Manic Monday

Believe it or not, the journey back to Malaysia was quite an adventure. Our flights for the Manila-Kuala Lumpur route were via AirAsia. I had flown on such route couple of years ago and sorta know that the flight departs from Clark instead of Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila. The Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Clark is about 2 hours away from Metro Manila and is accessible via shuttle buses. Somehow I thought we could take a cab instead of the bus and by the time we got into the cab, I had a bad feeling about it.

The cab driver, for some strange reason, didn't understand that we wanted to go to the airport in Clark. Instead he drove us to the domestic terminal of the Manila airport and when we arrived and found out, it was already too late as the time showed 8.15am and our flight was at 11.05am. The driver wasn't keen to drive us to Clark because he says it takes 5 hours and even if we managed to get on a new taxi to drive us there, we won't make it in time anyway.

So we had no choice but to get new flights from Cebu Pacific :( Since we were at the domestic terminal, we asked the driver to send us to the international terminal. Unfortunately he sent us to Terminal 1, which has most of the airlines, except for Cebu Pacific, which uses Terminal 3 instead. By the time we found this out, the driver has left and hence, we had to take a new cab. As you can imagine, we paid quite a bit for taxi as a result of this boo-boo.

Cebu Pacific has flights to KL at 2pm but it cost close to 200 euros for the both of us. Including the flights we had missed, the total for the Manila-KL flights is almost the same price as our flights from Christchurch to Manila! Oh well, at least the drama ended after this and we didn't have anymore hiccups flying to Malaysia.