Mactan-Cebu International Airport (CEB/RPVM) (Lapu-Lapu)

Philippines / Central Visayas / Lapu-Lapu / Lapu-Lapu Airport Road
 airport, international airport
Mactan–Cebu International Airport (Cebuano: Tugpahanang Pangkalibutan sa Mactan–Sugbo) (IATA: CEB, ICAO: RPVM) located in Central Visayas region, is the second busiest international airport in the Philippines that serves Cebu City and its surrounding metropolitan area as well as the Central Visayas. It is located in Lapu-Lapu City on Mactan Island, a part of Metro Cebu. The airport is managed by the Mactan–Cebu International Airport Authority. It is the world’s first international resort airport and is the main base of Cebu Pacific, Pan Pacific Airlines, and Royal Air Philippines. It covers an area of 797 hectares (1,970 acres).

It has a single 3,300-meter (10,800 ft) runway that was built by the United States in 1956 as an emergency airport for Strategic Air Command bombers and was known as the Mactan Air Base.[3] The runway is complemented by a full-length taxiway that it shares with the current Mactan Air Base of the Philippine Air Force.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mactan-Cebu_International_Airport
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Coordinates:   10°18'36"N   123°58'46"E

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  • I was here in august of '06, nice airport, much less crazy than Manila. If you ever had dried mangoes they probably came from Cebu. You can pick up the same bag you can buy at CostCo, World Market, BJs, Sams club or whatever for about an 8th of the USD$ cost in the lobby. You can also buy Wrigley's gum (believe it or not its the same as the states brand except they don't put in asparatame). I strongly suggest already having a ride planned if your going anywhere on the island, or knowing a local to help get you one as the taxi's will charge you (if you are alone and don't speak the local Visayan dialect) what to them is a weeks salary (still usually less than 20$ US dollars) for a short ride. Philippine airline companies still all serve food and snacks, so need to pack something for the flight. Orange juice is a very common drink (more like orangeade or Tang as the drink is loaded with sugar) tastes great, watch out for their "Goldilocks" -- sweet -- rolls with boiled chicken in the center, to American taste buds the thing is a little odd.
  • try buko juice @ teope's bukorner near petron gasoline station @basak lapu-lapu city very delicious @ affordable price...........fresh buko juice.ang sarappppppppppp.i try already..........
  • Cebu is often called the Queen City in the South. In reality Cebu is in the Visayas Region, in the central part of the Philippines. It is the center for trade and culture.Folks from the surrounding islands and provinces come to Cebu for this active exchange of trade and culture. Flight and boat connections to different islands and other cities in the Visayas and Mindanao(in the furthere south) happen in Cebu. Cebu in the Visayas region is also the center for education. Here can be found schools and universities. Here is also the historical mark of the beginning of the Spanish colonization. Here can be retrieved the famous story of Magellan, the Spanish conqueror, who came and entered into a covenant with blood with the chief of Mactan in Cebu. Here can be found the church called Santo Nino (The Holy Child) which marks that historical hispanization of the Philippine Christianity. Beside this church can be found many shop makeshifts that sell crosses and figures of the Holy Child, resembling the Holy Child figure of Jesus which Magellan came with and gave as a gift to the Cebu chieftain, Lapulapu. I come to Cebu on my way to Bohol everytime I visit my home country, The Philippines. This is the place where I worked for five years before I left for Denmark. There are direct flights from Europe to Cebu,without necessarily passing by Manila. For me, it is very pleasant to have this direct flight. In Cebu I usually stay at CENDET, Center for Education, Development and Training at Jones Avenue, Osmena Boulevard for few days before taking a boat to my home island in Bohol. Cebu is a place for rest and orientation - for enabling a stranger or a visiting Filipino feeling the pulse of the country through the busy trade and cultural interchange happening in Cebu.
  • Damn much better and less crazier than that in NAIA,especially if you're flying with cebu pacific or other airline that serves the small and old domestic terminal.The only problem is that sometimes the taxi drivers don't speak english and it's hard trying to understand their language.For you to have an easier time at Mactan-Cebu,I suggest that you have a tour guide or a local friend or a family member who lives there to pick you up at the airport.
  • i've been to cebu and davao. it's just that i've observed that davao airport is more modernized than mactan airport.
  • my father here ojt i am his daughter
  • oh yes,i've worked at costco and i've seen that dried mango displayed on the shelf.i'm very happy just to see a philippine made products here.
  • too bad i didnt see any flight to and from USA.
  • wow..! i've been there..beautifulll..i love this airport 8 so big... (=
  • Yah sure, mine too!!!!
  • beautiful and so very modern
  • Nice Airport<3
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