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01-24-20 04:51 #17874
Posts: 289Edsa
Visited the EDSA complex. Was immediately approached by about a dozen girls and a few mamasans trying to direct me into their bar. Total of about 6-7 bars, similar to Nana Plaza in Bangkok but the bars are a little smaller and there is no nudity, only bikinis. The girls were easily the match of the Nana girls. Different look, of course, but plenty of slim pretty young girls with pretty faces. A few with decent breasts but mostly the standard small breasted Filipinas. The drinks were around 140 pesos and the lady drinks were around 380 pesos. The girls explained that the entire complex has one owner, so the prices were identical in every bar. Barfine are 2500. I was offered 5-6 K for LT. Found a favorite easily in Pitstop, but wanted to at least try a few bars, so found another favorite in Firehouse. She seemed too good to lose, so BF'ed her and went back to my hotel for LT. Her stage name was Angela. She explained that most girls in EDSA prefer Japanese guys. She prefers white guys, hence the immediate chemistry with her. She was "all in" all night long. Plenty of enthusiastic DFK, DATY, rimming, BBBJ, full service. Ended up coming 2 times, took her to late night dinner in the restaurant, then came 2 more times in the room, then sleep for a few hours, then came one more time in the morning, then took her to breakfast. Paid 6 K plus 2500 BF, so essentially $170 US for 12 hours of unlimited service. I came a total of 5 times. (Full service was covered). Pretty good deal. Only place I know that has the same level of service for that price is Colombia. Overall, very happy. The bars at EDSA seemed like ghost towns with only 1 guy per bar on average. Occasionally a group of 5 young Asian mongers would show up, have a drink, then leave. Pretty much a wide open field. If you were considering Burgos versus EDSA, I'the say that Burgos is much more of a party atmosphere with loud music and tons of guys, EDSA is quieter like a (relatively) classy cocktail bar. I actually preferred EDSA. More free girls to choose from and less competition for the best girls. Pricing is better than Burgos, too. I plan to repeat.
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01-24-20 03:54 #17873
Posts: 264Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
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01-22-20 23:29 #17872
Posts: 6826Originally Posted by RedKilt [View Original Post]
At major US hubs in the last year, I have had luggage delays of 45+ minutes during non-peak travel, and at the same airport (and airline, at other non-peak travel time) have had luggage already on the carousel just moments after I arrived at the carousel. Not sure what the rhyme / reason is behind it.
Flew (full A-320) into a large american mid-west airport last year, landing 1 am (outbound flight delay, originally scheduled to land at 10 pm). Once at the carousel area, as the passengers from our flight gathered around our carousel, I noticed that all the carousels were not moving. The TV monitors over each showed no inbound flights, only my carousel showed one flight (mine). We still waited more than an hour for the luggage to start coming out. From the time they turn of the seat-belt sign (that would be approximately when they move in to offload luggage), to arriving at the carousel area (its a walk), is about 15 minutes. If on some flights the luggage shows up on the carousel 20 minutes after the seat belt sign is turned off, and on other flights it takes 60+ minutes (at 1 am), why the difference in delay? My tiny brain wants to know.
Flew recently from Manila to the province on a full (same aircraft type as above) flight. Deplaned down a ladder and walked into the airport's luggage carousel. Five minutes later luggage was showing on the rack. The crew was offloading luggage by the time I was walking down the aircraft ladder (and I was 3rd off the front of the plane, and we were de-planing at both front / back of the plane). That was fast! On the return to Manila, de-planing at the front only, and then the walk to the carousel area, we waited another 20 minutes for our luggage to start showing up (and so lucky for me personally that it took another 20 minutes for my suitcase to show up, only 40 minutes waiting). Rhyme? Reason? Large airport? Small airport? Lazy personnel? Short on personnel?
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01-22-20 13:32 #17871
Posts: 689Rats
Was walking thru Robinsons supermarket at Robinsons Place Ermitra when the biggest rat I have ever seen ran past me and under some freezers. It was the size of a cat!
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01-18-20 10:53 #17870
Posts: 40Volcanic eruption or not, baggage in NAIA move like snails. That is the reality we have in the Philippines.
But it's not fair to single us out. I have also experienced more than an hour waiting for my baggage during my vacation in UK last year (Edinburgh Airport).
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01-17-20 17:56 #17869
Posts: 332Originally Posted by RedKilt [View Original Post]
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01-17-20 09:22 #17868
Posts: 3230Originally Posted by Dg8787 [View Original Post]
I was watching the guys unloading the trolleys onto the carousel. There was no indication of any strategy in place other than there was no urgency at all and they seemed to be competing as to who could do least work in the time available.
I will accept it as an outlier event given that there was so much disruption caused by the Taal volcano eruption. I must say most other times my bags have arrived quickly enough.
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01-17-20 08:56 #17867
Posts: 3256Originally Posted by RedKilt [View Original Post]
Possibly this was your case. Other scenario might have been a shift change!
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01-17-20 07:23 #17866
Posts: 449New stop for Genesis in Terminal 3
Originally Posted by Dg8787 [View Original Post]
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01-17-20 05:18 #17865
Posts: 673Originally Posted by RedKilt [View Original Post]
One of the great frustrations of flying, but hey it's a first world problem in a third world country.
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01-17-20 03:00 #17864
Posts: 3230Originally Posted by Dg8787 [View Original Post]
Good news ends there.
It took ONE HOUR and FIVE MINUTES (65 f**g minutes) for my bag to come out on the carousel. They have a video monitor now of the baggage handlers unloading the trolleys and hurling bags on to the carousel. There was no action at all for around 15 minutes, then a couple of young guys stroll into view. 2 trolleys arrive and the guys take forever to undo the straps and start loading bags. I kid you not; the trolleys arrived very haphazardly and my bag (marked priority) came out after 65 minutes. I don't know what the problem was. I assume it was too few baggage handlers, trolleys etc for the backlog of flights after the volcano closed the airports.
Luckily I got a Grab car within 5 minutes of emerging from T3 but then it took a further 115 minutes to get home to my condo.
All up. Sydney to Manila = 7 hours 30 min. T3 to home = 3 hours.
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01-16-20 09:45 #17863
Posts: 3256Arrived January 15th MNL, terminal 3, 10 pm. No problem with on time arrival. Passport control had long lines. Wait was about 20 minutes.
Got baggage and was at Genesis bus at 10:40 pm for 11:00 pm departure. Arrived in AC at 1:00 am.
BTW, Genesis has moved to the median strip in front of Bay 11. No longer at Bay 14.
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01-16-20 07:26 #17862
Posts: 289Malate alternatives
Got ready to get a Grab car and go to Abaca Spa in Malate. Figured I should check Manila Tonight for any specials. Guess what. That location is apparently closed due to building ownership problems. Any suggestions for alternatives in the same area? Anyone with experience at SOTA massage or Spa Hiroshima?
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01-16-20 05:38 #17861
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01-16-20 05:12 #17860
Posts: 689Originally Posted by ItIsMe83 [View Original Post]