Hello norgefluid
The short answer:
After the surgery, I was only about 8 hours in the Philippines.
Yes, you can fly home right after the operation.
Yes, a friend can accompany you.
The long answer:
I was in the Philippines for a very short time (about 20 hours in total).
I landed in Manila on Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 11:30 pm. By taxi I drove from Terminal 1 to Terminal 3. For this trip (5 km) I paid 250 Philippine Pesos. The taxi fare actually cost only 130 PHP, because the government-established taxi prices for the yellow taxis in the Philippines are:
• PHP 70 at flag case, including the first 500 meters
• PHP 4.00 every 300 meters afterwards.
• PHP 4.00 every 2 minutes waiting or standing in traffic.
But often the drivers are not honest and require more money for the trip than prescribed.
In Terminal 3, I spent the night in the Wings Transit Lounge (
https://www.sleepinginairports.net/loun ... ge-mnl.htm). For the showers in the lounge I paid 250 Php extra.
At 6:00 am (6.5 hours after I landed), I took a taxi to the Renew Medical Clinic. For the 21 km the taxi took about 1 hour. With the rush hour you can sometimes take 1.5 to 2 hours for this route. For this trip, the taxi driver demanded 1200 Php on the grounds that the Renew Medical Clinic is in a district that is no longer in the usual taxi area. I think the taxi driver was dishonest again.
At 7:00 am I was already at the Renew Medical Clinic. It was still closed because the clinic opens at 8 o'clock. That's why I bought something to eat at one of the many street shops.
At 8:00 am I went to the clinic. After I logged in to the reception, I was called to the office of Doctor Anthony Joson. We talked for 20 minutes. Anthony Joson explained how the operation will work. Then the operating room was prepared. During the operation, I sometimes felt something. Then the doctor has injected anesthesia again. Overall, I was in the operating room for an hour. At 11:30 am I drove back to the airport. A medical assistant of the clinic has found a driver with the Grap-App on her smartphone, who picked me up at the clinic and drove to the airport. The ride was 45 minutes and I paid 586 PhP.
Arriving at the airport, I waited for my flight, which was at 7:10 pm. The next day I landed at 6:55 am in Munich (Germany), took the train to my place of residence and was able to go to the university as usual at 11:00 am, because I am a student.
All in all, from arrival to departure I was only 19 hours and 40 minutes in the Philippines.
Here again the time course in bullet points (times in the respective local time zone):
Saturday, 05. October 2019
5:36 pm - 8:15 pm: Train ride from my place of residence to Munich Airport (Germany)
10:35 pm: Departure Munich Airport (Germany)
Sunday, October 06, 2019
11:30 pm: Arrival Manila Airport (Philippines)
Monday, October 07, 2019
6:00 am: Taxi ride from the Airport to the Renew Medical Clinic
8:00 am - 11:30 am: Renew Medical Clinic
11:30 am: Taxi ride from Renew Medical Clinic to the Airport
7:10 pm: Departure Manila Airport
Tuesday, October 08, 2019
06:55 am: Arrival Munich Airport
7:51 am - 10:22 am: Train ride from Munich Airport to my place of residence
11:00 am - 5:15 pm: Lecture in my university