How do I get from Bohol to Mactan-Cebu Airport?

Take the fast ferry from Tagbilaran to Cebu City Pier 1, then continue by road to Mactan-Cebu Airport. The ferry takes about 2 hours, and the final transfer from Pier 1 to the airport is roughly 15 km and about 30 to 45 minutes by private car. Cebu.travel handles that Cebu-side airport leg, while BookBohol.com can arrange the separate transfer to Tagbilaran port on Bohol.

Counted properly, a sailing serves a domestic flight about 6 hours after it leaves Tagbilaran and an international about 7: roughly 2 hours across, the long end of the 30 to 45 minute Pier 1 to airport drive, then the 3 hours inside the terminal a domestic departure wants or the 4 an international one does. In weekday morning or late-afternoon traffic the bridge stretch runs 60 to 90 minutes, so make it about 7 and about 8. In front of all of that sits the Bohol-side run to Tagbilaran port and the hour you want at the ferry terminal, which is why this reads as most of a day.

Yes. That is the normal setup on the Cebu side - you share the ferry you plan to catch from Tagbilaran and your flight time, and we time the Pier 1 pickup so the airport leg and your check-in window work as one plan.

If you are flying before about noon, yes, and it is not a matter of taste. The first boat of the day docks in Cebu around 9:00 AM at the earliest, which puts you inside the terminal at about 10:00 to 10:15 once the drive is planned at 45 minutes. That serves a domestic departure from roughly 12:00 noon and an international from roughly 1:00 PM, and nothing before. An afternoon or evening flight is a comfortable same-day crossing. Send us the flight and we will say which of the two it is instead of leaving you to guess.

Take the sailing that leaves Tagbilaran about 6 hours before a domestic departure and about 7 before an international one, and make it 6 and 7 if your drive falls in weekday morning or late-afternoon traffic. Worked through on the Cebu-side board, which our ferry guide notes the return runs to almost the same clock: a 7:00 AM boat covers a domestic flight from about noon, a 10:40 AM covers a mid-afternoon one, and a 1:00 PM is about the last that serves an evening international departure with the traffic allowance in it. Confirm the day’s Tagbilaran times with the operator before you commit, then send us the sailing and the flight and we will check the pair.

Yes - Panglao has its own airport, so if the flight times and fare suit your itinerary that can be the simpler finish. But if your better long-haul option is out of Cebu, the Tagbilaran fast ferry plus a private Pier 1 to airport transfer is the standard way back.

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.

You do not need it to get a quote on this run, and most people asking for it do not have one yet. Give us the date and roughly when you expect to land or take off and we will quote it and time the drive from that, because the drive time on this page is measured from the arrivals exit rather than from the landing. Send the flight number by reply when the ticket is issued and we set the pickup to that flight, and from then on we watch the arrival so a delay moves the pickup instead of costing you the car. Retiming it that way is confirmed subject to driver availability rather than automatic, which is why it is worth sending as soon as you have it rather than on the day.

Yes, and on an airport run it is the one thing worth saying in the quote request rather than at the kerb. We fit child seats, but they are arranged in advance rather than carried as standard, so arrivals is the worst place to find out one is missing. Philippine law (RA 11229) sets the requirement by height rather than age: a child needs a restraint until they reach 150 cm, and the seat has to suit their age, height and weight, so one generic seat does not cover a family of different sizes. It also changes which vehicle meets you, because a child seat occupies a seat and a folded stroller travels as luggage - a family of four with two seats and a pushchair wants a van rather than a sedan even though it is only four people. You are welcome to bring your own seat and it still counts as luggage when we size the vehicle. Tick "We need a child seat" on the quote form and put the ages, heights and weights in "Anything bulky?" - that is what decides which seats we fit.