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

If your dates allow it, you fly: Sunlight Air goes non-stop from Mactan-Cebu to Siquijor in about 55 minutes, a few days a week. By sea, the quickest is OceanJet's daily fastcraft via Tagbilaran, roughly 4 to 4.5 hours on one ticket from Cebu, and the overnight Lite Ferries RORO to Larena takes about 10 hours but carries a vehicle. The classic overland route is still there too: down Cebu's east coast to Liloan port at Santander (about 165 km, 4 to 5 hours), the short fast craft to Sibulan next to Dumaguete, then the Dumaguete-to-Siquijor fast ferry of 45 minutes to an hour. Cebu.travel drives the Cebu-side leg of any of them, request a quote.

Yes, two kinds. OceanJet runs a daily passenger fastcraft that leaves Cebu, calls at Tagbilaran in Bohol and carries on to Siquijor town port - about 4 to 4.5 hours end to end, one ticket, no change of vessel, but no vehicles. Lite Ferries runs a slower RORO straight from Cebu Pier 3 to Larena on Siquijor's north-east coast, leaving 1:00 PM on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday and arriving around 11:00 PM, and Starlite runs an overnight twice a week; those take cars and motorbikes. The two land at opposite ends of the island, roughly 45 minutes apart by road, so the boat decides where you should book a room.

The Dumaguete-to-Siquijor fast craft takes about 45 minutes to an hour, with several sailings a day run by operators such as OceanJet and Montenegro Lines, landing at Siquijor town port or Larena. Times can change with weather and season, so confirm the current schedule and allow a comfortable connection after the drive down and the Sibulan crossing.

It depends entirely on which way you are going, and only one of them has a deadline we can put a clock on. The Pier 3 RORO is the strict one: it leaves at 1:00 PM on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, check-in closes 30 to 60 minutes before that and the drive over the Mactan-Mandaue bridge is 30 to 45 minutes, so you want to be at the terminal by about 12:00 noon, in the car by about 11:15 AM and on the ground by roughly 10:30 AM. That is the clear-road drive; on a weekday the same bridges run at 60 to 90 minutes, which moves it to about 10:30 AM in the car and 9:45 AM on the ground, and with only three sailings a week that is the figure worth planning against. For OceanJet we deliberately do not publish a departure time, because the operator reissues the board every couple of weeks and the sources disagree - book your sailing, tell us what it is, and we work back an hour and a half from it. The Sunlight Air flight removes the question, since you never leave the airport. And the road route south is a different animal, answered in the next question. Put your flight number in the quote request and we time the pickup to the actual landing.

Only from an early landing, and we will tell you straight if your flight does not allow it. Count 5 hours from arrivals to Liloan port - our own 4 to 5 hour figure already carries the traffic and the stops - then take the Maayo crossing (4:30, 6:00 and 9:00 AM, 12:00 noon, 3:00, 6:00, 7:30, 9:00 and 10:30 PM) and allow about 45 minutes from the boat leaving Liloan to being at Dumaguete pier. In the car at 6:00 AM puts you there around 12:45 PM; 7:00 AM slips past the noon sailing and lands you at about 3:45 PM; a mid-morning start is nearer 6:45 PM. The last leg is the part we will not invent: the Dumaguete-to-Siquijor fast craft takes 45 minutes to an hour and runs several times a day, but its timetable is not one we have verified, so we publish the time you would reach Dumaguete pier and ask you to check the last sailing against it before you commit. Reach the pier after dark and you are gambling on a board we cannot stand behind - a night in Dumaguete, or the flight or the fastcraft instead, is the honest alternative.

Yes, and since December 2025 that is the fastest way there. Sunlight Air flies Mactan-Cebu to Siquijor non-stop on an ATR 72 in about 55 minutes, using the island's upgraded airport. It is not daily - the launch was reported as four days a week and the airline's own current page says three - so confirm your date with the airline before you build a trip around it. If the day does not work, OceanJet's fastcraft via Tagbilaran is the next quickest at 4 to 4.5 hours. Either way we can meet your inbound flight and run you to departures or to the pier, request a quote.

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.