How do I get from Bohol to Cebu City?

Take the OceanJet fast ferry from Tagbilaran to Cebu City Pier 1, a crossing of about 2 hours, then continue by road to your hotel. Pier 1 is in the city port area, so most Cebu City hotels are about 15 to 30 minutes away depending on traffic. Cebu.travel arranges that Cebu-side pickup, and BookBohol.com can arrange the transfer to Tagbilaran port on the Bohol side.

The ferry itself is about 2 hours. Door to door, allow roughly half a day once you include the transfer to Tagbilaran port on Bohol, ferry check-in, the crossing, disembarkation and the 15 to 30 minute drive from Pier 1 into the city.

Yes. That is the normal setup on the Cebu side - you tell us the sailing you plan to catch from Tagbilaran and we time the Pier 1 pickup around it, so a delayed boat does not leave you stranded at the terminal.

Tickets are a fixed public fare and can be bought at the port or online. Sailings are frequent, but the popular morning and late-afternoon departures do sell out in peak season and around holidays, so booking ahead is worth it if your day depends on a particular boat.

Fast ferries from Tagbilaran arrive at Cebu City Pier 1, in the city’s port area. That is the same terminal the outbound sailings leave from, and it is the pickup point we use for the road leg into the city.

Yes - we meet your ferry at the pier and drive you back to Bohol, the same road leg in reverse. The crossing stays your own booking, as on the way out. Ask for both legs in one quote request and we price them together. If the way back ends somewhere other than where you started, say where in the Anything else? box on the quote form and we quote that leg instead of the reverse of this one.

The quote is one fixed all-in price for the private vehicle leg, agreed in writing before you travel, and fuel, tolls and parking are inside it - along with any waiting time or extra stops you tell us about when you ask. Because this trip involves a sea crossing, the ferry or boat ticket is not in that figure unless we have set it out for you: tell us your crossing and we will say plainly what we are quoting for and what you book yourself. Entrance and activity fees at anywhere you stop, and your meals, are paid locally.

Your driver meets the boat rather than the clock. He waits at the terminal with your name on a board, takes the luggage as you come out, and you walk to the car and leave; if the crossing runs late the pickup moves with it. The part worth knowing in advance is that it is the arrivals hall or the terminal gate he meets you at, not the gangway - the bags are yours between the boat and the building, and the porters working that stretch are local rather than ours. Tell us the sailing you are on and roughly what you are carrying and the right vehicle is waiting when you walk out.

One fixed all-in price for the journey, agreed in writing before you travel, with fuel, tolls, parking and waiting time already inside it. If it would help you decide, ask and we will also quote the alternatives next to it - a larger vehicle against two smaller ones for a group that is on the edge of a van, or the road leg quoted on its own where part of your journey crosses water you are booking yourself. On a trip of several legs we will price them individually as well as together if you want to see where the cost sits. Entrance, activity and boat fees at the places you stop stay outside our figure and are paid locally, and we never mark them up. Say how you want it broken up in the box marked "Anything else?".

Usually yes. There is no minimum notice on this route and no cut-off hour, so a request for tomorrow, or for later today, is worth sending rather than writing off. What settles it is whether a vetted driver is free for the time you need, and you will have the answer and the price by email the same day, usually within a few hours. A very early start is routine here rather than a complication. The part that gets harder with less notice is choice - holding a particular vehicle size or an exact pickup hour - not whether the journey can happen, so send the date and, if the timing is tight, the hour you need to be moving.

Nothing to ask for a quote. Once you are happy with the price it is two steps, not a choice between two: a booking fee paid online (card, bank transfer or GCash) confirms the trip and is what gets you your written confirmation, then the balance goes directly to your driver at the end of the journey. The fee is part of the all-in figure you agreed rather than an extra on top of it, and your quote states it before you pay. Free cancellation up to 72 hours before pickup refunds the fee in full.