15 Shore Excursions in the Philippines Worth Clearing a Day For

1.Shore excursion: Puerto Princesa Island Hopping Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 27 reviews · from $100Our pick

Review of Puerto Princesa’s Honda Bay island-hopping tour, with Cowrie, Lu-Li, and Starfish islands, lunch, transport, costs, and practical tips.

“This tour is definitely a must-do when you visit Puerto Princesa. It might be good to do the tour when forecast wind is gentle during summer months, as seas can get rough and the coast guard limits the range of your tour in our case we were not able to visit starfish island. In any case just get a tip from your tour guide and he will give you options. I believe any of these options would be good. The buffet lunch was also great. We had ours at Cowrie Island.”

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2.Puerto Princesa Honda Bay Island Hopping Shore Excursion

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 16 reviews · from $173Top rated

Review of Puerto Princesa Honda Bay island hopping, with private guiding, snorkeling, lunch, island stops, price, value, and booking tips.

“We had a remarkable guide for our private tour for 6 people (we aren’t spring chickens), TJ Echo spoke perfect English (Spanish, too), stopped for what we needed, informed us of marine life, considered safety judiciously, and taught us many iPhone photo tricks. The lunch was lovely..”

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3.Intramuros Walking Tour by Don’t Skip Manila | Shore Excursion

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 15 reviews · from $83

Explore Manila’s Intramuros with Fort Santiago, Rizal Shrine, colonial museums, transport, and thoughtful storytelling on a half-day shore tour.

“We were not cruise passengers but they accommodated us, and met Andrei, our tour guide by Fort Santiago. The history story telling was excellent, kudos to Andrei. It was a good refresher for me and my husband who studied in ManilRead more”

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4.Puerto Princesa Underground River Shore Excursion

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 12 reviews · from $200

Review of Puerto Princesa Underground River shore excursion, with port transfers, lunch, guides, cave access, pricing, timing, and practical tips.

“Our guide nicknamed Brian gave us an excellent tour . Good information is provided throughout. Courteous and helpful. Driver was very pleasant as well . Great value when compared to our cruise organized tour. Highly recommended”

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5.Puerto Princesa shore excursion to Luli, starfish, cowrie island

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 12 reviews · from $60

Review of Puerto Princesa’s 8-hour island-hopping tour to Cowrie, Lu-Li, Starfish Sandbar, and Honda Bay, with lunch and transfers.

“The guide Ana was fantastic and our driver Joel was exceptional and the three islands we went to were amazing. So why the 3 star rating? This was a private tour which we paid double the price of a group tour and it was worth it, until they serRead more”

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6.Shared Cruise Shore Excursion of Manila Old and New City Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 10 reviews · from $112

Review of Manila’s four-hour shore tour, with Intramuros, Rizal Park, the American Cemetery, guides, traffic, value, and booking tips.

“I had done this same tour a year prior with my daughter and knew my husband would enjoy it too. Frank was a wonderful guide. Very knowledgeable and easy to understand. He gave us time to see the sights and never rushed us. Great tour!”

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7.Private Puerto Princesa Palawan Underground River shore excursion

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 10 reviews · from $130

Review of Puerto Princesa’s Underground River shore excursion, with private transfers, lunch, permits, cave boat ride, costs, and practical tips.

“Good time in a small group tour (10) with our guide Anna. She took great care of us. Two boat rides a huge lunch buffet and a little shopping to end the tour. Puerto Princessa really welcomes the tourists, they are very gracious.”

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8.Private Half-Day Shore Excursion in Manila

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 7 reviews · from $125

See Manila’s top sights on a private four-hour shore tour with port pickup, historic Intramuros, Chinatown, and a dedicated guide.

“We had a great day with our guide Tony and driver Roy. Learnt a lot about the history of Manila and the Philippines . He was very informative and would recommend him if you are in Manila. Roy was very good given the traffic and we felt very safe with him.”

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9.Puerto Princesa City sightseeing tour shore excursion

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 4 reviews · from $50

See Puerto Princesa’s top sights, from Baker’s Hill to Plaza Cuartel, on a four-hour small-group shore excursion with guide and transport.

“It was our first visit to Palawan and I was so glad that I booked this tour. Our tour guide, Ernie, was the best. He was a comedian, a magician, and ventriloquist all at the same time. He was very informative and knowledgeable. We got to visit Read more”

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10.Cruise Shore Excursion of Taal Volcano with Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 4 reviews · from $160

Review of a private Tagaytay shore excursion from Manila with Taal Volcano views, art, farming, lunch, transport, and practical tips.

“It was a cloudy day when we went to Tagaytay, so we could not see Taal Volcano very well; nevertheless, we had a pleasant time visiting a local organic farm and glass museum.”

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11.Puerto Princesa Port Palawan Private Honda bay shore excursion

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 2 reviews · from $150

Review of Puerto Princesa’s private Honda Bay shore excursion, with island swimming, snorkeling, buffet lunch, transport, costs, and practical tips.

“I had an absolutely amazing day on this tour! The operator was incredibly accommodating, making sure I could attend without any issues. Initially, I thought it was a group tour, but to my surprise, it turned out to be a private experience—whRead more”

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12.Private Puerto Princesa island tour: Shore excursion

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 2 reviews · from $100

Review of Puerto Princesa’s Honda Bay shore tour, with island boating, snorkeling, beach lunch, transport details, price advice, and booking tips.

“Absolutely perfect tour in every way. Good snorkeling, more lunch than our group could eat, transportation was fun on the motor boat between islands. Highly recommend this tour and this company. They were amazing from the start—office follow through on an error I made in booking and honored the reservation. So impressed with World Holiday Travel.”

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13.Private Half-Day Shore Excursion Old Manila by Calesa

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 1 reviews · from $175

Explore Old Manila by private guide and calesa, with Intramuros, San Agustin Church, Casa Manila, Fort Santiago, and cruise pickup.

“The tour and experience was excellent…and the tour guy Jonas Fon, was very polite and a good tour operator…I’ll give him a ten”

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14.Private Half-Day Shore Excursion Old Manila

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 1 reviews · from $175

See Old Manila in four hours with a private guide, Fort Santiago, Intramuros, San Agustin Church, Casa Manila, and Binondo.

“The whole thing i enjoy every minute of it,the tour guide was very thorough and speaks English well and very informative”

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15.Cruise Shore Excursion of Villa Escudero with Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 1 reviews · from $190

Review of Villa Escudero from Manila, with carabao cart ride, museum visit, Filipino lunch by a spillway, and private port pickup.

“Our group of four had a wonderful time & enjoyed every minute of our tour that exceeded our expectations. We were picked up from our meeting place on time. We had a very pleasant, excellent , entertaining ,& patient tour guide named Fernando who took our photos on thRead more”

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