<human>: I'm going to visit an old friend in HK, and I don't have too much time off work, nor the money to go for too long. But we're trying to fit in a brief jaunt to the Philippines. I'm only going for 10 days-ish. So I was wondering if you guys could recommend me a destination in the Philippines, that is easy to access from HK, i.e. shortish flight times and simple transfer, that offers all or some of the following things:

* Nice beaches. White sand, clear blue water, decent snorkelling, maybe some rock formations, palm trees. That sort of thing, not necessarily all of that though.

* A reasonable amount of night life.

* Adventure activities e.g. possibly some fishing, hiking, kayaking, boating, that sort of thing.

That's all really. I'm not too fussed about being too authentic, or getting off the beaten path necessarily, as I don't have the luxury of the time or the money to do that this time (I've got my sights set on Palawan in the future). I'd just like somewhere I can get there and back within 4/5 days from HK that reasonably matches our requirements, without wasting too much time on planes or having to cut it extremely fine with transfers to make our flights on time. Boracay looks reasonable, but from HK you're looking at a 6/7 hour flight without transfers, as I'm struggling to find direct flights to Kalibo. Perhaps you could recommend any airlines or routes that would enable me to get to one of these destinations better.

I did do a brief search on /r/travel but it didn't bring much up of use.

Thanks in advance for your help. I don't need you to go into too much detail, even if you could just fire me one word answers or a quick sentence, I don't mind doing the rest of the research myself. It's just there's so many islands it's a bit confusing to someone not au fait with Philippine geography.

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<bot>: Looking for somewhere that's easy to get to from HK but has a decent bit of nature and some night life. Might not even be the Philippines. Preferably not Thailand though. Thanks again.