--- title: "San Nicolas – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "San Nicolas, Philippines: town. Nearby: Laoag Cathedral, SM City Laoag, San Nicolas de Tolentino Parish Church. Every way there from the planner, and what…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/san-nicolas" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/san-nicolas.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Town · Philippines · Ilocos # San Nicolas What is there ## Worth seeing in and around San Nicolas 3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Laoag Cathedral Saint William's Cathedral, commonly known as Laoag Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church in Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. It serves as the seat or central church of the Diocese of Laoag. 2.4 km · Roman Catholic cathedral in Ilocos Norte, Philippines · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoag_Cathedral) 2. SM City Laoag SM City Laoag is a shopping mall located in Airport Road, Laoag, Philippines. It is the fourth SM Supermall and the largest in the Ilocos Region, the first in the province of Ilocos Norte, and the 88th in the Philippines. 2 km · shopping mall in Laoag · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_City_Laoag) 3. San Nicolas de Tolentino Parish Church The Diocesan Shrine and Parish of San Nicolás de Tolentino, formerly known as San Nicolas de Tolentino Parish Church, is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the municipality of San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Laoag. 200 m · church in Ilocos Norte, Philippines · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Nicolas_Church_(Ilocos_Norte%29) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to San Nicolas **Airports:** Laoag (LAO), 7 km\ - Mabalacat → San Nicolas 42 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · ₱115–150 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/mabalacat-to-san-nicolas) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Mabalacat&to=San+Nicolas) - Olongapo → San Nicolas 26 km · quickest by road, 56 min · ₱80–110 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/olongapo-to-san-nicolas) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Olongapo&to=San+Nicolas) - Manila (Pasay) → San Nicolas 59 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · ₱170–230 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/manila-pasay-to-san-nicolas) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Manila+%28Pasay%29&to=San+Nicolas) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=San%20Nicolas) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for San Nicolas Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for San Nicolas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get around Calesa - Horse-drawn carriage Jeepney Tricycle Rent-a-car From [Wikivoyage: Laoag](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Laoag), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Orchid Island (Lanyu)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/orchid-island) TW 10 ways of moving, 31 sources 442 km 2. [Sabang and Puerto Galera](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sabang) PH 9 ways of moving, 46 sources 519 km 3. [Coron](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coron) PH 12 ways of moving, 57 sources 688 km 4. [Kinmen (Quemoy)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kinmen) TW 10 ways of moving, 12 sources 735 km 5. [Taketomi and the Yaeyama islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/taketomi) JP 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 774 km If you know how people move in San Nicolas – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Csan-nicolas&title=San+Nicolas&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fsan-nicolas), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to San Nicolas - [Laoag](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/laoag) city of the Philippines and capital of the province of Ilocos Norte 2.8 km - [Northwestern University](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/northwestern-university) private non-sectarian educational institution in Laoag CIty, Ilocos Norte, Philippines 3.3 km [The place page for San Nicolas](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/san-nicolas) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Philippines](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-PH) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/san-nicolas, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt