they should be shot on sight so called men over there that have seven your little girls do the things they do is not acceptable in the way I think about a lady it show how so called men bring you down to there sick level of thinking it’s so degrading to all of you lady you all should be standing up for each other and not play into there sick games this is what money dose to people I’ve been poor all my life I’ve been offered money from gay fag men when I was a little kid I said no way I new better sure I love sex just like the next guy as long as it is right you don’t pick on indecent kids let them be kids to find out there self one day the way a’ll you ladys let the so called men treats you all over there is so wrong maybe one day I hope but that is so far away .well thank you for your info .And your caring about me Since you are over there if you have any free time if you will help me look don5 go out of your way just throw it out there once in a whIle i will love you for ever for caring and that show me you have a heart.love you to John. Bye nowπŸ’˜πŸ’˜πŸ’πŸ’πŸ’™πŸ’šπŸ’›πŸ’›πŸ’‹πŸ‘…πŸ‘…πŸ‘…πŸ’•πŸ’•πŸ’œπŸ’žπŸ’žπŸ’ŸπŸ’œπŸ’“πŸ‘„πŸ’‹πŸ’‹πŸ’–πŸ’˜πŸ’˜πŸ’˜πŸ’πŸ’›πŸ’šπŸ’˜πŸ’˜πŸ’—πŸ’™πŸ’šπŸ’˜

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