Our 5 days Honeymoon Escapade (Puerto Princesa and Cebu) Part 1

Best part of the wedding preparation for me is planning for our honeymoon. But even that has not been easy, not when your hubby is a prima donna.. haha, well he has “demands” for the trip let me share:

1) He doesn’t want to travel too far, no long flights for him (hmmm.. so nothing beyond Asia then!)

2) No long travel after the plane ride going to the place (hmmmm so no boat ride, no long land travel! I was aiming for El Nido, but sorry Vivi... maybe next time!)

3) No trips via Manila (he wants to use Clark airport only, period. So limited flights within Philippines, and overseas flights only to Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea and we already been to Malaysia and Singapore together so that’s off the list then… the list is getting shorter! Sigh! )

4) He specifically mentioned that he doesn’t want to get BORED he wants a concrete itinerary, no gaps in between for the activities (ok, fine!)

5) No single day extension (uh hu! Ok fine… )

6) He doesn’t want to stay in only one city for our 5 days honeymoon ( Hey I like that too!!)  but sorry Vivi ‘coz there’s a BUT … do all of the above with only a P25k budget (hmmm I can do this! But no overseas destinations then…)  

A challenge indeed! So at the end of this post I will share the detailed expenses we incurred for this trip and let’s see if I am within budget or not. My first wife duty indeed... budgeting!

Before I start with my litany, let me share first some of my aerial shots of Puerto Princesa.  (sorry for the terrible photos though, I was not seated on the window side.)

Honday Bay from up above....

Ok here we go, let's start:

1) booking for our flights. Since I will be using Clark airport only, flights are not every day for every destination. I was targeting Puerto Princesa to Cebu to Bohol. But I need an additional day, there are no direct flights from Bohol to Clark, we need to fly back from Cebu and unfortunately there are no available flights going back to Clark on our return schedule. Check #5 above… sigh, so sorry Vivi, will explore Bohol next time then. (That's me pouting..) So off to Puerto Princesa and Cebu then! The plane tickets from Clark to PPS to Cebu then back to Clark sliced off P11,381.36 from my budget… oh no, almost half off my budget!

2) Hotel reservation, since we are on a tight budget, I have to look for a cheap accommodation. For Puerto Princesa I researched and short listed some and decided for Tres Pension House for just P1,200 a night which is inclusive of a very light breakfast (just coffee/juice or tea, a slice of fruit, a toasted bread and some jam), includes pick-up and send-off , a very approachable and helpful staff, free wifi, a very clean and quiet place and a small but comfortable room. I booked our 3 nights accommodation in Puerto Princesa at a cost of P3,600.

Let me share some photos of Tres Pension House:

from the left is the room's "tiny" living room, on the right is their bath/comfort room

on the left is their comfy bed, not so much space to move around but hey you will just stay for the night so no reason to complain. Picture on the right is a place where you can eat your breakfast or just a place to rest, located in front of the units for the guests' use.

Japanese touch can be seen all throughout the place. On the left is their receiving area on the right is their garden area.

the entrance of the Pension House and the breakfast area right outside your unit.
  
Tres Pension House
Purok Molave, Peneyra Road
Bgy.San Pedro
Puerto Princesa City, Palawan
Tel. No. :
• 048 723 1541
Mobile No. :
• 0919 991 0786
• 0939 639 8069

For our Cebu trip we got it for free! yey! Well, initially I was planning to stay overnight in a friend's house but one of our wedding sponsor upon knowing that we will be visiting Cebu, he booked us one night at Harold's! Who am I to complain right?  So Cebu Accommodation: FREE.  

a hotel at last!!! yey!

Harold's is located at 146 Gorordo Avenue, Corner Rosal Street, Lahug, Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines 6000.

Detailed tour itineraries and summary of our expenses for our 3 days in  Puerto Princesa and 2 days in Cebu to follow!! What else to expect from me? Of course endless pictures!! So watch for those!
Ciao!!

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Subic Bay and our Prenup Experience

I want to photograph my own prenup, well that was the initial plan. I have it envisioned a thousand times, I have the venue in mind, the motif and I was planning to bring all our nephews and nieces so we can all have fun. But being a "busy bride" is an understatement indeed! No matter how simple you want your wedding to be, everything will turn into chaos and you are left with what? stress! hehe..  In other words, I got too tied up and I was not able to pursue my plans! alas!

Subic's famous sunset as our perfect backdrop

My husband and I have agreed during the planning stage that we don't want to spend that much for our wedding, so I decided to just take a photographer and get the soft copies at the end of the ceremony and I will do the editing myself. I was able to negotiate to include our civil wedding, our prenup, our garden wedding , our wedding reception plus an on-site video for a minimal fee. 

Let me share some of our photos for this post.

Photographer: Gershom Digital Photoworks

Photo Edited by:   Vivi

at Boardwalk, Subic Bay

Perfect venue right? Subic Bay is about about 100 kilometers north of Manila which is just around 3 to 4 hours drive.  Subic has everything to offer for both indoor or outdoor activities. You can have a prenup in Subic's famous jungle too! The places we used in this pictorial are all for free.  Aside from Subic being a great venue for prenup pictorials, Subic also offers a lot of tourist activities from duty free shops, to jungle trekking, ocean adventure, animal petting, nature tripping and so many beach activities.

Don't worry, I had the time to do some photo shoot during our Palawan honeymoon, so wait for my version of postnuptial pictorial.. hehe..

Thank you for viewing!! Till my next post!

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I'm back!!... with a hubby in tow!

I'm back!! Did you miss me? I hope so!! I just got back from the most memorable travel of my life!  All my past relationship lasted: 2 yrs, 3 yrs then the last one was like 5 years.  I already accepted my fate of growing old alone after my 5 years long relationship has ended. Then I met my husband, we dated for just a week and got married after four months!  Crazy right?? I'm not yet done.. that's without a wedding proposal, no engagement ring, just me as the sole wedding coordinator for a month long wedding preparation then ta-da!!! straight to 2 weddings! Whew!  

I have so much to tell you guys! From the wedding preparation to our honeymoon destination! (and of course as a traveler that's the most enjoyable part of the wedding prep!). But for now let me share this on-site video of our wedding made by Gershomp Digital Photoworks:

Venue: Moonbay Marina, The Villas and Boardwalk, SBMA

What could be more memorable than those few minutes of walking down the aisle, of  saying "I do" to the one person I finally decided to share my future with? Maybe you will say, the birth of your first born but that's next in line.. hehe.

Thank you also to our friend Maribel for this beautiful caricature for our wedding reception! For your own caricature you can contact Maribel thru her fb page: DigiARTS by M.A.N.

 That's all for now.. till my next post!!  Ciao!!

 

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