Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Terminal 2, International Departing and Arriving Flights

Beautiful and brand new airport! However, this airport needs 4 more immigration officers at the counters. It is very inefficient - long lines! We arrived 2 hours early, and we didn't get a chance to look around, grab a coffee and relax a bit. Meanwhile, booths 11 -14 were empty, and people were panicking as they were about to board. The domestic terminal departure waiting lounge is one of the worst in the world. The feeling you get when you are in this waiting lounge is like being at a waiting area of a busy bus station. What makes it a bit worse than a big bus station is the fact that the ceiling is so low and the number of food establishments way too many, that you actually leave the area smelling like food, mostly like that overrated restaurant called Zubuchon. And don’t even get one started on the ambient temperature. It is so warm inside, it is suffocating. It’s from a combination of poor air conditioning system, the heat from the restaurants, and the warmth of the humanity that teems in this place. So you can imagine that the worst time to be in the waiting area is in the evening when all the passengers from all the delayed flights (and all flights are delayed in this airport and all Philippine airports because the airports are overused) are packed into this tiny space! You wonder why this is so when you hear glowing reviews of the international terminal just beside it. Well, go figure. Oh it has one redeeming quality - free true high-speed internet.

wow beautiful airport.. Going to Hongkong..

Oh far, far away