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[Thampi62]

Forum of a great mongering destination is getting dull again friends. I loved AC as it is the top notch place where We can have threesome very conveniently. Most of the girls walk in two at a time, willing to come together and they will be very cooperative in action in the room. I enjoy watching them enjoying the room and the food in the restaurents. When they started liking you they will do anything for it. I really had a wonderful time dancing with two girls in HS. Good old times. Definitely come back again once the situation is favourable.

Regards.

[WestCoast1]

No it is not and the statistics belie your claim. Vax rates are falling and many in what are called red states seems unable to comprehend the need for a vax sadly.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-57004926

Most of the US is getting vaccinated and Covid is almost over in the US now. Lets hope.

Pics are from WR's BBC article and also my previous General Info post. Easily you can find recent articles from the last 2 weeks saying that the US will not reach herd immunity this year (or next), due mostly to vax hesitancy. Not sure how Covid is almost over in the US as the jab rate continues to dwindle. Here's another herd immunity article:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ife-with-covid

[Wicked Roger]

Some encouraging signs about bars in AC. A few thoughts:

-They should consider letting American into Ph. Most of the US is getting vaccinated and Covid is almost over in the US now. Lets hope..

No it is not and the statistics belie your claim. Vax rates are falling and many in what are called red states seems unable to comprehend the need for a vax sadly.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-57004926

See this article about how bad it really is. I know how bad is can be there so it is wishful thinking or you believe in Santa if you think the situation will change soon. I agree with Datiao FR. The medical system is overwhelmed and some are telling me it is worse than reported especially in the provinces. Pinoys are unable to self isolate for a number of reasons and love to go out mingle regardless of what the government says ('hard headed' is one description used by many pinay friends).

Do the math in the USA and read the stats. Yes the Philippines needs an economic boost but it will / may come at a price. Many thought the same and now suffering another more deadlier wave.

Best keep unload the blue balls elsewhere for now LOL.

[Datiao]

As I mentioned, I'm hoping it's a test run for starting to allow tourists in again. They need the money.

Maybe that's exactly the reason why they are not letting in tourists. They can't afford another explosion of virus numbers like India, overwhelming their Healthcare facilities and workers.

The daily covid new cases used to be below 5000 couple of months ago and before, but now it's 7000- 8000 after breaking the 10000 barrier few weeks ago.

The situation got worse, not better.
The anxiety in Durtete prompted him to order the arrest of people not properly wearing mask few days ago.

And with the virus variant causing havoc around SEA, I m not optimistic abt borders for tourists opening this year.
Thailand which was scheduled to open borders for tourist in July had just canceled due to increase in infections.

[Crazy Ami]

Some encouraging signs about bars in AC. A few thoughts:

-They should consider letting American into Ph. Most of the US is getting vaccinated and Covid is almost over in the US now. Lets hope.

-Subic (Barrio Baretto): Sounds like the bar scene in Subic is not bad. I have to say though that the biggest challenge in Subic is not becoming roadkill as you cross that awful highway that goes right through the town. Imagine if Walking St in AC had a busy highway with traffic zipping along at 50 mph with no sidewalk running through it. That's Subic.

I agree re: letting people in. Especially since they're doing the mandatory 10-day facility-based + 4-day home-based quarantine for all arrivals. As I mentioned, I'm hoping it's a test run for starting to allow tourists in again. They need the money.

For Subic / Barretto, they actually expanded the highway. It's officially a 4-lane road now through the bar area. The funny thing is, they didn't take into account the power lines. The outer lane on the coast-side road actually has "temporary" power lines of wood stands in the middle of the lane, so cars can't use it; it allows for a much easier walking trip along the strip. But yes, still need to look both ways, and up and down, and sideways, and in your pockets, before trying to cross.

[Pussycat123]

Some encouraging signs about bars in AC. A few thoughts:

-They should consider letting American into Ph. Most of the US is getting vaccinated and Covid is almost over in the US now. Lets hope.

-Subic (Barrio Baretto): Sounds like the bar scene in Subic is not bad. I have to say though that the biggest challenge in Subic is not becoming roadkill as you cross that awful highway that goes right through the town. Imagine if Walking St in AC had a busy highway with traffic zipping along at 50 mph with no sidewalk running through it. That's Subic.

[Crazy Ami]

Very exciting report man. We sense the horizon in the vicinity. Keep going.

My guess is that things will be open for another few weeks before infections start to rise in Pampanga again and they put the liquor / bar ban back in place. No idea when vaccinations will start here; the mayor's office has put up a survey for people to register online and have said they're doing a house to house barangay survey (they even said foreign residents would be included in the vaccinations), but in 3 weeks they have yet to reach Balibago, Malabanias, or Anunas (Walking Street, Perimeter, and Koreatown respectively).

We have door girls and everything outside in AC. Some of the bars take your temp, some make you fill out a "contact form", some spray you with alcohol, some do nothing. Once you get inside everything is just like it was, except for the occasional plastic on a seat highlighting "social distancing" which no-one follows. The contact form lists are hilarious, with names from the classic Ben Dover to Hugh G. Deek.

Bars are currently open from 1-10 pm on Walking Street due to curfew rules. Personally, I LOVE this schedule. I like heading out earlier and coming back home earlier. It's also a *great* advantage to get a morning sneak-out visit. Since girls have to get to work much earlier, they don't mind coming over to your place in the morning at say, 10-11 am for a short time before they head into work. Had a girl from a Korean bar visit me this morning.

Barfines are 3200 at Wolfpack bars, and either 3500 or 4000 at the Korean bars. Some of those bars have another system I found out about yesterday; 4000 for LT and 3000 for ST; I found this interesting; while I'm not a fan of the price, I do like the implied "guarantee" that the girl would stay the night. Not that I would pay that, though; all about getting their Facebook and inviting them over in the morning.

Wolfpack is actively advertising their Wolfpack Card (usually it's a word of mouth / ask the manager deal), which is a fantastic promo that pays for itself almost immediately. 500 p, two free local drinks, plus *all* of your drinks and ladies drinks are 20% off for the rest of the year. There's usually a limited amount issued each year, but I guess they feel like they're not going to have that problem this year.

There are quite a few more "local" (I. E. Pampanga) girls in the bars now; while many of them are quite attractive, it seems like most of the Visayan girls went back home during the last lockdown. I hope to see them start trickling back over the next couple of weeks.

Final thought (and small thread of hope for people outside the PI right now): the Covid Task Force here just released a memo today that said EVERY person coming into the country (currently only Filipinos and certain visa holders), regardless of visa / citizenship / vaccine status, MUST do 10 days in a quarantine facility (I. E. Specific hotel) plus 4 days of home quarantine. Previously it has been up to 7 days I think and you could leave as soon as you got a negative PCR test. Now you don't even get the PCR test until Day 7. It sounds onerous, BUT, it may be the start of a plan to slowly start opening up the country to tourists a la Thailand. If they can make sure that the system works with the current groups coming in, and infections don't start rising, they might start expanding it to selected amounts of tourists (especially if they can charge crazy money for the visa application). I think in the end it all boils down to what happens in India. They've already banned anyone coming in from India / Bangladesh / Nepal / Pakistan regardless of visa status while the variant is going nuts over there. If that variant spreads here, we'll be in for another year of lockdown at least.

[Thampi62]

So I decided to head down to Walking Street this evening for at least a drink and a nice dinner, and lo and behold. Bars were open with dancers!

Apparently the mayor (or his wallet) saw the light and allowed some bars to open with girls. Everything closes at 10 pm (Subic is still better!) but there are quite a number of bars open, including the Wolfpack Group bars and even some other smaller bars that were closed before.

Very exciting report man. We sense the horizon in the vicinity. Keep going.

[Crazy Ami]

So I decided to head down to Walking Street this evening for at least a drink and a nice dinner, and lo and behold. Bars were open with dancers!

Apparently the mayor (or his wallet) saw the light and allowed some bars to open with girls. Everything closes at 10 pm (Subic is still better!) but there are quite a number of bars open, including the Wolfpack Group bars and even some other smaller bars that were closed before.

List of bars I saw open tonight off the top of my head. Highlighting Wolfpack bars (my favorite) and Korean-run bars (higher prices for drinks but usually quite attractive girls; attitudes are much more hit or miss):

- Brown Sugar (now Korean-run).

- NB-1 (formerly Bunny Ranch, now Korean-run).

- Centauro (formerly Carousel. Now part of Wolfpack).

- Q Bar (Wolfpack).

- Owl's Nest.

- Gecko's.

- La Bamba (they called it "soft opening," no dancers, just waitresses).

- Avalon (Wolfpack).

- Legendz (formerly Kings Landing / Lancelot, Korean-run).

- Monsoon (formerly Typhoon. Wolfpack).

- Voodoo.

- Shooters (Wolfpack).

- Champagne.

- Bar Nana (Korean-run. Had a drink there, local drink prices are normal 120, but LD is 350 instead of standard 300. Didn't ask BF price).

- Leopard (Korean-run).

- Level 3 (formerly Golden Nile. Wolfpack).

- Arabesque (for a day, it was Sensations, before raided and closed for nudity. In half of former Hiso building. Korean-run).

- Baccara (formerly Bamboo / Cambodia. Korean-run).

- Giant (inside the little complex across from Paradise. Korean-run).

Did not ask BF prices anywhere. I was not expecting to see girls and was not in the mood / prepared haha. Sorry for the lack of intel.

Restaurants I saw open included:

- Margarita Station.

- Phillies.

- Envy.

- La Milieusese (or something; that's wrong, but it's French. Coffee shop bakery that a lot of women hang out in the tables in front and smoke shisha).

- Pizza in front of Carousel.

- Kokomoz.

- some small Korean place across from former Club Asia building.

- Korean restaurant in lobby of W Hotel Balibago.

- Paradise (formerly Bretto's, formerly Paradise before that).

- There's a new restaurant called Texas Smokehouse, in what used to be Genesis bar (and what even longer ago than that was Bourbon Street restaurant. Dating myself a bit). It's obviously Korean-run, but I tried it anyway as I'm a sucker for BBQ. Baby Back Ribs with all the side dishes (including "mush potato") were in the little metal Korean side dish bowls. Meat portion was a little small, but nice and soft, and sauce was decent and side dishes plentiful. 350 p promo for the meal.

Also including some pictures of the entrance to Walking Street and just inside Walking Street at 7 pm on a Friday. It's still a ghost town, but we're waking up again. Here's hoping!

[Goferring]

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But I haven't had a problem with LT. I just make sure to ask them before I spend the LT money.

Sure. I'd agree that there never were a lot of runners in subic and the girls who couldn't stay were always upfront about it.

Sounds like you are having fun👍.

[Crazy Ami]

Crazy Ami, thanks for the great report. Way back when Subic was a great fun and relaxing place to visit. Here's hoping that's on the return.

At the barfines quoted, were the girls happy for an overnight LT or was it one and done? Admittedly a few years ago now but when I was there last many were reluctant to stay.

Thanks again. 👍.

It's quite relaxing right now without the influx of massive amounts of tourists. :D I might go there again in a couple of weeks.

LT is actually a benefit of the midnight curfew. While the tanod (barangay patrols) and Pulis are a little more lenient if you're just going back to your hotel at 12:30 or 1, they set up checkpoints between Baretto and Subic City / Olongapo City, where a lot of the girls actually live; they can't get far after midnight. So if you LT a girl at 11:00, chances are she's stuck with you until morning.

But I haven't had a problem with LT. I just make sure to ask them before I spend the LT money (I don't mind buying drinks for conversation first), and generally the bars that offer ST understand that if you pay for LT you're expecting them to stay overnight. I think it all boils down to how decent you are to the girl; they seem to have a bit more freedom in Subic and it's more whether they like you or not rather than a particular girl is "always a runner. ".

[Thampi62]

Crazy Amy, great report. Thank you.Now it is clear that no body can predict the future profile of AC in the present scenario.

[Gunners1]

Hot Zone. My favorite bar at the moment. Bar well managed, girls are very friendly once you call them down. ST available upstairs for 1500, barfine 2500. Some cute ones here, and if you sit at the booth on the left as you enter, you can get the "VIP" service from some of the girls (bottom of the high table is curtained off) just by buying normal double ladies' drinks. Opens at 4.

Great Post. Thanks a lot.

I love the curtained off tables. Reminds me of the hay days of AC when they used to service you right at bar and. The girl used to get loads of laughs and giggles from her colleagues when she went back to clean up.

Ooh. Those memories.

Thanks again for the update.

G.

[Goferring]

Crazy Ami, thanks for the great report. Way back when Subic was a great fun and relaxing place to visit. Here's hoping that's on the return.

At the barfines quoted, were the girls happy for an overnight LT or was it one and done? Admittedly a few years ago now but when I was there last many were reluctant to stay.

Thanks again. 👍.

[Free2]

Crazy Ami. Much appreciated, that is some super input. Sadly, by the time the rest of us mongers get there, it may be way out of date.