Indeed, unfortunately gov's usualy have different politics to drive more tourists :(
we started our round at coron and we loved the place, when we moved to El Nido which was supposed to be a jem, we wanted to get out as soon as possible. Following that I discarded the lonely planet and started to ask locals and other friends where to go. We got hold of a couple of deserted islands. will post on them later. yes Malapascua was on our list since it is easy there to do diving with thresher and white tip sharks. it is really beautiful but you can see the effect on tourisim and its only gonna get worse.
If you would like to check another island, go to Isla de Gigantes. loved everybit of it. There we met with only 1 tourist, a crazy british guy and it was a case of hello bye and we never saw him again. There we had some amazing really cheap food and stayed in a beautiful hut.
