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I went thru the countdown twice, and I paid twice 5200 for 10 vouchers, but, it didn't register. At some point it showed 5200 in my CP account, but no email, and no withdrawal from my CC account, now it shows 0. The CP website it's a real marvel of modern engineering.
[QUOTE=WestCoast1;2964225]There is almost no way to contact CP regarding website sales. Does anyone have a phone number?[/QUOTE]Found some contact info for CP, but you're not going to like it:
1) Pic 1: From the website, you can contact "Charlie", an online bot that gives out FAQ info (but probably not what you are looking for). It says that you can reach a live agent 24/7 in this chat-bot, but I would guess that might only actually occur during normal business hours. Someone prove me wrong.
2) Pic 2: From the website, on the bottom of the main page, click on 'Talk To Us' (or this link). From there, you can fill in some of your contact and bio info, including your loving message or gripe to them. Then, you must click on the check-box at the bottom, allowing them to post your message or biographical info online, before you can click Submit and they consider your request / need. A shockingly bad way to offer customer service. You must be willing to out yourself first.
[URL]https://www.cebupacificair.com/en-PH/about/talk-to-us/guest-feedback-form[/URL]
3) Pic 3: From the website, a google map pic of the location of their NAIA ticketing office. In order to go there, you might have to actually fly there in order for them to be so kind as to hear your complaint. I can hear it now: "But sir, you don't need to go here. You can check the FAQ on our website". And will the FAQ tell me how to ask for a refund for the sandwich that I ordered and paid for on the website, but didn't receive on the fight? "Oh. Sorry po. No".
[QUOTE=PhilJoy;2962613]I think I may post again about steak suggestions just to get off-topic.[/QUOTE]I tried the Tournedos Rossini from the Old Manila, at the Peninsula. It was a good variation and I enjoyed it, especially with the truffle mash. However, it has a rich sauce and is not your typical steak.
The Super Prime Grade at Elbert's Steak Room is in a different category. The guy from the UK sitting at the table next to me summed it up perfectly. "This is a proper steak".
[QUOTE=OldAndUgly;2964116]Today Cebu-Pacific has a 99 p sale, I spent one hour, being constantly kicked out of the website, trying to buy 10 vouchers. At the end after paying for it, I still don't know if the transaction went thru or not.
Normally the website it always works fine until the final step when you pay. A month ago I bought a ticket for my GF from AC to CEB, same thing, I paid for, then page crashed and silence. 10 minutes later I did it again, same thing happened, then I gave up for the time being, later when I checked my email, I ended up with 2 tickets for the same person, on the same flight. Of course there is no way to talk to somebody about to get your money back.[/QUOTE]I took a side trip to Cebu and had begun the process to upgrade seats from the app. Every time I got to the last page to pay and tried entering my Country the page would freeze. I then switched to the website online on my laptop and was able to ultimately make the change there.
[QUOTE=Goferring;2964224]Cebu Pacific crashed yesterday. At least it did where I am, back home. It wouldn't allow logons or even generic searches.
Prices are often a mystery gift. Searching for a flight from A to Z showed 1500, clicking on the day showed 2500 and adding in taxes and 'because we can' charges took it to over 3000.
I don't even worry about seeking out sale prices now.
Don't even get me started in the reliability of their Mobile platform.
G.[/QUOTE]In agreeance with everyone else regarding CP. Their website's crap and don't even bother to try and become a rewards / frequent flyer member. Complete shambles. Dodgy unbranded Bulgarian planes used to get from Cebu to Manila on my last trip.
I booked a flight months ago for March next year to go from Manila to Caticlan (Boracay) with one of the GFs.
Within an hour of booking, there was a time change and I've had three emails since advising me of schedule changes.
The one thing I will say in their favor is, I'd recently booked a work trip with them from Manila to Cebu return and couldn't make it due to other business commitments. It was a pretty cheap flight in the scheme of things and non-refundable. However, because I'd signed up with them as a 'member' or similar, they've banked that for me to use on future trips.
I did have to work it out all by myself though _ Phil.
As many of you may know, I never send money to my girls and have an agreement that I'll reward them when they're in my company. And quite generously sometimes. As long as they tick all the KPI boxes.
(You just have to be firm. And I'm not sure they realize how many of them have a sick kid, can't afford rice, it's raining heavy, the phone's broken, have a son's birthday coming up and need to buy food for the party that the whole family will feast on - "I'm sorry I can't help you, may I suggest the actual father or the family assist".
Anyway, got this great message on WhatsApp today to Sir Phil from a girl requesting I send money to her G-Cash account like before.
Only problem is (see pic), I'm not from Korea and I don't think Phil's a common name there.
And it's proved to be great ammo moving forward. Two can play this game and I'm going to have some fun with it _ Phil.
[QUOTE=OldAndUgly;2971071]GF, after more than a year living with me still not willing to try anything else than PH food, or if traveling to another country, stuff that's similar, and involves rice.
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Like any other foreign owned restaurant, the owner have some PH dishes on the menu, because he knows what usually happens when a foreigner brings his filipina to his restaurant, she may starve, not willing to try anything else than what she knows already..[/QUOTE]You can take any Asian girl any where in the world, even another Asian country, to any restaurant, from a Michelin star rated to ratty hole in the wall, and she will be looking for local to her food.
Travel half way around the world to see the sights and the first Google search won't be the best tourist attractions. It will be where is her nationality's restaurants.
Shit, I've seen girls take herbs and sauces INTO a restaurant to ensure that it tastes like back home. Forget about what the chef intended.
Good luck. G.
Just this week. I had just filled out all my information on their website. Next page was the payment page to enter credit card info. Webpage error. Start over and the price increased $30 for my one-way ticket.
I hate when they list prices and then you click on it the price has increased.
If they have a 24 hour sale you have like 3 hours to buy the few tickets that actually exist. I know of several guys that buy several tickets and simply throw some away and still cheaper that way.
[QUOTE=Goferring;2971641]You can take any Asian girl any where in the world, even another Asian country, to any restaurant, from a Michelin star rated to ratty hole in the wall, and she will be looking for local to her food.
Travel half way around the world to see the sights and the first Google search won't be the best tourist attractions. It will be where is her nationality's restaurants.
Shit, I've seen girls take herbs and sauces INTO a restaurant to ensure that it tastes like back home. Forget about what the chef intended.
Good luck. G.[/QUOTE]Nothing special about Asian girls in this regard. Take a Dominican Girl, Take Mexican girl, Take a Colombian girl. They are looking for food choices that they recognize.
[QUOTE=SunnyBlacks12;2964393]I took a side trip to Cebu and had begun the process to upgrade seats from the app. Every time I got to the last page to pay and tried entering my Country the page would freeze. I then switched to the website online on my laptop and was able to ultimately make the change there.[/QUOTE]These mfs. I am on the app trying to buy a ticket, but whenever I look at something else on my phone and go back to the app, it is back to the initial screen.
[QUOTE=SubCmdr;2971679]Nothing special about Asian girls in this regard. Take a Dominican Girl, Take Mexican girl, Take a Colombian girl. They are looking for food choices that they recognize.[/QUOTE]I have lots of friends in the US that are the same way, not so radicalized, because they were exposed to Mexican, Chinese, Italian, etc in the course of their lives, but still extremely reluctant to try anything that they never seen before.
Before I moved to SEA I used to go to the international food markets and try stuff just out of curiosity, or I was going to weird restaurants once in a while, just for the thrill of it.
I don't eat weird stuff, but you'll find dishes made out of ordinary ingredients everywhere on this planet, it may look different or taste different, but it's not like you're eating dog, or balut.
I worked part time as a brunch chef while attending University. So I have always been fascinated at what is considered breakfast around the world. Here in Thailand (were I am not) there is not a breakfast tradition. Breakfast is Thai food. It can be the same as what is eaten for lunch and dinner. Was a serious culture shock the first time my ATF fixed me breakfast. The next time I asked her if she could include some eggs for my breakfast. She said sure: I make you egg fried rice. Bet!
You are absolute correct that most dishes around the world a made from the same base components. Bread and Rice are excellent examples. How many different ways can bread be made or rice prepared. Then you have the three base meats (Beef, Chicken, Pork). We all working with the same base vegetables (but there are regional differences). The larger variety I have found is in the availability of different fruits. Since I left my country of origin 13 years ago the fruits I have experienced around the world have been exquisite (and that does not even include the melons, mangos or peaches).
Culinary styles are based in cultural conditions and sometimes the resources that were available to people. Here in Thailand left overs are not a thing. Everything should be eaten fresh and now. Personally I like to keep FRtH (Food Ready to Heat) in my refrigerator for when I am too lazy to go out or outside of the delivery window for the food I want.
I appreciate the intelligent response in the thread not really known for that. LOL!
[QUOTE=OldAndUgly;2971830]I have lots of friends in the US that are the same way, not so radicalized, because they were exposed to Mexican, Chinese, Italian, etc in the course of their lives, but still extremely reluctant to try anything that they never seen before.
Before I moved to SEA I used to go to the international food markets and try stuff just out of curiosity, or I was going to weird restaurants once in a while, just for the thrill of it.
I don't eat weird stuff, but you'll find dishes made out of ordinary ingredients everywhere on this planet, it may look different or taste different, but it's not like you're eating dog, or balut.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=SubCmdr;2971869]
I appreciate the intelligent response in the thread not really known for that. LOL![/QUOTE]Absolutely Sub,
Got to love a good food post now and then.
I love my lechon pork and manok and lots of other dishes, even though compared to the rest of Asia, The Phils is a bit limited on variety. But I never really have an issue with local food.
(Maybe except for the absence of a knife and trying to cut shit with a spoon. Oh, and chopsticks would help out with the kanin ie: rice).
Whilst I'm still wary of some street food sitting in the sun for hours, it's probably 100% better for you than the processed stuff coming out of a global fast food restaurant chain or the cholesterol corners of the western world where there's a highway junction and a heart attack option on every corner paying the minimum wage.
Shock horror! - You mean it's not only those living in third world countries get paid shit?!
As a side note, and keeping to the theme of this thread, the taste of Filipina pussy has never been a disappointment on my menu _ Phil.
Last year I had an good old friend visiting me here for a month, I took him around PH in all the best spots that I knew off. Guess what? It was the worse month of my life, nothing was good, everything was dirty, everywhere it stinked, food tasted horrible, the girls look like monkeys. This is the same guy that in his 20's was the most rebellious, unhinged person I knew, lead singer in a successful ac dc cover band (looked like Bon), I couldn't believe it, and I endured it all, not wanting to destroy a life long friendship over this.
It was his firsr SEA trip, and I explained to him that's his money, his time (mine too), and better enjoy it for better or worse, it is what it is, and stop comparing it to the civilized world, also I guaranteed him that later he will miss it. Well, that's exactly what happened, and all summer long he kept asking me when he should come back to PH. He did recognized that he was an asshole, and also stupid in his actions, and he's ashamed to say it, but is exactly as I predicted, he misses PH. I kind of gave him the runaround, avoiding an exact answer. Now I'm off the hook, he booked a trip to Peru, good luck with that!
[QUOTE=OldAndUgly;2972032]Last year I had an good old friend visiting me here for a month, I took him around PH in all the best spots that I knew off. Guess what? It was the worse month of my life, nothing was good, everything was dirty, everywhere it stinked, food tasted horrible, the girls look like monkeys. This is the same guy that in his 20's was the most rebellious, unhinged person I knew, lead singer in a successful ac dc cover band (looked like Bon), I couldn't believe it, and I endured it all, not wanting to destroy a life long friendship over this.
It was his firsr SEA trip, and I explained to him that's his money, his time (mine too), and better enjoy it for better or worse, it is what it is, and stop comparing it to the civilized world, also I guaranteed him that later he will miss it. Well, that's exactly what happened, and all summer long he kept asking me when he should come back to PH. He did recognized that he was an asshole, and also stupid in his actions, and he's ashamed to say it, but is exactly as I predicted, he misses PH. I kind of gave him the runaround, avoiding an exact answer. Now I'm off the hook, he booked a trip to Peru, good luck with that![/QUOTE]Some people just cannot take "too Different". I saw it when I first started working in China. About half the people we brought from either Europe or the USA hated it and never came back. I loved it and still do.