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alphakennyone
Joined: 01 Aug 2005
Location: city heights
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 Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject: Phils for XMAS |
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I have my vacation dates and of course..it's during xmas. Will hotels be really expensive?
Also, I'm not sure if I will be going with or without my girlfriend. Whenever I tell the office workers here where I'm going, they chuckle and imply I'm going there for sex.
Where's a decent bar scene? Hiking would be OK too, but not excessively. I like swimming, but have never snorkeled or scuba dived.
If the lady goes, we'll be going to Palawan or Boracay (guess I gotta toss a coin on that one). |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:07 pm Post subject: Re: Phils for XMAS |
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| alphakennyone wrote: |
I have my vacation dates and of course..it's during xmas. Will hotels be really expensive?
Also, I'm not sure if I will be going with or without my girlfriend. Whenever I tell the office workers here where I'm going, they chuckle and imply I'm going there for sex.
Where's a decent bar scene? Hiking would be OK too, but not excessively. I like swimming, but have never snorkeled or scuba dived.
If the lady goes, we'll be going to Palawan or Boracay (guess I gotta toss a coin on that one). |
Short time at XMAS = Boracay or Alona Beach.
You still have a significant chance of rainy weather so at least at Alona you have the option of going to town or doing an island tour and checking out the old Spanish buildings.
Hotels (resorts) will run US$25-60 per night at either place (breakfast included).
Both are easy to get to from here. Tickets at XMAS will NOT be cheap. It will cost about 750k won to get there.
For Boracay, fly to Manila and change planes (and terminals) for your flight to Boracay. Make sure you are flying into CATICLAN and NOT Kalibo (or you will face a cramped (20 people in a 15 pass. van), 2 hour ride to the boat dock at Boracay). Seaair and Asian Spirit both fly into Caticlan.
http://www.flyseair.com/
http://www.asianspirit.com/
http://www.boracayisland.org/
For Alona beach you have 2 options:
a) Fly to Cebu (ALL evening flights from Korea), spend the night and catch a fast ferry to Tagbilarn the next morning.
b) Catch a daytime flight to Manila and then domestic to Tagbilaran. If you fly PAL ( http://www.philippineairlines.com/ )you do NOT have to change terminals in Manila, just go to the other wing of the same terminal. If you fly on another carrier you will have to change terminals (major pain in the azz).
http://www.bohol.ph/ |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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| huh, from what i checked, the rainy season is over in november. late december there's still agood chance? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:46 am Post subject: |
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| reactionary wrote: |
| huh, from what i checked, the rainy season is over in november. late december there's still agood chance? |
I was there from Dec 21-Jan 15 last year and we got 11 days with anything from intermittant rain to all day rain (about 50% of the time we had rain at some point during the day).
Yup, it can rain on you and don't count on exclusively dry weather until mid Jan or later.
The good news is that TYPHOON season is over at the end of November. |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| So I have a flight into Manila but it doesnt arrive until 12:30 AM on Monday..I see SEair's earliest flight is 8am, but thats a long wait. any other options? oops forgot to mention i was planning to go to boracay/caticlan |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| reactionary wrote: |
| So I have a flight into Manila but it doesnt arrive until 12:30 AM on Monday..I see SEair's earliest flight is 8am, but thats a long wait. any other options? |
12:30am arrival means 1:30 by the time you get off the flight, collect your your luggage and get through customs.
Then you need to change air terminals. Add another 30-60 minutes.
Then you need to get through security to get INTO the terminal.
Then you need to check in for your flight.
Then you need to go through security again for your flight.
You need to be checked in at least an hour or 2 before your flight.
Have a nap on the bench.
It is NOT that long a wait and you are travelling light (or you better be - 10kg limit on sea-air flights to Boracay.)
You can also look at Asian Spirit going from Manila to Caticlan but I don't know if there are any earlier flights because there may not be any boats from Caticlan to Boracay before sun-up expecially if the wind and waves are up.
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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LOL good point ttompatz. thanks for the advice.
im gonna be with one whiny woman though! |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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whoa. quoted 17,000 pesos for two tickets roundtrip caticlan-manila...that can't be right! over $175 each for a less than an hour flight?
trying asianspirit instead, but i cant reserve instantly. |
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