El Nido Island Hopping Tour B – Snake Island & Caves

The Snake Island sandbar, Cudugnon Cave, Cathedral Cave, Entalula Beach and Pinagbuyutan Island — but not Big Lagoon or Secret Lagoon, which belong to Tour A. Tour B trades that spectacle for breathing room: sandbars, caves and far fewer boats. If you only have one boat day, take Tour A; take Tour B happily as a third day, or as a first-timer who is allergic to crowds. Stop lineups rotate with local regulations and daily conditions.

The fare covers the shared outrigger boat and crew for the Snake Island, Cudugnon Cave, Cathedral Cave, Entalula and Pinagbuyutan run, the lunch the crew grills at Entalula, life vests and hotel pickup within the pickup area. On the day you pay cash for the ₱400 El Nido Eco-Tourism Development Fee and any snorkel gear or aqua shoes you rent. ATMs outside Puerto Princesa are unreliable, so bring small bills with you.

Pickup runs from 8:30 to 9:00 AM at hotels inside the pickup area — El Nido town, the boat dock and the Corong-Corong hotels — and the boat is back at El Nido Beach Boat Dock around 5:00 PM. Hotel drop-off is not included; a tricycle covers the last stretch cheaply.

The boat is yours: your own pace, no strangers aboard, and the freedom to leave before the convoy of shared boats does — the single biggest crowd-avoidance trick in El Nido. Joining tours are shared boats sold per person on a fixed departure. Tour B is quiet either way, so the private upgrade here buys pace and privacy rather than crowd relief.

Coast Guard cancellations are a normal part of an El Nido season, and a refund or a rebooking to another day is standard practice when the day is called off. Tour B sits in the middle of the cancellation ranking with Tour A: Tour C goes first when the swell picks up, and Tour D near Cadlao is the most likely to still run.

Reef-safe sunscreen, a towel, a dry bag, water shoes (the karst is sharp) and small bills for the fees collected at the stops. A phone in a waterproof pouch replaces most of the camera kit people haul. The crew handles lunch, so you need less than you think.

Yes, as long as you say so at booking. Life vests are standard and required at most stops, and the crews are practiced with nervous swimmers — tell them and they keep an eye out. The cave stops involve short scrambles on rock, so shoes with grip earn their place.

Full payment is taken at booking. Cancellations made up to 7 days before the tour date are refunded in full; inside 7 days a 50% cancellation fee applies, and no-shows or cancellations within 24 hours are not refunded. If you cancel a booking paid by card or PayPal, the 5% payment processing fee is not refunded. Cancellations by the operator or due to weather are refunded in full. Changes are subject to availability and price adjustments — message us early if plans shift and we will help rebook.

This service has an estimated duration of 8 hours to complete.

Available activity slots are 9:00 AM daily.