To get to Puerto Galera, you will need to travel for two hours by land and then take a one-hour ferry ride from the Batangas pier. Upon reaching Puerto Galera, the resort’s shuttle will take you from the pier to the resort.

There are 7 types of room accommodations to choose from. Rooms, depending on the type, can house anywhere from 2 to 10 people. The rates per room per night range from P2,700 to P5,400. The more expensive rooms already come with breakfast.

While at the resort, guests can enjoy the food offered by the resort’s restaurant and bar. Guests can also use the infinity pool, seminar rooms, and various sports facilities. You can even play paintball games!

The resort also offers various eco-tours, with certain destinations accessible via a hanging bridge and carabao rides.

To learn more about the resort, you can visit www.puertonirvana.com

They have 5 types of rooms to choose from to suit your needs and your budget. They offer private, exclusive luxury rooms but for these rooms, kids below 12 are not allowed. Rate per person per night ranges from USD 36 to USD 70, depending on the type of room, not including the luxury rooms. Additional fees can be charged for breakfast, halfboard, or fullboard.

Just like most resorts in Puerto Galera, guests can take care of transportation on their own or arrange for pick-up services. For arranged pick-up the rate ranges from USD 49 to USD 400, depending on the arrangement and the number of people included.

For more details, you may visit www.elgalleon.com

What may you do while at Sabang Inn? You can enjoy the beach, the pool, their spa, snorkeling, and you can also avail of various dive packages. Dive packages range from USD 129 (for a 4 day dive package) to USD 1,854 (for an Open Water Diver – divemaster package). You can also go on trekking tours or play golf at the Ponderosa Golf Club.

You can check out www.sabang-inn.com to read more about transfer arrangements. You may avail of their standard bus ride to the Batangas pier plus a ferry ride or you can arrange for pick-up service, exclusively for your group. Fare for the pick-up service is USD 110, one-way.

Some accommodations come with the services of a cook, butler, and maid. The resort offers nightly room rates which range from P1,700 to P4,100 (depending on the type of accommodation chosen) for 2 persons. There are also packages per person, ranging from P4,090 to P6,800 (for 3D/2N), inclusive of transfers from Manila and daily breakfast.

A tourist bus leaves City State Tower Hotel in Ermita, Manila at 8am. Upon reaching the Batangas pier, guests take a ferry boat to Puerto Galera. The trip may last an hour and a half, maximum. Upon arrival in Puerto Galera, guests will be met and brought to the resort.

For more details and to view pictures, you can visit: www.tanawinbayresort.com

There are airconditioned and fan rooms at the resort. There are even family rooms with bunk beds for kids. Rates are in the USD 40-65 per night range, depending on the type and location of the room. Rates do not include breakfast yet.

While there at La Laguna, you can enjoy facilities like a swimming pool, diving facilities, and you can also go on a jungle trek, river kayak tour, or a sunset cruise, among others.

For more details on the resort, you can visit their website at www.llbc.com.ph

During your stay in Coco Beach Island, an entire service family will be assigned to you to take care of all your needs. This is a unique feature of Coco Beach Resort. You can also enjoy the resort’s 4 restaurants and amenities like: children’s playground, dive shop, internet cafe, and swimming pools with a jacuzzi and a children’s slide.

Rates are very reasonable. For a 2 night package, the rate per person ranges from USD 63-103, depending on the type of room you choose. This rate already includes buffet breakfast and the transfers. Getting to the resort will require you to take a land trip and then a boat ride.

You can take the regular transfers which leave the Manila area at about 6:30am, arrive at the Batangas pier at about 9:30am after which you will be at Coco Beach Resort at 11:00am. You can also ask for your own transfer package (whatever time you like), for which you will be charged a separate fee and for which at least two people are needed.

For more details on the resort, visit www.cocobeach.com

We were there as a group so we stayed in a reasonably-priced place (read: CHEAP). We cooked our own food sometimes or ate at the small eateries nearby. I don’t remember the beach being particularly awesome — although I do recall that the water was clear and clean and the sunsets beautiful. In recent years, some news articles trumpet Puerto Galera as one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

One of the resorts located at Sabang Beach in Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro is Atlantis Resort. To get there, it will take you about 4 to 5 hours where you will have to take a trip by land and then a ferry or a banca from Batangas. The boat ride in itself is quite an experience — as it is quite breezy and as you see yourself going in between big rocks or were those islands?

Atlantis Resort positions itself as a boutique hotel and a place for scuba diving. It says that it has more than 30 dive sites within 10 minutes travel from the resort. While there, you can also enjoy the beach, the pool, play golf, go on a sunset cruise, or try trekking. There are several available rooms from deluxe rooms to executive suites.

To learn more about Atlantis Resort in Puerto Galera, you can visit their website at www.atlantishotel.com