{"id":3273,"date":"2015-08-28T19:09:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T11:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/staff-blog\/?p=3273"},"modified":"2015-08-28T19:47:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T11:47:43","slug":"plan-your-2016-holidays-as-early-as-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/plan-your-2016-holidays-as-early-as-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan Your 2016 Holidays as Early as Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dreaming of a perfect holiday activity in the near or far future should not be a wishful somewhere-over-the-rainbow kind of pursuit. It has to be intentional and proactive. No procrastinating with the \u201cit\u2019s still a long way off anyway\u201d kind of thinking. Enough with\u00a0 imagining the future and do something now to make that future happen, and that includes your vacations of course!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"OLYMPUS<\/p>\n

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And to be able to be ahead of the pack and thereby get the best early bird deals, the prime accommodations, the best place to go to, best time to go there, and the chance to avoid the peak season rush and escalation of prices, awareness and planning are a must<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just recently,\u00a0 the Philippine government released<\/a> the dates of the upcoming holidays for year 2016.
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\"malacanan<\/p>\n

Screen grabbed from Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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A. Regular Holiday<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

New Year’s Day – January 1st (Friday)<\/span><\/p>\n

Maundy Thursday – March 24<\/span><\/p>\n

Good Friday – March 25<\/span><\/p>\n

Araw ng Kagitingan<\/em> (Day of Valor) –\u00a0 April 9 (Saturday)<\/span><\/p>\n

Labor Day – May 1 (Sunday)<\/span><\/p>\n

Bonifacio Day – November 30 (Wednesday)<\/span><\/p>\n

Christmas Day – December 25 (Sunday)<\/span><\/p>\n

Rizal Day – December 30 (Friday)<\/span><\/p>\n

B. Special (Non-Working) Days<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Chinese New Year – February 8 (Monday)<\/span><\/p>\n

EDSA People Power Revolution – February 25 (Thursday)<\/span><\/p>\n

Black Saturday – March 26<\/span><\/p>\n

Ninoy Aquino Day – August 21 (Sunday)<\/span><\/p>\n

All Saints Day – November 1 (Tuesday)<\/span><\/p>\n

Additional Special (Non-working) Days: <\/em>January 2 (Saturday), October 30 (Monday), December 24 (Saturday) and December 30 (Saturday)<\/span><\/p>\n

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As early as now, you can plan, make the necessary arrangements without much hassle and stress, and cruise your way to your holiday trips and activities with only the feeling of exciting anticipation and nothing of the worry-inducing fear of not being able to do your hastily planned vacation due to glitches and lost chances.
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The perks of planning ahead are always a good thing. And you can enjoy them by checking out early the holidays, the calendar of events in your area, the promos, early announcements, and the future leisure opportunities awaiting you months from now — only if you grab them as early as you can!<\/span><\/p>\n

So check out 2016 official holiday proclamation and make the most of them by planning today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dreaming of a perfect holiday activity in the near or far future should not be a wishful somewhere-over-the-rainbow kind of pursuit. It has to be intentional and proactive. No procrastinating with the \u201cit\u2019s still a long way off anyway\u201d kind of thinking. Enough with\u00a0 imagining the future and do something now to make that future happen, and that includes your vacations of course! – – And to be able to be ahead of the pack and thereby get the best early bird deals, the prime accommodations, the best place to go to, best time to go there, and the chance to avoid the peak season rush and escalation of prices, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/08\/P5201820_re-e1440759499721.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}