Travel Delight

14/11/2024

My Mind is coming up with Fun Fun Tours!!!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

I believe my niche is Fun Family Friends Travels!! Unique Fun travels that delights one... and family's hearts!!! 💛💛🩷🩷🩷💚💚 Ford Importa Autobee

02/11/2024

OUR RECENT TRIP TO CEBU BOHOL (Photos to follow hopefully when I'm done with our 1st Quarter 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 pa help pray matapos this week! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽)

Usually when I post here (for now) is to share learnings and hacks from a recent travel (while it is srill fresh in my sharp anrsthesia mind 😆🙏🏽) in fairness, we travelled last Oct 7-11 and. I tried going back to rememver what i want to share 😆

For now here are tips I want to share :)

CEBU
1. Public transport in Cebu

When we arrived in Cebu, we rode the blavk taxi (we are a family of 7 i just realized our family count is my fave no! 🥰) we were told Cebu is cery strict with no of pax taht's why they charged us quite high...

But honestly, getting a Grab is much cheaper. So when you arrive at Cebu Airport, esp when you are many, book through Grab. After taking lunch at Ayala Cebu, we hailed a car taxi and he allowed all 7 of us to ride his car and tour us around cebu and thank God no cops stopped us 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

2. Early Check in at Quest Hotel Cebu
I was curious about NAIA Clark so I booked Clark-Cebu Bohol Manila for our trip. Damay tuloy buong fam kay Dora May who wants to explore 😆 Our Clark Flight is at 4am and we left Manila at 12mn so as not to be late. Kaya halos no sleep. Thank God I saw that Quest has early check in and I only need to pay an additional PHP1k if we check in at 7am :) 🥰 way cheaper than booking a night ahead! We were able to catch up on sleep at around 7am or so! Yeay!!! 🩷🩷💛💛

3. Very beautiful Venue for Wedding (for non Catholic) or Renewal of Vows :)
If you want an intimate wedding overlooking the beach, do cobsider Shang Mactan! 💛💛💛 Ganduh!!!!! It is like a Mini Stella Maris Chapel the cgurch near Misibis! 🥰🩷

Side note: for family with kids, super duper fun in Shang Mactan!!!! Kids and us kid lookibg not kidding 😆😆😆) had lots of fun!!! Dami activities 3🩷🩷🩷 pool with slides, basketball and voleyvall, archery, badminton, tennis, mini golf, soccer, and many many more!!! FUN!!!!!!

BOHOL
1. no GRAB IN BOHOL (as of Oct 9 2024 😆)
I asked google and from the article I read i thought there's Grav in Bohol. So to sace time on travelling, I booked somewhere far away that is near the chocolate hills in Bohol. So that when we wake up we start at the farthesr desrinatiom ending in Panglao. Di ba makes sense? 😆 unfortubately, there is no Grab. We arrived night time and we can't ride the bus (this is doable if you arrive before 7pm to catch the bus - that woukd be fun experiencing riding a bus!!!) I found out vuti we met kuya Stephen (will add gis contact info here and fb link when I have more time :) )who adviced us fto stay in tagbilara. For the night coz the rate if we get a van to go to a place we booked is the same (aroynd 3-4k i think) as renting a van for a whole day tour starting from tagbilaran. Bye bye deposit !!!

For those who don't know yet, you can ride a super ferry in cebu to go to bohol and vice versa :)

2. SUPER NICE SIMPLE HOYEL IN TAGBILARAN
We chose to book a very simple hotel in Tagbilaran coz we just need to have place to sleep in at night coz the next day will tour in the morning. The 1st we tried, there was bobody in the counter and nobody went to assist me even if I stayed a bit.. I searched online and found Bohol Ecotel.. praying as we go there and again thank You Lordie it was super clean and budget friendly plus the foodie is yummy!!! (Ok ba rhymie?! 😆)

3. If you need a private tour, Kuya Stephen is the Best!!!
Will kwento when I have the time 😆😆

4. Kwento of where we went... to follow....

5. DUMALUAN BEACH SAND is BETTER THAN IN ALONA BEACH
I reallly want fine sand beach in Panglao and when I checked it's in Dumaluan. It's like the Boracay Station 1 Beach (where the sand is the finesr) although the resorts there are not high end like Station 1 Bora (except Bohol Beach Club). So if you prefer the peace and quiet and uncrowded veach than the vibrant alive city disci vibe (like station 2 and 3 of Boracay) then search for Resorts in Dumaluan. But ve very careful to read the reciews coz I was about to book a resort but for a family with Big luggages and kids, vehicle can't pass through. There is a stretch you need to walk downhill with trees. The staff are nice and the resort looks nice but we need to take into consideration the luggages and the kids :) 🥰

Out of curiosity (alam nyo naman si Dora May), we went to Alona Beach so I get to see how the beach is there. It's more dirty thougb there are majy restaurants there :)

6. THERE IS PANGLAO AIRPORT NA :)
Do uou know that our 1st travel ni Fordie when we got married is Cebu Bohol, and we realized when we Renewed Our Vows for our 15th year we again travelled to Cebu Bohol 😆😆 all along I thought the airport is still in Tagbilaran but it's now in Panglao na :)

7. Last Minute Pasalubong shopping at the Airport.
I wanted to buy a Lubong for Papa Rey and because we were still waiting for the Check in Counter to open, I brought na in the souvenir shop there. DON'T! wait tilll you check in and go inside, there is a Souvenir Shop there, with nicer stuffs and parang cheaper sya :) 🥰

This is all for now 🥰 oh in case you like to travel from Bohol to Davao, there are daily flights there :)

Happy travelling!!! 🥰💛💛💛

29/10/2024

I like you... a lot...

I love to Travel 🥰🩷🩷

And curating and researching about travel is something I enjoy doing...

Is it part of the plan to go back to doing this Business?

Is it for the highest good to change gears?🥰

There is fear that stops me

That memory of the many times I failed

And not wanting to fail again

That holds me back from changing gears again...

All i could do for now is to ask the One...

To guide my heart...

And direct my path...

As i move forward...

To my heart's truest desire

Which is His purpose work for me

That special purpose why he created me

As me

My weaknesses

My strengths

My gifts

My stupidities and idiosyncrities (tama ba spelling? 😆😆😆)

And my compass is Love...

And my path is Love

Coz at the core of it all. . Our purpose is Love...

And I let go

Walking where I am right now

Not knowing clearly

But trusting unknowingly

Simply being grateful on where I am now

Simply walking one step at a time

Praying... trusting... that each step leads me there

And where I am is part

Of the travel

That I enjoy 🥰💛💛

That right now

I am discovering me more

Wherever I am

Learning to be

Learning to trust

Learning to love.. and have fun... and enjoy...

Where I am now 💛

And one of my greatest travel

Is the Journey of Me 💛🩷🩷🤗🤗🤗

Of discovering

And loving me

Idiosyncrisies and the crisis of tongue twister and spelling error

Coz that part is a part of me

That makes you happy

A little bit of crazy

That God placed in this perfect gorgeous serious me 🙈🙈🙈

Eh di wow

Bow ... wow... daw 😆✌️

31/03/2024

Things to note and remember from our trip to japan (while hopefully i can still remember 😆🫠💕)

Patawa kmi. 1st family after pandemic and we chose japan 🙃 di man lng nag warm up ng mas simpleng travel 😆😆

Nabighani kasi sa cheap fare ni jetstar (around 9k+++ round trip nagoya) ... dahil napahinga ng travel ng 2 years due to pandemic ...

1. Nawala sa isip na may travel tax 1600++ per pax. And dahil 7 kmi, hay times 7 din 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

2. Lalo na ang jrpass. Oh my gee, almost times 3 of the rate (of P7k) from our last travel in japan (2015). So additional 19k x2 plus not sure if 15k times 4 kids - buti free pa si chamie 🙏🙏)

Di lng sa addituonal cost kmi nadale, haaaaayyyy, grabe travel bringing all our luggages pagdating ng nagoya straight to tokyo!!! 🫢🫣🫨😵‍💫😱 wag na wag na wag nyo kming gayahin! Will try to share our israelites going to promised land shot 😆😆😆 imagine 6 adults, 10 kids, many luggages plus strollers changing trains, getting confused, asking around using google translate and hand and acting gestures in the wonderful world of japan rails!!! 😆😆😆

Eniweis, let's go to the things to note (hope this will also help families who would like to travel to japan 🙏💕)

1. Travel per region if possible. There are cheaper option than jrpass when you go per region. If you don't know what a jrpass is, it's an unli ride in all jr group lines - good buy sya if you use the shinkansen like from nagoya to tokyo ganern but may mas cheaper alternative i think 27k yen if you want to travel osaka to tokyo. Japan guide is very helpful re rail passes https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2357.html

2. If you plan to go to fuji, better if you are in tokyo than in nagoya. There's a tokyo wide pass that includes going to mt. Fuji. If we go back and go to fuji would like to check out ryokan and onsen overnight as an option

3. If you plan to focus on nagoya, no need to buy jrpass. It's not that useful there.

4. 10 degrees is already cold for me. My legs needs to double up if I'm wearing slacks. Wearing thick jogging pants is better.

5. My husband is the one in charge of the luggages (carrying, putting in the check in counter, getting it in the luggage carousel. That's why he does not want me to pack for the kids (i overpack, i hope i'll do better). Effective style nya. Take a bath at night and Suotin na kids what they will wear the next day. Yng innermost garment (coz we need to double triple up our clothes) can be worn as the outermost layer the next day. Vaccuuming the clothes also helped a lot in space esp winter coats (we were planning to experience snow coz our son Bentley wants to expetience it)

6. I thought we only need to wear thermal clothes for our show trip. If we will come back and weather is 10 deg or lower, it's better to wear thermal clothes as the innermost garment- kahit yng pants lng)

7. Google translate and google map are your best friends :) 😆 with navigating japan rails, esp shinkansen, you need to check the time it will depart, not just the shortezt travel time. That's why we got lost. Coz i just check the shortest time and did not consider the departure time (toink!!!)

*** 8. If you plan to go to a different region, stay 1 night at your place of arrival, preferrably in a hotel so you can leave your luggage there, be able to rest first before travelling to a different region with a smaller luggage that you need for your stay there. Don't go to a different region right away with all your luggages!!!

9. The time of travel in google map, you need to times 2 to 3 so you can take in lost time, wait time, rest eat time etc

10. It is still best to bring double stroller or 2 stroller and baby carrier when travelling. Kids really gets tired from all the walking and they need to rest in the stroller. Baby carrier helps a lot if they want us to carry them coz it takes off some of the kid's weight and frees up our hands for other things)

11. Book way way ahead of time if you are many and would like to stay in tokyo. Airbnb is cheaper than a hotell if in tokyo esp when you are a big group. Fix your itinerary right away and book airbnb asap to have better options.

12. Wherever you are, and you need to free up your hands, always put your stuffs in your bag so as not to leave anything behind)

That's all i can remember for now. Will update if i remember something. Do message me if you have questions and would be glad to be of help 💕 :)

Learning the train system in japan is confusing at first but when you get to figure it out, like with me and my husband, we'd like to go back and excited to take on the challenge of japan trains :) :) 🥰🩷 para syang game that you'd like to conquer 🥰💕

About Japanese rail passes.