How to Get to the Philippine Arena from Quezon City By Car

This post is for future reference for you guys who are planning to watch a concert or a sports event at the Philippine Arena in Bulacan in the future!

Do not leave Quezon City at 7PM like we did! We had to kasi coding ang car namin but if you can leave earlier, so much the better! DON'T use the Balintawak exit, better to use Mindanao Avenue and then NLEX. There's traffic but I heard Balintawak was much worse!

Actually, the worse part is ENTERING the Philippine Arena! I think it took us an hour just to enter it! Well, we can forgive the organizers this time because this is the first concert ever in the venue. But the next group who plans to hold a concert here should do something about easing the entry of the cars to the arena. One lang kasi kuya so just imagine all these cars and buses jostling to enter a very narrow entrance road!

And, I guess our INC brothers and sisters did not anticipate the utter lack of parking space!! Joskoday!! All the parking areas were full and we had no choice but to park na in the street leading to the exit!! I even saw cars parked very near the entrance na mismo ng Arena!! Siguro sabi nila sa guards, utang na loob kuya, ipapark nyo na kami, otherwise, we'd be parking in the expressway!

Apparently, 30,000 people came to watch Katy Perry last night, so kahit conservative estimate na lang na 2 persons per car, that's 15,000 parking spaces that organizers have to provide!

What if Taylor Swift concert yun or One Direction, di ubos ang 55,000 seats, and that would be a staggering 30,000 cars to accommodate!!

Wala ring central command sa parking, even the guards on foot had no idea where to lead the poor people who came late, like us, so pasensyahan na lang. Ang ibang kotse nga, sinampa na lang dun sa mga bermuda! We entered the venue at around 9PM na e and we were quietly panicking kasi the show might start na and we were still looking for parking!

So lesson learned, next time there is a show in the Philippine Arena, better to leave Quezon City at around 6PM to avoid panicking. If you live in Pasig or Mandaluyong, 5PM, if taga-Makati ka 4PM. If you live in Ayala Alabang, borrow Lucio Tan's helicopter!

If you are commuting though, I saw some buses pero mga lima lang ata yun! The rest of the audience brought their own ride.