"Philippines to re-open to vaccinated foreign tourists"

Cherryann01 wrote:

I might give it a couple of months just to see how things go before planning to visit.

Risky because then it can have got changed to closed again 

(Nov 2020 they opened for some types, then came a new version and they closed for the new opened ones in January 2021.)

Wellsfry wrote:

Very true... More will come out in February as they reopen to tourists.

My stepson (Philippine Citizen) is flying from London to Philippines on February 7 and will be under home quarantine for one week.

Cherryann01 wrote:

Also, having done some quick checks on flight prices, they are nearly double what they were before covid, partly due to lower demand for flights and partly due to the huge cost in energy/fuel prices

"Only" nearly doubled?  From Sweden for two way ticket its TRIPLED.

Oh  fuel prices gone up (?)  ((In Sweden are energy prices in big part energy TAX so its some hard to follow why prices change.))
In the beginning of covid fuel prices at least at diesel in bulk in Canada went DOWN much. (According to a documentary about people using much diesel in their work.)

Cherryann01 wrote:

You may have to look at going a different route from Sweden to save money. There are cheap flights from Stockholm to London so maybe it would be an option looking into that then flying from Heathrow to the Philippines.

I am noticing that it seems cheaper to book a multi city flight rather than just searching for return journeys so for example on Skyscanner on the dates I entered it was cheaper for me to fly via Singapore than look for return flights from the UK

Yes. The price comparings I made were "any" routes even with several switches.  (Except that automatic website dont include Cebu Pasific in any parts of route in their comparings.)

This website show prices at close dates too, so cheaper prices can be found easy by just change to the dates with lower prices.

I suppouse it functions for people in any country
https://www.momondo.se/horizon/sem/flig … gKabPD_BwE

Cherryann01 wrote:

So I have just looked at splitting the flights into 2 from the UK using random dates and I have found on Skyscanner if I book a return flight from Manchester (England to Bangkok going on 6 March and returning on 31 March, the cost is £386 with a journey time of about 17 hours going via Frankfurt on the outbound leg and returning via Munich on the inbound leg. (Lufthansa).  I then found a flight from Bangkok to Cebu on Bravo fly with Philippine Airlines departing Bangkok on 12 March and returning from Cebu to Bangkok on 31 March for £248 with one stop on each leg of the journey, probably in Manila but I can not see where for some reason.

This is way cheaper than looking at a direct flight to the Philippines from the north of England and cheaper than booking a multi city ticket on Skyscanner going from Manchester to Cebu or Manila with a stop over in Bangkok (about £350 to £450 or more cheaper).

Even upgrading to a flexible ticket for the leg from Bangkok to Cebu and return only adds another £50 onto the price and I have made sure that I have a good 11 hours on the return journey between arriving and departing Bangkok.

Even with the Test and go package for five nights in Bangkok I am still saving on any direct prices I could find to the Philippines and I am breaking the journey up, having less connections and cutting down my total travel time spent in flight and waiting for connecting flights .

All that is good, for myself I liked the non stops, boarded the plane in LAX around midnight arrived in Manila in the morning after a long good nights sleep on the plane. Hassle free travel.

Cherryann01 wrote:

You are a very lucky man being able to sleep on board. This is something I have never managed to do no matter how tired I am.

Any Tips Bob for sleeping on board would be much appreciated.

Parts of the mental training elite sportsmen use - later used for other things too for "common people" - are very deep relaxing and capacity to shut off disturbance around.

A long time ago, when train seats were hard, I used the mental traning method to get sleep siting at such hard seat and feet at seat at opponent side. But the method is some "to got" because it made I didnt change position during sleep and I didnt feel it, so I woke up with very stiff neck   

Cherryann01 wrote:

You are a very lucky man being able to sleep on board. This is something I have never managed to do no matter how tired I am.

Any Tips Bob for sleeping on board would be much appreciated.

My only tip might be hard for others to repeat. The day of the trip I had about a 6 1/2 hour drive from Las Vegas to Lax. Drop off the rental car and then take the shuttle to the air port. A long line to check in and being tired after lugging six 50 lb bags to be checked, there was three of us.

A long walk to the departure gate and then about a two hour wait to take off. By the time I was ready to board, I was out on my feet. Actually I dozed on and off during the flight, the only thing that woke me up was my prostrate telling me it was time to go.