Hi everyone,
As the time approaches some of you have asked for clarification of the schedule and deposits etc. So [correct me if I'm wrong] the travel/dive schedule is still following the one laid out by Iris below...
...so we're now doing
8 dives
Oct 28 (Thurs)
Arrival in Cebu
4:30 - check-in at ??? Hotel in Cebu
10:00 - breakfast, tour
1:00 - lunch, tour
7:00 - PPD dinner
Oct 29 (Fr)
5:00 - Cebu to Malapascua (3 hours by bus + 40 mins by boat)
10:00 - check-in at Malapascua
11:00 - Lunch
1:30 - Manta Point Dive
6:00 - Mandarin (Night) Dive
8:00 - Dinner & drinks
Oct 30 (Sa)
5:00 - Monad: Shark dive
9:30 - Gato Island
12:00 - Lunch
1:30 - Gato Island
4:00 - rest
7:00 - dinner and drinks
Oct 31 (Su)
5:00 - Monad: shark dive
9:30 - Calanggaman dive (assuming we've seen sharks on previous dives)
12:00 - Lunch
1:30 - Calanggaman dive
4:00 - rest
7:00 - dinner and drinks
Nov 1 (Su)
9:00 - Malapascua to Cebu
1:00 - ETA: Cebu
4:55 - check-in at Mactan Int'l Airport
Things to Do:
- book hotel in Cebu
- initial payment / deposit
Attendees are -
1. caloy - Aabana Resort booked [have email]
2. Myra - Aabana Resort booked
3. Cris - Dano Resort booked AC [have email]
4. Johan - Dano Resort booked AC [have email]
via PAL; arriving in Cebu Oct 28 16:25 and staying at Crowne Regency.
Departure 17:15 Nov 1
5. Iris - Aabana Resort booked [have email]
6. Jolene - Aabana Resort booked
7. Yeo Wei - Aabana Resort booked
via Cebu Pacific; arriving in Cebu Oct 28 04:00 and staying at Pacific Pensionne.
via Cebu Pacific; Departure 19:55 Nov 1 (Jolene & Yeo Wei) and via PAL 17:15 Nov 1 (Iris)
8. Zee - Dano resort booked AC [have email]
ARRIVING 29th? MORE DETAILS PLEASE?
9. Jigo - Dano Resort booked AC [have email]
10. Maxine - Dano Resort booked AC
via ZestAir; arriving in Cebu Oct 28 9:30am. may stay in Waterfront near ayala.
Departure: cebu nov 3. may go to moalboal after malapascua.
11. Gabriel (securing ticket) - Dano Resort booked FAN
[NO EMAIL]
PUERTO PRINCESA (Puerto Princesa International Airport ) to
CEBU (Mactan Cebu International Airport)
Arrival: Thursday, Oct 28, 2010 , 1250H
12. Karl and family (1 diver, 2 year old kid and 2 yayas). Dano Resort booked Family room FAN [have email]
Arriving Cebu 28 oct 14:25 and staying at Alpha City Suites,
13. Lung - Dano Resort booked FAN [have email]
14. MAYBE - Kenzo . TBC [ have email]
TRANSFERS
Van 1 - Caloy, Myra, Cris and Johan
PICK UP Crown Regency Oct29th 5am
Van 2 - karl, Mylah, kid Francis and 2 adults.
PICK UP Alpha City Suites Oct29th 5am
Van 3 - Iris, jolene, Yeo wei, jigo, maxine.
PICK UP Pacific pension followed by waterfront lahug Oct29th 5am
Gabriel and Lung if you can confirm your overnight locations in Cebu then I'll figure out the best way to include you in the group transfers. Zeeman - you're on your own on the bus by the looks of it mate...let me know if you want the tight arse option details
I will be trying to email everyone over the next few days to confirm this and to discuss already received deposits and final payments.
We're planning a nice beach BBQ on the saturday night if everyone's in for it so can I get a show of hands for that please?
Please point out any obvious errors - or not so obvious ones.
oh and ps, just finished diving for today after a shark dive at Monad this am where we saw 2 threshers for 20mins plus and 2 devil rays getting cleaned. Then we went off to Gato island and saw whitetip sharks, cuttlefish mating, thorny seahorses, 5 seasnakes, and a ton of other awesome stuff... another tough day at the office. Sunset beers anyone?
Looking forward to this DOR immensely.