Boracay Accomodation & Airport Transfer

We will be arriving on October 13 at 12:40AM in Kalibo Aklan. And we'll be staying at Balikbayan Inn till 7:30AM.

I can't find any website for Balikbayan Inn, but hopefully it's a nice place for a 800 pesos - for approximately 7hours. Our contact would be Ms. Lyn of Balikbayan Inn Kalibo (+639194096703). She will pick us up at the Kalibo Airport and then we will take us back to the airport for the Caticlan transfer.

We should be back at the airport around 7:30AM. Where we will ride the Southwest Tour Bus going to Caticlan. I was told by my friend that there will be a tour escort with a placard with my name on it. The person will assists us to the bus to register and claim boarding pass. He will accompany us to the resort.

At the Caticlan Jetty Port, we will be charged with terminal fee of P50 and Environmental fee of P75. A total of P125 per person.

Travel time from Kalibo to Boracay is approximately 1.5hrs - 2 hours. ( I hope)

We'll be staying at Bamboo Beach resort. Our friends are checked-in at La Carmela de Boracay. However, when we check the resort there's no more available rooms for us. Anyway, it's just a short distance from their resort. Our contact for the Bamboo Beach Resort, Boracay Island would be Mr. Nick (+639185004969).

Map of La Carmela Boracay and Bamboo Beach Resort

We paid P2650 per person. This includes accomodation at Bamboo Beach Resort for 3days/2nights, with Daily breakfast and Airport transfers. I hope it's a nice, clean place and really few steps away from our friend's place.

A total of P6100 for accomodation, airport transfers and breakfast plus P250 (environmental and terminal fee). Adding up the P4344 plane ticket we already shelled out 10k.

And still leaves us with the expenses for Lunch, dinner, drinks, water activities.

Despite having an expensive trip, I'm still excited. :-)

Looking forward

I've been looking forward for our vacation trips this September and October. I already filed my vacation leaves.

Starting off ...

When: September 3-7, 2011 (5Days/4Nights)
Where: Bohol
What: My 29th birthday celebration with John

Here's our already planned itinerary:
Day 1 - enjoying the hotel/beach
Day 2 - DANAO Extreme Adventure
Day 3 - Countryside Tour
Day 4 - SeaSide Tour
Day 5 - Souvenir shopping

Next ...

When: October 13-15, 2011 (3Days/2Nights)
Where: Boracay
What: Trip with Emerson friends

Actually we would be arriving at Kalibo at October 13 (12:40AM). But there won't be any trips going to Caticlan at that time. So I asked a friend to have us booked at a nearby inn. Then in the morning we would be travelling to Caticlan then boracay.

No itinerary yet, but I guess it would be beach bumming, island hopping, reef walking, parasailing (if we can afford it) and bar hopping.

Still 3 months from now, so I need to exercise for my boracay body. ;)

And finally ...

When: Oct 28-31, 2011 (4Days/2Nights)
Where: Singapore
What: Trip with College Friends

We will be staying with our other college friends that are now residing in Singapore. We will visit the Universal Studios, Sentosa, Singapore Zoo, Marina Bay Sands, etc. We haven't finalized our itinerary yet but we'll get to that.

Now that leaves me with 3Vacation Leaves to spare. :(

It looks like I'll be at the office during Christmas and New year. Since I'll use 2 leaves for John's bday and 1 leave for the next Singles retreat. I just hope there would be a lot of holidays to be declared. (goodluck!)