After a stressful week of processing paperworks for our house my husband and I spontaneously decided to take a stress reliever trip for a few days to Siquijor via Bacolod.
To get to Siquijor from Iloilo we need to take a fast craft ferry to Bacolod, it will take you an hour to get there. There are three fast craft ferry to take you to Bacolod via Weesam Express https://www.weesam.ph/rates-promo/, Ocean Jet http://www.oceanjet.net/fare-and-schedule/bacolod-iloilo and Supercat http://www.supercat.com.ph/Fares/fares.asp.
You can get promo ticket if you will buy return ticket but we don't know how long we will stay in Dumaguete and Siquijor so we just took one way ticket.
Iloilo has a new port terminal which I find really better and it's about time that they built a decent terminal for a growing city like Iloilo. It looks good and for a minimal terminal fee you can sit and relax while waiting for boarding, they also have canteen to buy refreshments and snacks.
After waiting in a terminal it's time for us to board and enjoy an hour ride to Bacolod.
Our trip schedule was 10:20am and we arrived in Bacolod at 11:30am we are so excited to go to Dumaguete and hoping to catch a ferry straight to Siquijor if we arrive in Dumaguete in time, so as soon as we arrived Bacolod we took a tricycle to Ceres Terminal South bound and it cost us Php80 which I found really expensive, the government of Bacolod should regulate passengers rates for their transportation because to get to the terminal will only takes 5 minutes but the fares are expensive.
To get to Dumaguete take the Ceres bus Dumaguete via Mabinay which will cost you Php360 and it will take 5-6 hours trip to get to Bacolod, we never have time to take our lunch so we just bought refreshment and bread to take on our trip.
We arrived in Dumaguete about 6:30pm so we missed the ferry to Siquijor we don't have a choice but to stay overnight in Dumaguete.
Early next morning we woke up early and headed to the terminal port to buy a ticket and hopefully to catch an early trip to Siquijor but unfortunately we didn't realize that there is a festival in one of the town of Siquijor in Larena and the terminal was jam packed and have a long que of people buying ticket and it was a nightmare. Lesson need to learn is to check things like this before traveling.
We weren't able to get the Ocean Jet ferry but we managed to buy a ticket for the last trip for the Orline. For me the experience for the Orline shipping is not what I expected since there was lots of passengers I think the ship was overloaded and kind of scary since it was an old ship but thankfully we arrived in Siquijor safe.
It was night time when we arrived and we headed straight to our hotel and it was nice that they welcomed you with their personal touch, though they misspelled my last name it was still acceptable hahaha I don't know if they heard me right or wrong.
Overall we had an amazing first time road trip experience, I will write a separate blog for our Siquijor tour experience.
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