Luxury Philippines Voyages

Boracay's White Beach is regularly voted the finest strand in Asia: four kilometers of flour-soft, blindingly white sand lapped by luminous turquoise. Anchor offshore and let the marina come alive, diving Crocodile Island's coral walls, kitesurfing the breezy eastern shore, or snorkeling the quieter reefs off Puka Beach. As evening falls, sail a traditional paraw outrigger into a tangerine sunset, then retreat to your suite while the beach bars fill. Paradise, minus the queues.

El Nido is desktop wallpaper made real: towering black limestone karsts erupting from jade lagoons across Palawan's Bacuit Bay. This is the marina's finest hour. Kayak into the Big Lagoon's cathedral of cliffs, snorkel Secret Lagoon through a crack in the rock, and paddle to talcum-soft strands reachable only by tender. Sea turtles graze the seagrass while sea eagles wheel overhead. A big ship can only gaze from afar; you drop anchor and slip right in.