Magalawa Island is one of the barangays of Palauig, a province of Zambales. It is one of the youngest tourist destinations of Zambales to add to the growing list including Potipot, Anawangin, Capones, Camara, Silanguin, etc.
Look at this map. See the red circle? That’s Magalawa Island.
You will only have two accommodation options when you get to the island – Armada Resort and Ruiz Resort. Since this trip was supposed to be my Aunt with her team but unfortunately the resort called a day before that if the rain will not stop, they should cancel the trip because it is dangerous to sail on boat, something like that. So a week after, their day off schedules doesn't seem to fit with each other, they have no choice but to totally cancel the whole trip. My Aunt already paid the reservations at Armada Resort so we use that instead. She got it at 1,500 per head for 2 days 1 night. It includes The Cottage, breakfast, lunch, dinner and the boat transfers to and from the island.
We left I think around 5 in the morning and got in the port around 9 am. We had McDonald's for breakfast at Subic so that's more or less 4 hours of driving. May I remind you though that before you can reach the port, there's a bumpy ride ahead. Good thing is Armada have their own place so that guests can park and leave their cars in a safe place.
While on the boat, we did not let the sight leave our memories so I snapped these photos and manong the boat driver is my model. 😀
Upon arrival, we settled in the kubo fan rooms that are good for up to four heads each. There’s a socket that you can use for charging so I immediately use that. We roam around for awhile to see how beautiful the island is before getting on our lunch.
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| My Uncle being silly. Behind him is the Kubo Fan that we use for 2 days. |
It's better to use the Fan Kubo instead of the aircon one for the awesome island experience because at night you can feel the cold breeze entering the kubo.
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| Our 1st Lunch in the Island |
And you know what? We're the only guests in our first day in the island. I mean, the guests who arrived before us is leaving already when we got there and the next guests will be arriving the next day. Awesome right? It's like you have your private island. 🙌
Let me share some of our photos while on the island.
Starfish or Sea Stars and hey! there's Patrick :D
We found this rope and started to jump shot. Lol!
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| Sunset❤ |
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| Dinner |
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| Heavy Breakfast?! |
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| ohhhhh! Scary fish. Forgot the name though |
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| My uncle, cousin, auntie and yours truly :) |
It was an awesome trip! No wifi, no aircon, the island is ours for a day, the staffs and the wife of the owner is very accommodating, the food is great, the Chocomucho dessert every meal is kind of funny though, we even take a bath on the "poso", it's a thing that you need to pump for the water to come out. It's a nice island experience and I'm sure you and your family or/and your friends will enjoy too.
Go check out their website http://magalawaislandresort.com/ if you want to experience some island life even just for days.
