THE PHILIPPINES · HONDA BAY TOURS
Good honda bay tours sell out in the dry season and the best go first. Here are 12 to weigh up, what each includes and where they part company.
Review of Puerto Princesa Honda Bay island hopping, with Luli Island, Pambato Reef, Cowrie Island, lunch, snorkeling, and massage tips.
“Everyone was amazing! Thank you to the driver, tour guide “V” and the boaters. Had an amazing time with my group! So glad I chose to spend my birthday this way! Thank you!!”
Review of Honda Bay island hopping from Puerto Princesa, with snorkeling, three islands, Filipino lunch, costs, timing, and practical booking tips.
“I wasn't picked up at the hostel, so the tour didn't happen. No one responded to my messages.”
Review of Puerto Princesa’s Honda Bay island tour, with Luli, Cowrie, Pambato Reef, lunch, snorkeling, fees, and practical tips.
“Never picked us up. Never communicate we were outside the pick up range. Never got to do the tour. I'm sure the tour itself would have been wonderful but my experience was ruined by lack of communication.”
Review of Palawan’s Honda Bay island hopping tour, with Starfish, Luli, and Cowrie islands, lunch, snorkeling, costs, and practical tips.
“One ‘island’ was more of a pontoon to go snorkelling from. It was a small area rammed full of tourists and not very good snorkelling. Basically you are paying to swim in a few different places.”
Review of Puerto Princesa’s shared Honda Bay island tour, with Lu-Li and Cowrie islands, lunch, transport, costs, and practical tips.
“It is recommended to wear water shoes and the first stop in the van is a place to rent water shoes and snorkel gear. We had already selected to have snorkel gear included but then ended up having to pay to hire water shoes and if we'd knoRead more”
Review of Puerto Princesa’s private Honda Bay island hopping tour, with snorkeling, lunch, two island stops, port pickup, and free cancellation.
“We had a remarkable guide for our private tour for 6 people (we aren’t spring chickens), TJ Echo spoke perfect English (Spanish, too), stopped for what we needed, informed us of marine life, considered safety judiciously, and taught us many iPhone photo tricks. The lunch was lovely..”
Review of Puerto Princesa’s Honda Bay island tour, with Cowrie, Luli, and Starfish Island, lunch, snorkeling, costs, and practical tips.
“celkově dost děsný. zaplacený ostrov Starfish jsme vůbec neviděli, celý den jsme strávili na ostrově Luli , kde vůbec nic nebylo, čekali jsme 5 hodin na oběd, až se uvolní místo, nakonec jsme jeli na ostrov Cowrie který se nám líbil, ale tady jsme byli jen 50 min, rozdělení času absolutně nechápu a hned jsme museli na lod a zpátky do přístavu. Celkově nudný výlet s nudným průvodcem, který stále jen mlčel a stál stranou. děsný”
Review of Puerto Princesa’s private Honda Bay island tour, with Luli Island, Pambato Reef, Cowrie Island, lunch, price, and tips.
“We did the private tour with Step from Corazon Travel & Tours and he was like a professor the way he educated us about the Palawn Islands and wildlife. He also went way above and beyond his duties as he stayed with us after the tour to show us how to get to downtown Puerto Princessa from Honda Bay. The islands were absolutely beautiful and of all the tours we did in Palawan this one had the best lunch. We were surrounded by colorful, beautiful fish during our snorkeling session and Step even pointed out 3 giant clams that were an endangered species. It was quite a sight to see…”
Review of Puerto Princesa Honda Bay island hopping, with snorkeling, three islands, lunch, costs, transport, and practical booking advice.
“Our tour guide was excellent! He seem to have massive knowledge base of marine life & he was happy to share it. Tour was well organised eg transfers & food.”
Review of Puerto Princesa’s Honda Bay island hopping tour, with Luli, Cowrie, Starfish Island, snorkeling, lunch, costs, and practical tips.
“This was a fun tour with one negative that I am inclined to mention. If you want to snorkel and are inclined to rent snorkel gear don't. The snorkeling area "reef" was extremely small and when I was there they must have had 60 people in the water at the same time. The other Read more”
Review of Honda Bay’s island tour from Puerto Princesa, with snorkeling at Starfish Island, lunch at Cowrie, Luli Island, and practical tips.
Review of Puerto Princesa’s Honda Bay island tour, with Cowrie, Luli, and Starfish islands, lunch, transport, costs, and practical tips.
“The tour and staff is very professional we had a great time we drove ourselves to the tour and found parking easily everything was communicated up front it was very enjoyable”
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