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12-01-18 04:07 #12063
Posts: 6855Originally Posted by ForkTruck [View Original Post]
If you can leave your passport for 3 days, you pay approximately p2100. Then you return in 3 days and pick up your passport which will have the extension in it. If you want then to process the thing within 1 hour, you pay p3100 approximately (there is a Starbucks across the street, get a coffee there and read the newspaper). Having the Ayala store charge p5000 is not bad if they can do the 1-hour thing and get your passport back to you the next day. Factor in also your taxi and coffee costs if you choose to do it yourself.
Gents did I miss anything?
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12-01-18 04:03 #12062
Posts: 1077Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
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12-01-18 03:33 #12061
Posts: 2374Originally Posted by ForkTruck [View Original Post]
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12-01-18 03:23 #12060
Posts: 193Visa question
On my previous two trips to the Philippines I have been staying the standard tourist visa limit which I think is 29 days +/- On my next trip I want to stay longer, as long as 7 weeks, so I stopped into an Ayala mall store offering immigration work and asked them how I could stay for up to two months. The clerk there told me it was no problem and she would handle it for 5000 php. I said thanks for the info and left. I am thinking 5000 is huge and don't believe others are paying that for something I should be able to do myself. What advice do you guys have for me?
FT.
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11-30-18 15:22 #12059
Posts: 1191Exceptional service.
Originally Posted by Blanquiceleste [View Original Post]
I have fond memories of the SQ group airline.
BD.
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11-30-18 09:14 #12058
Posts: 1575Originally Posted by Ebauche [View Original Post]
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11-30-18 02:38 #12057
Posts: 193Manila airport
Departed Manila yesterday on an international flight, By the numbers at 10:30 am. In line at immigration A; 2000 persons standing, immigration be; 1000 persons standing. Number of times my suitcase and back pack went through an Xray scanner 3. Number of times my passport and boarding pass were looked at 4. Number of time I had to remove my shoes 2. It is not a good experience to say the least. Immigration / passport control was only manned at 25% of stations under an ironic advertisment for a new phone stating in two foot high letters a more intelligent solution. Ha ha. Wheel chair customers kept getting wheeled to the front of lines. I think my back will start to bother me next time, difficult to walk sir, please bring chair and pusher.
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11-29-18 03:27 #12056
Posts: 3427Originally Posted by BrainDrain [View Original Post]
While it may be expensive for Sx to get to PI, for others it is nearby and airfares are cheap. Don't forget that for others, the reverse journey get to his holiday spots can be equally expensive.
As an example, I was looking into going to some of the low price, developing country destinations as a change to PI. For me, air fares to Colombia or Madagascar are in the '000's of dollars and the return trip is about a week of airtime. It would take a lot of $10 girls to justify this compared to $500 flights of a couple of hours to PI or LOS.
While many visitors are tourists, there are also many posters who make the most of paid business trips while they are here. Some are even paid to live in Asia for years on a "Hardship Posting". 😁.
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11-27-18 11:43 #12055
Posts: 990Amen brother
Originally Posted by BrainDrain [View Original Post]
No comparison as far as I am concerned.
NI.
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11-27-18 05:29 #12054
Posts: 1191Seems some needs a break.
For some reason I cannot reply to this member who takes it upon themselves to message me. Once again here is my reply.
Originally Posted by Sxxxx
Cheers.
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11-27-18 04:39 #12053
Posts: 760Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
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11-27-18 04:35 #12052
Posts: 3427Originally Posted by BrainDrain [View Original Post]
My introduction was a loading on top of a tax free salary to compensate me for the difficulty of living in Asia.
I actually had to go see an occupational psychologist to help me cope with the stress of the new environment. Company Policy, they said. 🤤.
I shit you not 😁.
Actually, if you want a laugh the books of the same name are a comical summary of living and working in the region:
https://stulloyd.com/portfolio/hardship-posting-book/
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11-27-18 04:15 #12051
Posts: 6855Originally Posted by KabulGuy [View Original Post]
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11-27-18 02:10 #12050
Posts: 984Originally Posted by BrainDrain [View Original Post]
Changes the economics slightly, especially for people on short trerm visits. I just stay long enough to amortize the flight cost over a couple hundred girls LOL.
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11-26-18 22:32 #12049
Posts: 1191Originally Posted by BrainDrain [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by xxxxx
My company pays for airport transfers when I use them.
I get a daily travel allowance of AUD190 or P7,220.
Medicare covers blood tests and PBS subsidies medicines.
For me Philippines is cash flow positive.
If I was self-funding then I would take a return $462 Cebu pacific flight SYD-MNL.
Return Genesis bus (leaves from CP terminal) $20.
Stay in my AirBNB FR 7 nights $140.
Girl (s) per day $50/ day $350.
7 days of sex with overnights for under $1,000.
Sure beats the Australian equivalent of fucking Chinese farm girls on massage tables.
BD.