From Bali to Palawan

Typical flight to Palawan

Bali to Palawan by plane

Booking

For this trip we booked the tickets through 12goAsia. We also searched for tickets on Google but the cheapest ones (yes again) were on 12go Asia. The trip from Bali (Bali - Indonesia) to Puerto Princesa (Palawan - Philippines) Cost about 740$ CAD, so it’s about 370$ CAD for eac plane tickets. We had to take two flight. You cannot jump straight from Bali to Palawan, you have to go to Manila (Philippines capital) first, then to Palawan. (Palawan actually has 2 airports one in puerto princesa and one in El nido. But, landing in El nido is reallllly expensive… We kept telling ourselves that we should have stopped traveling in the middle of the night. We are always facing with two scenario. One is to leave during the night and arrive at odd hours or the other one is to leave during the day and pay for the incredibly expensive tickets. The day flights are not worth it, even for our sleep.

The flightsss

Bali to Manila
The first flight left around 11h20 pm. The flight was 4 hours long and it was with AirAsia. During that flight you don’t have dinner, snack or water. You need to bring your own things or pay the planes price.

Manila to Puerto Princesa
This flight is 1h30. It’s a domestic flight so you have to change terminal in order to take your flight. In order to change terminal, there’s a bus at the airport and unfortunately for us the bus services only started at 5AM so we had to wait for a while to take it. Anyway, once you get to the domestic flight terminal, it’s very crowded. But on the positive side, there’s a Mr. Donut shop so we got to indulge in cheap donuts for breakfast. On the flight there’s no meal or snack service either and if you want some, you need to buy at the planes rate.