2009 national day long beach tour

2009 National Day Philippines long beach travel

Thanks to the cheap airline tickets, so we are lucky enough to land on the Philippines, boracay in long beach for the whole national day holiday.

October 1, 2, 8, 4 pm to return to the capital airport, the whole eight days later, the first luxurious stay in one place after six days, feeling very crisp. Eat eat and drink, and sit down diving, sailing, Sun on the beach, the sea bar drink fruit juice or beer for the first time, life becomes very easy to very comfortable ...

I. traffic:

1. air:

Originally wanted to go with friends, Malay Shab'a, determine the spotted travel air tickets $ 1000 surge in online search Southeast Asia air found to Manila there are as many as 1500 $ return airfare, telephone consultation confirmed the drawer $ taxes included, 1998, which was traveling so many times to the cheapest ticket.

Really appreciate Hong Kong Express Airways, otherwise we might have to be bleeding. Although this flight to go Hong Kong transit, transit time, to be 1 hour 10 minutes, the return is 2 hours and 40 minutes, just for us in Hong Kong Airport SHOPPING a, and the satisfaction of the ticket.

OK to go to the Philippines, BORACAY in PALAWAN and choose between a long time, finally decided to go to BORACAY long beach.

Because BORACAY is completely in accordance with the requirements of LG, island, 7 km long, one will not be too far; PALAWAN is relatively large, the need for automobile and so on, you might want to spend more time on the road. BORACAY is the proven choice is very appropriate, PALAWAN could become our next trip to the Philippines.

After determining the goals, start tickets.

Philippines cheap air a lot, like Cebu pacific, Zest, SZair, Palexpress, etc., are available through the website booking. From BORACAY near has two airports, one is CATICALAN, another is KALIBO. Due to the Caticlan airport expansion (said to be repaired in January next year), with the exception of a plane from Manila SZair direct flight to CATICLAN, all airlines can fly to Kalibo, then take a half hour car to CATICLAN Jetty. Because the exclusive dealing, natural SZAIR ticket expensive, this time to the long beach of tourists basically go KALIBO. Start the lowest air fares CEBU, never thought the day would like to be on site when the Board is not, and so on the third day on the price rises when found, single journey including tax to $ 100, if two days ago, at least you can save 250 yuan/person, ten big crabs not!

Nevertheless, this is the previous travel before the cheapest ticket, so you can let our province out more money to play with the water project.

2. various kinds of airport taxes and tickets

Airport tax is interesting, not only domestic and international, and a different airport will also different, this is not the same in China.

Returning from Manila, airport tax is 750P/person; from Manila to KALIBO, airport tax is 200P/person; from MANILA to KALIBO airport tax is 20P/person, the difference is very big.

The ticket is on BOROCAY 75P/people, including ticket 25P/person, environmental taxes 50P/person; when leaving the island, only accept ticket.

3. TRICYCLE of traffic on the island

Also look at before setting out for a few days of the Internet travels, TRICYCLE price runaround, practice, on the island was finally understand what is going on.

Long Beach I. coastal edge all Beach Road, TRICYCLE cannot reach; and Beach Road, basic parallel a road called the main road "Main road".

Beach Road, walking Street, walk for belonging to a street and a number between main road lane (which has several small hotels), from the beach path different lane walk to the main road of time, from 5 minutes to 10 minutes, because the main road is not completely parallel with the Beach Road.

A taxi from the pier to the S3 and S2 hotel, typically 100P/vehicle, to the S1 is 150P/car, from the dock to the NAMI, luxury hotel (because the comparison), it is estimated that at least 200P.

On the main road taxi, as long as it is run by the car, get off at the stop nearest beckon, 7P per person.

Note that the "running car". If the car at the roadside, general price 50P/car. If you are PARKING PLACE on the bus (such as DMALL), generally from S1 to S3 price is per car 50P, but you can shuttle service, no longer access my way, and can be sent to the alley off the Beach Road recently.

So, if you want to save money, go to the main road taxi.

If you want to save effort, in some alley taxi way, will spend more money. Initially we offer 50P also think that cheap, but then often sit think is too expensive, also began bargaining, then in General is both 30P, or better than local people spend more money. Some drivers have an asking price is 100P, must resolutely counter-offer. From the S3 's alley to S1, the market price is the price of a private 50P. The most successful is on his way from S3 main taxi to NAMI restaurant, because so far the highest price 150P, finally we spent 75P gone, I feel good!

4. airport SHUTTLE BUS

Online articles read a lot, to return to the airport bus ride between the modes of a very long time nor understand.

Having said that, there are said to be free, I do not know the bus in the middle of the night there. 2 day zero so we had to find the NAIA1 customs. Driver English no, not good communication, with the help of local people, we got to T3。 Just a car also said to pay money to pay for each person, then look at the local 30P do not give money, we also have to wonder what you want to give money. In a moment, let us get off, the driver said to T3. I feel no, because the said T3 to NAIA1 quite far. Then drag luggage to see nearby map, as expected, this is T2, we immediately dragging luggage back to the SHUTTLE BUS going to the repeated representations T3, before we pull into T3, really is a night tour of the airport.

CEBU's international and domestic flights are served at our T3, then, in the Chair found NAV, sleeping on the floor full of people everywhere, it seems to us to save money for people everywhere with you.

Read carefully the special airfares to CEBU, found that there are as many as 4 o'clock in the morning flights, no wonder so many people to stay in the waiting room at midnight!

Second, accommodation

From S1 to S3, distribution to hundreds hotel, different grades of different price points.

Overall, the S1 is a high-grade hotel district, S1 to the North has a more upscale discovery, NAMI, five-star hotel, s2 noisy compatriots living S2, S3 have feelings, from quiet TALIPAPA D ' market close, and a number of S3 diving club, so we choose to live in S3.

In reference to the outcome of many predecessors, choose to live in the S3 's Turtle INN.

Just as its Web site (www.turtleinnboracay.com) photos, hotel and room were very good. Because the 5-night stay, the hotel offers 10% discount, plus the down payment is 3. 5% credit card fee, 1719P/night standard room breakfast included, air conditioned, satellite TV, refrigerator and mini bar. Walk to the beach from the hotel, just 2 minutes, in fact, each hotel to the beach are not far from the distance. Because LG not willing to Walk in a day to find the hotel, so the hotel early through EMAIL set up.

Turtle INN Lamasery, our rooms on three floors, the rooms are a spacious balcony, terrace and room size, nice balcony view, you can have breakfast on the terrace in the Sun, is a good place.

The hotel's four floors you can see the sea, we at Hong Kong Airport know Beijing villagers later lived in four layers, two people every day in the Sun on the terrace enjoying sea views, this sea view room too value. If the reservation will be booked on the fourth floor of the room, personal feeling than S1 sea House values, quiet and comfortable, are not affected by the crowd and the impact of the waves, the cost performance is very good!

TURTLE's boss is the United States, he hired a local Manager, Ms. JENNY JENNY has a Philippine-enthusiasm, treating you thoughtful, reply to my EMAIL is the fastest, I set a TURTLE.

Boss talk shop name of origin, the boss said, "turtle means live longer, don ' t worry about anything," very interesting answer, hotel lobby drew a drunken big turtle, really meet the expectations of the boss.

Recommendation: do not live in the North of upscale hotel S1.

Is not a hotel, but rather inconvenient. We encountered a diving on Shanghai and his wife, lived in the regency of S2, S1 later moved to the North of discovery (five-star hotel). As a result, the couple day dress shoes, from discovery to go back to the S2 's Seafood market to dinner, to play the project, they said it was too depressing, knew so trouble would not move!

By the way the Hotel NIKKO ' S.

A friend recommended before online, just return NIKKO ' S TURTLE INN way, by the way, visit here. Standard rooms have air conditioning, room is bigger than the small TURTLE INN, a bit like the original Hostel, relatively clean, price is not including breakfast 1000P. Room was facing East or North West, light and vision are not good enough, we look at the second floor of the room. If you want to save money and friends, can live here. But because of the TURTLE preconceptions, feel poorer conditions than TURTLE.

Back to Manila at six p.m., considering the next morning at eight aircraft, which was near the airport, the price for one night, breakfast included 2500P.

It is said, the MANILA Hotel more expensive than long beach.

3. catering

1.D. ' TALIPAPA seafood market: market fluctuations of seafood

Speaking of places to eat, I must mention is that D ' TALIPAPA seafood market.

From the pier, the S3 S2 in the direction of seven or eight minutes, you will see the sign for D ' TALIPAPA. Brand. Then press the arrow pointing to the lane walk, walk through a very broken, almost let you have going in the wrong place because now there are pools of water on the road. The end turn left, then saw a pile of stalls selling clothes, to continue to provide, slowly smell the taste of seafood, the seafood market.

In seafood market, and finally saw the legendary giant crabs and shrimp.

The first piece of seafood is crab and shrimp, crab, prawns 450P/KG is 400P/KG. A 1 kg only six two crab 330P (48 Yuan RMB), plus the shrimp, total 600P. Comments by previous friends, do not select the seafood market in the two restaurants, but to find the second House on the left. The boss is five-star hotel before dinner, and later opened the shop, guests often cooking personally. All of our seafood in their home, nearly all the major crab and shrimp flavor taste. Think it's good with garlic shrimp, Sweet sauce crab delicious. In addition, his family do lobsters head in soup (Lobster porridge) is very good, it tastes best. Basically the restaurant processing fees are the same, the crabAnd shrimp are generally 130P/KG, clam cook soup 50P/KG.

First dinner after feeling very crisp, then the next day at noon and go.

I didn't expect to seafood prices to market fluctuations. Crabs than yesterday's small number, but also 500P/KG, shrimp also rose, 450P/KG. Bargain with hawkers, vendors shake not price said 450P is the price of yesterday, today is not the same "It ' s today ' s price!". When we are hesitant to buy buy next to come when a group of people. We saw a dozen crabs in two minutes by fellow organizers said. Hey, no crabs, we bought 1 kg of shrimp, basically each with one or two and half to half the garlic roast BBQ, seems to have never eaten so much prawn.

Because the third and fourth days of diving, with fellow plundering seafood, we pause for two days of seafood meal, to six, seven, and obviously there are fewer people on the island, go to seafood markets, prices have dropped.

The greatest female crab or lobster 400P/KG, the 1400P/KG twice a shrimp before 400P/KG. Wait until a 7, 1 pound six two crab prices 380P/KG, clam 50P/KG, prices vary according to the visitors leave on time. However, even in the most expensive of the two days, the price of seafood BORACAY relative to China are very cheap, large female crab, seed very much, eat eat it all. Remember that encounters a free line of powder tour, they've just come to a person of a female crab, and they eat the top that I couldn't eat.

Compared to BORACAY than BALI seafood practices not so elegant, but still good taste.

Back to Beijing, few days, often reminiscent of 1 pound six two cups of crabs and a super prawn (low when 800P/KG) and LG 1 pound at a time to kill six two crabs picture.

2．YELLOW CAB///

This is a family PIZZA shop.

From S3 Terminal near from us diving club is 20 meters far away, so his home for a couple of times. 10-inch New YORK FINEST flour pastry 300P only, very thin, the taste can be domestic large PIZZA shop, can also be sent out.

3. the beach BBQ Grill

Some DX, beach BBQ of the not so good, in fact, it looks at the two sides.

If there is no simple restaurants, stalls selling does thing eaten, nor plus, roasted taste. If the tables and chairs on the beach, opposite the restaurant is in the evacuation, this is the regular army. Because the total rain in the evening, only the fifth evening ate once. Although the price is higher than in the D ' TALIPAPA eat expensive, but do more refined, BBQ shrimp baked like as good a delicious BALI. Grilled fish and grilled fish still taste good, fish quality is delicate, even I do not love to eat fish people eat a lot. Roadside BBQ is 100 grams to pricing, not kg. We eat the shrimp is 120P/100G, fish is 80P/100G, no longer subject to processing fees, also sent a bowl of rice per person.

Within each 4.DMALL

DMAL (tone to MO, not the geomorphology), is a commercial zone, not the hypermarkets, two alley placed a lot of restaurants, clothing stores of centralized service area.

Various tastes of the restaurant, Beijing fellow little couple is there, like Greece restaurant, ARIS, etc. We ate at DMALL once LUNCH, didn't want to be bitten by a number of mouth of ants, very depressed. Therefore, it's not like DMALL restaurant.

5. drink

MANGO SHAKE/JUICE is BORACAY, roadside stalls in taste, JONAS, restaurant more Cup MANGO SHAKE, feel or in BALI PAPAYA JUICE drink that is good.

MANGO SHAKE is normally a mango, plus half cup of ice, a spoonful of sugar, a spoonful of milk is MANGO broke the SHAKE. General from 50P to 80P, depending on the individual hotel's popularity.

In JONAS home also ate his NAVY AMY sandwiches taste really good.

6. bars

Along the beach there are many pubs, there's also a beach chair with swing, you can point the beverage was lying on the beach, enjoy the sea view all drink, very comfortable.

There is a special love, because he's swing too cute.

4. play, weather

Have a project on the island, sailing, wind surfing, swimming, karting, the island sand sliding, water skiing, etc.

In a few days on the island, just wind sailing became the most challenging of the most popular sport. Every day I saw a lot of movement in the sea, sailing around the island is very popular project. General-around a week to 1500P/boat, because the wind became stronger and more than an hour is returned, if no wind, estimated to 2000P/lap. We sat junk to watch a sunset, four people, a large wave 1000P, our whole body to wet, pale green, sea salt so.

Stay on the island for six days, experienced a brushed past typhoon season, Typhoon, Typhoon, Typhoon and back to the entire process.

Because wind is big, green water no longer calm, no calm water of the sea. Even so, the water level remains embodied in our eyes, pale green, light green, dark green to blue, dark blue, crystal-clear waters that often go on business trips of LG are exclamation, feel able to here the sea where only Mauritius compared! and long beach's Beach is better than Mauritius. Although the later one see the sea seaweed washed ashore, the beach is not only the white fine sand beach, but compared to domestic renowned seaside, or very good.

Dance Island Tour I mean little 1500P/boat

Including snorkeling, island hopping through the island I'd have to go.

Estimate to the island holiday of Chinese people more and more vendors are touting blocking will use simple Chinese, such as "junk" and "massage" and "Pearl" and "diving", etc.

Haven't realize the powerful motherland arising from national pride, and India travel nearly one day see a fellow Chinese, this holiday long beach of the beach is 80% of people from all regions of China, sometimes trance we are one of the China Sea Island tourism.

About diving, in another article in detail.

5. shopping

The island you can buy some yarn cage, skirts, shorts, mango stem.

We buy is PHILIPPINE licensing, prices almost 7D and CEBU brand of half. General yarn cage 140P/article, skirts and shorts are also printed with this price, BORACAY logo t-shirt 140P/two, give or leisure wear are good, quality can also. There is also an ISLAND on the island of the clothing brand, t-shirt 200P/CTN, though a bit expensive than ordinary, but the quality is pretty good, you can swipe your card.

Six, change money, credit cards, tips

In the Manila airport, change money, find dollar than euros or pounds, but with fewer dollars, had to be changed.

At that time, approximately 46 US $ 1. 7PESO。 In fact, the rate of Exchange than the long Beach Airport. Just arrived in long beach, very poor exchange rate, after two days, up to the exchange rate from the airport. It is said that Manila city exchange rate will be better.

BORACAY's BUDGET in the next "DMALL" supermarket where there is an ATM machine, you can withdraw cash with UnionPay card, once most 10000PESO.

Of course this is to pay the fee, if someone told you first remove the ATM is not spending money processing fee, and that definitely is for you, or he is hearsay, did not take money from the ATM! after coming home after an audit found that each should not only pay 1% of the amount of money, but also as a payment processing fee for each pen to another AC 12 Yuan RMB of Fund fees. Count down to good money with us directly. This is mistakenly believed the others, no way.

In the long beach in front of the card must ask whether there is a handling charge.

We live in a hotel credit card to pay for 3. 5% service charge, a tourist shops require more than to scratch card 500P, of course, like the "little ISLAND" clothing store, how many can brush.

General tips to help you move 20P, something people want to feel happy, or you can give.

Summary:

This time out is pure leisure tour, in a place to stay for six days, did not think enough! want to wait before playing small beach waves wind surfing point after, big danger because the winds and didn't play, is some regret.

Daily dive diving, eating seafood, drink juice, lying on the beach chairs, quite comfortable. If you have the opportunity to go to BORACAY, must longer play in fact project, eat more lay, the more thoroughly a rest.

(Seafood market of prawns, 800P/KG)

(Lobster head tangfan)

(Two female crab)