Angeles City Hotels & Accomodations

[Indy Hundred]

On its own, this is a great hotel. At this price point, it's an excellent hotel!! A little dated but everything is clean and appears to be well maintained.

The staff are very friendly and professional. They always greet you with a smile and you don't get the "walk of shame" stigma.

I did have a few issues.

- The shower drain was clogged. I mentioned this to Mel as I was going out and it was fixed when she cleaned my room.

- There were about a dozen tv channels when I first got there and within a day I only had four channels. I mentioned this and they weren't able to fix it. Not sure what technology gremlin attacked in the night. (But I do have very fond memories of getting a blow job in my room by a girl while watching Game 4 of the NBA finals and getting a two girl blowjob while sipping a beer and watching Golden State win in Game 5. So, really, it's not that big of an issue.).

- Towel policy. I hate the limitations on how many towels they are willing to give you.

- I wanted to extend my stay and they were very accommodating to make the changes.

- The concierge always had change to break a large note for my daily needs.

I was concerned about the noise coming from High Society but it never bothered me. Even when I would sit by the pool at night, it wasn't that loud.

They are slowly demolishing the building next door and that had some construction noise. It wasn't too bad while I was there. Not sure what will be built on that site but the future construction will be loud and will probably start early in the day.

Recommend Score Birds for:

- the pool and 24 hour restaurant and bar.

- The layout. Especially the entrance. Is very inviting. There is no front door to be opened; just say Hello, to the doorman and walk in. A lot of the Perimeter girls had not heard about Score Birds but as soon as they walk in, there is no ostentatious lobby or a barrier of a door, but a very inviting swimming pool and you could see the girls smiling.

- Location to Fields.

- Clean comfortable room and very solid beds. Not a creak to be heard.

- Drinking water in the room.

- No issues with booking through Agoda and no delay in check in or check out.

I didn't like:

- I wasn't that impressed with the swimsuit costume or the evening live events. But I understand that a lot of guests would really enjoy the bikini competition or the Friday night live band etc.

- Stupid towel policy.

- Shower water pressure low and the hot water was barely lukewarm.

[BrainDrain]

Have in the past found Rumi, if rooms are available, also to be OK for short term assignations. A small place on Makiling Street (at corner of Sierra Madre), walking distance off Fields (turn off close to Bretto's). Cash ST rate handled discreetly through the bellman or front desk, no ID required, girl friendly, cold beer, and with a nice little interior courtyard parking area so that your car (if you are driving) is not readily visible from the street.

OM.

I use Rumi also. My problem is I also pass by Rumi on other days and the staff wave to me.

Reminds me of last week when I took a girl to Club Aqua and the waiter recognises me and says"Great to see you again sir". Only problem was that I hadn't taken this girl there before and I was pretending to be a newbie.

AC is great fun.

[Omega 3]

Over the past week I found it more convenient to use some short term solutions as visiting pinay / massage girls always poke around my condo too much.

Flamingo Hotel. Balibago.

A convenient option from Walking St. P300 for 3 hours. Rooms are simple and a little old. Steel doors, basic cold shower with bucket and scoop. TV in my room had poor signal and snowy picture.

Hotel Inn Crown. Near Perimeter Bars.

Located a block behind Perimeter, Porky's area. P280 for 4 hours. Towels were pathetic. TV had good quality porn which plays continuously.

No ID requested in either place.

Would use Hotel Inn Crown again.

Have in the past found Rumi, if rooms are available, also to be OK for short term assignations. A small place on Makiling Street (at corner of Sierra Madre), walking distance off Fields (turn off close to Bretto's). Cash ST rate handled discreetly through the bellman or front desk, no ID required, girl friendly, cold beer, and with a nice little interior courtyard parking area so that your car (if you are driving) is not readily visible from the street.

OM.

[BrainDrain]

Over the past week I found it more convenient to use some short term solutions as visiting pinay / massage girls always poke around my condo too much.

Flamingo Hotel. Balibago.

A convenient option from Walking St. P300 for 3 hours. Rooms are simple and a little old. Steel doors, basic cold shower with bucket and scoop. TV in my room had poor signal and snowy picture.

Hotel Inn Crown. Near Perimeter Bars.

Located a block behind Perimeter, Porky's area. P280 for 4 hours. Towels were pathetic. TV had good quality porn which plays continuously.

No ID requested in either place.

Would use Hotel Inn Crown again.

[Shark5]

Me and a buddy stopped in here last year for dinner. As we were looking at the menus a rat ran across the salad bar. Needless to say, we got up and left.

That is terrible. I would have left too. Surprising though, since the place was super clean when I stayed there!

[X Man]

Those rats eat all the cockroaches. You don't know what you are missing! Glad to see you are alive and kicking Robbaf. X.

Me and a buddy stopped in here last year for dinner. As we were looking at the menus a rat ran across the salad bar. Needless to say, we got up and left.

[Robbaf]

On my last visit in March I stayed at the Royal Amsterdam Hotel. It is located right on fields street, in the middle of the action. Price was not that bad and they had a discount if you paid cash, and if you stayed so many days. The staff was very friendly and helpful and the Hotel was super clean. Wi-fi worked well in the different rooms I stayed in and they had two complimentary bottles of water daily. As with most Hotels I've stayed at in AC, they are girl friendly and call when she leaves.

The best thing about the hotel is the coffee in the restaurant. It is superb!! I am a coffee snob and loved it. Their breakfast was very good and had large portions.

If I had to say anything negative about the Hotel, it would be they don't have a lift and the beds are on the firm side.

I would definitely recommend this Hotel!

Me and a buddy stopped in here last year for dinner. As we were looking at the menus a rat ran across the salad bar. Needless to say, we got up and left.

[Shark5]

On my last visit in March I stayed at the Royal Amsterdam Hotel. It is located right on fields street, in the middle of the action. Price was not that bad and they had a discount if you paid cash, and if you stayed so many days. The staff was very friendly and helpful and the Hotel was super clean. Wi-fi worked well in the different rooms I stayed in and they had two complimentary bottles of water daily. As with most Hotels I've stayed at in AC, they are girl friendly and call when she leaves.

The best thing about the hotel is the coffee in the restaurant. It is superb!! I am a coffee snob and loved it. Their breakfast was very good and had large portions.

If I had to say anything negative about the Hotel, it would be they don't have a lift and the beds are on the firm side.

I would definitely recommend this Hotel!

[Soapy Smith]

Probably I should have excused myself to go empty my bladder and repeated that phrase "Don't let your mouth get your ass in trouble".

May we assume this is meant as an aside advice to yourself, as in, "don't let your mouth overload your ass"? Given the nature of much of the Filipino street cuisine, this could be interpreted very differently if you say it loud enough for the desk clerk to hear.

[Omega 3]

*** As for Crzy4 Thai, maybe they were trying to get him the best possible room. Maybe they needed to spray air freshener because some moron smoked in the non-smoking room. It's always best to stay friendly and relaxed in these situations. I don't always follow this advice unfortunately. It's easy to get irritable after a long trip, or worse, long time differences, not to mention unexpected craziness as Crzy has described. ***

Filipinos like teasing others and are used to being teased. So this is one strategy to speed things up in a fun way. Use this strategy briefly with hotel front desk, after all they are busy during check in out time. They will get the message.

I saw this in action in Borocay. Table of twenty, our protective Filipino would shout out something to the passing waiter. She laughed, so did he.

Sometimes, a little monetary offering (Php 50 or so) also helps to speed things up at the hotel front desk.

As you say, XM, Pinays love to tease, although sometimes with a rather perverse sense of humor, and at the expense of the porriner. It may informative to know what they are actually saying.

I remember in one case, a Filipina from Cebu frequently and lovingly referring to her Brit BF in Bisayan as her "(species of ugly fish)". Apparently, he thought she was using a term of endearment. Other Pinays, upon hearing the word, were hard pressed to keep a straight face.

In another case, the Pinay taught a newbie porriner how to say the equivalent of "I am a d*mb f*ck" or similar, telling him it meant "Can you please help me"? The porriner was quite proud of his new phrase, and used it many times until finally another porriner took pity on him and explained what the phrase really meant.

On the other hand, maybe ignorance sometimes really is bliss?

Have seen similar local comedies in Taiwan, China, and Korea.

OM.

[Crazy4Thai]

Sam14 and Xman, you are so right! It absolutely is best to always be nice. Just an acknowledgement of my inquiry would go a long way towards common courtesy on his part but I gained nothing by pressing. Probably I should have excused myself to go empty my bladder and repeated that phrase "Don't let your mouth get your ass in trouble".

[X Man]

I noticed overly long check-in / out at Queens and Central Park. Come to think of it, in both cases it was the last time I stayed in either. In the case of Central P, it was still their soft opening (years ago) so I'm sure the bugs were worked out.

As for Crzy4 Thai, maybe they were trying to get him the best possible room. Maybe they needed to spray air freshener because some moron smoked in the non-smoking room. It's always best to stay friendly and relaxed in these situations. I don't always follow this advice unfortunately. It's easy to get irritable after a long trip, or worse, long time differences, not to mention unexpected craziness as Crzy has described.

They like to say, "have a seat". If I've been using a taxi / bus / airplane for any amount of time, I don't want to sit. I'm tired of sitting and I want to get down to business. Business might mean work, but probably means finding or meeting a little lovely that will make some fireworks for me.

Filipinos like teasing others and are used to being teased. So this is one strategy to speed things up in a fun way. Use this strategy briefly with hotel front desk, after all they are busy during check in out time. They will get the message.

I saw this in action in Borocay. Table of twenty, our protective Filipino would shout out something to the passing waiter. She laughed, so did he.

I did not change my reservation mostly because location was highly emphasized in an earlier post and that appealed to me. When I checked in it was a long process with 2 clerks discussing something about my reservation. SNIP - unusual customer service experience report.

[Sam 14]

<Snip> As time dragged on I asked the man checking me in if there was a problem with the booking. I got no response. I waited more then asked again with no response. After the 3rd round of this I was blunt and said "I've asked you 3 times are you going to answer me or not?" he simply said "no problem". What's the deal with a 15 minute check in? I never did find out what the issue was, perhaps the request for a non-smoking room. As we finished up the transaction I had to ask for my passport back that was still in the copier. I also had to ask for my CC back that was at the other end of the counter. <Snip>

Welcome to Phil, man. That's just how it is here, get used to it. I wanted to get some paint for my girl to paint her boarding house. I told her this is going to be a nightmare. The first major hardware store, in a large city, we went to didn't have any colors in gallons, except for white. The second place was a larger than usual Handyman that had computerized mixing. While the girl was mixing the paint (the cheaper one, at first it was going to be 1,800), I asked another guy to help me find a roller, brush and tray. Check, check. . Doh. No paint trays. Seriously, no trays. Not just out of stock, they just don't have any. And next week they won't have any, and in 6 months they still won't. I was finished and couldn't go searching other stores. So the guy finally guided me to the plastics and I got a basin they can use to pour it in. Haha. It's a test, my friend. Always be nice even if it's hard.

[Omega 3]

Does anyone have any info regarding Tomobe Hotel in between Red Planet and Savannah Hotel? I see it advertised at $16 a night. I am wondering about the cleanliness, working hot water shower, towels and real non smoking rooms. Thanks for any help in this.

Checked out this hotel several years ago, shortly after it first opened. It was next to Savannah Hotel on Perimeter Road, not too far from the road leading to the VFW. Red Planet had not yet been built at the time.

The Japanese owner was delighted when he learned that we could converse in Japanese, and showed me around the place. Rooms all looked different, but all were clean and presentable, if a bit sparse. Decor a bit bizarre, as in cigar store wooden Indian. Owner was friendly, and assured me no problem with bringing in girls at any time. 24 hour restaurant on premises.

Remember making a mental note to stay there someday if looking for budget accommodations but, for one reason or another, never did, although stayed next door at the Savannah a few times.

Seemed like a friendly place. The kanji (Japanese character, like Chinese non-pinyin) near the top of the building front is read "Yu" or "tomo" in Japanese and means "friend".

OM.

[Dg8787]

They needed to get a 4 year degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management to obtain that degree of incompetence.

Probably due to "contractulaztion"! The 4 year degreed employees are on 6 month contracts so employers don't have to pay them benefits. So the staff person is either coming or going at any given time. The ones coming don't know anything and the ones going don't care about anything. Welcome to Philippines!