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!)

Emerson bday outing

~ Photo op ~

I joined the emerson friends for their yearly birthday summer outing. It was held last May 21-22 at Pansol, Laguna. Our reservation is for 14000 from 8pm-8pm. We arrived around 9pm due to heavy traffic and late departure. We still had to the groceries.

Stopover at SLEX Starbucks :)

Some are singing, others cooking, while we just eat drink and relax.

Around 2 in the morning the electricity was cut off so all of us just dip into the pool. And the fun goes on.

It was really a bad service because there's no water available. We all slept feeling sticky and tired.

In the morning, we heard that they didn't open the tank but there's water in it. Talk about having a caretaker with no care at all.

We were really disappointed so we just plan to leave early and not pay the whole price. And then we were advised to leave at 4 since a new batch will occupy the place. Huwat?! We are reserved till 8 and they manage to find a new occupants?

So we just left and meet at Starbucks SLEX. Then off we went home.

The place from the attic

Doing jumpshots

Pasyal

I've been wanting to do a travel blog (with details) for all those travellers like me who is looking for tips and comments about places they wanted to go. But forgive me since this would be just a summary of the past vacations I had.

US Trip (Hawaii/Massachusettes/New York) (July - Sept 2008)
~ business trip (but mostly pleasure) for company training. We had a stopover overnight at Hawaii, then stayed 3 months in Massachusettes, a weekend in New york, and another night at Hawaii). It's hard to summarize the experience but I totally love the surroundings & clean air. A far cry from Philippines. I had fun at Six Flags and I so love New York & Hawaii.

~ I love Autumn ~
~ I love thrilling rides @ 6 Flag ~

~ I love the clean beach @ Hawaii ~

~ I love Empire state at night ~

Bolinao Trip (May 2-3, 2009)
~ Summer trip with my Cisco friends @ Bolinao, Pangasinan. We stayed at Villa Soledad for a fun inuman session. On our way home, a side trip to 100 islands.




Pansol, Laguna (May 9-10, 2009)
Overnight summer trip with Emerson friends (stayed at Coracasa resort)



Club Manila East (June 5, 2009)
Seachange first company outing



Davao Trip (Nov 2009)
highlights: Pearl farm (day tour) and Outland adventure for zipline (definitely wanted to try this again)





Splash Mountain (Apr 9-11, 2010)
A relaxing 2 nights stay. We tried the scary water slides which are only open on summer weekends.


Splash Island (May 1, 2010)
This would probably the first and last that I'll go to this place. UNCLEAN bathrooms/restrooms. There is no lap pool just water fun slides/rides/river. But still I enjoy it with the company of my college friends.



Subic (May 29-30 2010)
In celebration of our 100th month anniversary. We tried tree top adventure and stayed at Grande Island resort. We got the promo rate (50% the usual I think) so the price is okay for that place, clean and nice rooms, buffet dinner, breakfast and lunch :D

~ When I already gather the courage to try tree drop, the queue is so long :(

~ Kever! haha... alang paki-elamanan :p

~ Uwi na ..

Palawan trip (June 18-21, 2010)
With emerson friends, Underground River, Island hopping @ El Nido, City tour at Puerto Princesa (Crocodile Farm, Bakers Hill). I super love the beaches, I will definitely go back to Palawan! (probably Coron) ;)

~ Underground river ~

~ snorkeling and there's Nemo!

~ breathtaking views

Bicol trip (July 1-4, 2010)
John's grandpa's 20th death anniversary. I joined his family in the celebration and the same time went to see the famous Mayon. Also, went to CWC (to wake board). I think given few more hours I'll be good at it :D

~ Mayon volcano (perfect cone , but no longer that perfect)

~ me wakeboarding

up next my Tagaytay trip (with all the details that I could manage)