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DIY Boat Ride to Boracay Island: An Inexpensive Way to Get to Boracay from Caticlan Airport

Welcome to Boracay! @Puka Beach Boracay's beauty awaits you. Sunset @ Punta Bunga Beach Picture this, you've just arrived at Caticlan Airport, ready to embark on your much anticipated Boracay vacation. As soon as you gather your things and exit baggage claim, you immediately feel overwhelmed. There are so many people coming at you telling you to go here and there, asking you a million questions you have no answer to, tourists moving frantically...you feel like you just want to get out of there. Finally, you just listen to one person who shows you how to get a bus to get to the island. Wait, I thought I was already at Boracay. Nope. You have to take a boat to your getaway. So you talk with the bus folks and to get to the island and get a ride to your accommodation it will cost you 1050 Pesos. Without any frame of reference and out of exasperation, you just acquiesce. As you sit on the bus you feel you can exhale. Not yet! You reach the port where you're herded li...

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