Dear Sagada

I was supposed to check in at St. Joseph when I was told that they would be re-opening tomorrow (today). The horror to backpackers everywhere is that St. Jo, our dear St. Jo where we used to sleep P100 then to P150 per, is now P1,200 per room. No more single rooms and the rooms are like the old Pines Hotel suites. So where do you sleep nowadays. Sagada Inn, which has a view of sayote and sayote, is P600 for their single room. Try other inns like Rock's Inn and Mapya-aw. There must be many other rooms here but we lost one there in old St. Jo.