Palawan Philippines: El Rio y Mar Island Resort in Coron
Nestled between the beautiful ocean and lush mountains, El Rio y Mar Island is a private haven that immerses you in the beauty of nature. The resort is set amidst 500 meters stretch of pure white-sand beach, distinctive panoramic view with enchanting mangroves and its breath-taking neighboring islands.
The resort offers bay view cabanas as its accommodations for their guests. Each cabana has a spacious veranda, air-conditioning, mini bar with refrigerator, coffee and tes making facilities, bathroom shower and wash cabin with hot and cold water system, TV and video facilities. The resort also offers facilities and amenities for the satisfaction of their guests. This includes an al fresco restaurant that serves Asian and International cuisine with a bar called Cuato bar, floating bar, fresco lounge, spa and massage service, safety deposit boxes, room service, airline ticket reconfirmation, swimming pool, game room, video and karaoke room, mini library, aqua sports and dive shop and indoor and outdoor games facilities.
The resort offers exciting trips and tours for its guests. The Coron Island tour features a whole day of exploring the sights of Coron Island. Visits to the picture-perfect Cayangan Lake, the invigorating Maquinit Hot Springs and the quaint Coron town are included. The Island Hopping package will take guests on tour to four uninhabited islands. The sights both above and underwater will surely have guests mesmerized. The Island Escapade package will take guests and friends to an uninhabited island of their chosing. All the packages include roundtrip boat transfers, packed lunch and services of activity officers.
El Rio y Mar Island Resort offers dive courses and diving sites that will have divers coming back for more. Some of the dive sites include the house reef that is located off Dimakya Island shore entry. This meandering reef features different species of tunicates, sponges, seastars, sea cucumbers, turtles and cuttlefish (seasonal). An aggregation of giant clams (Tridacna gigas, an endangered species) is located at 12 meters. Several species of damselfish, wrasses, groupers, fairy basslets, emperors, parrotfish, snappers, butterfly fish, flying gurnard and cardinal fish are among the inhabitants of the reef. This site is good for macro photography. The Lang-aw reef is located off Isla Lang-aw that features abundant fish life predominantly composed of surgeonfish, rabbit fish, damselfish, wrasses, parrotfish, groupers and butterfly fish. The Diboyuyan reef is off Diboyuyan Island that features stony corals of magnificent formation. Mantas, blacktip and whitetip sharks are sporadically sighted. This reef is one of the traditional fishing grounds in this area. The Kyokuzan Maru is a wreckage dive site located at Dimalanta Iasland. It features a Japanese freighter. The main structures remain intact. It carries in one of its holds a car and a truck. This wreck provides shelter to batfishes and substrate for the ubiquitous bivalves. Barry’s reef is near the Pearl farm and has plenty of macro subjects. Small to medium-sized Porites corals are arranged to form some sort of a big stairway. The Apo reef is the second most facinating reef in the Philippines which is located in the Midoro Strait. It has very dramatic drop-offs down to about 400 m. The steep walls are well covered with corals, sponges, tunicates, nudibranchs and slugs. The coral formation is magnificent at the plateau. Green and hawksbill turtles and multitude of fish including damselfish, butterfly fish, batfish, surgeonfish, snappers, fusiliers and trevallies are usually seen.
Other activities are also offered at the resort like snorkeling, yachting, scuba diving, bird watching, hobiecat sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, island hopping, diving or visit other nearby tourist attractions like Calauit Wildlife Sanctuary and the awe-inspiring Cayangan Lake among others. The resort’s Guest Services Officers have prepared programmed activities such as cultural shows, environmental shows, indoor sports tournaments such as table tennis, billiards and darts, group board games, ballroom and disco dancing, treasure hunting, parties and other fun activities both for kids and adults. Picnic lunches, sunset dinners, cocktails and cruises can also be arranged depending on prevailing sea and weather conditions.
Guests can arrange for roundtrip transfers for land, boat and airlines. Daily flights are available via regular commuter planes. Airline bookings can be done directly to the airlines or coursed thru your favorite travel agent. Charter flights also available. Guest Officers will meet guests at the airport.
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