Puerto Princesa airport transfers

What you should know before you book

• Puerto Princesa International Airport (PPS) is located within Puerto Princesa city itself, so hotel transfers in the city are short.
• The city is the mainland road hub: the north road runs towards Sabang, Port Barton, San Vicente and El Nido, and the south road towards Narra and Brooke’s Point.
• Puerto Princesa is the administrative base for the Subterranean River National Park, and permits for the park are handled through the city rather than at the cave itself.
• Honda Bay island-hopping boats leave from Sta. Lourdes wharf, north of the city centre — a short road transfer before the boat day starts.
• Puerto Princesa is a highly urbanised city administered independently of Palawan province, though it is the province’s capital.

• Early or late pickupsAn early-hours or late-night pickup is routine here — send the flight, crossing or permit you are working to and we time the vehicle back from it rather than from a clock time you guessed.
• The park permitThe park permit is admission to a protected national park and is not ours to issue, sell or hold — entry runs on a daily visitor cap and permits are handled through Puerto Princesa, so the park side is the park’s and the road leg is what we quote. What we can do is help you confirm what availability looks like for your date before you commit the rest of the trip to it, then time the vehicle around the entry you hold. If you already have one, send the entry time and we work the pickup back from it; if you have not started, say so rather than leaving it blank. Requesting a quote does not reserve park entry.
• Meeting you at the airportAirport pickups are met in the arrivals area with a name board rather than at the kerb, and the written confirmation sent before you travel carries the driver and vehicle details.
• The departure legThe departure leg is quoted the same way: send the flight you are catching and the pickup is worked back from it rather than guessed, and where the timing is tight we will say plainly whether it works.
• If nobody is waitingIf the name board is not there when you land, stay in the arrivals area and message us rather than leaving the terminal or taking a taxi — the written confirmation sent before you travel carries the driver and vehicle details, so save it offline and use it. We would rather sort it out while you are standing there than hear about it afterwards.
• Language on the dayEverything we arrange is in English, and we are the English-speaking end of it on the day as well as before it — if something moves, message us rather than trying to settle it at the roadside. We do not promise a particular driver’s fluency; instead the written confirmation carries the pickup, the driver and vehicle details and the shape of the day, so it is settled in writing rather than negotiated at a kerb.
• What the price coversOur quote is fixed and all-in for the transport we arrange. Anything collected by someone else — a park permit, a local environmental fee, a ferry or airline ticket — is identified separately on the quote and paid locally, so you know which is which before you travel rather than at a wharf.
• If you are running lateIf you are the one running late — a slow checkout, a breakfast that ran on — message us while it is happening rather than afterwards, using the reply path on the written confirmation sent before you travel: on the morning it is something we can relay to the driver and re-time around where the day allows, and afterwards it is not. We publish no waiting window and nothing is settled in cash at the kerb, but we will not pretend a delay is free of consequence either: a leg somebody else holds — a permit slot, a ferry, a flight — keeps its own clock, and a long hold can re-price the day, which we would tell you rather than spring on you.
• TippingA tip is not expected and nothing is owed at the end of the trip — the driver is paid by us for a trip that runs, so the quoted price is genuinely the whole of our side of it, with nothing to settle at the drop-off and no service charge anywhere. If you want to mark a driver who looked after you on a long day, that is yours to decide and he is free to accept it, but it is a gesture rather than a charge and we publish no suggested amount.
• Breaks on a long driveThis is a long run on the road, and stopping on the way is a normal part of one: the vehicle is yours for the leg rather than a shared van on its own turnaround, so the driver can pull over where it is safe for a toilet, for food or just to get out of the seat, with your bags staying aboard. If anyone travelling needs to stop more often, needs to eat at a set time, or travels badly on winding roads, say so in the notes on the quote form and we plan the leg around it.
• If the vehicle breaks downA private transfer has no second van behind it, so it is fair to ask what happens if this one fails on the road: it stays ours to sort out rather than becoming yours — the driver reports it to us rather than leaving you to work it out, nothing is settled at the roadside, and where part of the trip did not happen the rebook-or-refund position on our terms applies for our reason exactly as it does for the weather.

We publish facts, not fares. Prices depend on the vehicle or boat, your group size, waiting time and the season, so every trip is quoted individually — free and with no obligation.

Puerto Princesa airport transfers: common questions

Anything specific to your dates, group or pickup point is answered on the quote — that is where the actual vehicle, timing and fixed all-in price come from.

Ask us on the quote form