Guimaras Island, Raymen Beach Resort, Philippines
Taking the boat from Iloilo to Guimaras Island was an easy task. At Ortiz Wharf we bought tickets from a ticketing booth nearby, the standard boat ride cost us PHP 30 each, travel time was only 15 minutes to Jordan Port, Guimaras. I gathered that the first boat trip is always at 6:00Am; thereafter, boats leave every 15 minutes. To organize the transport From Jordan out to Alubihod and Raymen’s beach area was a very pleasant drive. If you want to save some money, you can wait for the public muliticab to fill with passengers (a small truck with bench seats in back). But it’s best to hire it yourself and as we where the only ones in it we got to spread out and not feel the bumps in the road too much. It pays to grab the driver’s phone number for the return trip as will take you to the beach and pick you up at a specified time. There’s a tourism office at the Jordan dock which can help with transportation arrangements.
Understanding that there is not much to choose from on this beach so overall it’s not a bad place to stay, we were lucky that it was after the school holidays had finished and there was only small crowds of people on the beach and within the resort. We took the West building top floor room, which is supposed to be good for 4, but was comfortable for two to spread out in. The bonus of it was no one was in the front family room so we had the balcony to ourselves and got to enjoy a sunset dinner with a great view.
Room and bathrooms were clean and felt almost new. We also had the first night doing dinner on the beach, even though it was a great view and the staff where more than accommodating, I suggest that you use mosquito spray and have a fly swatter as both where in abundance. Overall a good place to go as long as it’s not too crowded as there is limited staff and I can imagine them getting run off their feet. Overall we enjoyed our stay, but next time I would give the next door a go as it also has a better setup with the way it has its bungalows for eating, as one of the problems with Raymen’s is that they have the enclosed bungalows for rent and so it is not that comfortable eating down on the beach within their compound.
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