Your own guide, your own boat, your own timing: the whole trip arranged privately, from arrival to departure.
Every Inside Philippines journey is tailor-made, but a private journey goes a step further: no shared tours, no shared transfers, nothing on a fixed timetable unless an airline sets it. You are met at the aircraft door where the airport allows it, driven in a private vehicle, and taken out on a private boat with a crew who knows where the others will be and goes somewhere else.
Private journeys suit families who want to move together without waiting for strangers, couples who value privacy, and travellers who simply prefer their own pace. We handle the parts that are hard to arrange from abroad: island-to-island charters, guides for specific interests, dietary needs such as halal (we arrange it where available and tell you honestly where options are limited), and a direct line to our team throughout.
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A long, thin island of karst lagoons, empty beaches and slow coastal towns, stretching 450 km between the South China Sea and the Sulu Sea.
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The Philippines' best-known lagoons, set in Bacuit Bay's 45-odd limestone islands, with beaches that look unreal and a small town that grew up fast around them.
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Inland lakes inside limestone cliffs, Second World War shipwrecks you can dive or snorkel, and a busy harbour town on Busuanga Island.
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A teardrop-shaped surf island in the Pacific with a famous reef break, island-hopping lagoons, coconut forests and the most relaxed social scene in the country.
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The Chocolate Hills, tiny tarsiers, a slow green river and the beaches of Panglao, all within an easy two hours of each other.
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A huge, hectic capital with a walled Spanish city at its heart, the world's oldest Chinatown, serious museums and the country's best food scene.
14 days · Essential / Boutique / Premium / Signature
Manila • El Nido • Bohol • Siargao
El Nido's lagoons, Bohol's rivers and hills, Siargao's palm-lined roads. The three islands most people mean when they say the Philippines, in an order that actually works.
From €2,300per person ·
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12 days · Boutique / Premium / Signature
Manila • El Nido • Private island • Siargao
El Nido from a private boat, three nights on an island where yours is one of very few villas, then Siargao's easy evenings. Two people, one plan, nobody else's schedule.
From €3,900per person ·
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21 days · Essential / Boutique / Premium / Signature
Manila • Banaue • Sagada • El Nido • Bohol • Siargao
Three weeks from Manila's old city to the rice terraces of the Cordillera, then Palawan, Bohol and Siargao. The whole country in one trip, without pretending it is a small one.
From €3,300per person ·
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Manila • Bohol • El Nido
For travellers who want comfort and fewer early starts: a private car and guide, good hotels that are easy to reach, short boat days and time to rest.
From €3,200per person ·
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