Before travel to Boracay, many research done.
Firstly, transport from airport to jetty. We did not reserve online for the transportation, instead we took cab 1000 peso per car (include boat fare) per way, you can see them waiting outside the airport. Cab is far better than bus which take about an hour plus to reach the jetty. We book the same cab when way back. Often online you see u some mention you need departure 5 hours in advance from your flight time, for us about 3 hours advance is enough.The airport is small, and often long queue for check in and check out. Do not worry about the boat transfer, boat come very frequent.
7 stone located at Bulabog beach which is more quiet part of the island, it is a beautiful resort, great service with very friendly staff, nice room,great pool, great view , (espcecially if you like flying kite- its happening here), less crowded, more privacy. the cons is kid not suitable playing at the beach ;)
We often walked to D'mall (about 10 minutes)/ station 2 for f&b , it have more choices. There's some shop for souvenir. If you travel with kid, is more convenient to stay at station 1,2,3, we found many hotel just infront the white sand beach.
The most i love is the PUCA beach, which we went there on the last day of our trip, crystal clear water, theres one restaurant just before entry to the beach, serve decent food too.
Transportation in the island rather not cheap despite our weak currency, but still affordable fro 100-200 peso per way depend on distance. Many variety of food can can be found, regret we did not try out the buffet in some of the hotel. TRY IT OUT YA..;)