CEBU EXPERIENCE TRAVEL GUIDE

Let me share to you our experiences regarding our Cebu Adventure.
Visiting the Queen City of South, we decided to take the opportunity to see it's beauty from North to South part.

AIR FARE

Travelling to Cebu is not quite expensive but this is just based from my experience. Since I am a budget traveler, I always make sure to get an eye to those seat sale promos. (It's worth it guys!)  I got my round trip ticket of Cebu -Manila for only 1,000 php. If you are wondering how much will it cost the regular fare, my friend got hers for around 3,600 php.

By the way, thank you Cebu Pacific for giving me a good trip in all my travels.

TRANSPOSRTATION FROM AIRPORT

Living the city life in Cebu is much like living in Manila. Traffic is evident and fare is likely the same. I suggest go for Grab if you want to make a fair amount of expenses for your transportation. Taxi will really ask a high fare specially if they notice you are a tourist. In our case, we arrived at night time so we took Grab for less hassle and we are still not quite familiar to the place. 

But don't worry because there are also buses there you can ride. If you are lucky you can find the free bus that roams around the airport and I believe it will drop you off near the city.

ACCOMMODATION ON FIRST NIGHT

On our first night, we stayed at Bldg 7 Studio Unit Hernan Cortes Street. We were happy about the look and it's already comfortable and worth it for it's price of 1,000 php. Since we are four the amount is reasonable and we stayed for only a night there.

You can contact them thru this number: 09993226758

CITY TOUR

They also offer a City Tour worth 3,000 php. You can ask them and do the arrangement that you want. For us it is convenient since after the city tour we are going to the North Terminal for our Bantayan Trip.

But these are just suggestions, you can always take other options like habal-habal that will roughly cost you 500 for 2 persons I guess. This may not be accurate but mostly on the same range of price amount. The problem for habal - habal is the space for our luggages since we will go straight to the North Terminal.

ITINERARY FOR 1ST DAY

SIRAO GARDEN -50php Entrance Fee
TEMPLE OF LEAH -50php Entrance Fee
MACTAN CROSS - Free
STO NINO CHURCH - Free
FORT SAN PEDRO - 30php Entrance Fee
MACTAN MONUMENT -Free
HERITAGE HOUSES - Free
LAPU-LAPU STATUE - Free
10,000 ROSES CAFE - 20php Entrance fee for the photo op ; coffee price is like SB
Lantau restaurant is near the cafe.

We took our lunch at TOPS - you can ask for kuya driver for that restaurant. FYI it is a little bit pricy but it is worth it. The overlooking view is breathless though it was raining when we went there.

We had Binagoongang Bagnet and garlic + seafood rice. We also, had the taste of their special menu for that day and chopseuy.

Here are some photos from the trip

 

 

 

NORTH TERMINAL TO HAGNAYA PORT

After our 10,000 roses photo ops, we went straight to the North Terminal bus.
Bus fare going to Hagnaya port is 160php. We departed around 10:00pm but they have like every hour schedule of the trip. Travel time from North Terminal to Hagnaya Port is 4hrs with out traffic.

From Hagnaya Port, we rode a ferry. The fare is 165php plus 10php terminal fee.
We took the earliest trip, 2:00 am. From Hagnaya Port to Bantayan it's a 1 hr ride. The tricycle fare in the port is 20 per person.

We were lucky that our driver offered the house of her sister in law for just 1,200 actually it depends on how much we can afford. The place there range from 1,500php and above, the space is like a dormitory in size.

ITINERARY FOR 2ND DAY

We took land tour instead of the island hopping because we will go to Oslob and Kawasan the next day. The land tour cost us 1000 php.

Omagieca Mangrove -50php Entrance Fee
The Ruins - Free
Ogtong Cave - 300 php Fee ( but we didn't went inside)
Kota Beach - Free

We took our lunch and dinner in the same restaurant.
We still have ample of time enough to roam around to see the church in the area.
It was the Sto Nino Church but unfortunately we were not able to enter.

We travel back to the City on the next day.
We took the 5:30am trip of the ferry going to the Hagnaya Port and from there we rode going to North Terminal for our trip.

We rented a Van for two days costing us 7,500 it is a bit pricy but the convenience is what we paid for. Here is the number of the driver 09177682381, he is friendly and accommodating.

Here are some photos.

 

 




ITINERARY FOR 3RD DAY 

Due to traffic we only had a few hours left on our third day.

Kuya Shaggy recommended a good place to stay and it has videoke and free coffee plus bread.
We stayed at Rising Sun Pension House, 09978756545.

  

 


ITINERARY 4TH DAY 

Rise and shine we had a whole day jump pack with our canyoneering activity.
Kuya Shaggy also suggested the tour for our canyoneering.

Morning we went to a Ruins of Oslob Cuartel and had some photo ops.

Around 8:00 we traveled going to the canyoneering. You will pass through the whale shark encounter that will cost you around 500PHP.

The canyoneering experience is around 1500 lunch included. The tour will be roughly 4hrs but depends and how fast you move and how many photos you will take. It took us 6hrs but everything is worth it.

There will be 5 falls you can jump in.
7ft, 21ft, 35ft, 45ft, 50ft

Here are the photos for your appreciation :)