How to get to Panglao and Alona Beach

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Panglao Island is located off the southern coast of Bohol island, connected to it by two bridges (Panglao on the map). In 2018, a new international airport was launched here, but so far it has few international flights At Reasonable Prices, so it is still better to get here through the International Airports of Cebu or Manila.

By water on Panglao, you can get through the ports on the island of Bohol, and then to the resorts on Panglao and to Alona Beach by taxi, tricycles, or jeepneys. There is also a direct tourist fast boat flight from Oslob City on Cebu island.

If you do not want to get to Panglao yourself, you can consider options with the purchase of ready-made tours. They are offered with departure from different regions of Russia, and this price includes an individual or group transfer to the hotel with all transfers. It is most profitable to purchase tours directly from tour operators online, and not from intermediary travel agencies. Compare prices and pick up tours at once from many tour operators you can on one of the verified sites:

• Philippines tours on Level.Travel
• Philippines tours on Travelata.ru (promocodes here)
• Philippines tours on Onlinetours.ru

Further details about each of the ways, how and by what to get to Panglao Island and Alona Beach, as well as what to move:

By plane

Landing on Panglao Island

Panglao Island is home to the new Panglao International Airport (airport on the map), which serves, among other things, the island of Bohol. The old Tagbilaran Airport is no longer operational, all flights have been transferred to the new one.

The only international flight from Seoul is still operated here. Ready-made tickets with transfers from the Russian Federation and other CIS countries At Reasonable Prices can not be found in it, so it is more profitable to buy a ready-made flight to Cebu or Manila, and from there to get a separate flight of local airlines or by ferry. Cebu Airport is especially convenient, from where you can take a ferry in just a few hours. However, to do this, you first have to get from the airport to the pier by taxi or bus, Read More How to do this in our Guide To The Airport Mactan-Cebu.

Domestic flights to Panglao Airport are operated from Manila, Caticlan (Caticlan), Cebu (Cebu), Maasin (Maasin), Clark( Clark), Davao (Davao), Cagayan de Oro (Cagayan de Oro), these airlines fly:

• Cebu Pacific - Clark, Davao, Manila, Cagayan de Oro
• Air Juan - flights to Caticlan, Cebu, Maasin
• AirSWIFT - flights to El Nido
• Jeju Air - flights to Seoul
• AirAsia - flights to Manila
• Philippine Airlines - flights to Davao, Manila

Tickets for domestic flights in the Philippines are best searched and bought on airline websites, but unfortunately they work very unstable, and sometimes do not open at all from the Russian Federation. Read more, how to solve error 444 on the Cebu Pacific website. this guide will help with other sites as well.

You can find profitable flights to Cebu or Manila from Russia and other countries using the search form from Aviasales or buy tickets on Trip.com:

Cheap flights from Moscow to Cebu:

Minimum prices for flights from Russia to Tagbilaran:

How to get from the airport to Alona Beach

The airport is very close to Alona Beach, from the exit from the terminal to the center of the resort is only 3 kilometers, and some hotels are even closer. The most economical tourists can even walk with light luggage, you can also walk one and a half kilometers to the turn on the main ring road of the island Circumferential Rd, and there take a passing jeepney or other transport.

Another budget option is to take an air-conditioned airport bus, which is for 50 pesos (0.87 , see for more about the Philippine currency) will take you to the main turnoff in Alona Beach (Rona's Corner opposite McDonald's), and goes on to the bus station in Tagbilaran. Rona's Corner is an important landmark point, where appointments are made for excursions and transportation, and in fact the center of the resort. From here, you can reach the desired hotel on foot, or use a motorcycle taxi or tricycles for about 50 pesos.

If you need to get there comfortably, you will have to use a taxi or tricycles. For a trip by car taxi they ask an unrealistic 350 pesos (6.07 USD) for only 3 kilometers, and traded very reluctantly. It is much cheaper to get on a tricycle if you go through the parking lot to the road (tricycles are not allowed in the parking lot). Tricycle drivers also ask for a lot of money for the trip, and need to bargain up to 100 pesos (1.73 USD), no more. Moreover, it should be the price for the entire tricycle for 2-3 people, and not for each passenger.

And yet, do not forget to check with the hotel that you booked, whether they provide a paid or free transfer from the airport, it may be cheaper and more convenient.

By ferry

Tagbilaran ferry

Read more all about ferries in the Philippines and how to use them...

There is no marina directly on Panglao Island, all ferries and speedboats, with the exception of the only tourist boat from Oslob (Oslob, Cebu island), arrive and depart from the marinas and ports on Bohol Island. The most convenient port to get to Panglao is the Port of Tagbilaran Ferry Terminal in Tagbilaran (port on map). It is served by frequent scheduled flights from Cebu; Dumaguete City to Negros Island; Siquijor; Manila; the cities of Cagayan de Oro, Dipolog, Ozamis, Iligan on the island of Mindanao.

Ferries of different companies run along the routes, including some routes operated by several companies at once. But there are no unified ticket offices and schedules in ports in the Philippines, you will have to clarify everything in different ticket offices. You can buy tickets for some flights online at 12go.asia. This site has Russian, reviews, and user support. Purchase is also possible on some carrier websites. Here is the schedule available for online booking, you can follow the links to check and make a reservation:

Carriers and destinations in this port:

• Lite Shipping lines - Argao Cebu), Cebu City, Larena (Siquijor Island), Plaridel (Western Misamis)
• Trans-Asia Shipping lines - Cebu City, Cagayan De Oro
• Oceanjet - Cebu City, Siquijor (Siquijor island), Larena (Siquijor island), Dumaguete (Siquijor island) Negros), Plaridel (Western Misamis)
• Super Cat - Cebu City

How to get from Port Tagbilaran to Panglao and Alona Beach

After disembarking from the ship, you will be surrounded with offers to travel to any place on Panglao or Bohol by tricycle or car. Prices for tourists are offered too high, so if you need to save money, you can go to the Main Street and catch transport there. For a trip to Alona Beach on a motorcycle taxi they ask 150 pesos (2.6 USD), on a tricycle from 200 (3.47 USD), and a car taxi from 350 (6.07 USD). At the pier they ask for at least twice as much, but you can bargain, or share the trip with other tourists, and the drivers themselves will help you with this: if you say that you want to share the trip (share ride), they will find you a fellow traveler. The Grab and JoyRide taxi ordering apps still don't work here as of 2020.

Another option to get there inexpensively is to first drive to J. A. Clarin street or to The Dao Bus Terminal, and from there take a jeepney for 20 pesos, or a bus for 75/150 pesos. Just note that there are jeepneys and buses that go to the center of Panglao (Alona Beach is not called), and those that go directly to Alona Beach.

Well, the most convenient option is to rent a transport. You can rent a motorcycle right in the port, you will be offered them when you get off the board. You can walk along the pier to the exit, and you will see several rental offices on the right just after the arch marking the entrance to the port. Prices there are very good, you can bargain and take a motorbike from 250 pesos/day, subject to rent for a few days. As a pledge, you are asked to leave your passport or any other document with a photo, you can, including, leave an internal Russian passport.

For other ports and marinas in Bohol, see.... Upon arrival at any of these ports, the route to Panglao and Alona Beach will be the same: first take a bus to The Dao Bus Terminal, and there transfer to a bus or jeepney.

How to get from Oslob to Panglao

Panglao-Oslob Boat

From Oslob City (Cebu island) visited to swim with whale sharks, there is a regular tourist boat service to Panglao twice or once a day depending on the season. Cost 1500 pesos (26 USD) both ways, and 900 pesos (15.6 USD) in one, on the way 90 minutes.

These boats on Panglao arrive/depart from Momo Beach, but the price also includes a shuttle to / from Alona Beach to Rona's Corner, which is opposite McDonald's. Departure from Panglao from MoMo Beach (Momo Beach marina on the map) twice a day at 05:30 and 11:30, from Oslobferry from the marina (oslobpier pier on the map) at 11:00. tickets can be purchased at travel agencies on the spot, by phone or on the website https://apekoptravel.com/Tickets. It is also better to check the schedule on the site in advance, as it may change.

The marina in Oslob from The Briefing Centre, where you swim with whale sharks, can be reached by tricycle for 100 pesos, or take any passing bus towards Cebu on the main road.

By bus

Tagbilaran Bus Station

Direct bus and jeepney services are only available from Tagbilaran City and Tagbilaran's main bus station Dao Bus Terminal (bus station on the map). Jeepney fare starts at 20 pesos, air-conditioned bus 75/150 pesos. Just note that there are jeepneys and buses that go to the center of Panglao (Alona Beach is not called), and those that go directly to Alona Beach.

From the rest of the cities of the island of Bohol to Panglao will have to get with a transfer at the bus station Dao Bus Terminal. You can get there during the day from almost anywhere in Bohol, you just need to leave early. Buses around Bohol run frequently, mainly along the coastal ring road, as well as the road through the center of the island through the town of Carmen. You can take these buses not only at bus stations, but also anywhere on the road, stopping like a taxi with a raised hand. The fare, depending on the route, is 50 and 70 pesos for all regular (yellow) buses.

Transportation, how to move around Panglao

Panglao jeepney

The main resort of the island, Alona Beach, is small, and during your stay there you will not need transport, everything can be bypassed on foot. But if you want to move around Panglao and Bohol for self-exploration of the sights or on other business, you will have to use transport.

Public transport on Panglao is very poorly developed. There is only one bus service from the airport via Alona Beach and to the bus station in Tagbilaran, and several jeepney routes along the ring road. They rarely go, so it is much more convenient to move on tricycles. As usual, tourists for trips on tricycles are called inflated prices, you need to bargain. For example, locals for a short trip pay from 10 pesos (0.17 USD), and tourists are asked for 100 or more. In general, try to bargain at least at the rate of about 20 pesos per kilometer.

But it is much more convenient and cheaper to rent a low-power scooter (Motobike) on Panglao.

Motorcycle rental

Motobike in the Philippines

Low-powered scooters for traveling around Panglao and Bohol can be rented at the beaches, as well as in Tagbilaran City upon arrival by ferry at Tagbilaran Ferry Port. And there and there the prices are the same: after bargaining, you can rent a scooter for 350 pesos/day (6.07 USD) provided that you take for several days, when renting for one day they ask for 500 pesos (8.67 USD). These are the 2025 prices.

Motorcycles on Alona Beach are offered both in hotels and guest houses, and in individual private rental offices, but in hotels they are usually 50-100 pesos more expensive. There is a rental on other beaches of Panglao Island, but less.

When renting, a simple written contract is usually concluded, and they are asked to leave a passport or any document with a photo as a deposit. For example, you can leave your second passport or internal passport. Hotels do without a deposit.

To manage a motorcycle in the Philippines, theoretically, the national rights of the new model issued in Russia are sufficient, since the country has signed the Vienna Convention on road traffic and undertakes to recognize the national license. rights of other countries parties to the convention. But you must have an open category A, otherwise there may be problems when meeting with the police. Driving even a low-power scooter on the roads of the Philippines without a license and category A is prohibited. Learn more about renting transport on Philippines Here...