Can I go straight from Bacolod-Silay airport to Lakawon Island, and what time does my flight have to land?

Work it back from the boat, not from the terminal. The resort publishes day-tour departures from Cadiz at 7:00, 9:00 and 11:00 in the morning, and the drive from BCD to the Cadiz Viejo ticketing office is roughly 35 to 45 km and 45 minutes to an hour. Planning the road at the slow end of that, you want to be in the car at arrivals by about 10:00 AM for the 11:00 boat, about 8:00 for the 9:00 boat and about 6:00 for the 7:00 one. We deliberately count from the car rather than from the wheels touching down, because how long you spend collecting bags is the one part of this nobody can publish honestly. Send us the flight number and we will tell you which boats it reaches.

Gone for that day, yes, and we would rather say so than drive you to a closed ticket office. The 11:00 AM departure is the last one the resort publishes, so an arrival after about 10 in the morning has no crossing behind it however fast the road is. The shape that works is a night in Silay, which is 5 km and ten minutes from the terminal and about the same run north to Cadiz as the airport itself, then the 7:00 boat the next morning. That turns a wasted afternoon into a full island day, and it puts the heritage houses and El Ideal Bakery in the gap. We quote the airport leg, the night-before position and the island run as one booking.

Yes, and it is the single most useful thing to know if you are flying in. Bacolod-Silay Airport is not in Bacolod: it sits north-east of the city near Silay, which means it is already part of the way to Cadiz. From the terminal the mainland office is roughly 35 to 45 km and 45 minutes to an hour. From Bacolod it is 50 to 60 km and an hour to an hour and a half. Checking into a city hotel first and driving back out the next morning costs you the better part of an hour each way on a day whose deadline is a boat.

For an online day trip, yes. The resort states that same-day online bookings are not permitted and asks for day-trip bookings at least one day before travel, so if you are landing in the morning and going straight up the coast, that booking has to be made before you get on the plane. Walk-in arrangements exist at the mainland office but depend on capacity, the weather and the boat passenger minimum, which is a lot to gamble on with a flight already behind you and an hour of road in front.

It stays in the car. Your driver waits at Cadiz Viejo through the crossing and your day on the island, so you cross with a beach bag rather than a suitcase, and the rest goes on to your hotel with you afterwards. It is the same arrangement as any of our waiting-driver days, and it is why a private car works better here than a bus you would have to reload at every leg.

Crossings and the TawHai floating bar are both suspended when conditions require it, and the resort asks visitors to confirm the island is open before travelling rather than turning up to find out. Tell your driver as early as you can and we turn the day into something else on the same road at no extra charge: the Silay heritage houses are ten minutes from the terminal, The Ruins in Talisay and Mambukal are both south of it, and none of them depend on the sea.

We would not book it that way. Every published day-tour boat off the mainland leaves in the morning, and the return crossing is the one leg nobody on our side controls, so putting a check-in cut-off on the end of it turns a beach day into a countdown. If Lakawon matters to you and you are flying out of BCD, do the island the day before, sleep in Silay or Bacolod, and let us run the airport leg separately. That way the boat can be late and it costs you nothing.

That depends on which boat you catch out and which one you take back, and the return board is confirmed at the mainland office when you check in rather than published in advance, so we will not print times we do not hold. What we can tell you is the shape: the 7:00 and 9:00 departures are the ones that give you a real day, the 11:00 is an afternoon, and TawHai visits are capped at three hours each. Ask at the counter which returns are running before you get on the water, and tell your driver the one you have chosen.

Yes. Your boat brings you back to the mainland jump-off, where your driver is waiting to run you on to Bacolod-Silay Airport (BCD) over the same ~35-45 km. The boat is arranged and paid there, the same as on the way out; send us your flight time with the quote request and we work the pickup back from it. If the way back ends somewhere other than where you started, say where in the Anything else? box on the quote form and we quote that leg instead of the reverse of this one.

Usually yes. There is no minimum notice on this route and no cut-off hour, so a request for tomorrow, or for later today, is worth sending rather than writing off. What settles it is whether a vetted driver is free for the time you need, and you will have the answer and the price by email the same day, usually within a few hours. An early start is routine here rather than a complication. The part that gets harder with less notice is choice - holding a particular vehicle size or an exact pickup hour - not whether the journey can happen, so send the date and, if the timing is tight, the hour you need to be moving.

Nothing to ask for a quote. Once you are happy with the price it is two steps, not a choice between two: a booking fee paid online (card, bank transfer or GCash) confirms the trip and is what gets you your written confirmation, then the balance goes directly to your driver at the end of the journey. The fee is part of the all-in figure you agreed rather than an extra on top of it, and your quote states it before you pay. Free cancellation more than 72 hours before pickup refunds the fee in full.

You book the boat, and for Lakawon that has to happen before the day you travel. The resort does not permit same-day online bookings and asks for day-trip bookings at least one day ahead. Walk-in arrangements do exist at the mainland ticketing office in Cadiz Viejo, but they are subject to capacity, weather and the boat passenger minimum, which is a lot to leave to chance after an hour in the car. What we quote is the private road leg to the ticketing office and back, timed to the departure you are booked on - the last day-tour boat leaves at 11:00 AM, so the morning is tighter than it looks. Tell us the boat you are aiming for in the "Ferry or boat" box and we will work the pickup back from it.