The lagoons of El Nido

The lagoons are what the postcards are of — still water inside limestone walls. Four are published as tour stops, and two of them charge their own entrance fee on top of everything else.

4Published as stops on the four tours

A · DTours that reach them

3/4With detail verified beyond the tour listing

All of them, and how you get to each

Lagoon	Where	Reached by	Entry fee
Big Lagoon	Miniloc Island	Tour A	₱200
Small Lagoon	Miniloc Island	Tour A	₱200
Secret Lagoon	Miniloc Island	Tour A	none published
Cadlao Lagoon	Cadlao Island	Tour D	none published

Lagoon entry fees El Nido Tours2026-08-26 are per person, per entry, on top of the tour price and the ₱400 ETDF — and a kayak (≈₱150) is usually needed to get inside. "None published" is not the same as free: it means no source collected here printed a figure.

What is actually verified about each

Lagoon · Tour A

Big Lagoon

High walls and still water, and the single most photographed place in the archipelago.

Lagoon · Tour A

Small Lagoon

Reached through a narrow gap in the rock; quiet once the tour groups thin out.

Lagoon · Tour A

Secret Lagoon

Nothing yet beyond which tour stops here — the page says so rather than inventing a scene.

Lagoon · Tour D

Cadlao Lagoon

The water quality at Cadlao is consistently described by operators as the best of the lagoons.

Getting to them

None of these are reached independently — they are stops on the lettered boat tours out of El Nido Beach:

3 of these stops · ₱1,200–1,500 pp

Tour A — The Lagoons

The route almost everyone does first: the two big lagoons on Miniloc Island, plus a sandbar beach on the way home.

1 of these stops · ₱1,200–1,500 pp

Tour D — Cadlao and the Quiet Beaches

The closest route to town, around Cadlao Island. Usually the least busy, and a common third or fourth day.

What we have not verified

Lagoons in the bay that no tour publishes as a stop. This page lists published tour stops, not a survey of the archipelago.
Whether Cadlao Lagoon charges entry the way Big and Small Lagoon do. No source collected here says.

Known unknowns are listed rather than filled in. If you can confirm one of these first-hand, tell us and it gets added with the date it was checked.

The other collections: The beaches of El Nido’s tours · The islands of Bacuit Bay · every stop