Our standard private tour uses our traditional banca boats, but with larger groups or wavy conditions you can easily upgrade to a larger, or faster (refer below), boat. Or go all out with fancy live-aboard catamarans. The world is your oyster and we are happy to accommodate!
Write to us and we’d be happy to work out a perfect package for you!
Main banca boats
Can generally accommodate up to 20 people when water is flat, 15 if turbulent (check out the weather forecasts).
The boats vary, as we have many crews and boats, but the bigger and standard ones generally have:
- a toilet in the back, open roof (otherwise, for more surreptitious operations, one can easily go for a swim. The fishies love organic material)
- waterproof storage compartments under the hull and in the captain’s cabin, complete with plastic sheets cover for extra protection over bags. But for electronics, you are always advised to bring a waterbag. They are cheap and easily purchased locally.
- cooking area behind the captain’s cabin – one of the crew always takes care of this
- eating area: as shown in the two pictures below, a table can be set up between the shaded benches, or on the large flat roof surface above the captain’s cabin.
Please note that these banca boats represent the livelihood for the boatman and they will not go out if they feel the weather is too rough or risky. The coast guards are also very strict and do not allow it according to their weather predictions. Along the entire route between Coron and Sibaltan there are tons of islands and always some nearby coast. There is no open ocean stretch so safety is always near. Nevertheless, some of our guests are not used to the ocean and prefer more stability, in which case we have a larger boat with capacity for 30 persons:
Larger banca boat
3,000p/day extra charge
Crew1 – Jhulia (25pax capacity)
Crew2
Crew1 – Paragon
4,000p/day extra charge
Crew3
or even a larger boat for capacity 48:
Largest banca boat
6,000p/day extra charge
Crew1 – Lucky 2J
Crew2
Such boats could have enough cabin space if you prefer to sleep on the boat. If you want to upgrade the size of your boat, just send me a note and we’ll figure something out.
Catamarans and Yachts
Because some customers just love to be pampered, we have a solution for everything! Live-aboard catamarans which can take you around in various areas according to your will.
Live-aboard cruises
We can also arrange for you live-aboard cruise ships with set schedules, often with an emphasis on scuba diving. For example in the beautiful Tubbataha Reef, when in season.
Below: luxury accommodation on the Philippine Siren.
Faster boat
This boat can go about twice as fast as our regular traditional banca boats, suitable if you’d rather skip the Rustic Zone in the middle for more comfortable accommodation (such as on our premium tour), but which lacks cooking facilities, so you’d have to have lunch prepared in any resort you stay at. Costs roughly 3,000p per day extra above our regular banca, is 22ft long and has capacity for up to 12 people.
Bigger faster boat
The larger faster boat has front area glass covered against splash (which can be useful around January when the waves are generally larger). It is 35 feet long (smaller one is 22ft), with a single 150hp 4-stroke engine and has capacity for up to 20 people.
Speedboat
If speed is your need, we have that solution as well.
Smaller banca boats
Capacity up to around 6. Good for local tours.
or:
Smallest banca boats
Usually for local tours around Linapacan only, without any luggage.
And lastly, we have small boats if for example you’d like a local tour of the beautiful Linapacan area. They can generally accommodate up to five people (without baggage) if the water is flat enough. Here’s a picture of our boatman Alvin. You can even sleep in a little hut in his community on the interesting island of Patoyo:
If you have not already, you can book a tour with us here:
You can check out our different boatmen with customer reviews about them if you’d like to make a specific choice between them. Note that our three main boatmen here have several boats and crews under their command:
Our reviews:
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We are a family operation managing private custom boat tours in the beautiful Palawan area, and are happy to help travelers with their plans through the country, having traveled a lot of it ourselves and planning to visit it all.
Good morning!
we’d like to visit Philippines next January. we would like to ask you the following:
Heading from Manila to Coron, we’ll stay 3 nights in Coron, do you think it will be possible to make boat DAILY tours? these are the islands we’d like to see, with no rush:
– CYC beach
– Coral Garden, (atwayan beach?)
– TWIN Lagoon
– Ditaytan Island
– Malcapuya (which i think it’s too far away for me, since i get seasick)
Then we’ll fly from Coron to EL NIDo for other 4 nights and we’d like to see (always daily tours):
– Seven Commando Beach (maybe i can go walking or scooter and no boat is needed?)
– BIG LAGOON
– Papaya Beach
and then fly to Boracay..
is it possible to have your opinion on the best way to move? we don’t want to see things too fast. But we also need to understand the cost for a private boat, if it’s too high, we’ll go with the public tours. can we please have both estimates?
thank you so much! can’t wait!!
Best regards,
Stefania
Sent you private PM, thank you.
We saw that they offer private tours from El Nido to Coron for 2500.00 (Euro/Dollar) (3 nights). Is it possible to book one day more to visit another beautiful island (4 nights)? What would this cost for 2 people? We would like to travel from El Nido to Coron from January 16. or 17. 2024 to January 20. 2024. Please can you make us an offer for the desired trip?
Best regards
Christoph Schwarz
Hello Christoph, already responded to your message to me through our contact form. Best way to contact us, as we do not always receive notifications of comments added to our various pages.