In case you use public transportation in Metro Manila, you most likely already personal a beep card. These saved worth playing cards can be utilized to pay fare in Metro Manila’s 3 elevated railways – the LRT, LRT-2, MRT-3, point-to-point (P2P) buses, fashionable PUVs and Cebu ferries.
Going cashless saves you the trouble of lining up each time to get a ticket and saves you a bit on fare in comparison with utilizing single-journey tickets. These playing cards may also be used to pay for transactions in some comfort shops and LRT-1 stalls.
Whereas the common beep card has a pleasant design, in case you wish to showcase your Pinoy Delight throughout your day by day commutes, you may wish to look out for the restricted version beep playing cards that function facets of Philippine artwork, tradition, and historical past. The designs are distinctive, making the playing cards simple to identify in case you ever lose it.
Spoliarium beep card
The most well-liked design is the Spoliarium beep card issued by the Nationwide Museum. This limited-edition beep card options the award-winning portray Spoliarium by Juan Luna, which is displayed within the Nationwide Museum of Superb Arts. The cardboard was launched by the Nationwide Museum of the Philippines to have a good time the one hundred and fortieth anniversary of the portray’s creation.
This beep card went viral earlier this yr and rapidly bought out after its launch in Could 2024. I used to be lately capable of purchase it with out having to bodily line up on the museum by getting it immediately from beep’s on-line store. The Spoliarium beep card prices P500 with none load.
Unique Nationwide Museum beep playing cards
The Nationwide Museum additionally launched 4 Unique Nationwide Museum beep playing cards that includes the historic constructions to honor the historical past and tradition of the Philippines final November 2023 to mark Museums and Galleries Month. The 4 designs present:
- Lualhati / Superb Arts: Hematite purple card accessible on the Nationwide Museum of Superb Arts in Manila
- Manunggul jar / Anthropology: Brown card accessible on the Nationwide Museum of Anthropology in Manila
- Lolong / Pure Historical past: Inexperienced card accessible on the Nationwide Museum of Pure Historical past in Manila
- Cebu: Card accessible on the Nationwide Museum of Pure Historical past constructing in Cebu
These beep playing cards had been accessible and bought completely on the Nationwide Museum of the Philippines and aren’t accessible of their on-line retailers. I used to be capable of purchase the Nationwide Museum of Anthropology one once I visited, however it was the one design left on the time.
The Nationwide Museum beep playing cards value P400 every, with an preliminary load of P50. Additionally they work like common beep playing cards for transport and retail.
CalligraFilipino Baybayin beep playing cards
Whereas looking round beep’s on-line store, I got here throughout some very cool designs that includes Baybayin, the Philippine historic writing system. The CalligraFilipino sequence options art work designed by internationally famend CalligraFilipino Artist Taipan Lucero. This sequence additionally has 4 designs that includes Baybayin in inventive artwork kinds.
- BLUE: PILIPINO: Written vertically in Baybayin, main concentric rings of vibrant, colourful, dynamic Cordilleran-inspired weaving designs.
- RED: SA AKING MGA KABATA: Written vertically, from left to proper, is the notorious phrase, “Ang hindi marunong magmahal sa kanyang salita, mahigit sa hayop at malansang isda (“Those that don’t love their language are worse than animals and rotten fish”)
- TEAL: ILAW: As “ilaw ng tahanan” / mild of the house / mild of the household, an honorific title of Filipino moms as they’re our guiding mild. The purple ribbon-like traces are Baybayin letters “I”, “La”, and “W”. The colourful curvilinear kinds are impressed by the Okir of the Maranao.
- BLACK: ALIN PA: Traces from the poem “Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa”, written by Andres Bonifacio. Written within the kulintang kind:
“Aling pag-ibig pa ang hihigit kaya
Sa pagkadalisay at pagkadakila
Gaya ng pag-ibig sa tinubuang lupa,
Aling pag-ibig pa? Wala na nga, wala”,
There are additionally different personalized designs on their store. I simply discovered these the good. The CalligraFilipino beep playing cards value P350 every with no load.
The place to purchase beep playing cards
Prepare stations
LRT-1
- Roosevelt
- Balintawak
- Monumento
- fifth Avenue
- R. Papa
- Abad Santos
- Blumentritt
- Tayuman
- Bambang
- Doroteo Jose
- Carriedo
- Central Terminal
- United Nations
- Pedro Gil
- Quirino
- Vito Cruz
- Gil Puyat
- Libertad
- EDSA
- Baclaran
LRT-2
- Recto
- Legarda
- Pureza
- V. Mapa
- J. Ruiz
- Gilmore
- Betty Go – Belmonte
- Araneta Heart – Cubao
- Anonas
- Katipunan
- Santolan
- Marikina
- Antipolo
MRT-3
- North Avenue
- Quezon Avenue
- GMA – Kamuning
- Araneta Heart – Cubao
- Santolan – Annapolis
- Ortigas
- Shaw Boulevard
- Boni
- Guadalupe
- Buendia
- Ayala
- Magallanes
- Taft Avenue
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- BGC Bus EDSA McKinley– 5am to 12mid (weekdays) and 5am to 11pm (weekends)
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- One Ayala – 1pm to 9pm (weekdays solely besides holidays)
- TAS Trans Pilar Las Pińas– 5am to 12pm (weekdays solely besides holidays)
- TAS Trans NUVALI – 5am to 12pm (weekdays solely besides holidays)
- Alabang City Heart – 5am to 9am (weekdays solely besides holidays)
- Starmall Alabang – 5am to 9am (weekdays solely besides holidays)
- Starmall Shaw – 4pm to 8pm (weekdays solely besides holidays)
