About
We design private trips across the Philippines
A small team in Manila and the US, with fifteen years of relationships you won’t find anywhere else.
Every trip built around you, down to the detail.
How We Got Here
Started in 2010.
Built around one idea
Angely Dub started Access Travel at 19, before she’d seen most of the world. By the time she’d traveled to 150 countries, one thing was clear: nobody was selling the Philippines the way it deserved to be sold.
The country had the beaches, the heritage, the food, and the people. What it didn’t have was someone treating travelers the way the best operators in Italy or Japan or Kenya were treating theirs.
So in 2024, we launched Explora Ahora to do exactly that with same team and same standards.
Our goal is to give you the best experience in the Philippines and across Asia.
The Team
Two people will run your trip
You’ll work directly with our founders from planning to the last day of your trip.
Angely Dub
Founder · Manila
Angely founded Access Travel at 19 and Explora Ahora in 2024.
She’s traveled to 150+ countries across all seven continents.
Master’s from IE Madrid, TEDx speaker, author of Meet the World.
She personally oversees every itinerary that goes out the door.
Karlyne Domingo
US Travel Director · USA
Karlyne is your first call. Filipino-born, over a decade in hospitality, based in the US so the timezone works.
Master’s in Hospitality Business from Sydney, founder of Hiraya Made and Kerilang.
She’s the one who listens to what you actually want and makes sure Angely’s team builds it.
Shane
Operations Manager · Manila
The two people in Manila who make sure every booking, transfer, and detail is handled before you arrive.
Ella
Reservations Manager · Manila
How we work
Five things that won't change
- 01
Every trip is built from scratch
We don’t have packages. We have a country, and we build from there.
- 02
We’ve stayed everywhere we send you
Every hotel, lodge, and resort on your itinerary is somewhere we’ve personally been. If we haven’t, we don’t put it in.
- 03
Your guide isn’t a tour guide
We work with people whose families have lived where you’re visiting for generations. They’re not reading from a script.
- 04
Pricing is transparent
You’ll see what each piece of your trip costs. No markup hidden in mystery. No surprises in your inbox after.
- 05
Someone is on the phone 24/7
The Manila team is reachable any hour of any day, throughout your trip.
What a trip looks like
A few examples
We don’t sell packages, but here’s the kind of trip we build.
10 days • first-timers
An island trip
Manila for two nights to land properly. Then Palawan for the lagoons, Coron for the wrecks, and Siargao to slow down. Private boats, the right hotels, no internal flights you don’t need.
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7 days • been before
Food and heritage
Vigan and Ilocos for the colonial towns and the longganisa. Pampanga for the food the rest of the country quietly admits is the best. A night in Manila in the kind of bar most travelers never find.
14 days • once and right
The everything trip
Manila, then north to the Cordilleras, then south to the islands. Private guides, private boats, hotels we’d send our own families to. The version of the trip we’d take if we were you.
Beyond the trip
Selling a country to travelers is a serious thing
So we try to do it intentionally
We work with local guides directly, not through third-party agencies. We send guests to family-run accommodations alongside the bigger hotels. We support communities in the destinations we work in regularly, through partnerships and the way we structure trips, not through a separate "CSR program."
It's not advocacy as marketing. It's just how a Filipino-founded company should operate when its product is its own country.
Ready to talk?
Tell us how you travel
We’ll take it from there
A 20-minute call with us is the way most trips start.
No commitment, no quote pressure, no template questions.