Philippine Travel Notes

Welcome back dear readers! Here's another series of interconnected trips I have (yes present-tense, because it is happening now)! Many bits to wonder & ponder about again. As usual, I am telling these to you, every end of each day! The notable notes, nice views, fun and funny things, even the rantworthy matters do not only happen at a destination or destinations. They start on our way there, all the way until we're back home, right? So, I'm trying to make this a "blow-by-blow" account. Well, day-by-day lang! Ang daming pasakalye 'no?! O sya sya sige, let's hear my story! This is another long "jump around", that will bring me to places in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. If I'm able to stick to "the plan", it'll go something like this: TAC-CEB connecting to CEB-MNL, where I'll sleep at Holiday Inn Express Manila Newport City (HIE Newport). I'm actually here now, as I write this ! Tomorrow, I'll b

Let's go to Vietnam, okay lang? Okay na, andito na ako as I write this eh! 😁 Ah eh.., this is still my Philippine Travel Notes blog, and as always, I will not regale you with sights and scenes of other countries to entice you in going there. Aba oy, loyal Pinoy pa rin ako. Sometimes, I just need to describe them (like now) for comparison purposes, with travel-things in our dear inang bayan! So, I flew from Tacloban to Ho Chi Minh, but it required 3 connecting flights with layover in Singapore. Look at the white arrows representing my flight routes - 1] Tacloban to Cebu on PAL, transit lang (hey I passed by T2 on a bright time of day!), 2] Cebu to Singapore on Air Asia (slept at Changi Airport T2, as usual, para libre!), then early this morning, 3] Singapore to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon yan!) on Scoot Air. There are new (and updated) 'learnings' I want to tell you! As for the yellow arrows, yun ang pabalik ko, 4 flights yun! But let's talk about them later - as c

Here is a form I saw at the Customer Service Counter of Robinson's Tacloban... Because she was not busy, I tried 'educating' the sales lady manning that counter. I said 'maybe' their form should say "RELOC" (that means RE cord LOC ator) - it is an airline terminology that is also called "Computer Record", "Booking Record", "Booking Reference", "Booking Number" or many other names. BUT, not "relocation". Trust me, there is no such thing as "Relocation" or "Re-location" Number that any airline uses (or will use) in their booking systems and/or transaction terminologies all over this world. Ano yan, sumakay ka lang ng eroplano, "bakwit" na agad? Me pabahay (housing)? Re-location daw eh! In fact, "Relocation" or "Re-location" is quite a potentially misleading term/phrase for airline people to use, as it 'somehow' invites negative connotation on a pa