To Travel or To Travel?

Nyl and I have finally booked a flight for next year through the help of his friend Darymel who is currently at Manila today.  He informed Nyl that Cebu Pacific Air have offered a P1 Fare Promo for 2013 to all domestic flights here in the Philippines.  Good thing he was checking the internet that time.

P1 fare is a promo offered by Cebu Pacific Air.  Well, it really doesn’t mean that you only have to pay Php 1.00 for your trip but it means paying less than the regular rate.

So as soon as Nyl received the information, he sends me a text message about it and few minutes after he called me if it was okay.  To tell you honestly, we have been planning to take a vacation outside our city and try to take a plane (which we haven’t tried before), but we have not made any decision yet since we have set our budget to other stuff.  But next year we are putting our plans into reality - we are going to take vacation to Manila for three days.  So Darylmel booked us a flight and send us our confirmation number.  The next problem was paying it.  Credit card?  We don’t have one.  We felt that if we get a credit card it would only tempt us to buy and avail the things we want and drown ourselves into the ocean of debt.  So we decided to pay it through BDO or through SM payment center. 

Believe me…paying the ticket was not that easy. 

It was almost 6 in the evening when we arrived at BDO SM.  When we asked the teller, she informed us that their cut-off was until 5 PM in the afternoon.  Yes! We don’t have any slight idea since this is our first time to go through this so called payment process.  So we decided to make our payments through SM Payment Center which happens to be on the second floor of the mall.  When we arrived there, they were looking for a print-out.  What?!? We didn’t have any idea about it.  So we went to the third floor where Netopia (an internet café) was situated.  When we were about to save the files everything went off… block-out.  Gosh!  Good thing the mall has a generator so the power went back and we were able to print our itinerary receipt.  So finally we went back to the payment center and paid our tickets.  I have to admit that at some point I wished I had a credit card.

Gosh! This is it…Our next step is to save and plan for our trip.