Angeles City

[QUOTE=Oosik;1693497]Time to start writing my report and see if the guy in the next seat is snooping on me. {writes, then deletes entire section on receiving anal sex from male fur seals}. Okay, no reaction. He is apparently actually reading his book, or is so, so much more of a degenerate than I am that I feel honored to be in his Presence.

I'll break this into sections both to make it a little more manageable and so that I can try to put the useful stuff in one section and identify it as such. [/QUOTE]I would have to say you wrote a lot about nothing. Leave AC and go back to Bangkok. It sounds like you had a horrible time there. I enjoyed myself there and will return soon.

[QUOTE=FastEddie48;1693593]To Rum.

Not sure about AC I find drug is too expensive in PI but you can get it very cheap in Thailand, Hong Kong even in Singapore without prescription.

Fast eddie 48.[/QUOTE]So if I get sick, I should hop on a place to BKK to get it cheap? Hopefully I won't need it at all. I was hoping for some helpful info. How expensive is too expensive. If I have the runs, I probably won't care too much about the price. It only cost me $8 here in the states, I may try to get some here before iI leave for AC.

[QUOTE=Llantarnam;1693561]Many years ago I worked in the middle east and shared accommodation with a professional expat.

Best advice he ever gave me. If it ain't cooked don't eat it.[/QUOTE]Will definitely follow this advice.

[QUOTE=RumBuddy;1693356]Can you get cipro in AC without a prescription?[/QUOTE]Generally speaking, yes. Some places like Watson's may ask for a script, but I usually avoid getting meds from them as they tend to have the highest prices. At "The Generic's Rx", where I purchase most of my meds, the cost for generic Cipro at the one I use in Cebu City is p14 per 500 MG tab. Branded, available at other Rx's, tends to run about p40-50 per tab.

[QUOTE=Llantarnam;1693561]Many years ago I worked in the middle east and shared accommodation with a professional expat.

Best advice he ever gave me. If it ain't cooked don't eat it.[/QUOTE]I guess the professional expat was not a big fan of DATY.

LOL.

[QUOTE=RumBuddy;1693135]When I return to AC, I want to save some money on my food, SNIP Went to Philly's one day, it was over $300 [b] (I presume you meant p 300 / 300 pesos and not dollars?; suggest you leave off the dollar sign in the future posts unless you're talking about prices in USD)[/b]. Then I noticed, Philly's had a $110 peso breakfast. 2 pieces of white toast, one egg and potatoes. Not bad for a breakfast. I paid like 30 peso for another egg. I like a western breakfast as oppossed to Jolibies. SNIP I will be there for a week the next visit, so I want to eat some decent meals SNIP I want to only spend $20 USD a day unless I feed my girl for the time.[/QUOTE]Bro you crack me up, you probably spend over a grand on airfare and you're worried about saving 5 dollars a day on food?

If that's the case then the way I see it you've got 2 other options:

1) = Rent a furnished condo / apartelle (many available for about the same price as a decent hotel room) and cook your own breakfast.

2) = Put off your visit until you've managed to save up an extra 35 bucks to cover a week of the outrageously high cost of a decent breakfast.

[QUOTE=Oosik;1693499] "Punters really, really dig neck and shoulder massages"?.[/QUOTE]Did you not notice how these massage girls in the bar all flock to the kimchi squad and start the massaging them? They apparently LOVE it.

Unless they are in a big enough group, I don't see what the girls / waitress / hostess attraction is to these K guys. Most of the time they don't seem to spend any money when they travel by themselves or in pairs. When they are in a big enough group, they have to try to outdo each other and see who is BMOC.

The other night at one of the bars, one of the K clientelle was passing out peanuts in a small handful to several of the dancers on stage. These were from a small bag he had brought with him from outside of the bar. These girls spent 10 min hunkered down engaging the customer while he was busy consuming HIS drink. Nothing for the girls other than the peanuts. Big spender!

But. . . I am with you. . . . I don't enjoy some waitress trying to give me a neck and shoulder massage either. I tell them I am NOT Korean LOL.

[QUOTE=PipJaeger;1693625]Bro you crack me up, you probably spend over a grand on airfare and you're worried about saving 5 dollars a day on food?

If that's the case then the way I see it you've got 2 other options:

1) = Rent a furnished condo / apartelle (many available for about the same price as a decent hotel room) and cook your own breakfast.

2) = Put off your visit until you've managed to save up an extra 35 bucks to cover a week of the outrageously high cost of a decent breakfast.[/QUOTE]No, I should be ok. I have about 50 days til I go. Maybe I'm just over thinking it. But I don't really want to pay a lot for food that isn't very good. Also, since I just spent about $4000 on my last visit to the Phils last month, this trip I will not be as free with the money. I'd rather spend my money on the ladies and in the bars. And if I care to take a lady out. Still, I probably won't care too much about the money once I'm there,

[QUOTE=Oosik;1693499]AC seemed delightfully uncrowded for what is supposed to be a busy time. I could walk, not creep, on Walking Street. I didn't always return to my room with homicidal thoughts about idiots there. I think some of this is because I just came from BKK and my very unscientific survey determined that far more people there were having their brains sucked out by mobile devices as they walked, so AC was a refreshing change. Mobile devices: Taking the "Mobile" out of mobility since the early 2000's. The crowding exception was when a tour bus would disgorge a few dozen guys who most likely had rice and fish for breakfast.

I visited about half a dozen bars. Generally the girl quality was pretty poor, but this is not that uncommon. Most places have the Elite bars, the Average Bars, and the God This Is Awful. You'd Better Be Able To Get Blown Under The Table bars. AC has a few of the Elites I spent a lot of time at Atlantis and was quite impressed, and a whole lot of the other two, but take-away beats a BJ under the table, so I guess that is not that bad, especially if you drink. Drink a lot.

It's a tough call but I think looks-wise the AC bars' girls have a slight edge over the BKK ones, but it isn't really a fair comparison between the countries themselves: It is more an entire country (PI) versus a region (Issan). The Pinays seem to have just a little more in the way of butts and a LOT less in the way of tattoos. If I wanted to have sex with an art object, I'd go to a port and bend over a sailor.

I've never seen a tat that improved the looks of the wearer unless it was there to distract one from the fact she had, say, an anus where an eye should be. Besides detracting from the girl's appearance there is a more insidious danger: In the sadly non-nude world of AC dancing one cannot fully examine the Girlfriend of the Night until unwrapping time comes in the room, so one has no idea what other tats she might have. It's bad enough that we already have to quiz them in the bar about procedures, e. G. , BBJ, CIM, rimming, domesticated animals, etc. , but at a minimum tat girls need the additional question, "Do you have Justin Bieber's face tattooed on a butt cheek?" Unless that is a turn on for you. I'm not being judgmental here: I'll grant that yes, slapping the ever-loving shit out of Justin Bieber's face does have a certain attraction, but not enough to compensate for the years of therapy I'd need after finding it there.

So that is a plus for the Pinays. On the down side there is the screaming. Yes, Thai girls can scream, too, like when Justin is getting slapped around. And yes, Thai bars have those f*cking ping pong balls for them to scramble after. But most multi-story Thai bars have dance floors on each floor. In Angeles the multi-story bars have just the main dance area with maybe a few satellites, but balconies overlooking the main. Balconies which, ahem, SCREAM for balls, bills, or Bieber* (* not yet, but I hope someone is working on it) to be tossed. The resultant screaming can best be described as sitting one row ahead of a family with two year old sextuplets in economy on a transpacific flight. For extra realism the parents should be poking the little bastards with cattle prods.

To carry the air travel analogy farther, I try to find a seat against the wall, much as one might seek a seat in front of a bulkhead in a plane to avoid the sextuplets' kicking. In the bar case it is to try to thwart the massage girls. There are now dedicated (not in the "hard working" connotation) massage girls roaming some bars. Not to insult the intelligence of the bar owners, but did they just do a cursory reading of the Thailand ISG forum, spot three different massage parlor threads and assume, "Punters really, really dig neck and shoulder massages"?

As you've probably guessed, I like massages about as much as I like tattoos, maybe less because one can always just close one's eyes with the latter. And the girls are persistent: At least half the time it takes two "No's", maybe even a twist to get away from them.

If this narrative sounds a little angry, blame it on Cathay Pacific. I'm now in a car heading for Pattaya after filing the appropriate paperwork at Suvarnabhumi so that maybe they can find my luggage before I head home in a week. Also, they had two menu choices in business class: Something with mushrooms and some noodles. No fungi for me, thank you! Oh, they only loaded the fungus breakfast! But I have to say that they aim to please: They hunted down an omelet from somewhere. Maybe the pilot went hungry. So did I: It was a mushroom omelet.[/QUOTE]I think you will find that AC does not represent the Whole of Philippines. Most in AC come from SAMAR.

So the story is AC SAMAR; BKK ISSAN.

[QUOTE=David_33;1693565]CX catering from the Philippines is dismal. I always pre-order the Indian vegetarian.[/QUOTE]The Philippines is not a priority destination for any foreign airline. You did well to order Indian. Smart.

[QUOTE=Docwiltro;1693327]I don't eat salads in the Philippines either: ever! The problem is the water used to irrigate the fields; it's often polluted. As much as I'd like to eat better in the Phils, I usually stick to the fast food places like Jollibees and McDos because their food quality standards are higher, and to date, I've not ever gotten food poisoning at the well known fast food franchises.[/QUOTE]If you go to a restaurant and you see a dirty guest washbasin with no soap, then you know what the staff have on their hands. Common sense.

[QUOTE=ConquerorVal;1693130]I believe they use toothpaste as protection from getting STD.[/QUOTE]Then I will use it as lube to keep me protected.

I use the same suitcase with the same set of clothes with the same set of toiletries for my travel to Phils. On my first day home after plenty of sleep on the plane, I restock my toiletry bag, machine wash and dry all my clothes, repack and am ready roll again. More importantly I laundry machine wash my sneakers with a little bleach to kill anything that may have attached itself.

Aha! So it WAS a fair fight! My bad! The only girl who told me where she was from that I could understand was from Cebu. But a couple weeks ago I was chatting with a girl from Chiang Mai at The Dollhouse in Bangkok, so I must somehow target the outliers.

[QUOTE=Fastpiston;1693672]I think you will find that AC does not represent the Whole of Philippines. Most in AC come from SAMAR.

So the story is AC SAMAR; BKK ISSAN.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Fastpiston;1693672]I think you will find that AC does not represent the Whole of Philippines. Most in AC come from SAMAR.

So the story is AC SAMAR; BKK ISSAN.[/QUOTE]A graph or even a pie chart would be more helpful than long reports.