Getting here: You need a flight to Manila, in Europe the Arabian Airlines currently seem to be cheapest. However, we can not recommend Kuwait Airways. Ideal is a flight that arrives in Manila early enough so you can skip that unnecessary experience of having to stay overnight there and may continue the same day. Upon arrival at the Intl. Airport to the right after customs you might want to change some money into Philippine Peso at one of the several bank counters there. The exchange rates there are always better than abroad. Then you have to take a taxi cab for around 100 Peso (the clever ones will go up to the departure level to catch a taxi there) or, if you really have lots of time, wait for the free shuttle bus service to take you to the Domestic Airport for a flight with http://flyseair.com/ directly to Caticlan Airport, the jump-offmpoint for Boracay . Insist to have the taxi's meter switched on to prevent cheating. Or you might have to ride to Terminal 3 at the Intl. Airport if you chose a domestic flight to Kalibo with http://www.airphilexpress.com/ (recommended) or http://www.cebupacificair.com/ (not recommended, rip-off mentalitiy and seem to see their customers as Idiots) which has the advantage of "real" Airbus planes and higher baggage allowance. At Kalibo Airport you have to take a Tricycle for 100 Peso to the Ceres Bus Terminal in Kalibo, there take an Airconditioned Bus for about 100 Peso to Caticlan Seaport. We can't recommend to use Zest-Air. They are not allowed to land at Caticlan anymore because of their crashes there. You have to book your domestic flights as far ahead as possible to get very cheap prices which change daily so you need some time to find the best deal which can be as low as 500 Peso PLUS various fees and taxes. These Airlines seem to make their profits by their additional fees and overweight charges. Catilclan has only 10 KG free baggage allowance, Kalibo 15 Kg, each addtl. KG cost around 100 Peso. But generally you don't have to carry anything more than sandals, shirts and shorts, it is always warm here and clothes here are surely cheaper than abroad. Carried along winter clothes are just unnecessary weight. At Caticlan airport or Bus terminal someone from us might pick you up to prevent further cheating attempts if you told the taxi driver before on the way to the Domestic Airport to stop to buy for around 150 Peso a SIM-card for your Mobil phone so you can notify us shortly before your flight starts or you take a tricycle yourself for 30 Peso within 5 minutes from Caticlan Airport to Caticlan seaport, (Bus terminal is right there) fthere you buy left of the entrance a boat ticket and pay your "Environmental fee" and go by boat for 30 Peso within 10 minutes to Boracay, from there another Tricycle for 100 Peso within another 10 minutes to us. You don't need a car or motorbike here, from our eastern 2,1 KM long beach it´s only 650 meters across the Island to the 4 KM long western beach and for 10 to 150 Peso you might reach every spot on the only 6,8 KM long Island per Tricycle. The best way to get cash with always the best exchange rate is by one of the automatic teller machines for Visa or MasterCard here, however the withdrawal limits set by the banks are only up to 10000 Peso so your bank should not charge too high fees per transaction since you need many transactions to withdraw sufficient funds. You may buy food here everywhere; there are even two delicacy shops here, one of them advanced his scale 10%. The tap water on Boracay has drinking water quality. Best time to travel here is of course the winter of the northern hemisphere from November to March. From March on the temperatures here rise, the wind that until then quite sure blew away all clouds turns from Northeast to South until diminishing in June (only then you need Fan or Air conditioning in our place) and then after a few back- and forth moves blows from Southeast and brings clouds and also rain and typhoons. This is the local rainy season which of course is incomparable to the European constant-rainy season with immediately cooler temperatures. Here the temperatures stay the same, it never gets below 26° warm even in a storm and after a while the sun is out again. So if you want to make sure you don't have to feel cold during your vacation: come here, no matter what time of the year. See happy people instead of grim looking cold feeling folks! After being here once you will ask yourself why you didn't come sooner, but prevent to stay in Manila because there you will think what am I doing here?! If you stay here during the winter you can finance a great part of your stay by the heating costs and health insurance you saved at home. If you are retired, did you ever consider moving here and leave all the hassle behind? Your pension will last much longer here at these prices and the girls here are much prettier…. Besides sunbathing, swimming or just doing nothing there are many more activities on Boracay: scuba diving, snorkelling, beach hopping, golf on a 19 hole golf course, kayaking, mountain biking, hiking, gym, spa, motor biking, horse riding, beach volleyball and football, bat cave tours, tennis, yoga, wall climbing, internet free from your apartment or at internet cafes, motorized paragliding, kite boarding and windsurfing including instructions right down there on the beach, parasailing, jet ski, bananaboatriding, wakeboarding, waterskiing, sail boating far enough out, basic belly dancing instructions and of course lots of beautiful girls all around.