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Your local guide to Subic Bay

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Sea air. Forest shade. Somewhere good to linger. Find your kind of escape, right here in Subic.

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A quiet moment beside Subic Bay, with calm water and forested hills in the morning light.
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A slow morning in Subic
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A day given to the water
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A weekend the kids will remember

Around the bay

Somewhere worth stopping.

A fresh selection from the guide each visit.

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The coffee truck at sunset

cafe

View Café

The cafe at Acea Subic Beach Resort on San Bernardino Road, open from 8am and later from Friday through Sunday.
Rooftop pool and lounge seating

rooftop bar

ESSA Sky Lounge Bar & Resto

A rooftop bar atop Subic Riviera Hotel and Residences in the CBD, serving drinks with a view over the Freeport, open nightly.
Service counter with prepared dishes

korean restaurant

Ohnue Korean Restaurant

Korean restaurant at American Premium Outlets on Argonaut Highway, open daily from mid-morning to 10pm.
Iced coffees and a blueberry cheesecake slice

specialty coffee

Ugga Mugga Cafe

Coffee shop in the Regulatory Building on Labitan Street in the CBD, the original location of the small Ugga Mugga cafe brand.
Rolled bread with filling

bakery

BREAD TIME

A bakery on Rizal Highway in the CBD, next door to Coco Lime. It keeps a landline and one set of hours across the week, and is a…
Deck seating beside the lagoon

restobar

Magic Lagoon

Lakeside restobar at Bicentennial Park on Rizal Highway in Subic Bay Freeport Zone, open 24 hours, where guests can fish their…
Storefront exterior

duty free shop

Royal Duty Free

Duty-free supermarket at Manila Avenue corner Canal Road in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, the second of Royal Duty Free's two…
Le Charme Suites — Stays

business hotel

Le Charme Suites

A business-and-leisure hotel on Palm St. in the CBD, open since 2016, with a rooftop pool, spa, gym, and two restaurants…
Grill tables with overhead vents

korean restaurant

Sonamu

A Korean restaurant in the Subic International Hotel Complex on Canal Road, in the CBD. It opens at eleven in the morning and…
Yacht moored at the marina

marine services

Subic Bay Yacht Services

Yacht brokerage and marine-services company at Magellan's Landing handling sales, charter and customs/immigration clearance for…
Boat deck overlooking the marina

boat charter

Subic Bay Yacht Cruise and Rentals

A boat charter and yacht cruise operator based along Rizal Highway. It takes bookings and posts updates through its own Facebook…
Vasco's Restaurant, Hotel and Museum — Stays

beach resort

Vasco's Restaurant, Hotel and Museum

A small waterfront hotel-restaurant-museum on Argonaut Highway, opened in 2000 by shipwreck diver Brian Homan, whose Ming Dynasty…
The stall at the food park at night

bar grill

Sexy Legs Chicken

Chicken stall and bar at the Rotonda Food Park in the Moonbay Marina Complex, open Tuesday to Sunday evenings with live music.
Grill tables under the chandelier

halal restaurant

Habibi Grill and Restaurant

A halal grill restaurant on the Argonaut Highway side of the Freeport, near Palm Street. It opens at eleven in the morning and…
Court Meridian Hotel & Suites — Stays

business hotel

Court Meridian Hotel & Suites

A 67-room hotel in the SBFZ Central Business District near the baywalk, Tappan Park, and San Roque Church, marketed as a…
BRU Cafe building at dusk

specialty coffee

BRU Café

A coffee shop in Building 1137 on Palm Street, at the Argonaut Highway corner of the Subic Gateway District. It opens at eight…
Outdoor seating facing the bay

boutique hotel

Subic Park Hotel

A 30-room, 3-floor waterfront hotel with a country-home style, facing Subic Bay; its Horizon Restaurant serves Filipino food from…
Hotel exterior

hotel

Subic Riviera Hotel and Residences

Condo-hotel in the Subic Commercial and Light Park, CBD Area, with a restaurant, bar and cafe on site and units also offered for…
Storefront at Harbor Point

skin care clinic

Idara Aesthetics

A skin and aesthetics clinic at Ayala Malls Harbor Point, part of the nationwide Idara Aesthetics chain.
Kon-Tiki's slider burgers served inside the sports bar.

sports bar

Kon-Tiki Sports Bar and Restaurant

A tiki-themed sports bar and restaurant on Rizal Highway, listed as open around the clock. Its listing files it under cocktail…
Meat and banchan set on the grill table

korean restaurant

Galbi House

A Korean barbecue house in the Times Square building in the CBD, at unit Retail 1-A on Lot 5. It runs to eleven at night seven…
Bar and dining area

bbq smokehouse

Cactus Jack Smokehouse

A smokehouse restaurant on the Dewey Avenue block of the CBD, one of the Savers Group Holdings restaurant brands.
Table by the window

cafe

Ilanin Bay Cafe

Cafe on Ilanin Road in Ilanin Forest West, Subic Bay Freeport Zone.
Dining tables beside the wine wall

deli caterer

Gourmet Garage

A deli counter, catering operation and sit-down restaurant at 1143 Argonaut Highway, on the Rizal corner. It opens at nine on…
Empty dining room with grill tables

korean bbq restaurant

Yakiniku K-Resto

A Korean grill house at 408 Waterfront Road, where the meat is cooked at the table. It opens at half past eleven in the morning…
Dining room under lantern-style lights

japanese restaurant

En Izakaya and Global Cuisine

Japanese izakaya on Canal Road, Subic Bay Freeport Zone, operated by the Sakura group.
Stilt house exterior among palms

bed and breakfast

The Nest by the Sea

A small operator of self-catering guest units around the Freeport, the largest of them a former US Navy stilt house in Lower Cubi…
Cafe interior seating

cafe

Le Charmé Cafe

Cafe, confectionery and deli in the La Terraza building on Palm Street, in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone.
Covered pavilion seating

food park

Rotonda Food Park

An open-air cluster of food stalls and small bars in the Moonbay Marina compound, open evenings Tuesday through Sunday.
Garden patio seating

filipino restaurant

Sky Garden Restaurant

Filipino restaurant on Rizal Highway at the corner of Aguinaldo Street, in the Freeport Central Business District.
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The Subic journal

There’s more to this place.

Meet the stories behind the sea, the forest, and the everyday.

All stories
A person seen from behind sits with a warm drink on a shaded balcony overlooking the calm water and forested hills of Subic Bay.

Wellbeing

Wellness, without the retreat

Subic does not need a retreat schedule to feel restorative. The better version begins with the bay, moves through the forest, and leaves enough room for the day to change its mind.

· 7 min read

Forested shoreline surrounding sheltered blue water.

Nature

What the forest kept

A closed military base is an accidental nature reserve. Subic spent most of a century off-limits, and the rainforest, the mangroves and one of the world’s great bat colonies are what came out the other side.

· 8 min read

People strolling the Subic Bay waterfront at blue hour.

History

The eight thousand who kept Subic Bay

When the US Navy left in 1992 it abandoned a city-sized base with nobody to run it. What happened in the following weeks is the reason there is a town here at all.

· 8 min read