Our scheduled flight is 9:45 in the morning via Air Philippines, we arrived in the Centennial airport one hour earlier, much to our surprise the check in counter for our flight does not have a queue line, that actually made me glad, thinking that maybe we’re really that early. Unfortunately, it was the other way around, we were late, no, not late, we were just behind those other passengers who made it in the last count for all the seats in the plane *lol* to cut it short, we were denied to board the plane. A staff from the airline reasoned out that every flight has 5% overbooking for cases that not all confirmed passengers make it to the flight, well, that i find unfair… lesson to learn is whenever you book a flight with Airphils, be at the airport at least 2 hrs before departure time.
Anyway, to compensate our wasted time, we were offered a free roundtrip ticket to any local destination (valid for 1 year) and free meals until the next flight – which, we waited for 6 hours – as our flight was moved to 4pm the same day.. to make things simple and easy for everyone, we agreed and signed the quit claim form.
We arrived at Puerto Prinsesa airport at 5:20 pm, and there we were met by Mildred, a staff from Lola Itang Pension House where we earlier booked our accommodation (visit www.lolaitang.com), the ride to the pension house is 10 minutes in a van (when you book at Lola Itang’s, the airport transfers are free of charge.) Our prior booking for a city tour was cancelled, thank God we need not to pay any… city tour is P500/pax, also at Lola Itang’s, they can do the booking with the tour agencies w/out extra cost.
Lola Itang pension house is within the commercial areas of Rizal avenue in Puerto Prinsesa, and our first day was spent roaming the area.
Pictures are available in the next posts.
Tags: Air Philippines, Lola Itang, Palawan, Puerto Prinsesa
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