Best Route to Baguio [Merged]

**alwayz_yummy** · April 15th, 2005 08:04 PM

maraming trancient house reps sa burnham park...pero the known hotel there is on session rd beside jollibee....

i alwayz take the kennon route..much shorter than marcos....un nga lang, steep inclines and the zigzag needs good driving skills and 110% vehicle condition...plus, the main reason i take kennon is malapit nalang dun ung tinutuluyan,e....sa pma!

**cardo** · April 15th, 2005 08:19 PM

no offense but if it rains, wag ka mag kennon. naphobia na ako sa kennon because 1 time, I was driving there and konting ulan lang naglaglagan yun mga bato. Never got over it... but the good thing there is walang buses and slow trucks, just jeeps. marcos has wide fast sweeping uphill curves :D great for testing the handling and torque of your car :D not to mention the "f1 monaco like" tunnel just before hitting the flyover hehehe

from my experience... best time to travel leaving manila is 12mn onwards, pagdating mo baguio sakto early morning na. when leaving baguio for manila, mga 7 or 8pm onwards. pagdating mo manila wala trapik and you have some time to get some shut eye and more importantly you arrive before the morning rush hour.

**bilog** · April 15th, 2005 08:26 PM

thanks for the info guys... :cheers:

**alwayz_yummy** · April 15th, 2005 09:00 PM

Originally Posted by cardo

no offense but if it rains, wag ka mag kennon. naphobia na ako sa kennon because 1 time, I was driving there and konting ulan lang naglaglagan yun mga bato. Never got over it... but the good thing there is walang buses and slow trucks, just jeeps. marcos has wide fast sweeping uphill curves :D great for testing the handling and torque of your car :D not to mention the "f1 monaco like" tunnel just before hitting the flyover hehehe

from my experience... best time to travel leaving manila is 12mn onwards, pagdating mo baguio sakto early morning na. when leaving baguio for manila, mga 7 or 8pm onwards. pagdating mo manila wala trapik and you have some time to get some shut eye and more importantly you arrive before the morning rush hour.

so far wala pa naman ako experience na ganyan....sana di dumting ung part na un sa akin....

so far my record going there is still 3 hours....in a 3am departure, we arrived at almost 6am....cruising at an average of 130kph...ngayon, 3 hours sa cabanatuan lang ako inaabot...at only 60kph average...(hay,iba na talaga pag pamilyado)

*BILOG: welcome!hope we see at baguio when we go up there too!

**bilog** · April 15th, 2005 09:06 PM

I will be there this coming wednesday and thursday. Medyo bitin kasi business trip.

**amboy** · April 16th, 2005 01:49 AM

bilog: give us a holler here in baguio if you need anything or if there's anything we can help you out with!

**boybi** · April 16th, 2005 03:02 AM

hehe, yebo, medyo ayusin ko lang directions mo ;)

Originally Posted by yebo

exit ka sa dulo na ng nlex. then head west (lalabas ka exit then sa overpass turn right) to angeles. pag dating mo sa macarthur hiway turn right heading north.

at the end of NLEX (yung last tollgate now will be before dau exit, wala ng tollgate sa sta. ines), pass under the overpass, curved road ito at paikot, then turn right under the mabalacat arc, go straight then turn right at the intersection, macarthur highway na ito.

Originally Posted by yebo

diretso lang until you reach tarlac city. dun sa may intersection na Y, yung left ay punta tarlac city, yung right ewan ko di pa ko nakadaan dun ehehehe! dun ka sa left pumasok, then pag dating sa dulo (tumbok mo yung university of tarlac yata yun) turn right and cross the bridge. diretso na yun hangang luisita.

medyo naguluhan ako dito sa directions mo a

Capas, Tarlac yata ang tinutukoy mong meron intersection na Y at meron Caltex in between. sa left side ang macarthur highway, yung right side, papuntang Concepcion, Tarlac, and de-tour road din ito going to NLEX kapag sobrang traffic sa macarthur highway.

(yung Tarlac State University nasa city proper ng Tarlac, and you don't need to go into the city proper to go to Baguio City.)

madadaanan mo na ang Luisita (meron Pizza Hut, Starbucks and Max's na magkakatabi), just go straight lang along macarthur highway until you reach a Y-intersection na meron lumang closed restaurant shaped like a hut. turning left will lead you to Marcos Highway, turning right is Kennon Road. Before this Y-intersection, meron magkalapit na Shell and Petron Stations. dito kayo mag stopover dahil ito na ang last decent pitstop nyo before Baguio.

**Nordberg** · April 16th, 2005 03:11 AM

Nakadaan na ba kayo sa isang "shortcut" na bago dumating ng Urdaneta galing Baguio?

**bilog** · April 16th, 2005 08:14 AM

boybi,
Salamat sa corrections sir. I will save your directions.

amboy,
I will do that bro. Pag nalungkot ako sa first night i will ask you something.