Cool place to hang out during 2012 Clark Hot Air Balloon is Clark Wine Center

Manila residents asked for tips and information on how to travel to the 2012 Clark Hot Air Balloon Fiesta from Manila. Visitors who drive should make parking arrangements. Commuters should find rides to and from bus stations for commuters. Good advice for those planning to attend the Hot Air Balloon Festival is to plan the trip carefully.

The popular Philippines Hot Air Balloon Festival returns to Clark, Pampanga in 2012. Fun filled programs start on 9th February and last through the evening of Sunday 12th February, 2012. Thousands of people are expected to travel out of town from Manila to watch these colorful hot air balloons during the 17th Philippines Hot Air Balloon Fiesta in Clark. A lot of Manila residents will bring their families with children along. Some who are lucky or clever enough to reserve hotel accommodation in advance will also take this opportunity to savor the laid back and peaceful lifestyle that some of Clark’s better hotels such as Clearwater Resort has to offer.

For those who plan to drive to the Hot Air Balloon Festival in Clark, Pampanga, they are well advised to make plans for parking. The limited parking facilities at the Hot Air Balloon Festival site may fill up very quickly. Although parking is available in other places throughout the city of Clark, these are not very near to the Hot Air Balloon fiesta site so visitors who drive and park in Clark should expect a 15 to 30-minute walk from and back to the place that they parked their cars.

Specially added in 2012 to the Clark Hot Air Balloon Festival is V. I. P. parking. This is made available by Clark Wine Center, a property of Yats International which is located near to the Clark Hot Air Balloon Festival. The parking facilities of this famous wine shop in Pampanga are sought after by travelers. Only 100 slots are available in this V.I.P. Hot Air Balloon parking lot in Clark Wine Center, hardly enough to accommodate the hundreds of vehicles that will not be able to find parking in the hot air balloon fiesta public parking area.

Visitors from Manila can take the commuter bus to get to Dau bus terminal in Angeles City. From there, jeepneys will take them to the main gate of Clark where they can alight and board a jeepney that will take them from the main gate to the Clark Hot Air Balloon Festival site. Normally, this three-ride connection should bring visitors into Clark from the bus terminal in Cubao Manila in a little over two hours.

Clark Wine Center
MA Roxas Ave corner A Bonifacio Ave, Clark Freeport
(045) 841-4006 0922-870-5173 0916-542-6602 Ana Fe
www.ClarkWineCenter.com

In previous events, visitors experienced problems catching the connecting rides after the bus arrived in Angeles city, especially during Saturday and Sunday of the Hot Air Balloon Festival weekend. These problems are no comparison to the difficulties in getting a jeepney ride leaving the Clark Hot Air Balloon Fiesta site to get back to the bus terminal in Angeles City for the ride back to Manila. Many visitors were stranded for literally hours waiting to get out of Clark.

This year a special Hot Air Balloon bus service is available. Participants board the special bus in a designated pickup location in Manila and travel to Clark in comfort, resting up during the 90-minute journey arriving refreshed and ready to enjoy the festivities of the Hot Air Balloon Festival in Clark. Visitors arrive at the entrance of the 2012 Hot Air Balloon Fiesta site in Clark and catch the shuttle service at the Clark Wine Center near to the site to return to Manila.

Tickets to this special Hot Air Balloon Fiesta bus service must be purchased in advance. Round-trip ticket price is php750 (no one-way ticket available) which includes admission ticket for the 2012 Clark Hot Air Balloon Festival. Only a small number of seats are available and once tickets are sold out, no more will be made available.

Surely the best way to enjoy the 2012 Philippines Hot Air Balloon Festival is to spend a night or two in a nice hotel or resort in Clark. These visitors should then be able to enjoy the hot air balloon programs in the early hours of dawn.

Clearwater Resort is a highly recommended hotel for visitors attending the 2012 Hot Air Balloon Festival in Clark. Many visitors hope to savor the laid back suburban lifestyle of this city which not so long ago was the largest US airbase outside of America. Guests of this resort hotel in Clark get to relax and unwind around the beautiful lake of Clark. Some enjoy one of several swim spots including a white-sand beach with adjoining swimming lagoons. Families with children particularly enjoy the vast picnic grounds laced with century-old Acacia trees.

Clearwater Resort and Country Club
Creekside Road near Centennial Expo, Clark Freeport
(045)599-5949 0917-520-4403 0922-870-5177 Joanne, Jeremy or Marilou

www.ClearwaterPhilippines.com

Hot Line for what’s happening in Clark: 045 889-5151.

More details, news and other articles pertaining to the 2012 Clark Hot Air Balloon Festival can be found on this web site:

http://www.ClarkPhilippines.com

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