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05-05-21 14:19 #26987
Posts: 316Crazy 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 Sadly, by the time the rest of us mongers get there, it may be way out of date.
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05-05-21 09:27 #26986
Posts: 67Originally Posted by Thampi62 [View Original Post]
All of the hotels seem open for business, although supposedly at 50% occupancy for "social distancing" purposes (ha).
Go-Go bars currently open, going down the highway starting from Baloy Beach:
Rosie's. Opens at 4 pm, 6-7 girls, very friendly, with some very cute young stunners who are either cherry or hesitant to go out unless you 'woo' them for a couple of days (LOL). Double ladies drinks 300. Girls love to play pool for drinks. One of the bars that has Connect 4 now. This apparently has been imported from Thailand as a "bar game" in a couple of bars here. Ugh. Also Jenga.
Thumbstar. Nicely decorated bar on ground floor of hotel. Great promo. Buy-one / take-one for your first drink of the day, no matter the time (I. E. Don't have to make it for happy hour). Opens 2 pm, if not earlier. Girls currently imported from Q Bar in AC, some nice quality. Double LD is 300. ST is available upstairs (not sure price).
Alaska. Opens at 2 pm. I was never in there early, but by 7-8 pm the quality of girls was quite low, though friendly.
Voodoo. In the old Lollipop location. Good pool table. No bands anymore (COVID). Girls are very aggressive for drinks but may or may not go out depending on their mood (Subic seems to be much more permissive of girls saying no in the bar, which I like from an ethical standpoint, as long as you make it clear at the beginning). Bar fine 3000 I believe. Opens at 4.
Wet Spot / Green Room. Connected on the inside. Only go-go left in the large complex that used to have 4-5 bars (Bar Celona is upstairs but is just a sports bar with GROs). Promo here is that ladies drinks are all 180, even the bottle drinks, so it's cheaper for LDs than other places. Good number of girls here (in Wet Spot, Green Room is more sports bar), very aggressive waitresses / mamasans. BF also 3000 I believe. Opens at 4.
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.
Bottoms-Up / Crazy Horse. Bottoms Up is in the old Voodoo location I believe. Neither of these were any good the 2 times I stuck my head in, but I could have come at the wrong time. A buddy did say he found some girls there, so YMMV.
Coco Lips /50-50 Bar. These appeared closed every time I went by. May be done for.
Non Gogo Bars:
Whiskey Girl. This is in the old location of The Office. I didn't go in, but I was given to understand that it's just a "bar" with GROs, not a go-go. Could be mistaken. Most GROs are available for take-out in Subic though if you treat them right.
Adam's Sports Bar: same concept. Saw some cute GROs outside, but did not go in.
Bar Celona. On top of the old Wet Spot / Rum Jungle complex (3 F). 49 p beers from 2-5 pm which is a great deal. Best maintained pool table on the strip, and they do tournaments twice a week (Monday and Thursday I think). AC pool tables are still "not allowed" to operate per Mayor. Very friendly / funny bartender, with waitresses and GROs.
Cheap Charlies. Across the street from Bar Celona. Same concept, open to the air on a high (for Subic) floor. Nice places to spend the afternoon / early evenings if you're not on the beach or trying to get in to the gogo bars the minute they open.
Overall / additional thoughts:
- The lockdown in AC really seemed to help business in Subic. There were a LOT of AC mongers there every time I went there myself. Admittedly, none of us are tourists who spend like water, but it's keeping them going, and I have heard that some of the big players in AC have been visiting (I. E. Owner of ABC hotel, some younger rich guys who have big yacht parties in Subic with many girls, etc; you know, things I'm not invited to haha).
- Unlike AC where a number of hotels have gone out of business / put up for sale (Galaxy, Queens, America), I only saw one hotel in Subic closed down / for sale (Gum Leaves on the highway).
- Blue Rock floating bar is not operational; I'm not sure if it was running before, but it seems like it was damaged and is sitting out there roofless. Treasure Island's floating bar is open, but I've never been a fan of it.
- Shockingly the beach vendors are not overly pushy / desparate, and the jetski / boat operators are not overcharging either; they seem happy for any business.
- There were none of the tourists of particular nationalities who were destroying the laid back Subic vibe pre-COVID. You know, the ones who would go to the bars in large groups as soon as they opened, bar fined anyone halfway decent without buying drinks, and leaving nothing in their wake. I found this very refreshing.
- Prices have not jumped in the typical SE Asian "Business is down, we must charge more" mentality. Things have been stable, which is promising.
Angeles City observations:
I fear for the future of the AC scene. High Society is gone for good (building has been parceled up and demolition / construction ongoing). More and more bars are being bought up by Korean groups on Walking Street who are massively raising prices on drinks and bar fines. Back in January this year when the bars were open for a couple of months, the former Bunny Ranch bar (now a Korean bar, NB-1 I think) tried to charge me 220 pesos for a White Castle whisky (the local Filipino whiskey, which is 180-200 for the entire bottle at the grocery). Barfines at Korean bars are 4-5000 now, and you'd be super lucky if they were not starfish or runners, or both. Possible to get phone numbers and meet for sneak-out, but with the death of Hi-So, it's not as easy to pick up girls on their off-time anymore.
Wolfpack Group is still holding the fort as the last line of defense for Western-managed AC entertainment. Lollipop, Q Bar, Monsoon, Level 3, and Shooters were all open January-March. XS Bar is gone because Wolfpack took over the old Salambo / La Pasha site and renovated as "Avalon" and moved all the girls there. Owl's Nest (which has been there for decades and isn't part of any "group") opened in the same period with a very nice selection of girls. It's the last real "old-time" AC bar on Fields.
Everything else that was open (and may / may not reopen upon lifting of restrictions) is Korean. Baccara (in the old Bamboo / Cambodia bar) had some great talent (at 3500 barfine) for a while. Then they tried to open a bar in half of the old High Society building called Sensations, and was raided and shut down within a day because they tried to get away with nude dancing on stage. I've heard on the Bamboo Telegraph that the Korean owner had to pay a MASSIVE bribe to get out of jail / keep his businesses (we're talking potentially tens of millions of pesos).
Dollhouse Group bars have been closed since the bars first shut down in March 2020. Not sure of their future either. Club Asia, Pony Tails, and Crystal Palace were all shut down before the pandemic, only leaving Dollhouse and Atlantis remaining. From what I hear from my sources, the owner may be trying to get out of the bar business completely and focus on hotels (Score Birds and the ever-under-construction Palladium), since apparently he is making more profit by leasing his bar buildings to Koreans than running them himself.
Hope this keeps everyone interested hahaha. If you have any particular questions for the people here on the ground, as it were, I'll see if I can help. It's either surfing this board, drinking, or going back to Subic to keep me occupied!
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05-05-21 07:38 #26985
Posts: 460Originally Posted by CrazyAmi [View Original Post]
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05-05-21 05:30 #26984
Posts: 67Originally Posted by MontanaMonger [View Original Post]
Subic / Barretto is much more lively, with almost all bars open, no liquor ban, dancers, bar fines as normal, etc. Some of the AC girls even moved as an entire bar to another bar in Subic (all of the Q Bar girls in AC went to Thumbstar in Barretto until the bars reopen in AC). Midnight curfew in Barretto but bars open much earlier (between 2-4 pm) and you're ready to go back by then anyway usually. Mask / face shield required outside, but in the bar you can take them off and there's no real "social distancing" inside unless the Pulis comes by.
If you're driving, no real checkpoints between AC / Subic on the SCTEX. Sometimes the SBMA guards might ask you where you are going / where you're coming from, but I haven't had any issues. Not sure if it's more strict if you go by bus.
(Source: me. Have been in AC the whole lockdown, went to Subic / Baretto the last 3 weekends hahah).
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05-03-21 02:40 #26983
Posts: 405"SULLIVAN'S IRISH PUB BALIBAGO, PHILIPPINES" is proclaiming AC coming back to life saying liquor ban is off, karaoke still banned. Too soon or is this true?
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04-25-21 03:35 #26982
Posts: 3322Originally Posted by Goferring [View Original Post]
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04-25-21 02:16 #26981
Posts: 3580Originally Posted by Dg8787 [View Original Post]
I'm sure that you and anyone who cares to is getting all the pussy they want in AC and will continue to do so.
Enjoy. G.
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04-25-21 01:30 #26980
Posts: 3322Originally Posted by Goferring [View Original Post]
Defense rest.
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04-24-21 23:53 #26979
Posts: 314Originally Posted by Goferring [View Original Post]
It was interesting to note that he wasn't able to work the border controls and get his wife to Au. I am sure it could have been done procedurally but probably a bad look.
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04-23-21 23:09 #26978
Posts: 3580Originally Posted by Dg8787 [View Original Post]
Enjoy. G.
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04-23-21 04:58 #26977
Posts: 200"Imagine being a 15 year old Flipper hooker "
Pure American Honkey BS!
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04-23-21 02:40 #26976
Posts: 2656In Good Company
Originally Posted by Goferring [View Original Post]
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04-22-21 23:48 #26975
Posts: 99OFW Woman-they like sex too!
Originally Posted by MontanaMonger [View Original Post]
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04-22-21 23:47 #26974
Posts: 3322Originally Posted by Goferring [View Original Post]
He never was in my way before. Plenty of pussy here folks.
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04-22-21 23:36 #26973
Posts: 679Originally Posted by Goferring [View Original Post]