Angeles City

[FuriousGeorge]

Atlantis is open. I always enjoyed the setup and the vibe there but half of my barfines there weren't great experiences. I hope DollHouse comes back soon. The mamasan there loved me and I always pulled great girls.

Also notice at the 15:10 minute mark, the small woman with the stump leg is still on walking street selling gum. I'm glad to see she survived. I always overpaid her for gum and will again soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP3I0-ACcr8

[Member #4794]

Imagine a world where a hotel in AC wouldn't let you bring a girl back to your room. Insane. If they try to enforce that initially it won't last a week after so many angry dudes make a scene. I stay at Central Park Tower. I'll ask before I book.

Central Park Tower looks like they want to play ball made a reservation with them for the end of the month close enough going to call that a win for now. With any luck while I'm in country some other hotels will open up and I can grab one of those.

Just need to not test positive on the RT-PCR test and not mess-up the onepass and I think everything is good to go on my end.

[FuriousGeorge]

Imagine a world where a hotel in AC wouldn't let you bring a girl back to your room. Insane. If they try to enforce that initially it won't last a week after so many angry dudes make a scene. I stay at Central Park Tower. I'll ask before I book.

I just called ABC Hotel and asked their front desk if they would allow girls like before the pandemic since they are allowing tourists and they said that they are allowing tourists and registered guest up to the room limit, they said right now they would allow a girl in the room but she has to register with a vaccine card. I asked her if it was possible to change the registered guest as long as the occupancy stayed the same or if you are limited to the max registered guests and she said she would email me if ABC was going to go back to the old policy on bar girls she seemed to understand what I was after. I will update this thread if she emails me with that information.

[Member #4794]

Bookings in March with Agoda $110 a night. Rooms still available.

Does anyone know if ABC allows 2 or more girls in the room?

I just called ABC Hotel and asked their front desk if they would allow girls like before the pandemic since they are allowing tourists and they said that they are allowing tourists and registered guest up to the room limit, they said right now they would allow a girl in the room but she has to register with a vaccine card. I asked her if it was possible to change the registered guest as long as the occupancy stayed the same or if you are limited to the max registered guests and she said she would email me if ABC was going to go back to the old policy on bar girls she seemed to understand what I was after. I will update this thread if she emails me with that information.

[Cool]

Is it possible to take Bolt late from Term 1 to AC? Someone said they saw online the Term 3 bus to AC stops running 17:00 I guess no worries since an airport taxi can be had for 2 k.

[Dg8787]

For whatever this may be worth, I got an email from the ABC Hotel yesterday or the day before saying it's fully open for business. It didn't mention anything about room availability but it's got a huge capacity and I doubt that it's filled up yet.

GE.

Bookings in March with Agoda $110 a night. Rooms still available.

Does anyone know if ABC allows 2 or more girls in the room?

[Member #4794]

For whatever this may be worth, I got an email from the ABC Hotel yesterday or the day before saying it's fully open for business. It didn't mention anything about room availability but it's got a huge capacity and I doubt that it's filled up yet.

GE.

Only Cavite about ABC and Fields Plaza Hotel is overstay road when he did a staycation promo video for that company said that girls were not allowed into the rooms, registered guests only, if this has changed that might be an option.

[GoodEnough]

For whatever this may be worth, I got an email from the ABC Hotel yesterday or the day before saying it's fully open for business. It didn't mention anything about room availability but it's got a huge capacity and I doubt that it's filled up yet.

GE.

[WestCoast1]

none of the walking street hotels are available to book for whatever reason (included a pic of the search for the last week in FEB for your convenience and you can see that there is NOT a plentiful selection for that week). If you are there every weekend why say these places are open and begging for customers? SNIP

I would much prefer a Hotel on walking street.

Your pic of the walking street area looks like a google map or agoda map. You can't trust them for this reason: The information about each location is updated by the manager or owner, whenever he is of the mood to do that. Since the start of pandemic in Phils, I have discovered that rarely happens. If you click on any business or government office on your map, you get (on a laptop anyway) a window that opens on the left side of the screen, with a pic and info about that biz / govmt office. Hours of operation, street address, phone number, website, etc.

Often (and that's an understatement) this information is wrong and not updated. For example, the biz / office closed 8 months ago while still showing as open. Alternately the biz / office has different operating hours and days due to government covid restrictions (based on previous ECQ or current Alert Level), but that info is not updated routinely on google / agoda by management. Numerous times in the last 2 years I went to this or that biz / office based on the google map info, waiting until after 10 am to arrive (based on the map's opening hours info), only to find the biz / office was closed. A local would tell me that the biz / office has been closed for months. WTF biz / office manager didn't update that Google / Agoda info? The pinoy manager who would never think to do so, that's who. I believe that I recently reported about making an Agoda reservation for a hotel (not a condo) in the Burgos / Century City area, and booked it for 4 persons. Upon arrival the hotel management would only allow 2 persons in the room. The manager admitted that he himself was the one who set Agoda's information for his hotel, and he hadn't updated that info for more than 15 months. I found this kind of thing to be common in Phils: Numerous businesses would close their doors (or change days / hours of operation) routinely, such as for typhoons and floods, and never update their public google operation schedule. I looked a Jolliebee manager in the eye and asked her why she hadn't changed her store's hours of operation to show that her biz was closed for 2 straight days. "What? Me?" Yes, you. Who is the one who sets those google hours of operation? "I am". Why didn't you change them when you were closed? "Why would I do that?" She said that with crossed arms and a straight face. WE HAVE VASTLY DIFFERENT CULTURES WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF CUSTOMER SERVICE EXPECTATIONS. It is possible that the info on your map is correct in spots, and wrong in spots. Some possibilities:

* Kokomo's shows as $34 and sold out. Its possible that it is really $75 and they have rooms available (if you call them).

* The Penthouse Hotel (bottom of pic) shows as $33. Its possible that its been closed for a year or more, and is still closed. That $33 was the last price from before they closed.

* Pacific Breeze Hotel shows as $65. Its possible that it was closed for a year, re-opened at $45, and has closed again last November.

*Holla Angeles Bar shows Temporarily Closed. Its possible that it is currently open.

You can't trust anything from Agoda. I'd like to say also that its not the fault of Agoda, but sometimes it is. Once in the province I used Agoda to secure a room for a month (good monthly rate on Agoda). Once at the hotel I found that the Agoda info was wrong. The manager said that she changed the Agoda info 6 weeks prior, and the changes hadn't taken effect yet on Agoda. In contacting Agoda, Agoda confessed to the delay. They claimed that they also were hit by Covid with staffing shortages. One would think that a hotel manager wanting to change a hotel description (example: they have added a pool, or such) on Agoda would be a matter of him / her just adding the additional pic or text and hitting SUBMIT, but apparently there is more to it.

CALL YOUR HOTEL DIRECTLY. In addition, if you are reserving a condo unit, be in contact with your host regarding guest allowances, and then after you contact him / her, you call the residence directly and confirm that with the residence Admin. Even if our host / owner allows you unlimited guests, if the residence doesn't allow it, then you are in for a rude arrival.

[Member #4794]

Let me apologize for giving bad information. You are totally correct. There isn't a single hotel with even 1 room available until 2023. I am sorry if my post was misleading.

I actually saw your comment as a ray of hope that I would find a reasonable hotel in the walking street area. I do not enjoy not being able to find somewhere I want to stay. I guess some of these establishments doubt that the tourists are coming or need more time to ramp back up. I do have a few hotel reservations but they are in subpar locations and hotels I have not stayed in before. Maybe we will see them update their listings in the next few days.

[Member #4794]

I go there every weekend, hotels out the yen yang, all begging for business. Maybe cancel your trip because there isn't an approved accommodation available. Really in the age that everything is online you can't find an accommodation in a tourism based town that has waited 2 years for the return of clients?

Despite your "nice" comments seeing as I am a AgodaVIP Platinum member I am not new to Agoda that being said if you doubt what's going on take a look at what's available on Agoda for that last week of FEB, none of the walking street hotels are available to book for whatever reason (included a pic of the search for the last week in FEB for your convenience and you can see that there is NOT a plentiful selection for that week). If you are there every weekend why say these places are open and begging for customers? In this overstay road video they clearly are not open. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40_7st0-9z0). Its very unproductive to infer that these places are open and accepting tourists when they clearly are not. If in fact they are open and accepting tourists for February I would be willing to stay at these places. That being said I was able to book a hotel for April but as I moved up my flight, the same hotels I was booked with no longer have rooms or are not taking reservations. I did manage to book a room at the "Capitol Hill Hotel and Suites" & "The Clarkton" as a plan be and see but they are further down the road than I would like, I would much prefer a Hotel on walking street.

[Beavis]

Its not "Plenty" every hotel I've wanted to book is not on Agoda or no rooms available.

All of the hotels I'm used to are not on Agoda for some reason. Hotel Royal Amsterdam, Grand Central Hotel Angeles, Envy(dont know if this was ever on agoda.), Kokomos is not even listed on Agoda now the hotel that used to be medgar on narciso st. Ect.

I booked a room at the Kandi Place and they canceled it. The Penthouse, Score birds also had no rooms when I checked for the end of FEB.

"Hotel: Kandi Palace.

Room Type: Deluxe King Studio.

City / Country: Angeles / Clark / Philippines.

Upon investigation, it appears that due to a system error your booking was not completed.

Let me apologize for giving bad information. You are totally correct. There isn't a single hotel with even 1 room available until 2023. I am sorry if my post was misleading.

[D Cups]

Any tourist mongers planning to hit AC February 10th or shortly thereafter?

I arrive February 17 from Sacramento. Getting retirement visa. Fed up with USA. I will be toggling between Manila, Angeles, Subic, Cebu and getting a house west of Dumaguete up in the hills. Hope to meet some of you guys here. Sound off for any big boob sightings or encounters - - slim and stacked 20's preferred. Cheers mates!

[Beavis]

Its not "Plenty" every hotel I've wanted to book is not on Agoda or no rooms available.

All of the hotels I'm used to are not on Agoda for some reason. Hotel Royal Amsterdam, Grand Central Hotel Angeles, Envy(dont know if this was ever on agoda.), Kokomos is not even listed on Agoda now the hotel that used to be medgar on narciso st. Ect.

I booked a room at the Kandi Place and they canceled it. The Penthouse, Score birds also had no rooms when I checked for the end of FEB.

"Hotel: Kandi Palace.

Room Type: Deluxe King Studio.

City / Country: Angeles / Clark / Philippines.

Upon investigation, it appears that due to a system error your booking was not completed.

You were not charged, and no confirmation was sent. We're sorry for any inconvenience this has caused you.

I go there every weekend, hotels out the yen yang, all begging for business. Maybe cancel your trip because there isn't an approved accommodation available. Really in the age that everything is online you can't find an accommodation in a tourism based town that has waited 2 years for the return of clients?

[Beavis]

Just called The Royal Amsterdam and the kuya said they don't open until March. Grand Central Hotel phone is totally disconnected. Tried to call Envy no answer. Looks like ALOT of the GOTO hotels im used to are not available what hotel are you referring to specifically?

I posted the link, agoda.com you can book there. I have been using Agoda for 3 years, use it every week and have never been let down. Even better you pay online and don't have to use cash.