Subic

What I'll remember about our recent trip to Subic are the following: 

1) Straight road, the as far as-your-eyes-can-see type. 

2) Puregold duty free: good enough prices!, a must in anyone's itinerary

3) toll rates: 

I also discovered that various companies split-out the road into territories. They cant combine everything to just one stretch. There is a part where you have to pass a toll gate, pay, travel a short winding portion of road, and then suddenly another toll gate, and then straight, afterwards voila, another toll gate!

Tipo - Subic - 18 PhP 

SCTEX - 112

San Fernando- Bocaue - 125

Dau to SF - 49

It's 304 PhP, one-way... 608, two-way!

4) Tons of Gerber that we bought for baby, to even-out the costly toll + gasoline 

5) There's a Petron station near Puregold. It might have some duties/taxes advantage as well, because they charge about 2-3 pesos lower than gas stations in Manila.

6) We had to go home without going to zoobic or any other attractions. We misjudged the travel time and the hours needed checking the duty free shops.

7) This safeguard soap. I bought a set of 4 each in white and then the original beige.

You dont get to buy the local version in this shape (ergonomically curved, it seems) and size (big) any more. The smell evokes a real, strong 99%-germ killer as well.