HOW TO FOLLOW UP THE REFUND STATUS OF YOUR CANCELLED CEBU PACIFIC FLIGHT

HOW TO FOLLOW UP THE REFUND STATUS 

OF YOUR CANCELLED CEBU PACIFIC FLIGHT

You can request your refund's status through the Guest Feedback form on the Cebu Pacific site: https://www.cebupacificair.com/pages/guest-feedback. 

When you fill out the form, under Type of Feedback, select "Request". Then for the Category, choose "Flight Cancellations/Changes Options". Indicate the booking reference number of the flight for refund. They reply via email. In the email, they will inform you when they processed it. And from my experience, you can count 5 months from the date they processed it, until they refund it in the same mode of payment you used to pay for the flight. I paid by credit card and they refunded it to my credit card.

Gloriamaris Restaurant Delivery: How to Order, How to Pay, How it is Delivered

Gloriamaris Restaurant Delivery: 

How to Order, How to Pay, How it is Delivered 

For those craving for old favorites in this pandemic where everyone are advised to stay at home, our favorite Chinese restaurant is now open for pick up and delivery. Below is how you do it.

FOR A GUIDE ON WHAT TO ORDER, CHECK OUT MY OLD POST BELOW

MANILA: Gloriamaris Greenhills Restaurant: What to Order 

Our favorite Chinese restaurant in Manila is Gloriamaris Greenhills restaurant. They serve very good quality Chinese food but it's a bit expensive. So we go there only on special occasions, or when there's a 50% off promo from credit cards.

Usually, the 50% discount only covers the food bill including VAT (value added tax), and doesn't cover drinks and service charge. But that's already a lot. Our food bill for what we ordered (shown below) amounted to only a little less than 5000 pesos, when it should have been a little less than 9000 pesos.

We usually reserve our seats at the fine dining section so we can also order from the dimsum and hotpot menu, aside from ordering from the fine dining menu.

These are the iconic dishes we ordered. 

Sautéed Sweet and sour pork

(Medium, 990 pesos) 

Hot Prawn Salad

(Medium - 1630 pesos)

Note: They used real prawns and not shrimps like other smaller restaurants do) 

Peking Duck whole served 2 ways

(3,600 pesos) 

 

This is the Peking Duck first way:
You wrap the skin and meat in a thin pancake, with hoisin sauce and leeks then fold it.

The second way:
You have a choice between minced duck wrapped in lettuce or just chopped duck seasoned with salt and pepper.

We usually choose minced duck. Sorry. I forgot to take a photo of the minced duck

Hakaw

(198 pesos)

Their Hakaw is really great. Instead of just one shrimp, they put 2 shrimps inside the dumpling 

Ma Po Tofu

(Small - 600 pesos)

We usually request very spicy Ma Po Tofu. 

THE PRICE LIST FOR WHAT WE ORDERED

(Note: the small size plate is usually good for 5-6 persons) 

TURKS SHAWARMA DELIVERY: My Review How to Order, How to Pay, and How it is delivered

TURKS SHAWARMA DELIVERY: 
My Review

How to Order, How to Pay, and How it is delivered

If you're craving for the famous Turk's Shawarma, you can have your cravings satisfied by ordering the chicken and beef doner set offered online and delivered straight to your home. This is the ad I found online:

Your favorite shawarma is back!

We are selling Frozen, Ready-To-Heat TURKS Beef and Chicken Shawarma for delivery within Metro Manila, Antipolo and Cainta. 

Price List:
Beef Doner Set PHP 965
Contains 1 pack frozen beef, 1 pack pita, and 1 pack garlic sauce, good for 20 servings 

Chicken Doner Set PHP 965
Contains 1 pack frozen chicken, 1 pack pita, and 1 pack garlic sauce, good for 20 servings 

Cheese Sauce PHP 272 

We deliver via Happy Move. We will book the rider for you, but delivery fee to be shouldered by buyer. 

Please order via www.tinyurl.com/TurksAtHome

MOP: BPI, BDO, Metrobank, Gcash.
Make everyday a Turks day!

MY EXPERIENCE

I ordered 1 beef doner set, 1 chicken doner set and 2 cheese sauce using their form. I waited for them to text me to confirm my order. And when they did, I asked them how much is the estimated delivery charge from their location to mine.  I paid by gcash and sent the proof of payment via viber. I ordered on a Monday and they informed me they will deliver on Wednesday. The items were delivered Wednesday afternoon. Delivery charge from New Manila to Antipolo is 180 pesos, which I handed over to the rider.

MY TIP: Ask for the estimated delivery charge for your location before paying for the order to find out the actual total cost for you including delivery charge.

HOW TO ORDER AND HOW TO PAY

Order via www.tinyurl.com/TurksAtHome

WHAT THEY DELIVERED

Pita Bread
Frozen beef doner (in dark brown package)
Frozen chicken doner (in reddish brown package)
Garlic sauce (in foil package)
Cheese sauce (in yellow) 

Frozen beef doner (in dark brown package)
Frozen chicken doner (in reddish brown package)

20 pieces pita bread

I ate Turks a lot but I don't really watch how they prepare it. If you're like me, you can watch the video below to refresh your memory.

HOW TO WRAP

The vegetables you need to prepare to include in your shawarma wrap are sliced cucumber, sliced tomatoes and sliced onions.

Credits to Davao base for the video below.

CA PHE SAIGON RESTAURANT DELIVERY: My Review, How to Order, How to Pay, and How it is delivered

CA PHE SAIGON RESTAURANT DELIVERY: 

My Review

How to Order, How to Pay, and How it is delivered

The food is authentic Vietnamese food and very delicious. The ingredients are fresh and the aroma of herbs is stunning. The delivery is very efficient, although earlier than my requested time, which is just fine with me. The food was placed in a big box and each dish came in a plastic container which is properly marked. 

WHAT WE ORDERED

Pho ga (Vietnamese Chicken noodle soup)

Goi xoai xanh (Vegetarian green mango salad)

Cha gio (Vietnamese fried rolls)

Goi cuon (fresh rolls)

Banh cuon (steam rolls)

Chicken Banh mi (Vietnamese baguette)

MY ADDITIONAL ORDER NOT IN THE MOTHER'S DAY PACKAGE SHOWN ABOVE

Goi cuon (VEGETARIAN fresh rolls)

Banh xeo

(Vegetarian savory pancake)

MENU

HOW TO ORDER AND PAY

1. Via Facebook messenger 

Check out their Facebook page 

https://www.facebook.com/caphesaigonphilippines/

2. Via phone call or viber message in the numbers shown below.

HOW IT IS DELIVERED

It was delivered by Lalamove, The restaurant charged us a fixed delivery rate of P100.00, which is already included in the total amount we paid them. The location of the main restaurant where the food came from is Marikina. They delivered to Antipolo. The items came in a big box that they dropped off at the gate of our garage.

MY STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE on How to get a FULL REFUND ONLINE on CANCELLED FLIGHTS of Cebu Pacific Airlines

MY STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE on 

How to get a FULL REFUND ONLINE 

on CANCELLED FLIGHTS 

of Cebu Pacific Airlines

I received this message on my email and my sms a few days ago ago that my flight to Fukuoka on March 27-29, 2020 was canceled.

Cebu Pacific gave 3 options:

1. Rebook up to 30 days from your original flight schedule.

2. Store the value of your booking in a full travel fund which you can use in future Cebu Pacific flights, valid up to 90 days.

3. Get a full refund.

First of all, I purchased this flight with getgo points and paid the taxes using my credit card. I did not pay travel tax together with my booking.

The getgo points I used is 18,600 points. I paid 5672.46 pesos via credit card. 

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:

Log in to  your Cebu Pacific get go account at cebupacificair.com

Click the affected flight. 

This is what you'll see if you click on the affected flight. 

If you click refund as shown above, this is what you will see. 

Click "continue" for a full refund. 

After choosing full refund,  the system does not automatically credit to your account the getgo points used to purchase flights that were canceled by Cebu Pacific.  You need to go to getgo.com.ph afterwards, log in at your getgo account and make a separate request to reverse points. How to do it is shown below.

Jetstar carry-on baggage rule is stricter this year: This is what happens at the airport

Jetstar carry-on baggage rule is stricter this year: 

This is what happens at the airport

MANILA - SINGAPORE ROUTE
I've been flying Manila to Singapore via Jetstar airlines from NAIA 1 almost every year and this year they became stricter with their carry-on baggage rule.

For the past several years, their carry-on baggage allowance is limited to two items, which consists of one small item (includes items such as a handbag or thin laptop bag that must fit under seat). + 1 main item (which must fit in the overhead locker and not exceed 56cm (H) x 36cm (W) x 23cm (D)), which must all equal 7 kg. Both items are weighed together at the airport. Unlike other airlines, where they only weigh your main item like a stroller bag or backpack as carry-on baggage and exclude the handbag, laptop and camera bag, Jetstar weighs both items at the check in counter and puts a tag on it. Note that web check in is not available for this route so everyone passes through the check in counter where the first thing the airline employee does is to weigh your main item as carry-on plus your other small item like a handbag.

What's new this year:

What's new this year is that the airline employee at the check-in counter warned us not to buy anything at the airport duty free shops because they may charge us at the gate if we exceed our carry-on baggage allowance. I thought they were not serious. Lo and behold, they actually weigh your carry on baggage again at the gate. But this time, they only weigh the big carry-on baggage (which may be a stroller bag or a backpack), without the handbag.

Carry-on luggage being weighed at the gate

The only time I saw the same thing happen is when we flew Jetstar from Melbourne to Adelaide. They make everyone line up and weigh their carry on luggage prior to passing through the gate

Charges for excess baggage:
So don't make a mistake of not weighing your carry on luggage without your handbag, laptop bag or camera bag. Excess baggage paid at the check-in counter is 2200 pesos for a minimum of 15kilos, if you don't have prepaid baggage (which means baggage paid online before check in), or 650 pesos per kilo if you exceed your prepaid baggage allowance.

SINGAPORE - MANILA ROUTE
In this route, check in is automated. This means that you simply approach a kiosk, type in your booking reference number, scan your passport then they issue you a boarding pass. After getting your boarding pass, you approach a desk where you present your passport and boarding pass for document verification. Then you proceed directly to immigration.

They don't weigh your carry-on luggage at check in. No one approaches you to inspect your carry-on, weigh both your carry-on luggage and one other small item allowed as cabin baggage. This is unlike our experience in 2015, as I've described in my post JETSTAR AIRLINES: Are they Enforcing the Strict Carry-on Bag Weight Policy for Economy Class Passengers?, where they weigh both carry on luggage and whatever else you intend to bring to the cabin to tag it.

At the gate, they make several announcements that you should only be carrying 7 kilos of carry-on luggage but no one weighs it before or after boarding commences. You get through easily as long as you only bring one carry on size luggage and 1 small item.