How do we go to Bantayan Island ?
important here if you want to travel this wonderfull country is "be
patient" often the coordination between land-/sea-/and -airtransport
is unbelivable bad. Waiting 3 - 4 hours between each journey is common.
For a local Philippino it is no problem though, just lean back and take a
nap or chika chika with people around you.Getting up to us in Bantayan Island, forigners do not have to spend time bite their nails or unpatient look at their watch. The connection between bus and ferryboat is fairly good. The trip with bus, just to mention, is actually a beautifull trip and somtimes even a culturell expirence, all depending on the buscompany you choose.
In high season SEAIR is flying Cebu - Bantayan Island 2 - 3 times a week, just ask us, we are normaly informed about their present scedule. ................. Bad news.. until no there was no flight in 2005.
Bus connection from Cebu North busterminal, Cebu City - Hagnaya port is:
Departure start 3 AM.there is 4-5 different bus lines driving to Hagnaya, calculate your travel time by bus to around 3 - 3,5 hours, they mostly make a 15 minutes break at the halfway. (Philipinos do seldom travel more than 1 hour without having or bringing snack) the price for the trip from Cebu City - Hagnaya is 85 - 100 peso, depending buslines and if with or without aircon
The trip,
with Island Shipping, from Hagnaya - Sta. Fe, Bantayan
Island, takes around 1 hour, though it is also a nice tript, ocationaly
you can wach dolphines but allways you can see flying fish end fishermen
standing up in their small bancas in open sea, that even the waves is
fairly high for such a small "nutt shell". The ferryboat is not
European standard, though the safetyequiptment is there and in order.
Departure is 06.30 AM -07.30 AM - 10.00AM - 12.30noon - 2.00PM and 5.30 PM. therefore if you
like to arrive in daylight, then you better get up early in Cebu.The price
for this trip is 120 peso including piertax.
If you do not like to experience the busride you can as a alternative ride on a V-Hier to Hagnaya. They depart from White Gold Jeepnyterminal and AYALA Center's parkingarea. V-Hire is a mini-Van with air-con and they carry only around 15 passanger. Departure time:As soon as they are full or somone pay the remaning wacant seats. price per seat is only 100 - 110 peso. In this kind of transporth you pay for your lugage if it takes space up . Te trip Cebu - Hagnaya port is around 2 - 2,5 hours.
Last posibilety is the over night ferry from Cebu City sailing Palacio shipping (MV BANTAYAN) they are departing 2 times a week from Cebu pier 2. at 9PM and it arrive Sta.Fe port at 6 AM the folloving day. Price around 250 peso. Sad to say, I do not like that trip, to many lose items while they are sleeping.
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