Manila International is the most secure airport I have ever travelled through. It is the only airport I know where you cannot even get up the approach road to the airport without having your vehicle inspected by armed security.
Once you get near the terminal building make sure you have a valid ticket and a passport ready or you will not get any nearer than that. During the dry season baggage is scanned right at the entrance to the terminal building. During the rainy season, as a small concession to the weather, you are allowed to queue undercover while your bags are scanned.
I don't object to the 8 or 9 different security checks that I have to pass through every time I visit Manila, or do I object to arriving more than three hours ahead of time just to catch my flight.
What I object to is the complete lack of seats in the main area of the terminal.
Centennial terminal is okay for seats, but the main international area has almost no seats until you final make it to the departure gate.
I can't help wondering if they ran out of money after completing the airport structure, and decided not to worry with actually furnishing the terminal.
This is a revised version of a review I originally published on dooyoo.co.uk under the same username.
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hi welcome to ciao, sorry for rating so low, compared to the others, but i regularly travel through this airport and pretty much everything that you said was inacurate, security checks are easily by passed with a small bribe and a lot of the time they are not really checking, due to the poor economy of the country they create jobs for people to do so that they can at least get paid - security is not secure in the least, infact it is extreamly poor, secondly you can gain access without a valid boarding ticket, when we fly from here my dad just takes an old one with him, nobody actually ever checks, for a small fee (about £10) you can even meet someone coming off a plane....secondly they did not run out of money when they were building the new airport, there was a "conflict of interests" between the government and the contractors and the contractors held the place to ransom - having just opened the new airport, it is now being closed down, due to structure, i believe that the contractors actually sabotaged the building so that the roof would fall in - to be honest I am not even convinced that you have been to this airport - sorry!
Dudo_Perudo 21.03.2007 23:48
Welcome to Ciao. If you could provide more detail...maybe take a couple of pointers off other reviewers work and update then you will get a higher rating. If you do edit then get back to me and I will re-rate. Also a good idea to rate others work...will ake it more likely that they visit your reviews now and in the future. Terry
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Advantages: Modern facilities and clean environment Disadvantages: Sometimes chaotic atmosphere due to voluminous arrivals especially during the holiday season
Advantages: Modern facilities and clean environment Disadvantages: Sometimes chaotic atmosphere due to voluminous arrivals especially during the holiday season
Mar 21st, 2007
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