Service Boat

Hundred Islands Service Boat Guide

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Whenever I go to Hundred Islands National Park in Alaminos, Pangasinan I take the Service Boat instead of the Regular Tour because I would like to visit the many islands inside the park. Unfortunately, everytime I ask the different boatmen I was with to take us to an undeveloped island they would stare blank at me and suggest the 3 developed islands! Fail!

So I decided to make a Service Boat Guide so whenever you are doing a Island Hopping tour in the Hundred Islands National Park you would just say the undeveloped island that you want to swim in or the island you would want to spend time.

Beach at Lopez Island

Here are the islands that you can go because they have beaches.

Name of Island Has shade
Lopez Island Morning and a little space in the afternoon
Scout Island Morning
Old Scout Island Morning
Marcos Island Morning. Can also do cliff jumping inside Imelda Cave
Clave Island Morning and Afternoon
Cuenco Island West Side morning shade. East Side afternoon shade.
Ma. Liza Island Morning
Quirino Island Morning

Island Hopping in Hundred Islands National Park

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At the Tourist Welcome Center at Lucap Wharf, Alaminos, Pangasinan we were given 2 choices for our island hopping adventure. Either we get the Day Tour or we hire a Service Boat for a day.

The Day Tour costs 800 Pesos for 1-5 pax and would only take us to three developed islands – Governor, Childrens and Quezon Island with a time limit of 20 minutes per island and the boat will leave us at the last island and will just fetch us at our desired time.

The Service Boat costs 1,400 Pesos for 1-5 pax and we could have the boat for the whole day and we can go to any island we want without any time limit. We get to have our own tour guide too which will be our boatman.

Since one of our target was to visit Cathedral Island, also known as Marcos Island, and do some cliff jumping to splash to the waters of Cathedral (Imelda) Cave, the Day Tour would not be our option. Besides, I am not a fan of developed islands so it is best to stay on the less developed ones.

Here’s an account of what happened to us during our island hopping tour inside the Hundred Islands National Park

10:46 AM – Arrival at Alaminos Town Proper from Bolinao via mini bus (45 Pesos/pax; Travel Time 1 hour 15 minutes);

10:47 AM – Rode tricycle to Lucap Wharf; 50 Pesos/tricycle

10:57 AM – Arrival at Lucap Wharf; Went into the Tourist Welcome Center to ask for details

11:14 AM – Registered at the Tourist Welcome Center. Paid the 20 Pesos Entrance Fee for a day

11:20 AM – Ate lunch at Lucap Wharf eateries

11:45 AM – Went to the Boat Dispatcher for the start of the Island Hopping

Boat Dispatcher at Lucap Wharf

11:54 AM – Start of Island Hopping. Woohooo!!!

12:22 PM – Arrival at Governor’s Island. Check View Deck and go around the island

at Governor’s Island view deck

12:39 PM – Took a wrong turn to Pinoy Big Brother house. We got to a secluded beach