Got a destination wedding in Sabang on Palawan Island in April next year.
We're (probably 10 of us in total - all late 20/early 30s) staying there for 5 nights with the wedding on one of the days. The issue we've got is we're all meeting in Sabang on Sunday 20th April, and most of us are looking to fly from MEL-Manila on the Thursday night redeye via KL - putting us in Manila on Good Friday. Haven't got a great desire to spend a couple of days in KL as I have been there before.
A few questions I'm hoping OZB'ers can help out with:
We havent heard a lot of reason to stay in Manila - can you tell me otherwise?
Particularly concerned with it being Easter & a very catholic country - will everything come to a grinding halt over these days?
Given we land around Midday on Good Friday in Manila, and need to be in Sabang (a few hours from Puerto Princesa) on Sunday afternoon, is there somewhere else outside of Manila that is close enough to go to for the Friday/Saturday night, then get to Sabang on the Sunday? Realistically we're going to have to fly back to Manila to get a flight to PP, so this is where we dont want to be too far away.
I was thinking El Nido so we can get the bus back down to Sabang on the Sunday, but I've read that its a 7hr bustrip from PP all the way up there - seems a long way to go for such a short period of time, and also the fact we may be heading up there to do a few days of island hoppping after the wedding.
Another thought was to go to Donsol for the whale sharks, but I've read there isnt much point doing it over Easter as you can't get into the marine park over Easter?
Any guidance is greatly appreciated, not only from me but the group of us going.
You could go to Cebu and help my uncle fix his house.. Saves me from hearing my mother continuously complaining about sending money over there to help them but then they waste it and keep asking for more. I call it the tenth circle of hell- Stupidity.