Prices for all 5 bookable trips in Surigao City, from PHP 1,200 to PHP 3,200 (median PHP 1,500), with what each one includes and where the real savings are. Checked 2026-08-16.
Short answer: Across the 5 bookable trips we list in Surigao City, prices run from PHP 1,200 to PHP 3,200, with a median of PHP 1,500. 3 of them cost PHP 1,500 or less, so a full day out here is cheaper than most visitors budget for. The cheapest is Surigao Island Hopping; the most expensive is Sohoton Cove & Jellyfish Sanctuary Tour, Surigao. Checked 2026-08-16.
Trip.com
Hotels in Surigao City
Compare live prices via Travelpayouts — targeted for this guide.
For travellers pricing a trip to Surigao City, Caraga (Region XIII). Figures come from our own bookable inventory, not from published rack rates. Last checked 2026-08-16.
Every Surigao City trip bookable through pana.ph, cheapest first. Checked 2026-08-16.
Trip
Category
Duration
Price
Checked
Surigao Island Hopping
Island Hopping
Full day
PHP 1,200
2026-08-16
Tinuy-an Falls — The Philippines Niagara
Nature Tour
Full day
PHP 1,500
2026-08-16
Siargao Tri-Island Hopping: Naked, Daku & Guyam
Island Hopping
6-8 hours
PHP 1,500
2026-08-16
Enchanted River Hinatuan Full Day Tour
Nature Tour
Full day
PHP 2,000
2026-08-16
Sohoton Cove & Jellyfish Sanctuary Tour, Surigao
Nature Tour
Full day
PHP 3,200
2026-08-16
What was counted, and what was left out
Every row above is a product we can actually book in Surigao City, exported from our own inventory on 2026-08-16 rather than collected from operator websites or other listings. That matters for two reasons. Published rack rates are frequently stale, and aggregated "average cost" figures usually mix day tours with multi-day packages, which makes the average meaningless.
The set is 5 products. We took the price each one actually sells at, sorted them, and report the median rather than the mean, because a single PHP 3,200 outlier drags an average upward and describes nobody's trip. Of these, 5 carry a customer rating, averaging 4.8 out of 5.
Trip.com
Tours & activities in Surigao City
Hand-picked experiences in Surigao City — book on Trip.com with instant confirmation.
What this does not cover: flights, accommodation, and anything arranged directly on arrival. Independent local transport and entrance fees paid in person are often cheaper than a packaged equivalent, so treat these figures as the ceiling for organised trips rather than the total cost of a visit.
What this destination is organised to sell
The 5 products break down as 3 nature tour, 2 island hopping. That distribution is worth reading before you plan, because it shows what this destination is actually organised to sell rather than what it is famous for.
3 of 5 priced trips come in at PHP 1,500 or under. Nothing here exceeds PHP 4,000, so there is no premium tier to budget around. The gap between the cheapest and dearest trip is PHP 2,000, which is mostly a question of whether transport and meals are bundled in.
The hours each of these costs you
Of the 5 trips listed, 4 run full day, 1 run 6-8 hours. The full-day products are the ones that decide your itinerary, because they leave no room for a second booking.
Duration is the figure worth planning around here, more than price. With only 5 bookable products in Surigao City, the practical question is not which to choose but how many fit in the time you have. A full-day trip realistically consumes the day: pickups in the Philippines run early, and the return is governed by traffic or by the last boat rather than by the itinerary. Two full-day products booked back to back on consecutive days is a normal pace; two in one day is not.
How you arrive, and what the weather does to it
Access is Surigao Airport (SUG), or the overnight ferry from Cebu. Sohoton is best in the dry months; the jellyfish lagoon is seasonal. Both facts shape the price table above more than they look: products that depend on boats or on water conditions are the first to be cancelled, and a cancelled trip that has to be rebooked locally rarely costs what it did online.
The named sites here are Sohoton Cove, Tinuy-an Falls, Enchanted River, Bucas Grande. Not all of them appear in the bookable set - which is itself useful information, because it tells you what has to be arranged on the ground.
The cave mouth into Sohoton closes at high water, so the trip is timed to the tide rather than to opening hours.
What most guides get wrong once you check the prices
The claim to distrust is that Surigao City is only the port you pass through for Siargao.
Most itineraries treat it as a ferry terminal with a bus station attached. The bookable inventory here is entirely made up of things that are not on Siargao at all, and two of them are among the strongest day trips in Mindanao. Sohoton Cove on Bucas Grande is entered through a cave mouth that closes at high tide, so the trip is timed to the tide table rather than to opening hours, and the stingless jellyfish in its lagoon are seasonal. Tinuy-an Falls is a multi-tier curtain roughly 95 metres wide, and the Enchanted River at Hinatuan is a spring-fed channel with a fish-feeding at noon. All three are full-day trips from the city. Passing straight through to the ferry costs you the part of this province that Siargao does not duplicate.
The Enchanted River is spring-fed and unusually deep; the fish-feeding at noon is the fixed point of the day.
Named sites, and which ones you can reserve
The gap between what a place is known for and what can actually be booked in advance is usually the most practical thing to know about it, and it is invisible in guides that list attractions without asking whether you can reserve them. In Surigao City the named sites are Sohoton Cove, Tinuy-an Falls, Enchanted River, Bucas Grande, while the 5 bookable products cluster into 2 categories led by nature tour.
Anything on that list of sites without a matching product is arranged locally - at a tourism office, a barangay hall, or with a boatman at the pier. That is not a warning; for most of the Philippines it is simply how access works, and it is frequently cheaper. But it changes how you should plan your first day. Arriving with the boat-dependent and permit-dependent parts already booked, and leaving the walk-up sites for the days after, is the sequence that survives a weather change. The reverse - arriving with nothing booked and hoping to arrange everything on the morning - is what turns a short trip into a day spent negotiating instead of travelling.
The daily number that actually holds
Using the median of PHP 1,500 as the anchor, a single organised trip plus local transport and a meal lands most people near PHP 2,100 for the day, before accommodation. Two organised trips in one day is usually a mistake in Surigao City unless both are half-days, because the transfer time between sites is the constraint rather than the cost.
Where the saving is: the 3 trips at or below PHP 1,500 are mostly the ones that do not include transfers. If you are already staying nearby, booking those and arranging your own transport is consistently cheaper than the bundled equivalent. Where it is not worth economising: anything involving a boat, a permit or a tide window, where an operator who knows the schedule is the difference between going and not going.
The median across the 5 trips we list is PHP 1,500, with the range running PHP 1,200 to PHP 3,200. Checked 2026-08-16.
What is the cheapest thing to book in Surigao City?
Surigao Island Hopping at PHP 1,200, running full day. Checked 2026-08-16.
How do I get to Surigao City?
Surigao Airport (SUG), or the overnight ferry from Cebu.
When is the best time to go?
Broadly, Sohoton is best in the dry months; the jellyfish lagoon is seasonal. Check PAGASA for the current outlook before booking anything that depends on a boat.
Are these prices per person?
Yes - every figure in the table above is the per-person price as listed on 2026-08-16. Boat hire in the Philippines is often charged per boat, so a group can land below these figures by arranging transport directly.
The PANA.PH travel desk researches, books and re-checks Philippines travel logistics — fares, ferry schedules, government fees and permit rules — and publishes what it can verify.
