Monday 17 Dec 18 - Manila to Puerto Princesa

Woke up at 8am. Flight to Palawan today so need to be organised. Not till 1.45pm but wanted to give ourselves plenty time. We knew that the airport was only about 20mins away so grabbed a coffee downstairs and got organised with passports etc. Just so happened to say to Jack that i thought it was strange we hadn’t heard any planes overhead considering we were so close to airport! Asked the lady who ran hostel and she said airport would take us 2 hrs to get there!! Lol. Didn’t understand as Google map said different. So downed coffee and ordered a taxi and off we went. We were there in 20 mins so she had got it wrong. Maybe she thought we were walking?! Manila is a huge airport and internet said Air Asia fly out terminal 3 so we queued for half an hour to actually get into the terminal. Security very tight here which I’m happy about. Got into terminal and couldn’t see Our Flight so after asking at help desk, we should have been in terminal 4. So headed to the bus which takes you there and we had another security check plus a 45 min wait. Finally got on the bus and it was a good drive again. Went through security 4 times before we eventually sat in departure lounge with still 1 hr to go before flight. Finally after being here since Thursday, we saw westerners. Loads of couples, travellers , all obviously heading to the islands. Hooray lol. Enjoyed a nice coffee and sandwich, and then it came up on the board that our flight was delayed!! Anyway, had enjoyable flight and arrived around 4pm to be picked up by hotel driver. 10 mins and we were at b&b. Nice wee place with excellent reviews. We couldn't get money at airport so we went straight out once we'd dropped off bags and headed for an Atm. Told the hotel owner we'd be back soon!! Story of our life! 6 hrs later we returned and I think they had been worried we had got lost. Ha ha. We had found a nice terrace bar with live music and one drink led to another and the rest is history. Hit our bed around 10.30pm and went out like a log...