Thread: Stupid Shit in the Philippines
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11-29-19 12:25 #149
Posts: 36Warning about Cebu Pacific and Refunds
I had a flight from Davao to Cebu booked, to get me in mid afternoon. This was booked 4 months before we needed to fly. A few weeks before they announced a significant schedule change which would have lost us an afternoon and evening in Cebu on a 3 night visit, they gave me a number of options, one of which included a full refund.
When you log onto your booking to try and process a full refund the amount coming back is much less.
The flights were 30 k, and the website refund was 16 K.
So I took the issue with screenshots to email. Again they offered a full refund and confirmed they would do it manually. They failed to meet their timelines for a refund.
Eventually they only refunded about 6 K. So they failed to refund as promised.
I ended up booking flights with AirAsia for much more than the Cebu Pacific, so I am significantly out of pocket.
My advice, either not book with Cebu Pacific or suck up any flight changes. Fortunately I paid by my AMEX card, so they are currently refunding me, but there is the chance that they pull back the refund they have provided.
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11-27-19 11:53 #148
Posts: 977See for myself
Originally Posted by Goferring [View Original Post]
But who am I to judge. James Dean said " Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. ".
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11-27-19 08:06 #147
Posts: 3396Originally Posted by EngineDriver [View Original Post]
The Big Apple is actually a fine establishment that had welcomed all gentlemanly behaviours up to and including dropping dead mid stroke in the front bar. I've been away for a few years now but I'm thinking of returning. I've got unfinished business there: 8 square inches remaining of the property where I haven't fucked a girl.
If you want to see old mongers winning at life drop around to Coco Lips. There was / is and old guy with a walking frame who swings by most nights. After 30 or 40 minutes to make it up the 3 entrance steps, he collapses into the couch reserved for him to the doors' immediate right. From there he doesn't / can't move all night. An old duck usually saddles up to him then escorts him back home for the inevitable. How he makes it back up the hill to Jack Daniels without collapsing, I have no idea.
He's my hero. Fuck rusting away in a nursing home waiting to die. Much better to burn out and die of a combination of untreated STDs in some shithole bar in PI.
Enjoy. G.
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11-27-19 03:51 #146
Posts: 2116Sabang Losers
Sabang has bunch of Western geriatric losers who rely on their measly pensions to get through the week. Most of the homeless people in my country have more pride in their appearance than these useless rascals. Their ration is two SMLs a week. They gather at two places. The Big Apple and the German delicatessen where the girly bars are. I saw one 100 year old American fuckwit yesterday talking about Bitcoins at the deli. At that point I knew I had to get out of there. He was talking like he was some fucking expert in crypto currencies. The fact is that junk is based on hot air and you cannot do any trend analysis as it's not based on anything. Idiot.
I call the Big Apple the Rotten Apple. It is always full of pathetic looking westerners getting drunk every night on cheap beer. The dive instructors are also getting drunk with them each night, thus filing you with confidence that they will be functional the next day when they have to rescue you. It is also full of the most hideous looking freelancers you can find anywhere in the Phils. If any of you mongers see me at Rotten Apple at the age of 98 drinking beer with toothless hookers, please take me around the back and shoot me. You will be doing the world a favour.
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11-26-19 03:27 #145
Posts: 6835Originally Posted by PedroMorales [View Original Post]
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11-25-19 23:55 #144
Posts: 1056100 of which JBs
Originally Posted by KabulGuy [View Original Post]
SML is not bad. But do not compare it to German, Belgian or Czech beers as that is a fight. This is all horses for courses stuff. The Philippines is crowded and poor so there is no space for haute cuisine. Nor did it have the depth of China or Japan.
Imagine you are stranded on a South Sea islan, with nothing but fish you can spear, coconuts and bare breasted women with boobs bigger than those coconuts. You don't go asking for the wine list. Capiche?
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11-25-19 23:29 #143
Posts: 983Originally Posted by WestCoast1 [View Original Post]
Over 150 outside of the Philippines.
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11-25-19 17:17 #142
Posts: 1056Originally Posted by SaltyPete [View Original Post]
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11-25-19 15:55 #141
Posts: 6835Originally Posted by SaltyPete [View Original Post]
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11-25-19 15:50 #140
Posts: 340Originally Posted by FastBuckArtist [View Original Post]
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11-25-19 14:37 #139
Posts: 251A solid list Aviator.
Having worked there for 2 years in 2009-2011, I have a few items to add to your list:
1. The trash. It's everywhere, So much junk in the rivers you can cross them and not get your feet wet. Worse, the burning trash. The preferred way of disposing of garbage in flip province is to chuck it into a pile and light up a bonfire. The stench is horrendous as well as very unhealthy.
2. No sidewalks. In any place where they exist, it gets occupied immediately by a tent selling assorted crap. Or it gets turned into a parking lot for scooters. Pedestrians just walk on the road, dodging vehicles.
3. The people. Quantity and quality. Way too darn many of them and the best ones leave the country as fast as they can earn enough pesos to buy a ticket and pay relocation costs.
4. Tribal culture. Filipinos are tribal, meaning they care only for their family and clan, and their plot of land, and give zero fucks about everything outside of it. It's the main reason countries stay in shithole status, this tribalism.
5. Philippine food. As you mentioned, it's crap. There is a reason you don't see any philippine restaurants outside the country. Also expat filipinas who settle in the west tend to blow up in size immediately, cause they keep eating the same Jollibee-style slop but now in western-sized servings.
Originally Posted by Aviator12 [View Original Post]
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11-25-19 11:45 #138
Posts: 4050Originally Posted by EngineDriver [View Original Post]
I'll be in Makati for much of next week, which will give me a chance to visit a couple of my favored French restaurants there, and I look forward to sample some of their reds paired with American angus beef. The last time I was there I had one of the better steak au poivres I've ever eaten in Asia.
GE.
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11-25-19 01:21 #137
Posts: 1056Fugu 2
I am a dab hand myself in the kitchen, as it happens. I am a particularly good saucier, solid with roasts and au just but weak on fish which is another league. If one knows real chefs or if one has ever had fugu, one learns respect not only for the chef but the implements they use and the cultures, European and North East Asian in the main, that spawn them. Although Chinese restaurants in Paris have Michelin stars, they should really stick to what they are good at.
I remember once, reading about some Himalayan hotel that made the best porridge in India. I thought that was hilarious until I thought about it. If the Indians put their minds to it, they would certainly make porridge fit, if not for a King, at least for Bonnie Prince Charlie (as in Culloden, not the current flake). As regards SE Asia, one wonders if wine belongs there at all. Sauvignon Blanc, with its clean, penetrating acidity, works well, as do Spanish Albariños, or German Rieslings or any good rosé but why bother?
The Philippines is a place of balut, buko and brown-breasted beauties who go bareback. Why pretend otherwise?
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11-24-19 06:18 #136
Posts: 2116Originally Posted by GoodEnough [View Original Post]
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11-23-19 13:39 #135
Posts: 1056Gentlemen Drink Tea
Originally Posted by GoodEnough [View Original Post]
Most Pinoys are not Mike Tysons. They do not have the disposable income to afford haute cuisine and to pretend otherwise is self-delusion. The Philippines is the land of balut and badly roasted pork.
That is not to say good wines are not for sale in the Philippines. In Downfall, about the last days of Herr Hitler, when he sits down to dinner in the Führerbunker with the charming Hanna Reitsch, the capable Generaloberst Robert Ritter von Greim and the mad as a March hare Paul Joseph Goebbels, what kind of wine do you imagine was on the table? What wines do you think Mussolini had on tap in his ill-fated Repubblica Sociale Italiana aka Salò Republic, as the net closed in on him? How much appreciation do you think the Wehrmacht soldiers had for the vintage French wines they knocked back during the fall of La Troisième areépublique? Horses for courses.
I have no doubt that President Duterte's chums could slurp Château Lafite-Rothschild off the breasts of a 20 year old hookers even better perhaps than the rest of us. But that is not the point. When you knock about with the Pashtun, drink their sugary teas, pay your taxi fare and don't eye up their women. If you want a baked potato, don't even think of the Philippines but join the Quechua in Peru for la papas. The Quechua say a meal without potatoes is like a life without love and they are right. I prefer Peru as I am a mountain guy and I like mountin' women.