Perfect location on the beachfront, right in the middle of Station 2.
It feels a little weird writing a review for a hotel and an area that isn’t going to see any tourists for 5 months, but The District is a pleasurable little hotel in a very good location that allows you to see the best (and worst) of Boracay beach.
Flying into Boracay usually means landing at Caticlan or Kalibo. The latter will take you a good 1hr or so by car to get to the ferry port with the former only being about 5 minutes. If you booked directly with The District, then they will have provided someone to meet you at the airport and transfer you to the private boat which will take you across to Boracay island. The boat ride is a pleasant 5 minutes and once you land on Boracay, it is a 10-minute car ride to the hotel.
The hotel is located in Station 2, about right in the middle actually, which means you can turn left out of the hotel at night to head towards the livelier bars, or right in the day time towards Station 1 for a more serene experience. The hotel also has its own set of beach beds, but they are only allowed 1 row so it’s limited to about 10 beds in total for the entire hotel.
Check-in to the hotel was a little less swift than I had hoped, with lots of instructions about things you can and can’t do, papers to sign, information to be given, and such, but not out of the norm for Filipino resort hotels. The rooms were a fairly decent size with a nice balcony that looked over the thin but lengthy pool. The bathroom area of the rooms was a little cramped, with almost no privacy, but the shower was nice and powerful, and everything was clean.
The restaurant area where you had the buffet breakfast was nice enough, a little small but the food on offer was your standard Western affair with a little bit of Asian. Above the restaurant is a nice rooftop bar, but it was very sterile with a single member of staff taking your order and then having to run up and down the stairs to fulfill it. One night, we had ordered drinks before going out to eat yet ended up leaving 20 minutes later before they arrived due to the slow service and issues of only having one staff member and many flights of stairs.
Check-out was painless with the exact same process of getting to the local airport as coming from it.
All in all, a nice little hotel, with decent enough rooms, but nothing that is jaw-dropping. Fine for a few nights of partying in Boracay.