Private El Nido Tour B – Snake Island Private Boat Tour

The Snake Island sandbar, Cudugnon Cave, Cathedral Cave, Entalula Beach and Pinagbuyutan Island — the shared Tour B lineup, run on your own boat. Big Lagoon and Secret Lagoon are not on it; they belong to Tour A. If your group only has one boat day, book the private Tour A instead — Tour B is the better second or third day. Stop lineups rotate with local regulations and daily conditions.

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. Because Tour B is tide-dependent, having your own boat is what lets you reach the Snake Island sandbar when it is actually walkable.

The price covers the private outrigger boat and crew for your group across Snake Island, Cudugnon Cave, Cathedral Cave, Entalula and Pinagbuyutan, 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 per person and any snorkel gear or aqua shoes you rent.

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.

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. If the swell rules out the outer islands entirely, the Cadlao beaches of Tour D are the usual alternative.

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. Shoes with grip earn their place at the cave stops.

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 sandbar walk at Snake Island is the shallowest, gentlest stop of the day.

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.