PPL is beautiful resort. Especially Pretty flowers and trees. The shuttle bus service is excellent. But the pool is dirty. I do not seem to be managing water quality. It is not enough to be absent. The real worst thing is that the air condition in the hostel is bad. The staff told me not to turn off the air conditioner. Because the air conditioner is freeze when you turn it off. When you do it, the water drops. Keeping running will make us a frozen human being. :( I want you to pay more attention to internal facility management.

This is a hotel that mainly caters to the Japanese as there are many such visitors to Palau. For the price, this hotel is a good value for a typically expensive or lackluster accommodations in Koror. The decor throughout the hotel and grounds is of wood and rattan, so it gives a very local vibe, instead of the center of town hotels that are built entirely of concrete.

The hotel offers Japanese style amenities such as Shiseido toiletries, gift shop, even teppanyaki if you're so inclined, although quite expensive. In our 3 day stay, we only saw 1 other person who was not Japanese, although this European man looked quite lost in the resort. This is not to say that English is not spoken here, as all of the staff do speak some English, and the Palauan staff speak it quite well.

The hotel seems to lease out a space to a restaurant called the Jungle Bar, which serves a combination Palauan, Filipino, and Japanese cuisine at a reasonable price (for Palau). We had one of our better dinners here. Draft beer is reasonably priced as well, but unfortunately the space is more like a jungle decorated dungeon. They do the best they can, I suppose.

One word of warning is that there is nothing to eat from 2pm to 6pm until the Jungle Bar opens, so when you get back from your tour typically around 4 or 5pm, you're left with a local store about 50m from the gates for some chips and soda/beer.

Another slight bit of annoyance was the high price of airport transfers. Coming into Palau at night really leaves you no other choice though, but to pay the $20 per person each way for a 10 km, 20 min ride.

This hotel is located on a hill outside of town. It is too far to walk to/from town and dogs from surrounding area we were warned to be wary of. The jungle and all of it's bugs (termites, cockroaches, etc.) are present. I'm not sure if the staff was dishonest or unorganized, but our group of 5 had numerous problems with paying cash for a taxi, laundry, etc., and then still having that bill appear on our room expenses. It was an argument every time and very unprofessional and took days to get straightened out. Personally, I think cash was being pocketed, but I have no way to prove that. It was uncomfortable and I would not go back to repeat this. Also, the onsite restaurant is very expensive, 2-3 times the price of any restaurant in town, but you need to take a taxi to/from dinner which is inconvenient and adds to the cost. It was still much less expensive to go into town.