Lagoons to Panglao

Complete eTravel at etravel.gov.ph within 72 hours before arrival; registration is free, and you need the QR code before boarding. After immigration at NAIA, book a Grab to your Makati hotel. Enter the hotel address for the arrival fare, follow the app’s pickup instructions and allow 30–90 minutes in traffic. Around Greenbelt, you can find a bowl of mami noodles or chicken adobo without another taxi. Your booked Clark van collects at the hotel tomorrow, so give the driver the Makati address and a pickup time suited to the flight.

• Free eTravel registration
• NAIA to Makati
• Restaurants around Greenbelt

Base: Manila (Makati)

Use a booked Arrive Pampanga van from your Makati hotel to Clark, roughly ₱6,500 per vehicle including tolls. The road journey takes about 2–3 hours; add three hours at the airport before your Cebgo departure. Cebgo’s direct flight to El Nido takes around 1.5 hours, with one-way fares roughly ₱4,500–9,000 depending on the date and ticket. Book through Cebu Pacific. From Lio airport, a tricycle into town is about ₱300 per vehicle and 15–20 minutes. After checking in, walk to El Nido’s waterfront for grilled fish and a first look across Bacuit Bay.

• Hotel pickup for Clark
• Cebgo to El Nido
• First look at Bacuit Bay

Base: El Nido

Make Tour A your first island outing. El Nido Paradise charges about ₱1,500 per person for roughly 6–7 hours, with a bento lunch, water, mask and snorkel included. The main extra payments are ₱400 for the environmental fee, ₱200 for Big Lagoon entry and about ₱350 for a kayak seating two. Keep the environmental receipt for Tour C on day 5. At the lagoon, the kayak lets you move beyond the entrance into quieter water between tall limestone walls. Choose a life jacket that fits before paddling; the boat and beach stops also involve getting in and out of the water.

• Big Lagoon kayak
• Limestone-walled water
• Lunch included

Base: El Nido

Head north to Nacpan with HTT’s return shuttle, about ₱700 per person through hhospitality.tours. Allow 45–60 minutes each way and choose a return time that leaves several hours at the beach. Unlike the small island landings on the boat tours, Nacpan gives you room for a long walk along the sand. Leave time for a grilled-fish lunch at a beach restaurant and a shaded break before the ride back. The shuttle price is per seat: two travellers should allow roughly ₱1,400 for the return rides, with beach meals paid separately.

• Nacpan’s long shoreline
• Return shuttle from El Nido
• A beach-restaurant lunch

Base: El Nido

Tour C turns towards Helicopter Island, Hidden Beach and the coast around Matinloc, giving you a different route through Bacuit Bay. Book El Nido Paradise’s shared outing for about ₱1,700 per person and 6–7 hours. Lunch, water, mask and snorkel are included; hotel pickup is not, so go to the town meeting point. Bring the environmental-fee receipt from day 3. An optional Matinloc Shrine landing costs around ₱200 extra. The beach stops are the reason to choose this tour, and you can skip that paid visit while the group follows the boat itinerary. Use a dry pouch for valuables when going ashore.

• Helicopter Island
• Hidden Beach
• Matinloc coast

Base: El Nido

Atienza’s El Nido–Coron sailing leaves at 12:30 and reaches Coron around 16:30, with a posted fare of ₱2,600 per person. Buy the ticket at atienzainterislandferriesinc.com and arrive at the port by 10:30 for the required two-hour check-in. The crossing takes about four hours in an air-conditioned cabin, so keep a light layer accessible. On arrival, allow roughly ₱300 for a private tricycle into Coron town, a ride of around five minutes. A town hotel puts you within the pickup area for the next two boat tours. Eat around the poblacion once you have arrived.

• 10:30 port check-in
• Four-hour crossing
• Coron town arrival

Base: Coron

El Nido Paradise’s Coron Super Ultimate tour costs about ₱2,200 per person and collects from town hotels around 7:30–8:00. It is an 8–9-hour outing with a guide, lunch and attraction entries included. Coron’s separate environmental fee is ₱200, valid for ten days; retain that receipt for tomorrow. At Kayangan, steps lead over a ridge to the lake, so footwear with grip is more useful than bare feet. At Twin Lagoon, the boat stops below more limestone walls for a swim between the sheltered basins. Snorkelling equipment can cost extra on this tour, even though lunch and the named site entries are covered by the fare.

• Kayangan Lake
• Twin Lagoon
• Town-hotel pickup

Base: Coron

Take the Island Escapade tour for a day of sand and surface snorkelling after yesterday’s lake circuit. El Nido Paradise lists it at about ₱2,000 per person, including town pickup, lunch, water and site entries. Expect roughly eight hours out, with longer boat rides to these outer islands. Malcapuya has the broad beach; Bulog Dos and Ditaytayan add smaller island landings and a sandbar. Your Coron environmental-fee receipt already covers this second tour day. Use the beach stops for swimming and snorkelling close to shore, following the crew’s landing instructions. Book a shared airport van for day 9 through Psalms Travel or your hotel.

• Malcapuya’s white sand
• Bulog Dos island
• Ditaytayan sandbar

Base: Coron

Leave Coron town in a shared van to Busuanga airport, from about ₱300 per person; allow 40–60 minutes on the road. Sunlight Air’s direct Cebu flight takes around 1.5–2 hours. Its lower fares are roughly ₱4,600 with carry-on only or ₱5,400 with 10 kg checked baggage, including taxes. An afternoon departure fits this route because you are staying in Cebu tonight. Enter your downtown hotel in Grab for the arrival quote, and allow 45–90 minutes on the road. With daylight left, visit Magellan’s Cross beside the Santo Niño basilica. With a later arrival, go straight for lechon and leave the ferry for tomorrow.

• Sunlight Air to Cebu
• Downtown overnight
• Cebu lechon

Base: Cebu City

Take a morning OceanJet sailing from Cebu Pier 1 to Tagbilaran, about two hours across the strait. Tourist-class tickets are roughly ₱960 per person, with terminal and luggage charges separate. Buy at oceanjet.net and reach the pier an hour before sailing. The overnight in Cebu leaves time for breakfast and a short hotel-to-port ride instead of an airport connection. At Tagbilaran, a Southwest private car to Alona is about ₱1,000 for up to four passengers and 30–45 minutes. Spend the remaining afternoon along Alona’s shore, where restaurants, dive shops and boat desks sit close together. This is your first of four Panglao nights.

• Cebu Pier 1 departure
• Tagbilaran arrival
• Alona shore walk

Base: Bohol (Panglao)

Hire an eight-hour Ultra Mint countryside car, about ₱3,000 for up to four passengers, with entrances and lunch extra. Request a customised 07:00 pickup and Corella stop; the standard tour starts later and does not automatically include that sanctuary. Allow around two hours from Panglao to the Chocolate Hills and approximately ₱150 for the viewpoint. Return through Loboc, stopping for lunch, then reach Corella before 14:30. The Philippine Tarsier Foundation charges about ₱150 and opens 08:30–15:30. Walk quietly with flash off. A Loboc buffet cruise costs around ₱1,200 per person; include it only if the driver can still get you to Corella on time.

• Chocolate Hills viewpoint
• Corella’s tarsier forest
• Lunch stop at Loboc

Base: Bohol (Panglao)

Book Ultra Mint’s private Balicasag outing, starting around 06:30 and returning around noon. The boat costs about ₱3,700 for one to three passengers, plus ₱500 per foreign visitor for the environmental fee, island entry and mask rental. For two foreign adults, that makes roughly ₱4,700 before meals. A local guide takes you through the snorkelling areas, where turtles may be feeding over the reef. Stay beside the guide and give the animals space without chasing them. Lunch is separate, so eat back on Panglao after the return.

• Balicasag’s reef areas
• Local snorkelling guide
• Private boat shared by up to three

Base: Bohol (Panglao)

Keep today on foot around Alona, without a countryside car or another boat departure. Start with a walk along the white-sand shore, then choose a place with shade for the middle of the day. Restaurants and dive shops line this stretch, so lunch need not become a separate journey. Kinilaw, raw fish dressed with vinegar and calamansi, is one local option; grilled squid or fish suits anyone wanting a cooked meal. This day can also absorb an outing moved from earlier in the Bohol stay. If the original plans went ahead, use it for the beach itself instead of filling the gap with a long drive.

• Alona’s white sand
• A day without transfers
• Panglao seafood

Base: Bohol (Panglao)

A Southwest car from Alona to Bohol–Panglao airport costs about ₱600 for up to four passengers; allow 15–20 minutes for the ride. Reach the airport three hours before a Cebu Pacific domestic flight. With PAL, use three hours as our planning buffer and follow your ticket’s instructions. Direct Manila flights take roughly 1.5 hours, with one-way fares around ₱2,500–4,500 depending on the date and ticket. Book with Philippine Airlines or Cebu Pacific, using Bohol–Panglao as the departure airport. Baggage follows the selected fare: some bundles include a checked bag, while others charge separately. You leave from Panglao itself, without returning to Tagbilaran’s ferry port. The fourteen-day itinerary ends with this flight.

• Short Panglao airport transfer
• Direct Manila flight
• End of the fourteen-day route

Base: Bohol (Panglao)