Is there Grab or Uber in Puerto Princesa?

Grab is in Puerto Princesa for food, not for rides. GrabFood launched in the city in October 2025. At a Grab event on 29 September 2026 the mayor welcomed the company, and the city's own write-up the next day said Grab was building its network of delivery riders, with vehicles "undergoing the necessary process" for transport services. That is a ride service being prepared, not one you can book.

Puerto Princesa is a city of 316,384 people (2024 census) with a modern airport terminal, and it sits at the front of most Palawan itineraries. Travellers reasonably assume ride-hailing follows. For rides it has not yet: a Grab car or bike has to clear the transport regulator's process before it can carry passengers, and the city's 30 September 2026 statement says that process was still under way.

The food side is where the confusion comes from. A traveller lands, opens the app, sees restaurants and delivery in Puerto Princesa, and reasonably expects a car. The transport tiles are what to check: if they show nothing, you are on tricycles.

Short version: assume none of them. The tricycle rank outside arrivals is the transport layer of this city and it works 24 hours.

inDrive — the price-negotiation ride-hailing app — did not turn up in any source we checked for Puerto Princesa. Treat it exactly as you treat Grab: open it once, expect nothing.

Angkas and Move It, the motorcycle-taxi apps, did not turn up either, and we found nothing to say they run here. If you have one installed, its own service map is the thing to check. The local equivalent exists anyway and is not an app: the habal-habal, a motorbike with a passenger seat, at a negotiated ₱150–300 for a run out to Nagtabon.

Uber does not need checking. It sold its Southeast Asian business, the Philippines included, to Grab in March 2018. If a guide tells you to take an Uber here, it was written from a template.

Almost every travel page on the internet answers this question without saying when it was checked, which makes the answer worthless the moment it changes.

This page was last reviewed on 5 October 2026. The previous review, on 4 August 2026, found no Grab service of any kind; since then GrabFood's October 2025 launch was confirmed and the city announced that Grab's transport service is in preparation. A ride-hailing launch would change how visitors move around this city overnight, so it is worth tracking properly rather than asserting once and forgetting.

What would count as the change: Grab announcing rides in Puerto Princesa, the city or the transport regulator confirming approval, or the rides tab working in the app here. A welcome event, a food-delivery launch or a social post about plans does not count — that is exactly the kind of evidence that has circulated without cars behind it.

Until then, plan on tricycles. It is genuinely not a hardship: from ₱12 a shared hop under the city's fare ordinance, with drivers who do not hustle and a scam ceiling of being quoted ₱150 instead of ₱100 for a charter.