Boracay iPass, LezzGo and eBoracay: The Registration Systems Compared

Sources:³¹ for iPass,⁸⁹ for LezzGo,⁵⁶⁷ for eBoracay,⁸ for the windows,¹³ for the terminal pass.

The Boracay Tourist Pass was launched on 30 September 2024 by Governor Jose Enrique Miraflores with PisoPay’s president, as the Tribune reported³. BusinessMirror described it in December 2024 as one online payment with a QR code, a six-digit email one-time password and a 7-Eleven cash option⁴.

The official site lists four services: Port Terminal Fee (Provincial Government of Aklan), Environmental Fee (Municipality of Malay), Boat Transport and Land Transport¹. Bookings are not refundable but are transferable as long as the QR code has not been scanned; the code is valid until 31 December of the declared arrival year; children aged 5 and below are exempt with proof¹. Support is at [email protected] and +(02) 8242 8153¹.

The province’s guide gives the route: aklan.gov.ph, Online Payment, Terminal Pass, then boracayipass.ph; one-time password; choose services; guest details; review; pay with a reference number within 24 hours through PisoPay channels; download the QR code and e-receipt². The terminal pass is described as covering “the Caticlan and Cagban Passenger Terminals”, with QR codes for turnstile entry¹³.

LezzGo is the Unified Automated Ticketing System, presented on 5 August 2025 at the Caticlan jetty port as a PHP 150 million, 10-year public-private partnership⁸. It collects terminal fee, environmental fee and boat fare in one transaction, scans IDs at kiosks or takes prepayment online, and registers passengers on the Coast Guard manifest. The QR code is shown at the ticketing counter and scanned at a validation area. Its backers put processing at about 10-15 minutes instead of 30-45, and a mobile app was promised for “sometime in 2026”⁸.

Newsbytes reported a PHP 35 convenience fee per trip from 1 September 2025, a PHP 15 online booking fee waived until 1 January 2026, and “partial” service at Tabon and Tambisaan⁹. This site found no official LezzGo web address and does not print one.

In August 2024 Mayor Frolibar Bautista’s Executive Order No. 32 required tourists using Tabon port to pay the environmental and terminal fees through a Boracay app or eBoracay; a similar order for Caticlan was only planned, and the app was not yet on iOS⁵. GCash announced on 10 September 2024 cashless payment of terminal, environmental and boat fees “starting with Tabon Port” through the portal guest.eboracay.net, run by Surepay Technologies Inc.⁶. A PHP 30 convenience fee was reported in February 2025⁷.

Esquire wrote in August 2025 that for decades visitors had lined up “three separate times to pay three separate fees: terminal fee, boat fare, and environmental fee”⁸. In January 2025 Tourism Secretary Christina Frasco said: “You have to line up five times”¹⁰. No official page used here says the windows have closed.

Sources disagree Shangri-La Boracay‘s directions page quotes a PHP 85 convenience fee for iPass, citing an Executive Order No. 45 of 2025¹¹. At the launch, a business group’s chairman praised the absence of convenience fees on card payments⁴, and the iPass site states no amount¹. The order’s text and issuing authority are not published online. Treat PHP 85 as one resort’s figure and check the total before paying.

What you may have heard That iPass, or LezzGo, is now mandatory. Hotel pages lean that way: The Lind says the fees are “collected separately via Boracay iPass”¹², and Shangri-La describes cashless payment at the Caticlan and Tabon jetty ports through iPass under Executive Order No. 45¹¹. But no official page says any one system is the only route, and none says the manual windows are closed. Register in advance if your hotel tells you to, and carry the QR code and receipt.

Prepaying removes the queues described above; the sources do not say it is cheaper once a convenience fee applies. For where each system is used, see which port is used in which season.