Trip Report Anilao and Romblon, October-November 2024

[Searcaigh]

Thanks for your report and photos too.

I'm heading to Romblon in April next year, and really looking forward to that experience.

 

[Centrals]

Thanks for your report and photos too.

I'm heading to Romblon in April next year, and really looking forward to that experience.

I am combining PG and Romblon in early May.
Taking the 16:00 ferry.

 

[souladdikt]

Thanks for the pictures and report. Great info.

 

[Beth3141]

Beautiful! Thank you.

 

[Jaan]

Amazing. Congrats on the augmented skills and thanks for sharing

 

[Johncn]

My wife and I are returning to Sunset Cove this spring, and while working on transport we noticed that AirSWIFT has just discontinued flights from Clark to Tablas starting from January 30, 2025. We were going to take the ferry one way, and fly the other direction. The airline had previously been flying Manila to Tablas (Romblon), but just switched to Clark <=> Tablas in November, 2024.

Ronny at Sunset Cove says that they recommend one of four other combinations of flights and/or ferries.

The resort has updated their travel page accordingly here with detailed logistics info:

Romblon Travel Info (January 30 until further notice)

Not sure if this is just temporary, as Cebu Pacific did purchase AirSWIFT in October. Some reports say it's for the Tablas airport renovation, but I guess it's possible this is part of a larger schedule adjustment across markets.

Hope this doesn't screw anyone's plans up!

 

[nwflyboy]

@Johncn, thanks for the heads-up. We are planning a trip to the region in Spring 2026, and I had been planning to take AirSWIFT one way either to/from Tablas (for Romblon). Losing this flight link would be a blow to many I suspect. On AirSWIFT's website they are showing flights thru end of February, maybe they are just loading flights out one month at a time? In any case this does indeed throw a potential wrench into our plans. Looking at potential Plan B now.

If anyone has updated info on AirSWIFT's plans, please share. Thanks.

 

[Centrals]

@Johncn, thanks for the heads-up. We are planning a trip to the region in Spring 2026, and I had been planning to take AirSWIFT one way either to/from Tablas (for Romblon). Losing this flight link would be a blow to many I suspect. On AirSWIFT's website they are showing flights thru end of February, maybe they are just loading flights out one month at a time? In any case this does indeed throw a potential wrench into our plans. Looking at potential Plan B now.

If anyone has updated info on AirSWIFT's plans, please share. Thanks.

I assumed Plan B is the ferry.
This is the route that I will be taking in coming May.

 

[Johncn]

I have found no new information on AirSWIFT flights to Romblon. We are making lemonade (we hope) out lemons, and flying to Caticlan. That is the airport for Boracay in Aklan province, so there are lots of flights.

Why, you ask? We will take a boat from the port there a couple hours to Santa Fe town on the south tip of Tablas Island, Romblon Province in order to visit Pili Beach Resort for a few days. This is a little bit south of Santa Fe in Barangay Agmanic. It’s mostly an unknown quantity, but has a PADI dive shop. I have heard there is good macro diving from shore there, and that they also dive Carabao Island sites. We will post dive reports.

From there, it is a short trip to the Tablas airport that AirSWIFT no longer services, and then up the coast of Tablas Island to the town of San Agustin on the northern tip - the same place we crossed to Romblon town from when we flew last time we went to Sunset Cove.

We are planning on taking the Starlite ferry back to Batangas, but Starlite booking site is not working for tickets for our dates yet. Maybe in March?v

Here is the latest schedule I could find for Starlite to and from Romblon.