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

Drive north from Mactan-Cebu airport to Danao City port (about 30 to 40 km, 45 minutes to 1.5 hours), then take the Danao to Consuelo roll-on-roll-off ferry to Poro Island (about 2 to 2.5 hours). There is no bridge, so the ferry is unavoidable. Cebu.travel arranges a private transfer from arrivals to Danao port timed to your sailing - request a quote.

Not from the airport itself, but you have two piers rather than one. The crossing almost everyone uses is the roll-on-roll-off from Danao City port, 30 to 40 km north, sailing at 5:30 AM, 8:30 AM, 2:30 PM and 5:30 PM. Jomalia also runs a faster Mactan to Consuelo boat, about 1.5 hours, from a pier much closer to the airport - sources agree on an 8:00 AM departure and a 10:00 AM return, but disagree on whether there is a midday pair as well, so we would confirm it before building your day around it. Either way a private transfer takes you straight from arrivals to the terminal.

The Danao to Consuelo (Poro) roll-on-roll-off ferry takes about 2 to 2.5 hours, and there are four a day: 5:30 AM, 8:30 AM, 2:30 PM and 5:30 PM. Watch the middle of the day - nothing sails between 8:30 AM and 2:30 PM. Check-in advice ranges from 30 to 60 minutes and we plan on the hour, since rough weather can still cut a crossing.

It depends where your flight lands against the board. Counting back on our own drive times with an hour at the terminal, you want to be leaving the airport by about 6:00 AM for the 8:30 AM sailing, by about midday for the 2:30 PM, and by about 3:00 PM for the last one at 5:30 PM. That last boat reaches Consuelo around 7:30-8:00 PM with the causeway run to Santiago Bay still to come, so it is an arrival night rather than a first day. Land later than mid-afternoon and the honest answer is a night near the airport or Danao and the morning boat. Send us your flight number with the quote request and we will say which sailing is realistic.

Yes, and it is the plan we suggest for any arrival after mid-afternoon. Ask for both legs in one quote request: your driver meets you at arrivals and takes you to a hotel for the night, then collects you the next morning timed to your sailing. Stay near the airport and a start around 6:00 AM makes the 8:30 AM boat, reaching Consuelo around 10:30-11:00 AM. Stay in Danao City and the drive to the port is short, so the 5:30 AM boat is within reach and you land on Camotes around 7:30-8:00 AM, at the cost of a pre-dawn start. In the "Anything else?" box on the quote form, add your hotel if it is booked, the sailing you prefer, and your bag count, and the quote will confirm the pickup time for both legs.

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.