Boracay iPass: What It Costs and How to Register

In and out, one table

These are the only statutory charges at the jetty. Everything else that costs money on the crossing, porters, tricycles, gate fees, is covered further down this page and is not part of iPass.

Last verified: August 2026. Fares shift with each provincial review, and the amount confirmed at the window or at checkout on boracayipass.ph governs over the table above.

A prepayment portal, not a new fee

Boracay iPass, run at boracayipass.ph, is the provincial government's online system for paying the environmental fee, the terminal fee and, if you choose, the boat fare before you reach the jetty. It did not invent a new charge. It moved an existing one online.

The fees are compulsory: every visitor pays them, in cash at a window or in advance through the portal. Registering through iPass is the optional part. The manual windows at Caticlan Jetty Port still take walk-up payments, so travellers who arrive without registering are not turned away, they simply join the counter queue instead of scanning through.

Why the environmental and terminal fees are separate lines

The ₱300 and the ₱150 look like one charge on a receipt, but they go to two different budgets. The environmental fee is collected by the Municipality of Malay, the local government that covers Boracay itself, and funds island upkeep. The terminal fee goes to the Province of Aklan, which runs the jetty port infrastructure on the mainland side.

That is also why only the terminal fee is charged twice, once per crossing, while the environmental fee is billed once for the whole stay: the province's terminal exists on both sides of the water, the municipality's jurisdiction does not.

When to register

There is no minimum lead time. Some travellers register on boracayipass.ph the same session as booking their flight, weeks out; others do it from the departure lounge with a phone signal. The only date that matters is that your registered arrival and departure dates match your actual travel, since a mismatch is what the desk checks against your booking.

Four steps on the portal

Registration on boracayipass.ph runs the same sequence for every party, whether it is a solo traveller or a group.

• Choose the services: the port terminal fee and the environmental fee are required, and you can add the boat fare at the same step
• Enter each guest's details: full name, birthdate, nationality, arrival and departure dates, and your accommodation
• Review and confirm the summary before paying
• Pay through one of the listed channels, then download the QR code and e-receipt from Check My Registration Status

The QR code, scanned twice

The QR code issued after payment is scanned once on arrival and again on departure, because the terminal fee is due in both directions, not just on the way in. Keep the e-receipt saved on your phone or printed; a screenshot works at the scanner the same as the live page.

What to have ready before you start

The registration form asks for the same details as the fee desk would: full legal names as they appear on ID, birthdates, nationality, and your confirmed accommodation. Having the booking confirmation open in another tab avoids re-checking a name spelling mid-registration, and matters more for a group of five names entered one at a time than for a solo traveller.

Children, seniors and PWDs

Children aged five and under are exempt from the terminal pass, but only when proof of age is uploaded during registration, not assumed at the gate. Senior citizens and persons with disabilities receive the statutory discount on the fees on presentation of a valid ID at the window or at registration.

Nobody else is exempt from the environmental fee. It applies once per stay regardless of nationality, residency or how many times you have visited before.

What counts as proof

For a child's age exemption, a birth certificate, passport photo page or a similar government-issued document showing the birthdate is what gets uploaded at registration. For the senior or PWD discount, the ID presented needs to be the one that carries the relevant status, a senior citizen's card or a PWD ID, not a general ID that happens to state an age. Arriving without the document does not forfeit the discount outright, but it does mean an extra step at the window rather than a clean scan-through.

The statutory fee stack, and nothing else

iPass prepays the port terminal fee, the environmental fee and, if selected, the boat fare. Everything else at the port and on the island is a separate cash transaction that iPass has no bearing on. The confusion worth heading off in advance is assuming a paid registration means the whole day is handled; it only handles the crossing itself, not the gate fee at a stop like Crystal Cove once you are already on the island.

The manual queue is not going away

Nothing about the fee windows changed when iPass launched beyond adding an option next to them. Travellers who did not register, or whose flight was booked too late to bother, walk up, pay the ₱300 environmental fee and ₱150 terminal fee in cash, and cross the same way they always did.

The trade-off is time, not eligibility. The QR lane moves faster because the amount and the names are already confirmed; the cash window processes each traveller from scratch. Neither route changes what you owe.

A group at the window

A family or group paying in cash needs the same accommodation booking and IDs the portal would have asked for, just handed across a counter instead of typed into a form. Bring enough small denominations; a window handling a queue of arriving flights is not always able to break a large bill quickly, and the boat fare on top means the total is rarely a round number.

Why the desk asks for your booking

Entry to Boracay requires a valid ID or passport and a confirmed booking at a Department of Tourism accredited property. Unaccredited guesthouses are not permitted to host tourists, and the fee desk checks for the booking as part of processing the same charges above, whether you paid through iPass or at the window.

Booking through a mainstream platform effectively clears this automatically, since unaccredited properties cannot list there. If you are booking directly with a small resort outside those platforms, ask for its DOT accreditation number in writing before you pay, not after you land.

Why this rule exists alongside the fee

The accreditation check and the fee payment happen at the same desk because they solve the same problem for the province: knowing who is on the island, and where. A confirmed room ties the arrival record to an address; an unaccredited stay does not, which is the practical reason the rule is enforced at the jetty rather than left to hotels themselves to police.

The transfer listings that absorb the fee stack

Both airport transfers compared on this site state the terminal, environmental and boat fees as included in the fare. The one-way transfer is $20 per person and the round trip is $45, and travellers on either one do not queue at the fee windows or register on iPass at all, because the charge is already folded into what they paid.

That is the practical reason the $20 fare is not $20 on top of the ₱500 stack described above. About $8 of it is the government charge you were going to pay one way or another; the rest is the van, the boat seat and the driver meeting you at ticket booth 16. The full breakdown of the airport chain itself, Caticlan against Kalibo, is on our getting there guide.

The one thing a booked transfer does not remove is the accreditation check above: the driver's paperwork covers the transport, not your accommodation, so the booking confirmation still needs to be ready at the fee desk whether you arrived by van or on your own.

The fee stack is small money and it is unavoidable, which is exactly why it causes more confusion than its size deserves. iPass makes paying it faster; it does not make it optional, and the manual windows are not disappearing for anyone who would rather queue than register. Nothing here changes if the fee review reported in 2026 eventually goes through, only the numbers would, and this page will move with them. Travellers who want the whole chain, fees, van and boat, handled in one purchase can compare the one-way transfer against arranging each leg themselves on our getting there guide, and see Boracay day packages and transfers for everything else worth booking once you are across the water.