Travel to Puerto Galera, Philippines for 3 Days and 2 Nights for only 3,000 PHP

In this blog, I want to share how cheap it is to go and enjoy your vacation in Puerto Galera even during a peak season. Our travel date was on April 13 - 15, 2017 which is the Holy Week here in the Philippines. These dates are the most busiest date on any beach and resort around the country so you should expect crowd and price hike, but the whole trip only cost us 3,000 PHP per person. It includes all the travel expenses, hostel, food, activities and souvenirs for a 3 days and 2 night trip.

We stayed at Sabang, not at the famous White Beach to avoid the crowd. Before the said dates here are our preparations:

1. Bought a waterproof case for my phone since I don't have an action camera and I don't want to spend to get one.

2. Bought non easily perishable food like bread and snacks because we all know that this basic things will surely be costly in our destination
3. Choose a place to stay. We chose Paddys Bar and Backpacker because of how cheap their rooms are. We got an air-conditioned room for 3 persons for only 450 PHP per night and we booked it using hostelworld.

Here are our timeline:

April 13, 2017

0800: Ortigas - Batangas port via Bus (167 PHP)

1200: Buying tickets to Sabang (230 PHP + 30 PHP port fee)

1445: Riding the boat to Sabang beach(TIP: bring some fan, the boat is so hot in summer)

1600: Arrival at Sabang beach(50 PHP tourism fee)

1630: Checking in
1900: Going to Sabang beach for sight seeing, night life and dinner(motorcycle ride is 20 PHP per person)

*We found a very cheap place to eat near Sabang Fun Divers, it's a grilled and breakfast restaurant which offers grilled pork for only 15PHP and rice for 25PHP. The owner can also get you a boat for island hopping so we requested one for the next day

April 14, 2017
0700: Going to Sabang beach for breakfast and island hopping
*We ate at the same restaurant and get their silog for only 100 PHP. We also bought food for lunch, and also brought the bread and snacks we bought
0900: Island hopping (1,400 PHP for the rent of the boat for the whole day, you can ask for discount and bring it down to 1,000 PHP if it's a non peak season)

0915: Batangas Channel Beach

1000: Long Beach

1100: Corals and Giant Clam snorkeling(200 PHP per activity per person)

1200: Lunch
1300: Coco beach
1400: End of the island tour(you can extend until 1600 but we're too tired so we get back)
1530: We bought a ticket going back (230 PHP + 20 PHP terminal fee)
1600: going back to Paddys

1700: Dinner

*around Paddys there are some small stores which sells food, just in front of it is a place where we ate pansit and lomi for only 60 - 65 PHP and the serving is so large it's good for 2 - 3 persons
1800: Chatting with other backpacker in the lounge area.
April 15, 2017

0800: Check out

0815: Going to White Beach to buy souviniers(300 PHP if you're in Sabang, 400 PHP from Paddys for 1 tricycle)

0930: Breakfast at the Terminal Food Court(100 - 200 PHP with unlimited rice)

1000: Boat to Batangas
1130: Riding the bus to Ortigas
1400: Arrival to Ortigas

The cost of the fare, hostel, food and activities sums up to 2,500 PHP but I bought 5 souvenir Tshirts for 100 each so my total cost sums up to 3,000 PHP.

Here are some photos of our vacation: