Flight Details: March 13, 2011 at 4:40PM 5J118
Manila Terminal 3 to Hong Kong International Airport Terminal 1

We booked our second trip to Hong Kong last October 2010 via Cebu Pacific Air website. Our great fondness for Hong Kong started only just last year, month of October when we had a chance to take our first out of the country vacation. We love Hong Kong for many reasons, the scenic views, shopping is cheap, cold weather, long walk, no traffic, a must try street foods, pet dogs roaming around and noodles.

From Ate Jen's house in Paranaque we arrived at NAIA Terminal 3 at 2PM together with our niece Jazz, Nanay (Mely B.) and Tatay (Joe B.). After paying for travel tax, we checked in our 70kgs luggage.

While waiting for departure we walked around to check for hotspot area, err the free WiFi didn't work! Spotted Seattle's Best Coffee and ordered iced and blended Chocolate JavaKula, the order took 30 minutes. Passengers were already boarding so we just brought our drinks inside the plane.

Arrived at Hong Kong with 19 degrees temperature, immigration official looked at Jazz and to her passport
twice or thrice, maybe because her passport picture looks younger than in person. Immediately we checked the balance of our Octopus card that we used last year, to our dismay the card showed a negative balance, we thought we could still use the HK$50 deposit. What's even worser was when the cashier didn't let us to buy a new card!

Decided to take MTR instead of bus to avoid Mely B. and Joe B. take the long walk at Ping Shek to Sai Kung Bus Station.




Travel Budget
Expenses (1 person)

Air Transfers
Cebu Pacific:
Base Fare - P2664
Tax and other fees - P1160.4
Travel Tax - P1620
Terminal Fee - P750

Octopus Card - HK$150
Airport Express to Tsing Yi - HK$60
MTR Tsing Yi to Choi Hung - HK$8
1A Bus Choi Hung to Sai Kung - HK$7.5

Useful Resources:

Airport Express Fare Info
MTR Guide System Map and Octopus Card Fare Chart -
1A Bus Fare Table


XoXo - Apple & Joemel