General Luna to Dapa Port
The sea departure — the road leg to the ferry terminal for Surigao City, timed to a sailing whose schedule we deliberately do not publish.
Leaving the island by sea
Dapa Port is Siargao’s passenger sea gateway and the terminal for the crossing to Surigao City on the mainland. General Luna sits on the south-east coast and Dapa on the south, so leaving this way is a road leg first and a sailing second. The corridor is the same one arriving ferry passengers travel in the opposite direction, drawn on our routes map from real OpenStreetMap highway geometry. As with every other route here, we publish the journey and not a duration for it.
We will not print a sailing time — and be careful which one you trust
Departure schedules for this crossing are republished across a great many travel pages, and they do not agree with each other. Sailings are also weather-dependent: crossings get cancelled, merged or moved, which is precisely the kind of fact a page written months ago cannot know about your date. So we publish no times and no fares for the ferry. Confirm the sailing with the operator or the ticket office at the port for the day you are travelling, then tell us the time you have to be there. We will time the pickup to the sailing you are actually booked on.
Weather decides more here than the road does
Siargao faces the Philippine Sea on the amihan side of the country, and Surigao del Norte has no dry season — which is why our guide to when to go treats generic Philippines timing advice as inverted for this island. For a departure that means the sea, not the highway, is the variable most likely to move your day. Build in room around a sailing you cannot afford to miss, especially if a flight from the mainland waits on the other side of it, and tell us if that is the case so the pickup is timed with that in mind rather than to the ferry alone.
Dapa Port is not Del Carmen port
Two places on this island are called the port and they do unrelated jobs. Dapa Port is the passenger terminal for Surigao City. Del Carmen port is the road-to-boat launch into the mangrove channels for Sugba Lagoon, on the other side of the island, and nobody leaves Siargao from it. A departure request that says only “the port” can mean either. Say Dapa, and if it is the airport you actually need, our General Luna to Sayak Airport guide is the transfer you want instead.
What to include in your request
The sailing date and the time you need to be at the terminal, the accommodation name and barangay in General Luna, your group size, bags and boards, and any child-seat need. If your plan continues past Surigao — a connecting flight, a bus, a night on the mainland — say so, and we will tell you plainly which parts of it we can cover rather than quoting around it.
Why there is no price or journey time here
We would rather publish nothing than publish a number we cannot stand behind. Roads, weather and group size all move the answer. Send the trip and we will send a fixed, all-in price for your date.
Places tied to this route
These destination pages cover the arrival point, departure area or boat-connection stop behind this route, so you can understand the bigger trip before asking for a quote.
General Luna
The island’s main visitor town on the south-east coast, and the base most people book their Siargao stay around.
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Dapa Port
Siargao’s main seaport and the island arrival point for passenger ferries from Surigao City.
Read moreSayak Airport
Siargao’s main airport, at Del Carmen on the island’s west side — IATA code IAO, and the arrival point most Siargao trips begin with.
Read moreWorth reading before you book this leg
The questions this journey tends to raise on either side of the drive itself - what you are allowed to bring and how to declare it, and what the end you are heading for actually asks of you. Answered in full, so your request arrives with the details we would otherwise have to write back for.
Leaving Siargao
Arriving on this island is flexible. Leaving it is not — the airport’s bottleneck is the departure side, the sea exit can be closed by the coast guard with no notice, and neither of those is what most itineraries plan for.
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Boards, bags & pets
Surfboards, a stack of luggage, a balikbayan box, a bike, a dog in a crate — what to tell us so the vehicle that meets you actually fits it, and the one item that needs a government permit before it can fly or sail.
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