Sep
19
No Surfboard
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Hi guys, I’m here in Iloilo City, Philippines for about four days now and having a great time. The trip over here from SFO took forever. It took us approximately 13.5 hours by plane from SFO to Manila and another one hour to Iloilo. This does not include the time we spent at the airport between flights.
Traveling by Philippine Airlines turned out ok. The service was somewhat disappointing. I asked for coffee twice and never got it. The biggest disappointment was of course, leaving my surfboard back in San Francisco.
I wanted to surf in the Philippines. Before the trip, I made inquiries of how much the fee was for bringing a surfboard. Philippine Airlines told me it was $75 per leg of the trip. I decided to bring the board the last minute and pay for the fee twice for both legs of the trip. During check-in, PAL told me it was $150 for one way.
This was way too much, so I left the board home. I will see if I can rent a board here in the Philippines. Paying $300 is way too much just to lug a board around. It’s too bad. I’m not at all surprised that it happened. No wonder very few people surf here. Doesn’t seem to be a surfing friendly place, at least as far as the airline is concerned. Other than that, Kerwin and I are having a great time.
Ciao for now.