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Upon arrival
After clearing immigration & claiming your checked-in baggage, be prepared to show your baggage tags (a little sticker they normally stick to your air-plane ticket when you check-in your baggage) to a lady who stands waiting just after the customs clearance.
If you can't produce the tag, she will hold you there until you do.
Upon departure
The airport is simply chaotic. At the departure hall, you need to line up to scan all your luggage (hand carried as well as checked in luggage). I'm not sure what they are checking because amidst the chaos, who is really looking at the monitor, I can't tell!!
I had to put my cabin bag onto the conveyor, and also my lap top bag, my handbag and one shopping bag. The people in front of me were very slow to remove their belongings so all my bags started stacking up one on top of the other and my lap top bag fell off the conveyor onto the floor on the other side.
It was simply chaotic. Being alone, I didn't know which bag to grab first!
Fortunately, the check-in counter was less chaotic-as I was using MAS, which is not as popular here, as Cathay Pacific or some of the other US & Filipino airlines.
Departure tax
Remember not to spend all your pesos the night before and do hang on some local currency.
This is because there is a departure tax of 750 pesos (approx US$18) upon leaving the airport. You'll have to pay it before you get to the immigration counter.
Shoddy & Small waiting area
This airport has really seen better days. The waiting area is very small and contains only a handful of souvenior shops, a couple of cafes (very limited seating) & a couple of duty free shops. There were also two Japanese foot reflexology and shoulder massage area-which I was told by a colleague was very good-but I didn't have any time to try it out.
There were a number of attendants trying to usher us to the airport lounges upstairs but I didn't check them out-probably you'd need to pay something-which to my mind is unreasonable. Leave a Comment
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