Bohol to Siargao

Take Grab from Mactan–Cebu airport to the Ayala area, about ₱500 for the car and thirty-five to forty-five minutes. Use the signed app pickup area after collecting your luggage. If you arrive early, leave the bags at the hotel and give downtown around two hours. Start at Magellan’s Cross, continue to Fort San Pedro, about ₱50 entry, and finish at the nearby National Museum, which is free and closes at 6pm. Cebu lechon, roast pork eaten with puso rice parcels, makes a useful first local meal before returning to Ayala. A late landing leaves the city walk out of the plan; the next morning’s ferry is the priority.

• Mactan airport to Ayala
• Magellan’s Cross and Fort San Pedro
• The free National Museum

Base: Cebu City

Book a morning OceanJet from Cebu Pier 1 to Tagbilaran at oceanjet.net, about two hours and ₱960 per tourist-class seat before port and luggage charges. Reserve Southwest’s private city-to-seaport car for about ₱900 per vehicle carrying up to four; allow around thirty minutes from Ayala and reach the pier an hour before sailing. On Bohol, the same provider’s port-to-Alona car is about ₱1,000 for up to four, with a thirty-to-fifty-minute drive. Give the driver the Panglao hotel address. Spend the afternoon walking Alona’s shore and eating grilled fish around its restaurant lanes. The three-night room covers both the countryside day and the following Balicasag morning.

• Cebu Pier 1
• OceanJet to Tagbilaran
• Alona’s shoreline

Base: Bohol (Panglao)

Hire Ultra Mint’s car or SUV for about ₱3,000 per vehicle, up to four passengers, for an eight-hour countryside day. Book at ultramintbohol.com and specify the Philippine Tarsier Foundation at Corella when requesting the route. Visit Carmen’s Chocolate Hills first; entry is about ₱150 per adult from outside Bohol. Have lunch in Loboc, then reach Corella by 2:30pm, leaving time for the guided visit before its 3:30pm closing. The sanctuary charges about ₱150 per person. Follow the guide along the forest path, speak quietly and leave the camera flash off around the resting animals. This car price excludes tickets and lunch: for two adults, the driver and these two admissions come to about ₱3,600.

• The Chocolate Hills Complex
• Lunch in Loboc
• Corella’s guided forest walk

Base: Bohol (Panglao)

Reserve Ultra Mint’s private Balicasag boat for about ₱3,700 carrying up to three people. Its morning runs roughly 6:30am to noon, with transport, the boat and life vests included. Add about ₱500 per foreign adult for the environmental payment, entry and mask rental; the two-person total is around ₱4,700 before food. The offshore boat ride takes about thirty to forty minutes. At the reef, keep clear of the coral and give turtles room to move past you. Eat lunch back around Alona after the early return.

• Balicasag’s reef
• A private boat for the small party
• Lunch back on Alona

Base: Bohol (Panglao)

Take an early Tagbilaran–Cebu ferry and an afternoon Cebgo flight to Siargao. An early-October 2026 example uses the 6am ferry, reaching Cebu around 8am, then the 14:55 flight arriving at Sayak at 4pm. Book at oceanjet.net and cebupacificair.com, leaving at least four hours between the ferry arrival and flight departure for your dates. Budget ₱960 for the ferry and around ₱2,500–4,500 for the flight. Southwest’s Alona-to-port car is about ₱1,000 per vehicle; for that 6am sailing, leave the hotel around 4am. Allow an hour from Pier 1 to Mactan airport in Southwest’s prebooked car, about ₱900 per vehicle. Eat before boarding the flight. ADAII’s shared airport van to General Luna is ₱300 per person and takes about fifty-five minutes.

• The early Bohol ferry
• Mactan airport connection
• General Luna arrival

Base: Siargao (General Luna)

Join ADAII Travel and Tours’ three-island outing at siargaoislandhopping.com, from about ₱1,700 per person. The ticket includes General Luna hotel pickup and return, the boat, guide, lunch cottage and entrance, docking and tourism payments. Keep the whole day for the shared outing, including its later Guyam stop. Naked Island has exposed sand without trees; save the longer shaded stop for Daku, where lunch is served by the beach. Guyam supplies the small palm-covered island at the other end of the excursion. Take a sun shirt for the exposed crossing. The first boat ride towards Naked Island takes about forty-five to sixty minutes from General Luna.

• Guyam’s coconut palms
• Naked Island’s open sandbar
• Daku’s lunch stop

Base: Siargao (General Luna)

Book Kermit’s two-hour lesson at kermitsiargao.com for about ₱1,600 per person. It gives you one instructor, a board and a motorbike ride to a nearby break; the instructor chooses the place for your level. Two friends each book their own lesson, so the pair costs about ₱3,200. Start with paddling and standing on the board before trying to catch the small waves. After the session, eat brick-oven pizza at Kermit’s restaurant in Purok 5, General Luna; the named Kermit Pizza comes with cheese and Parma ham. The included transport covers nearby lesson breaks, with farther outings priced separately.

• One instructor for your lesson
• A nearby beginner break
• Kermit’s Purok 5 restaurant

Base: Siargao (General Luna)

Book Shuttle Siargao’s five-stop joiner land tour for about ₱2,200 per person at shuttlesiargao.com. General Luna collection is roughly 7:30–8:30am, with the day ending around 4pm. The route combines Maasin River, Magpupungko’s rock pools, Siargao’s Secret Beach and Mountain View with Sugba Lagoon. Ask how the stops will be ordered around low tide at Magpupungko. The package covers the van, driver, guide and lunch, plus the Sugba boat and entrance, environmental, docking and parking charges. From Del Carmen, the boat travels through the mangroves towards Sugba’s swimming area. Keep cash for equipment rental if you decide to add paddling.

• Sugba’s mangroves and lagoon
• Magpupungko’s rock pools
• Maasin River and the road viewpoints

Base: Siargao (General Luna)

Reserve ADAII’s shared General Luna–Sayak van for about ₱300 per person through siargaoislandhopping.com. The drive takes around fifty-five minutes; aim to leave the hotel about three hours before the flight, with breakfast finished beforehand. Fly to Cebu in roughly an hour, budgeting about ₱2,500–4,500 for a one-way seat. Buy the return through Cebu Pacific when fixing the outward flight so both flights use your four General Luna nights. Choose the baggage you need with the flight fare. Arrival at Cebu ends day nine. An overnight before a separately booked international departure is another room beyond the eight nights here.

• The shared van to Sayak
• Siargao–Cebu flight
• The end of the nine-day route

Base: Siargao (General Luna)