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Going home in summer

Summer is the diaspora’s costliest season: what a trip home actually runs, hand-carry vs. ship, and the pasalubong heat ruins.

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The real cost of going home: planning a summer trip back to the Philippines

The plane ticket is the smallest line in a trip home. A plain breakdown of what a visit actually costs, and why summer is the expensive season.
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Hand-carry or ship it? What goes in your luggage vs. the balikbayan box

Summer trips home raise the same question: what flies in the suitcase and what goes in the box. The factors that decide it, with the sourced rules linked.
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Pasalubong vs. a Philippine summer: what survives the heat, what doesn't

A balikbayan box is not climate-controlled, and summer is its hardest season. What heat, humidity, and weeks in transit ruin, and the categories that hold up.
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