How do I do a Cebu City tour, and see Temple of Leah, Sirao and Tops in one day?

Yes, easily. They sit close together along the Busay highland roads just above Cebu City, about 30 to 45 minutes up from the centre, and make a natural loop. Because there is no direct public transport between them, a private car is the practical way to link all three, plus the old city, at your own pace in a single day.

Our fixed-price quote covers the private car or van, the driver, fuel, tolls, parking and hotel or airport pickup and drop-off for the whole day, with the driver waiting at every stop. The small entrance fees at Temple of Leah, Sirao, Tops and Fort San Pedro are run by each site and paid on the day. Magellan’s Cross, the Basilica and the Taoist Temple are free. We never invent those prices.

It is well worth it, with one ordering rule. Tops is open around the clock and several view cafés look straight over the city lights and Mactan, so it is the right place to finish. The Sirao flower gardens are daytime-only and close in the early evening, and Temple of Leah announced shortened hours in April 2026 without publishing a fixed replacement schedule - so on a sunset day those two come first and Tops comes last. Many travellers run the old city in the morning, the gardens and temple in the afternoon, then finish up top for sunset and get driven safely back down after dark. Tell us you want sunset and your driver builds the day in that order and checks the gates.

Yes. The highlands are only about 45 to 60 minutes from Mactan airport and downtown Cebu is a little closer, so it is an easy first day for arriving travellers. We can start from the airport or your hotel, and finish with a drop-off wherever you are staying.

Yes, and it is a common shape for this day. Your driver meets your flight, your luggage stays secure in the vehicle so you are not hunting for a left-luggage counter, and the day finishes at departures instead of a hotel. Two clocks decide whether it fits. At the start, the day begins when you are actually out of the terminal rather than when the wheels touch down - we do not publish a clearance time, because immigration and bags vary too much for us to promise one, so send the flight number and we set the pickup honestly. At the end, work backwards: leave your last highland stop about 4.5 hours before a domestic departure or about 5.5 hours before an international one. That is the 45 to 60 minute run down, plus 30 to 45 minutes of margin if you are crossing to Mactan in the evening peak, plus the 3 to 4 hours you want inside the terminal. A flight out at 9:35 PM means pulling away from Tops around 5:00 PM. Give us both flights, the group size and how many bags are riding along, and we build the day between them.

A full loop of the highlands and the old city is a comfortable 8 to 9 hour day. If you have less time, we can do a shorter half-day, just the Busay highlands (Temple of Leah, Sirao and Tops) or just the heritage core. Tell us how long you have and we shape the day to fit.

The car is private, just your party, one vehicle and one driver for the day. A sedan suits up to about 3 to 4 travellers; a van suits a family or small group. Tell us your group size and we quote the right vehicle.

Send the quote request with your date, pickup point and group size. We reply by email, usually within a few hours, with a clear all-in price for the car and driver. No payment to enquire, no obligation.

It is in the price. Your quote for the day covers the vehicle, the fuel, your driver and the waiting time, so a long lunch, a slow ticket queue or an extra hour in the water does not change what you pay. Nothing is metered and nothing is added afterwards. That is also why we ask up front what you want to stop for and roughly how long you want at each place: we price the day you describe. If the day grows well beyond that, we agree it with you rather than billing it later.

Usually we can, and it is worth asking rather than assuming you have left it too late. There is no minimum notice and no cut-off hour, because what decides it is simply whether a vetted driver is free for the day you want. About one in five of the enquiries we get is for travel inside the next two days, so a request for tomorrow is normal rather than awkward. Send the date and we reply by email with the all-in price, usually within a few hours and always the same day, and a confirmed quote still comes with its free-cancellation window. Every fee on this day is paid locally on the day, so there is nothing to reserve ahead of you. What gets harder with less notice is choice - a particular vehicle size, or an exact pickup hour at the busiest times - rather than whether the day can happen at all.

Yes to both, and one fixed all-in price for the whole day is only our default rather than the only way we will quote you. If a choice is genuinely open we will quote two versions of the day side by side - with an island add-on against without, a longer route against a shorter one, or a larger vehicle against two smaller ones for a group that is on the edge of a van - so you can compare rather than take our word for which is better. We will also show you what sits where: ask and the car-and-driver cost comes back on its own, separate from the fees you pay on the ground, and on a day with several stops we can price the legs individually as well as together. The one line we will not blur is the one between our side and the ground: the vehicle, driver, fuel, tolls, parking and waiting time are ours to price and they sit inside our figure, while entrance, activity, guide and boat fees at the places you stop are set by the operators and the municipalities, are paid locally on the day, and we never mark them up or invent them. Tell us how you want it broken up in the box marked "Anything else?" and that is the shape the quote comes back in.

We arrange the vehicle, the driver and the time; whatever is sold at a stop is bought at that stop, from the people who run it. On a day like this that is mostly gate entrances and small local hires - the highland viewpoints, Fort San Pedro, a raft or a habal-habal at a waterfall - and none of them take a booking ahead, so there is nothing for us to reserve and nothing for you to hold. If the day grows to include one of the registered activities, the whale sharks at Oslob or canyoneering at Alegria, those are signed up for in person on the day too, by you and not by us, and the useful thing we can do is time the pickup so you reach the desk inside its window rather than after the cut-off. One thing on our map runs the other way: a Sumilon Island day-use pass has to be reserved ahead with Bluewater. You pay each charge where you are, we never mark them up and we publish no amount for any of them, and our figure covers the car, the driver, fuel, tolls, parking and the waiting time. Tell us the stops you have in mind in the box marked "Anything else?" and we will build the clock around them.

Yes - tell us where you want to end up when you ask for the quote and we price the day that way. This page is written as a round trip out of Cebu because that is how most people run it, but the car and driver are yours for the day you book, so the day can sit in the middle of a move instead of costing you a separate transfer: picked up at your Cebu hotel in the morning, your bags staying in the vehicle while you are out, and dropped at a different hotel or town that evening. The car waits wherever you stop; Luggage stays in the vehicle; Fuel, tolls and parking included; Entrance fees paid locally, as you go. Put the hotel or town you want to finish at in the "Anything else?" box, and if you are checking out that morning say how many bags, so the right vehicle is sent.

Yes, and it is one of the commonest shapes for these days. The vehicle is yours for the whole day rather than shared, so the luggage goes in once at the start and stays in it: your driver waits with the car at every stop, and you walk to the falls, the boat or the ridge with what you want to carry rather than with your cases. That is what makes an arrival or departure day work at all - you are not looking for a left-luggage counter at the terminal and not paying for a hotel room to hold bags you cannot check into yet. The day also does not have to finish where it started. A common arrival shape is a morning pickup at Mactan, the tour through the day, and a drop-off at your hotel down the coast with the bags arriving with you; the departure version runs the other way and ends at the terminal. What we need from you is the bag count alongside the headcount, because on a day like this the luggage is often what decides the vehicle rather than the number of people - dive kit, a folded pushchair and a surfboard bag all count as luggage. Put the flight, the bags and where you are sleeping that night in the quote request and we size the vehicle and the clock together.