Subic Bay Travel Tips

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In this page you will find practical information to plan a scuba diving trip to Subic Bay:

Subic Bay Photos

Subic Bay as a location is visited by both travelers (locals and foreigners), back-packers and more high-end tourists, families, couples and singles. This place has something for everyone and the night scene is very diverse. Remember, Subic Bay and SBMA is the home of more than 75,000 people making it a buzzing place! You can find anything from huge malls, fine dining restaurants, cafe’s, live band establishments, clubs and gogo-bars (brothels). Many of the people visiting Subic Bay live in the Philippines (regular guests) and drive here to spend their weekend or holiday.

Activities and excursions in Subic Bay

Subic Bay offers a wide range of other activities apart from diving.

If you’re not into diving there are plenty of other things to do and lots of different sites to visit. Rent a jet-ski and explore the bay with a friend, swim with dolphins at the Ocean Adventure Park, Ride a zip-line at the Tree top Adventure park or take your family shopping at one of the malls nearby.

With a wide variety of activities apart from diving and a well established night scene Subic Bay offers something for everyone!

Fun day trip location for the Family

We went back to Camayan this past weekend with the family and friends.

I love this beach resort for several reasons.

1) Accessibility. Its about 2-3hrs easy driving from Manila, especially now with the SCTEX highway.

2) Features

a) Good clean beach front. The beach has nice sand, that’s not super fine, but is ok. I was able to make a sand castle and bury the kids in sand without much trouble. Not alot of beaches in the area with sand that you can do that.

b) Clean water, the beach is in Subic bay, so you won’t expect waves and stuff. the water is very calm and excellent for kids. The water is shallow for a about 5-7 meters from the shore which is excellent as the kids have a quite a lot of space to swim in, without going to the deep side.

c) It has fish, even in the shallow areas there is alot of fish. You can snorkel, and feed them break and they’ll come up right next to you. Great for kids, and people who aren’t strong swimmers as you don’t have to go far to see fish.

d) Price, at P300 per head for day trip, P250 for kids, and P750 or P1000 per cabana, its very affordable. (expect additional costs for grilling P100 for 2 hours and some other miscellanous costs, but nothing extravagant.)

e) other activities. Beach volley ball, kayak (P400 per hour – 2 seater), scuba diving, boat rental etc….

Its an excellent place to go with kids, for a fun afternoon of swimming. We haven’t stayed in the hotel, or eaten at the resto that is there. Over night is like P4000+ per night and the food at the resto is about P150-P200 per order. Not bad. We just brought lots of water, spaghetti and bbq.

We got there at 7am, after leaving San Fernando at 6am and going via Mc Arthur highway. We stayed until 3pm and were thoroughly exhausted from swimming, eating, snorkeling the whole afternoon. The kids were asleep by the time we excited subic. Great day out.

Notes; It is quite remote as noted by some reviewers. Its at the far end of subic bay, beside ocean adventure and near zoobic safari. For those looking for an adventure weekend, you may look into staying here a couple of nights and spend a day checking out the dolphins, whales and sea lions in subic safari – our kids love this. feed a tiger at zoobic safari – quick trill. and check out the duty free shops and other resaurants around subic bay. Don’t forget to buckle up, subic has strict rules, that they will enforce.

For those that are affraid of the water, theres a life guard that is always on station to watch out for the swimmers.

by: KingBee32, Pasig City

Subic Zambales Philippines

Published on Jul 23, 2012 by Tripsiders

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A Trip to Zoobic

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A fun day-trip to Zoobic Safari, Subic Bay, Philippines.

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feeding the freshwater Phillipine Crocodile

zoobic safari, subic bay phillipines.

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Good Tourist Spot – Subic Philippines – Family Vacation

Family Subic Vacation Dec 2010

Footage of our trip to Subic Bay Philippines, a former American base. Filmed with Canon FS20, edited in iMovie. You may also consider checking our list of top places to visit in the Philippines.

Originally uploaded to Youtube.com by saguilsm

Good Tourist Destination – Subic Philippines – Ocean Adventure

Subic, Camayan Ocean Adventure

Visited Subic Bay for the Dolphins. Awesome experience. Got to see an awesome sea lion performance and some amazing dolphin moves. Didn’t know that they could “walk” on water.

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Originally uploaded to Youtube.com by John-Michael Viola

Subic Vacay – Too fast, too fun!

Subic Vacay

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Originally uploaded to Youtube.com by cyclehans

Pauline’s Tree drop at Treetop adventure – Subic Bay

Pauline’s Tree drop at Treetop adventure subic

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A place to visit in the Philippines: Subic Bay – Dolphin Show

Dolphin Show

Amazing Dolphin Show at Ocean Adventure Park, Subic Bay, Philippines.Also check our list of top places to visit in the Philippines

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