Boracay Central - Your Complete Boracay Travel Agency

Welcome to Boracay Central a WOW Philippines Website specializing in Boracay Vacation Packages to over 300 Boracay Island Hotels and Boracay Beach Resorts on the famous Boracay White Beach. Boracay Central gives you current listings to the newest and best resorts in Boracay. Each of the Boracay Hotels listed on our website are considered to be the best of the best.

Why Choose Us?

WOW Philippines Travel Agency, Inc. was the very first travel agency in the Philippines to give you a complete listing of over 300 Boracay Hotels and Resorts, (www.boracay.cc) starting in 2005. Since that time our travel agency has built a network of over 175 travel websites, making us the largest internet provider, and allowing us to, give Philippine Travelers more choices and better pricing for Boracay Beach Resorts, Boracay Island Hotels, Island Transfers and Flights to Boracay than previously experienced by any other travel agency in the Philippines.

Who Are We?

WOW Philippines Travel Agency, Inc. including all of its subsidiary websites are owned and operated by Mary Jane P Bangga and Rick St. John, a husband and wife team who since 2005 have been dedicated to Boracay Philippines Travel.

Mary Jane P Bangga is Aklanon, she was born and raised in Aklan, and knows the province's, people and culture. In particular Mary Jane Bangga with her husband have spent considerable time on Boracay Island building personal long term relationships with resort and hotel owners and managers. This is far different than what most Philippine Travel Agencies offer, as with most, very few, if any of there travel agents have been to Boracay or any of the surrounding islands.

Each year we take all of our travel agents and in-house website designers to Boracay and other locations, so they to can have the experience, it's this personal experience that allows them to better assist you during your travel to Boracay. Most importantly we are a family that travels, and we will use our personal experiences to assist your family during your vacation to Boracay.

About Boracay:

When you ask a Filipino where the best beach in the Philippines is, you will only hear one word: Boracay. A place of sun, sand, and water the most beautiful shades of blue, Boracay is a small island paradise that may have already captured your heart. Boracay Central known for its fine-powered white sands and wild nightlife, Boracay is the ultimate playground for beach lovers. On one side of Boracay Island is a long strip of beach resorts and island hotels that cater to the diversity of visitors, with restaurants that serve infinite delights, and bars that stay open until the early hours of the morning.

The other side of the Boracay island is for the extreme sports lovers and those looking for quieter moments. Boracay Kiteboarding enthusiasts and Boracay windsurfing fanatics enjoy the strong winds that circle around Bulabog beach. Other activities in Boracay include island hopping, scuba-diving, horse-back riding, and paraw sailing. But at the end of each day, nothing can beat the romantic Boracay Sunsets... a quite walk on Boracay Beach under the starry-filled night sky, or early morning... the dancing lights and memories of magnificent sandcastles... Boracay is an island with a life of its own, growing up and getting better.

Boracay is dotted with about 300 beach resorts and island hotels, many of which are located directly on the world famous, "Boracay White Beach".

Exceptional Hotels in Boracay:

Explore our web site and discover unspoiled powder soft and snow white beaches and explore the many wonders of Boracay Island Philippines.

Boracay Philippines Golf Course:

Fairways and Bluewater Boracay Resort a private and exclusive country club offers exquisite, 5 Star Luxury accommodations. Aside from the only championship par 72 Philippines golf course surrounded by crystal clear blue waters, the hotel resort has 3 private swimming pools for guests who find going to the three private white beaches a little physically tedious.

There is a private horseback riding facility for guests who are into equestrian riding. Thus, the resort is combining different worlds in a single venue. Plus, guests are entitled to free passes to see, enter and enjoy an adjacent butterfly farm that kids and kids-at-heart would surely love. It helps that Fairways and Bluewater Boracay Island Hotel is designed by Australian golf master and designer Graham Marsh, along with landscape architects from LandScan Australia and Living Waters USA.

Philippines Tourism:

MANILA, Philippines- Foreign tourist arrivals in the first quarter of the year rose marginally from a year earlier, still led by visitors from South Korea, the Department of Tourism said Tuesday.

In a statement, the DOT said foreign tourist arrivals rose 8.5 percent to 858,244 in the first three months of 2008 from 790,888 visitors in the same period last year.

The agency said that for the period in review, the most number of foreign visitors came in during January (293,803) while the month of February registered the highest growth of 11.7 percent. The tourism agency said the Korean market still the top markets as it contributed the biggest arrivals of 175,147 during the first three months of the year.

The Korean market had a 20.4-percent share of total inbound traffic and registered a growth of 2 percent compared to 171,716 in 2007.

Visitors from the United States constituted the second biggest arrivals with 166,128, or 19.4 percent of total visitor volume. This market grew by 6.3 percent compared to its contribution of 156,226 a year ago.

The Japanese market came third with 99,453 or about 11.6 percent of the total inbound traffic. The Japanese market recorded a decline of 4 percent versus its corresponding arrivals of 103,589 for the same period in 2007.

Ati-Atihan, Kalibo, third week of January:

The festival commemorates the 13th century buying of land in Panay from its inhabitants, the Ati or Aeta, by the Datus of Borneo. To celebrate this event, a feast is organized and the merrymakers, in ort to resemble the Ati, cover their faces in soot. The feast of the Infant Jesus is also associated with more pagan festivals. There is a parade of different "tribes" in there colorful costumes and dancing to the piercing sound of drums.  Ati-Atihan Festival       Vibrant Boracay

Boracay is much more than its image of beautiful beaches. Boracay is a compelling, fascinating destination, a specially for those who love the tropical island lifestyle. It is an island of unique history, vibrant culture, dance, arts and music.

Before you travel to Boracay, consider learning how to speak Aklanon, the native language used by people of Aklan Province, Philippines.   Aklanon Language

Diving in Boracay Philippines.

Diving and Snorkeling in Boracay is unforgettable event, for beginners and experiences divers. Warm, clean clear water, biodiversity coral gardens, ship wrecks, caves, fish of many sizes and colors, is making Boracay a place to challenge a diver’s imagination.  Boracay Diving Centers