How do I get to Bohol from Mactan (Cebu) airport?

Transfer from Mactan-Cebu airport to Cebu City Pier 1 (about 15 km, 30 to 45 minutes), then take an OceanJet fast ferry to Tagbilaran, Bohol (about 2 hours). Cebu.travel arranges a private transfer from arrivals to the pier timed to your sailing, request a quote. The ferry ticket is a public fare bought at the pier or online.

No. The Bohol ferries leave from Cebu City Pier 1, not the airport, so you first transfer by road to the port and then board the fast ferry to Tagbilaran. A private transfer takes you straight from arrivals to the pier in time to board.

The OceanJet fast ferry from Cebu City Pier 1 to Tagbilaran takes about 2 hours. There are ten sailings a day, from 7:00 AM to 5:40 PM, roughly one an hour - our verified Cebu to Bohol ferry timetable lists them all. Times do change, and this corridor saw repeated cancellations through August 2026, so confirm your sailing with the operator the day before and check in 30 to 60 minutes before departure.

Bohol has its own airport at Panglao, so if Bohol is your only stop a direct flight may suit you. But if you are already flying into Cebu, or combining both islands, the Cebu City to Tagbilaran fast ferry is the simple, frequent way across. We can time a private transfer from your Cebu flight to a Bohol sailing, request a quote.

Work backwards from 5:40 PM, the last of the ten OceanJet sailings from Pier 1. Check-in closes 30 to 60 minutes before departure, so you want to be at the terminal by about 4:40 PM. The drive from arrivals is where the answer splits: 30 to 45 minutes on a clear road puts you in the car and moving by about 4:00 PM, but on a weekday afternoon the Mandaue approach and the Mactan-Mandaue bridge run at 60 to 90 minutes - the figure our Cebu City to Mactan airport page plans them at - and the last boat of the day sits right in that peak, so count on moving by about 3:10 PM instead. Monday to Friday, work to the earlier one. The part we cannot time for you is how long you take to clear arrivals and collect your bags, so put your flight number in the quote request and we set the pickup against the real landing time. A midday landing makes an afternoon sailing comfortably; a late-afternoon or evening landing means the night in Cebu and the 7:00 AM boat the next morning.

You stay on the Cebu side and cross in the morning, and both legs go on one quote: the airport run to your Cebu City or Mactan hotel on the night you land, then the run to Pier 1 the next day timed to the sailing you choose, with check-in 30 to 60 minutes before it leaves. Tell us where you want to spend the night and which departure you are aiming for and both pickups are confirmed together at one fixed price. Confirm the sailing with the operator the day before - this corridor saw repeated cancellations through August 2026.

Your ferry arrives at Tagbilaran, but your resort may be on Panglao or farther across Bohol, such as Anda. That onward journey is a separate transfer. BookBohol.com can collect you at the port and take you to the exact hotel or resort address you provide.

Yes - for the way back we meet your ferry at the pier and drive you on to Mactan Airport, the same road leg in reverse. You book the crossing itself, as on the way out; tell us your ferry and your flight time in the quote request and we set the pickup so the two connect with room to spare. 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. If a flight ends the trip as well as starting it, the form holds one flight number - put the other one in the Anything else? box with its date and time, and we time that pickup to the check-in.

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.

The car does not cross with you. We drive you and your bags to the pier, your driver helps unload and carries them as far as the terminal entrance or the ticket counter, and from there you travel as foot passengers with your own luggage - so the honest picture is bags out of the car at the pier rather than a van rolling onto the boat. Most of the terminals we drive to have porters working the entrance with trolleys; they are local and they expect a tip, and they are not part of our quote because we neither employ them nor set their rate. What we can do is make the handover unhurried instead of a scramble: tell us roughly what you are carrying when you ask for the quote and we size the vehicle for it and build the extra minutes into the pickup, because check-in closes before the sailing and moving four large cases across a car park takes longer than people allow for. If someone in your party cannot manage their own bag across the gangway, say so in the same message and we will tell you honestly what help is available at that particular pier before you book.

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.