Francisco B. Reyes Airport (USU) Coron town
Almost everyone who flies to Coron lands at Francisco B. Reyes Airport, still widely signposted as Busuanga Airport, and then has to get across Busuanga Island to the town. This leg is a drive, not a boat — the thing that confuses people is that Coron Island, the one with the lakes, is somewhere else entirely. Booking it privately means a driver waiting for your actual flight instead of negotiating a shared van at the terminal door.
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.
Airport pickups are met in the arrivals area with a name board rather than at the kerb, and the written confirmation sent before you travel carries the driver and vehicle details.
The departure leg is quoted the same way: send the flight you are catching and the pickup is worked back from it rather than guessed, and where the timing is tight we will say plainly whether it works.
If the name board is not there when you land, stay in the arrivals area and message us rather than leaving the terminal or taking a taxi — the written confirmation sent before you travel carries the driver and vehicle details, so save it offline and use it. We would rather sort it out while you are standing there than hear about it afterwards.
Everything we arrange is in English, and we are the English-speaking end of it on the day as well as before it — if something moves, message us rather than trying to settle it at the roadside. We do not promise a particular driver’s fluency; instead the written confirmation carries the pickup, the driver and vehicle details and the shape of the day, so it is settled in writing rather than negotiated at a kerb.
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.
If you are the one running late — a slow checkout, a breakfast that ran on — message us while it is happening rather than afterwards, using the reply path on the written confirmation sent before you travel: on the morning it is something we can relay to the driver and re-time around where the day allows, and afterwards it is not. We publish no waiting window and nothing is settled in cash at the kerb, but we will not pretend a delay is free of consequence either: a leg somebody else holds — a permit slot, a ferry, a flight — keeps its own clock, and a long hold can re-price the day, which we would tell you rather than spring on you.
Our quote is a price for the trip and the vehicle, not a fare per seat — we ask the head count because it decides which vehicle the leg needs, not because the price is multiplied by it. For a family or a group that is worth comparing properly: the cost per person falls as the party grows. Charges another party collects, such as park permits and local environmental fees, are often per traveller and stay identified separately on the quote.
We publish route guidance, not generic fares or timings. Your quote is based on the actual date, pickup, accommodation, passenger count, luggage and vehicle needed.
Same corridor, travelled the other way. The planning notes above apply in either direction — the pickup and drop-off points simply swap over, so Coron town to Francisco B. Reyes Airport (USU) is quoted on exactly the same basis as Busuanga Airport to Coron town.
Travelling both ways? Ask for the return at the same time and both legs are planned as one itinerary rather than two unrelated bookings.
A drive. Francisco B. Reyes Airport and Coron town are both on Busuanga Island, so the arrival leg is an overland transfer across the island. The boat most people are picturing is the separate trip out to Coron Island.
No, and this is the most common Palawan mix-up. “Coron” names three different places: Coron town on Busuanga Island, Coron Island across the bay which is reached only by boat, and Coron municipality covering both. Hotels are almost always in the town.
Yes. It is signposted and listed under both names but carries only one code, USU, so quoting the code with your flight details removes any doubt about where you are landing.
No. There is no road from Busuanga Island to mainland Palawan. That connection is a separate flight or sea crossing with its own road transfer at each end, and we can quote those legs alongside this one.
Yes. It is the same corridor travelled the other way, and we quote it the same way. Tell us your pickup in Coron town and where you need to be in Francisco B. Reyes Airport (USU), and it is priced on the same fixed, all-in basis. If you need both directions, ask for them together and they are planned as one itinerary rather than two unrelated bookings.
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.