Shopping in Baguio
Baguio City is a bargain hunter's paradise.
Prices in the flea markets and souvenir shops are not fixed so your haggling skills will be put to good use.
Know that Baguio is no tourist trap, though -- the prices and rates are pretty reasonable compared to other top Philippine destina-tions, and can go lower even!
Because the residents here are frugal in nature, they themselves always have an eye out for a good bargain and will not take it against you if you haggle for a better price.
The best place to shop is at the Baguio City Market where you can get anything and everything. The Dry Goods section (Marbay) and the furniture and antiques on the upper floors of the Maharlika Livelihood Center are favored by bargain hunters.
Places to Shop in Baguio Philippines
- The length of Session Road is the city's premier shopping area, anchored by SM City Baguio Mall at the top and the Baguio City Market at the base. Specialty shops and restaurants are found in this city center where everybody goes for all their supplies.
- The tourist market at Mines View Park has a selection of dry goods found at the city market.
- Souvenir shops are located near each tourist attraction. Unlike other countries, these are not tourist traps. Vendors know that folks can compare prices easily so standard pricing applies.
- The Good Shepherd Convent on Gibraltar Road is a favorite stop. Popular for its peanut brittle, ube and strawberry jam. They have expanded their products to include baked goodies, homemade ice cream and a tasty strawberry-calamansi juice over the counter.
- Mile-Hi Center at Camp John Hay has some interesting stores, including a commisary and a factory outlet of export overrun garments from the Baguio Export Processing Zone.
- Narda's on Upper Session Road is well known for Narda Capuyan's original woven cloths that gave gained her inter-national reknown. Her designs have been copied by other local weavers and are selling in the dry goods markets.
- Then there are the malls: SM City, Center Mall, Abanao Square and Porta Vaga with specialty shops as well as familiar stuff that you can find in other malls all over the Philippines.
- For antiques, Filipiniana, and ethnic furniture with shipping services available, go to top floor at the Maharlika Livelihood Center parking lot (yup -- the parking lot, okay?). Of course, there are other furniture shops scattered around the city like PNKY and Munsayac on Leonard Wood, and at Camp John Hay
- And here is the reason office workers from Manila come up on overnight trips: the Ukay Ukay. Also know as "Wagwagan." These are thrift stores selling anything from used clothing to children's toys. If you're lucky, you may find an authentic vintage Louis Vuitton Bag for a fraction of the cost on Ebay!
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It is the search for bargain second hand goods, mostly apparel.
It has grown from just clothing to bags, shoes, to even curtains, office equipment, toys and
sporting goods.
Some shops even sell brand new imitation goods of imported designer brands in the areas with ukay-ukay.
'Slumming' for rich tourists looking for discarded Louis Vuittion bags from Hong Kong,
a way of life for the locals.
