Mermaid lessons in Boracay!

We touched down in Boracay back in September and us food girls that like to save our calories for food, were delighted to discover San Miguel light at the airport....only 100 calories, we loved the Philippines already! Boracay itself is absolutely beautiful! It reminded us of Gili T only prettier, bigger, less busy and much cheaper. A large bottle of rum costs less than a bottle of mixer at just 85p!

 Nightlife

All the nights out we had in Boracay were really fun. We stayed in station 2 on White beach which is in the middle of 1 and 3 but all the bars on either side are in walking distance. If you plan on going out a lot, ideally you want to stay on this side of the island. There's a little reggae bar that we went to every night which plays really good music and beers are the cheapest we found at just 50p. There's also a bar called Epic which has a ladies night where cocktails are 50 pesos each. There's loads of other bars dotted around but one of the only ones that stays open until late is Summer place which you have to pay to get into after a certain time, probably around midnight.

Accommodation

Accommodation wise we stayed at Facebook resort which is nice, inexpensive, in the center of everything and the owner is lovely. He even posted us an item we left behind to another country free of charge! You also get a TV in your room which is perfect because the Philippines has HBO which shows really good films.

Mermaid lessons

Probably one of the best days we've had travelling was spent becoming mermaids in Boracay! For £20 you get fitted with a mermaid tail and are taken for a 2 hour mermaid lesson in the sea which includes learning how to swim in different strokes, learning some tricks and a photoshoot. I'd love to say we looked elegant and graceful but waves and sea water kind of took any potential elegance away, we absolutely loved it though. It definitely gave people walking past something to look/ laugh at and we even had a man come and ask our teacher to give him a lesson!

Food

Food wise Boracay has pretty much everything you could want. Station 2 has a seafood market where you can buy your seafood and choose one of the restaurants to cook it for you in your style of choice. Shakeys does really nice salads and pizzas, Army Navy is good for greasy hangover food and Spider house sells fresh sushi and wraps. I'd definitely recommend a visit to Spider house even if you don't fancy eating. It's a little bar/ restaurant which looks like a tree house in a cliff. It's just past station 1 and the walk involves walking through little caves and over pretty beaches. One of it's main features is that you can jump straight from the restaurant into the sea where there are turtles swimming beneath.

Next stops

Our next destination after Boracay was Iloilo for a quick stop over. Another amazing thing about the Phillipines is the fact that their coaches show films which makes a journey go so much quicker! After Iloilo we had to take an overnight boat to Cebu sleeping in a huge room with 240 beds (made for really tiny people) and a bunch of noisy chickens, can't say that's the best journey we've ever done! On the plus side the lady at the port was lovely enough to order us a KFC delivery before we got on board so at least we weren't travelling hungry!