Travel Announcements Only (No questions or comments please)

[White Wolf]

I need the phone number or email to the The City State Hotel on Mabini Street in the Makati (Ermita?) area. I need to ask them a question or two about their bus that runs to Batangas. If anyone still has a card from them with their info or is staying there now, I would greatly appreciate the help.

Yella Man

A little bit of googling resulted in this, I just hope it's still accurate:

City State Tower Hotel,
1315 A Mabini Street,
Ermita, Manila

Tel: +63 02 5213344
Cell:+63 0915 705 1799

[Yella Man]

I need the phone number or email to the The City State Hotel on Mabini Street in the Makati (Ermita?) area. I need to ask them a question or two about their bus that runs to Batangas. If anyone still has a card from them with their info or is staying there now, I would greatly appreciate the help.

Yella Man

[Monte Christo]

With good topside action too, that is... :)

Thanks - MC

[Bill Buxton]

I will be in the area again in August,Anyone want to share some stories? Or give me some tips? Pm any intrest to me via backchannel.

[HenryV]

I am, if nothing else, tolerant.

I totally agree with you,But we should try to be more tolerant of each persons posting styles,I dont believe in flaming,Little Johnson,I will be in Manila at that period,send me a PM if you will be staying a night in Manila

[Dragon Slayer]

pals,

i am here in so china now and i will post later.i had a great time in the philippines. i just wish that guys who get offeneded by posts they do not like will simply "skip over them" as i do. as long as it is not some loser looking for **** girls or some geek trying to fuc k with me. i just pass his thread and move on.

if you are purely a sex tourist you will get tons of this here. i am a hedonist and will have my fill of sex when they lower my corpse into the ground. i post my experiences and information that i think will be usefl or assist others in avoiding problems. now quit trashing cebulocal, goodenough and other guys who like to post on various matters here.

guys who waste time insulting others give me the impression they are jealous of these guys. lets keep the philippine board friendly.

i have to get back to fucking my lovely jing here in china now. i will post later.

dragon slayer

[Guinness]

Sorry Guiness, and I mean no offense, but I won't be at the meeting. This is just not my kind of scene, but I hope you and CL and the others have an excellent time.

:D

GE

Our plans to have a beer with and meet CL didn't necessarily include hanging out all night together and mongering around Manila. I PM'ed CL and invited him to meet the "three" of us accused of being "one" wacky monger, his curiosity got the best of him so he graciously accepted the invitation. I thought we could meet mid-day or early evening for a cocktail and conversation and then go our separate ways...but I'm open to whatever CL and the others want to do. I just thought it would be interesting to meet some of the people posting on ISG. Tourist, Expat or both, it doesn't matter to me.

Anyway, like I said. You are still invited. I'll either PM or call CL to work out the details so if your interested, give your buddy CL a call.

Thanks,

Guinness

[Cebu Local]

On certain threads, it seems a lot of information passed back and forth is better suited for a pm. I am not sure it is the place to reaffirm old relationships and self-aggrandizment.

I am interested in experience and information related to mongering, e.g., prices, places, trends, etc.

I totally agree with you,But we should try to be more tolerant of each persons posting styles,I dont believe in flaming,Little Johnson,I will be in Manila at that period,send me a PM if you will be staying a night in Manila

[HenryV]

Ljohnson

My comments were not directed toward your post, I forgot to submit my post as a seperate item.

[HenryV]

On certain threads, it seems a lot of information passed back and forth is better suited for a pm. I am not sure it is the place to reaffirm old relationships and self-aggrandizment.

I am interested in experience and information related to mongering, e.g., prices, places, trends, etc.

I feel kinda silly actually posting information about my "travel plans." This forum seems to have become something else - I'm not sure what.

I will arrive in the Philippines and go directly to Angeles City on May 24. I plan to spend 3 nights in AC and then go back to Manila the fourth night as we leave for Bangkok on the 28th. I am hoping to stay in a villa at Fontana, a resort near AC. I think it is in the area where Clark air base used to be. A friend who lives on Manila is making the arrangements.

Let me know if any of you will be in the area and want to get together for a drink or to compare notes.

LJohnson

[Ljohnson]

I feel kinda silly actually posting information about my "travel plans." This forum seems to have become something else - I'm not sure what.

I will arrive in the Philippines and go directly to Angeles City on May 24. I plan to spend 3 nights in AC and then go back to Manila the fourth night as we leave for Bangkok on the 28th. I am hoping to stay in a villa at Fontana, a resort near AC. I think it is in the area where Clark air base used to be. A friend who lives on Manila is making the arrangements.

Let me know if any of you will be in the area and want to get together for a drink or to compare notes.

LJohnson

[GoodEnough]

I just got off the phone this afternoon with Cebu Local, an expat who tells me he receives about 18 PMs a day and responds to every request for information and assistance. It seems to me--from the perspective of an expat of course--this is evidence that some members find his assistance helpful. I do not receive anywhere near that number, but I do receive more than my share, and I try to respond with information if I can. I take this as evidence that some members of this board find some of the information I share to be useful.

As CL implies, the distinction between expat and tourist is at best ambiguous and probably specious. The fact is that, like CL, I'm both. True, I'm an expat in Davao, but I travel all over South East Asia, in which case, I'm a tourist. Funny thing, but whenever I travel to countries and cities to which I've not been before, or to which I've not been for a while, I search for the posts in this board from the expats who live in the place that I'm going to visit. Why? Because I think that living in the place gives them a better feel for what's going on, meaning that their information is probably more current and, (to me) more useful than two-month-old reports from the occassional tourist. Given that local situations , local hotspots, and interesting locales change often, I always felt that the expats would be more on top of things than the day trippers.

As to insights. opinions and perspectives that may sound like a "Ph.D." dissertation, I guess I may be guilty. I am interested in the "whys" of coutries and cultures and in the underlying values. Maybe it's because I'm a social scientist by training. But I see no need to apologize for that. Jackson has been clever enough, in designing this board, to include an "ignore" button. It works well. Therefore, if you don't want to read whatever it is I may have to say, simply put me on your "ignore" list and move on to posts that you find more interesting.

It's true that in the Philippines, I'm not a tourist. Because I live here, I have a fairly wide circle of friends, so I tend to hear about new and interesting places when they come on the scene. In the case of Davao, whenever I see or hear of a new place that I think might be of interest to other guys, I post the information. I'm sure that CL does the same, as do most of the other expats both here and in other countries.

So I give what I can and I take what I need from expats in other places, where I'm a tourist. However, should you insist on making the distinction between the two, perhaps Jackson would be willing to consider starting a new thread called something like "reserved for tourists," or maybe "expat perspectives." Just a suggestion.

:D

GE

[Cebu Local]

I, Dashing Don, am a Sex Tourist.

Cebu Local, Good Enough, Xman etc, are expats.

This Sex Tourist Board has been hijacked by the Expats, and the problem is: We're not interested in the same things.

As a sex tourist, I don't give a rats ass about the GDP or GNP of the PI or any other place.
Utility rates and ferry sinking statistics in the PI make my eyes glaze over.
For me, development programs and literacy rates rank lower than last nights pizza, in terms of interest.
Ditto for whether Filipinas make good business partners.

This kind of stuff is what we regularly get from the expats and I can tell you, GE, that I ignore much of what you write. No offense. But I could care less about this stuff.

What I personally like, are good stories, good reports, and insights into the Filipino way, presented in a fun way. Examples: See Golazo and early Wastrel.

I also like a good fight, albeit in less than bare-knuckled fashion. The goal is not to win, but to write as well as you can.

Additionally, lets at least try to be entertaining, whether fighting, reporting, or chit chatting.

What prompted this post? GE's assertion that "we should be discussing topics of germane interest to a large group of members".

I know that ain't my group.

Its about having good sex and fun times. You wouldn't know it by the tone of some of the posters who try to turn sex tourism into a Phd. program.

Don

Actually I am an expat in the Philippines,But when I monger in China,Macau or Malaysia,I am a Sex Tourist.I have exchanged Pms about getting Mobiles of escorts in Malaysia,Have gone BBS crawling with OAH in Guangzhou and Shenzen,Gone MP hopping in Macau with Tiger 1,Doing The KL MP and Beach Club Scene with the help of Roversman and will be doing the village in Shanghai with Asian Gambler and the Shanghai gang this June.All senior members with Thousands of posts,I monger in 5 places regularly.Macau,China,Macau,Malaysia and Thailand.I think my Sex tourist credentials are in order.I am an expat only in the Philippines and Btw You would be surprised about the sundry questions I get,Todays where getting some escort mobiles nos in Penang and Manila,A Travel itenerary for a China trip,Mp Massage Parlor advice in Macau and getting a discount Airplane ticket from Zhuhai to Shanghai.OK Cheers and Do have a good time,I will be there at the request of somebody to confirm you are different people and thats it no more no less.Have a great day Back to work answering the PM s

[Cebu Local]

I don't know about CL, but I I was here, ignoring the posts, most of which I did not read. That kind of paranoid discussion bores me to death and I really don't care who was right or wrong. This board is, or at least should be about sharing useful information or at the very least, discussing germane topics of interest to a large group of members.

:D

GE

For one GE has been generally helpful of people asking for help in Davao and Mindanao.DS,GE etc has just as much right to be here as anybody.This board is for Sex Tourists and Expats.

[Cebu Local]

Throwaway sarcasm, which is all it was, shouldn't beget a response.

Anyway, the multiple ID theory was Junior's theory. Where were you when he was spewing that stuff for months.

Don

Avoiding fights and dispensing advice,I answer about 10-15 PM s day asking for advice about the Philippines,China,Macau and Malaysia.Usually getting people hotel discounts,doing iteneraries which takes about an hour a day already.For example today,I have answered 4 PI PMS,2 China PM s,1 Malaysian PM and 1 Hong Kong PM.This I think is more helpful Dont you think so??