The southern tip of Palawan province, an island group reached from Bataraza by sea
Balabac is the far southern end of Palawan, and getting there is the whole planning problem. There is no road to it and no drive-on connection: you travel the length of the mainland by road to the southern port, then cross by sea. We quote the road half of that journey — the long private transfer down from Puerto Princesa — so the hardest, most time-critical leg is fixed and in writing before you fly.
We do not run this boat, so we will not pretend we can refund someone else’s sailing — but we will not leave you paying for a vehicle that has nowhere to be either. If the crossing is suspended or your boat does not go, the transfer we quoted is re-timed or rebooked for when it does.
Arriving or leaving by boat? Tell us in the notes which crossing you are booked on and the vehicle is timed to meet it rather than to a clock, with the pickup point and time named on the written confirmation we send before you travel. We do not track a sailing the way we track a flight, so if the boat runs late or you are moved to another one, message us while it is happening and we re-time the driver rather than leaving you to sort it out at the pier.
Travelling with dive kit, a board bag or other bulky equipment? Say so on the quote form — it travels inside the vehicle with you, so it is the load rather than the head count that decides which vehicle we send.
An early-hours or late-night pickup is routine here — send the flight, crossing or permit you are working to and we time the vehicle back from it rather than from a clock time you guessed.
The vehicle is sized around the whole load, not the head count alone, so send the real bag count with the group size: where the luggage is what one vehicle cannot comfortably take we go up a class, or run more than one vehicle kept together on a single booking, rather than finding out at the kerb.
We publish facts, not fares. Prices depend on the vehicle or boat, your group size, waiting time and the season, so every trip is quoted individually — free and with no obligation.
No. Balabac is the southernmost municipality of Palawan and an island group rather than a single island, with no road connection from mainland Palawan. The mainland jump-off is Buliluyan Port in the municipality of Bataraza, and the last leg is by boat.
The road half — the long private transfer from Puerto Princesa city or the airport (PPS) south to Buliluyan Port in Bataraza, and the return. That is the most time-critical leg of the journey, so it is the one worth having fixed and in writing before you fly.
We do not publish a figure for it. The island group sits between the South China Sea and the Sulu Sea, so conditions on the crossing are governed by the season rather than by a fixed timetable — a number we cannot stand behind is worse than no number. Your southbound departure is timed to the boat you are actually booked on.
Balabac Island is the southernmost island of Palawan, separated from Sabah in Malaysia by the Balabac Strait. It is listed as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International, and the island group is one of the places the endemic Philippine mouse-deer — locally the pilandok — is found.
Anything specific to your dates, group or pickup point is answered on the quote — that is where the actual vehicle, timing and fixed all-in price come from.
Free, no obligation, and no payment to ask. If a leg does not make sense on your dates, we will say so rather than sell it to you.