General: Boracay (The Philippines)

The beach at Boracay is rated one of the top ten in the world,and it deserves it. The sand is pure white and clean as a whistle. The Philipeans in general is ,perhaps ,the best kept secret in the far east, a great place to vacation, friendly,warm very very cheap and everyone speaks English. Boracay is a small island about 30mins flight from Manila (flight about £40 return). the airport is on a larger island a 10 min boat ride on a local outrigger ...
...a large number of large hotels that take the form of beach resorts,usually with individual carbana style suits set in large well kept grounds with all the sports and at least 2 pools in house. I last stayed at the MGM resort and it was first class, large living room with TV,video plus attached fully fitted kitchen, huge bedroom and all for about £45 per night !!!! The very long beach is fronted by a sandy foot traffic only road that fronts the main ...

coppinpr 01.10.2008 (30.11.2008) · Read full review
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Review of General: Boracay (The Philippines)

Boracay is known as The Philippines' most beautiful island and regularly features in top ten lists for 'The best beaches in the world'. Being so highly rated, I decided I had to visit it in June 2008, to decide for myself if it really is that good. '''Getting there''' In order to get to Boracay, you have to fly from Manila to either Caticlan or Kalibo. There are many flights every day to both airports with various different airlines. The cheapest ...
...I flew with Asian Spirit and the short 1 hour flight was fine with them. From Caticlan, you take one of the many small boats across to Boracay and there is a new jetty on the south of the island now to make things easier (before this was built you had to climb out of the boats directly on to the beaches). If you fly to Kalibo then you have to to travel by road for a couple of hours to Caticlan so it is preferable to pay a bit extra and fly to Caticlan ...

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Review of General: Boracay (The Philippines)

Boracay is a small six kilometres long and one kilometre wide Philippine island, situated in the north of the big Visayan Isle Panay. It is a tropical beach paradise with white beaches, coco palm trees, bamboo huts and sun all over the year. Boracay has lost its innocence, but not its beauty. Some backpackers discovered the paradise thirty years ago. They mentioned it in an alternative guide and more and more people were coming. Now Boracay is the ...
...accommodation, dive bases and within reach from Manila by plane in two hours. Tourism was taken down when I visited the island in March 2002. The reason was the abductions of the Abu Sayaff the year before. Prices were low and discos, pubs and restaurant were nearly empty. But the risk of an abduction seemed to me rather low. To get to Boracay is very simple. A flight from Frankfort (London?) with Kuwait Airlines costs about 600 Dollars. Take a ...

kambodscha-joe 03.03.2003 · Read full review
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