Where to stay?
Jasmin by The Beach:
Only small resort with only 2 bungalows and 1 room in the main house, all with fan, no aircon. Room rate about 500,- Peso per night. Very good (swiss) food in the restaurant. Tel.: (088) 387-9015, ask for "Melinda".
Caves Resort:
Bungalow resort on Agoho Beach with about 10 bungalows, some with aircon and some with fan only. Restaurant & Dive Center. Room rates start at: 1300.
Paras Beach Resort:
One of the more luxurious resorts on Camiguin. More than 30 rooms either in the main building or in a separate cottage. Swimmingpool, Restaurant & Dive Center. Room rates start at 1950.
Secret Cove:
Small Beach Resort under Canadian/Filipino Management. Very good food and the best stocked bar on the island. 6 aircon and 1 fan room. Rates start at 850,- for the fan room and at 1200.
Camiguin Beach Club
Small Beach Resort at the end of Yumbing Beach. Only six rooms with A/C, restaurant & swimming pool. Rates start at 1600.
Bahay Bakasyunan sa Camiguin
Luxurious Resort east of Mambajo and next to the pier in Balbagon, where the weekly Super Shuttle Ferry from Cebu arrives. Restaurant & Swimming Pool, Rates from 2350.
Camiguin Action Geckos Dive & Adventures Resort
Small bungalow resort in the center of Agoh Beach under Swiss/German management. There are four beach- cottages and 3 simple traveller rooms, close to the beach. Restarurant & Dive Center. Rates: from US$ 15 for Traveller room and US$ 40 for a Beach Cottage.
Camiguin Highland Resort
Luxurious Hotel Resort, located in the mountains of Camiguin. Restaurant with function rooms, swimming pool, jacuzzi. All set up for business meetings and seminars but also for the traveller who likes to stay in a luxurious ambience. Room rates start at 2200.
How to get to Camiguin Island?
To get to Camiguin, one has to travel one and a half hours from Cagayan de Oro City to Balingoan, Misamis Oriental, and take any of the hourly scheduled ferries across the channels of Mindanao Sea, which dock in either ports of Guinsiliban or Benoni. There is a regular sea and air transportation from Cebu to Camiguin and vice versa. Once in Camiguin , one can go around the 64-kilometer circumferential road in just one hour and a half time through public or private transportation.
The people of Camiguin are friendly, fun-loving, and very hospitable. It’s capital, Mambajao, has a friendly small community of mostly Visayan and Chinese origin. Camiguingnons are also hardworking. The main occupation of the people is fishing and farming. Coconut is the major production as far as sources of income is concerned. Other plantations are abaca, rice, mangoes, lanzones and other fruit trees. Small cottage industries are increasing in number to accommodate the influx of visitors. Cebuano is the main language while a few speak Kinamiguin, an ancient dialect. Nearly everyone speaks English fairly.
Their source of livelihood comes from the produce of their land and the surrounding ocean. Every October, Lanzones Festival transform the island into an explicit sight of townsfolk dressed up in their traditional costumes to celebrate the harvest of this small, sweet tasting, light-yellow fruit that grows in bunches at the foot of Mt. Hibok-hibok. The festival is remarkably good-natured, filled with colors and properly organized. Camiguin Lanzones Fruit Aside from these natural landforms huddling in the island, Camiguin is an area of forested mountains mixed with coconut trees along its coasts.
Camiguin beckons you to come, savor and discover the many ways anyone can unwind and joyfully dwell on the island's offerings.
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