General Luna to Sayak Airport (IAO)
The departure leg — the one journey on this island that runs to a deadline you do not set, timed backwards from a check-in counter that closes without you.
The only transfer on the island with a hard deadline
Every other journey we publish is timed to when you land, when the tide drops or when you feel like leaving. This one is timed backwards from a counter that closes whether you are standing at it or not. Cebu Pacific publishes the numbers for its own domestic flights: airport counters close 45 minutes before departure, and it asks passengers to arrive at the airport two hours before the flight. Its online check-in for a domestic flight opens 48 hours out and closes one hour before departure. Both figures are from the airline’s own help centre. Check what your carrier publishes for your flight, because that cut-off — not the road — is what the pickup has to be built around.
Send us the flight, not the pickup hour
The most common way a departure request goes wrong is arriving as an instruction: pick us up at nine. We would rather have the flight number, the scheduled departure time and the date, and work the pickup back from your carrier’s cut-off. We do not publish a journey time for this road and will not invent one — the corridor on our routes map is traced from real OpenStreetMap highway geometry, but road conditions, the weather and where in General Luna you are staying decide the day. Give us the deadline and we will tell you the pickup we are willing to stand behind.
The load going home is not always the load that arrived
You land with what you packed. You leave with whatever the trip added — a board bought on the island, a box, a bag that no longer closes. That changes the vehicle, so tell us the departure load rather than assuming the arrival one still applies. Our guide to boards, bags, pets and bulky items covers what travels and what needs arranging in advance; anything live still needs its own paperwork, and that is worth starting before departure week rather than on it.
Book it with the arrival, not after it
Almost every request that reaches us is an arrival. The departure is the same road in reverse and the same vehicle question, and it is easier to settle both while you are still planning than to solve one of them on your last morning here. Send both legs in one message and we will quote them together — there is no obligation attached to asking, and nothing about a return leg commits you to a date you have not confirmed.
What to include in your request
Your flight number, its scheduled departure time and the date; the accommodation name and barangay in General Luna; how many of you are travelling; bags and boards, with lengths if there are boards; and any child-seat need. Say whether you want the arrival leg quoted at the same time. That is enough for one fixed, all-in price by email.
Why there is no price or journey time here
We would rather publish nothing than publish a number we cannot stand behind. Roads, weather and group size all move the answer. Send the trip and we will send a fixed, all-in price for your date.
Places tied to this route
These destination pages cover the arrival point, departure area or boat-connection stop behind this route, so you can understand the bigger trip before asking for a quote.
General Luna
The island’s main visitor town on the south-east coast, and the base most people book their Siargao stay around.
Read moreSayak Airport
Siargao’s main airport, at Del Carmen on the island’s west side — IATA code IAO, and the arrival point most Siargao trips begin with.
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Del Carmen
The west-coast municipality that contains Sayak Airport and the port used for boat trips through the mangroves to Sugba Lagoon.
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Cloud 9
Siargao’s best-known reef break, with the boardwalk and viewing tower that put the island on the surfing map.
Read moreWorth reading before you book this leg
The questions this journey tends to raise on either side of the drive itself - what you are allowed to bring and how to declare it, and what the end you are heading for actually asks of you. Answered in full, so your request arrives with the details we would otherwise have to write back for.
Leaving Siargao
Arriving on this island is flexible. Leaving it is not — the airport’s bottleneck is the departure side, the sea exit can be closed by the coast guard with no notice, and neither of those is what most itineraries plan for.
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Boards, bags & pets
Surfboards, a stack of luggage, a balikbayan box, a bike, a dog in a crate — what to tell us so the vehicle that meets you actually fits it, and the one item that needs a government permit before it can fly or sail.
Read moreTell us your trip. Get a fixed price.
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