Manila, April 17 -- A family of seven from Manggahan, Pasig City was chosen as the winner of the 2025 lucky summer visitors of Baguio and Benguet, an annual program of the Baguio Correspondents and Broadcasters Club (BCBC) aimed to help promote the province's tourism sector.

The family is composed of Ricardo Celestino Jr, 62, a carpenter; his wife, Carolyn, 57; his kids Jerome, 30; Julia, 11; Eunice, 13, and Eugin, 3; and Jerome's partner, Jelly Baustista, 31.

Bautista said it took a while for them to visit this city due to conflicts of schedules and they needed time to save up for the trip.

The group left Metro Manila at dawn on Maundy Thursday on board a Victory Liner bus, with plate number NAZ2113. Theirs is the ninth bus flagged do...