Philippine Travel Notes

To continue my previous post , I arrived at HIE Newport or Holiday Inn Express Manila Newport City on a Resorts World Free Shuttle Bus . You already know why , right? Oh at 0020H, check-in wasn't a breeze! Oh, I am still describing my travels diary style , but this time, let me use this topic to give way to a very long-standing 'plea' of one of you my dear young readers: more 'hotel matters/insights' to learn from! Sige I will oblige, but note that everyhing I say, is from a guest's point of view, only :) Check-in Midnight Check-in Yep, at midnight there were something like 20 of us checking-in about the same time. Sige lang, go ra! Many in the line were foreigners. I think they arrived via the (usual) late-evening to midnight flights of Low Cost Carriers (budget airlines). Yep, travel patterns (therefore, hotel check-in also) keep changing. Imagine that, check-in time is 2PM (at some it's even 3 or 4PM); check-out time is 12NN; but you ar

As said in my previous post , this first leg of my earnest circle trip was flying TAC-CEB-MNL. I usually do anyway. If you're not that familiar, TAC is airport code for Tacloban, CEB for Cebu and MNL for Manila. Why go through connecting flights when there are lots of direct TAC to MNL flights? People have many reasons in doing so. Many of you already know, mine is: just to drop my laundry in Cebu, where I live ! Hmm hey, nothing hanky-panky nor illegal there. I just usually handcarry my "labadami", go out of the departure area, Manong JC would already be there waiting for me, and then we "exchange gifts", done! Anything that I have to carry back inside still pass by those x-ray machines. In case I need to check-in anything, I just go to the counters to do so, even if my boarding pass was issued at a previous station. But let's start from the very beginning as I always do, right? Okay, approaching the Tacloban Airport on a gloomy afternoon,