Planning Cagayan de Oro outing

What: go somewhere new (for most of the participants). I don't know about you but I haven't been anywhere new this year.

When: August 21-23, 2009 (Friday-Sunday)
August 21 (Friday) is a Special Non-Working Holiday in celebration of Ninoy Aquino Day.

Where: Leave Manila on early August 21, arrive in Cagayan de Oro in a couple of hours, visit Iligan, go back to Cagayan de Oro over night then off to Camiguin Island on the next day and stay there until we leave for home on the third day.

Camiguin Island is only a couple of hours away by bus from Cagayan de Oro.

Who: Friends of course :) AdMU BS CS 2008
Sure participants are: Billy, moi, Migs, Bojeck, Lizel
Pending: Loki, Bawang, Alden

Cebu Pacific is having a Domestic Seat Sale. Sale period is from May 27 - May 29, 2009 for the travel period July 1 - August 31, 2009.

Of course if you missed the sale period then you can still get your tickets for the trip - they're just a little more expensive than ours.

I did a mock booking with the promo prices just to see how much the round trip will cost us and found out that the round trip = Php3.6K ++ that's half the price of their regular fare rates.

Here's how it looks:


We can pull this to a cheaper price if we avail Cebu Pacific's GOLITE option.


If we get rid of the flight insurance (-Php250), we don't pick which seats we get (-Php112 for each flight) then we go on Lite Fare (-Php200 on each flight, which means that we won't be checking in any bags for the trip). That's less than Php3,000 for the round trip.

Here are the available flight details:

From Manila to Cagayan de Oro, we can take the 8:25am flight and be in CDO by 10am. That's early enough to book for our stay and then go whitewater rafting in the afternoon. You can check HERE for Cagayan de Oro's places to go.


On the second day we go to Camiguin Island for more adventure (yes, click the link to see what they offer).

Our flight home is on August 23, Sunday. We leave Cagayan de Oro at 5pm, that means we leave Camiguin Island after lunch. Later flights are not covered by the promo price.


Booking Reference:
Going Out: 5J383 (825AM Depart)
Coming Back: 5J390 (535PM Depart)

Total cost: 3078.72
Go-Lite, No Travel Insurance, Seat Selected

Booked Participants:

1. Billy
2. Oyen
3. Migs
4. Lizel
5. Bojeck
   

Itinerary:
**subject to change depending on participants' concerns

Day 01: 10am arrival
- 11am Hotel: [Park View Inn, Divisoria?]
- 12pm Whitewater Rafting: activity is actually 3 hours and may include Lunch in the package (cheapest I've seen online for Beginner's Class is on Kagay).
- other options:

* Macahambus Adventure Park - rappel and zip-line across trees a hundred feet above ground
* Mapawa Nature Park - ideal for horseback riding, biking, zipline and nature trekking

- 5pm hotel: freshen up
- 6pm leave for Iligan, Dinner and chorva ~ Bojeck's home

Day 02 & 03: Camiguin Island
Here's a 2-day Camiguin Island tour schedule I saw online that could fit into ours:

Day 2
7:15AM, ETD Balingoan Pier Cagayan De Oro
Note: Ferry schedule 7:15am, 9:00am, 10:15am, 1:15pm, 2:50pm, 4:15pm
8:15AM, ETA Benoni Pier Camiguin
8:30AM - 8:30PM, have a day tour of these tourist spots, arranged chronologically:

1. Sto Niño Cold Springs (swimming)
2. Soda Water Pool (swimming)
3. Old Guiob Church Ruins (sightseeing)
4. Sunken Cemetery (can dive here)
   
5. Stations of the Cross/Walkway (sightseeing)
6. Mt Hibok Hibok Volcano (sightseeing)
7. Katibawasan Falls (swimming)
8. Mambajao Market ("palengke")
   
9. Vjandep Restaurant & Bakeshop (must try! Pastel)
   
10. Ardent Hot Springs (swimming)
11. Pabua's Cottage (cook food that came from Mambajao Market, dinner)
    

9:00PM, end of Day 2

Day 3
6:00AM, Wake-up call
7:00AM, off to White Island Camiguin
7:15AM, ETA White Island Camiguin
Note: Make sure to bring food and shade
11:00AM, ETD White Island Camiguin
12:00Noon, ETD hotel to Beroni Pier going to CDO
1:00PM, ETA Beroni Pier
1:15PM, ETD Beroni Pier
2:00PM, ETA Balingoan Pier CDO
2:30PM, Lunch
3:30PM, ETA CDO Airport
4:45PM, ETD CDO Airport
7:00PM, ETA Manila