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[QUOTE=OldAndUgly;2995762]You can buy the tickets on line, but..[/QUOTE]How do I buy bus tickets from Here to There online? I've always had to buy them on the actual bus. I've never bought them from a counter, never early and never for a 3rd party if I'm not there.
Can I use online to reserve a seat in a few days? Can I pay for a girl to come to my town and avoid the risk of sending her money and praying?
Thanks. G.
[QUOTE=Trevor2522;2995789]Were you referring to Vietnam?[/QUOTE]Nope, Philippines. Nothing compares to it. Despite all the stupid shit, still the best for me. I just kind of forgot how things go here, it took me few days to readapt.
[QUOTE=Jarango;2995807]Dau is a major temrinal for going north and geting a bus from there northwards should not be a problem. The Philippines has a huge transport network, geared towards the needs and prices of locals. You should respect that.[/QUOTE]Trust me, I've been on the buses in the PH everywhere up, and down, they are cheap, and mostly reliable, also I feel safer in a bus than in a taxi or trike, I seen lots of scary accidents while on the road.
I was not complaining about the buses, but about the stupidity of this girl from Victory Liners, that keeps giving me the same answer, no matter how I asked about something different, I thought was fitting perfectly in this thread.
[QUOTE=Goferring;2995821]How do I buy bus tickets from Here to There online? I've always had to buy them on the actual bus. I've never bought them from a counter, never early and never for a 3rd party if I'm not there.
Can I use online to reserve a seat in a few days? Can I pay for a girl to come to my town and avoid the risk of sending her money and praying?
Thanks. G.[/QUOTE]In the PH I never bought bus tickets online, only on the bus. But in this particular case it seems that that's the way you have to do it, since is assigned seating, and they don't take you if there are no seats available, unlike all the other bus companies. I don't remember ever using Victory Liners before. Maybe I should had checked directly at Dau if there are any other bus companies going to Baguio, but now is too late, I just admired the sunset in Boracay about an hour ago.
I've been to Baguio many years ago, and all I remember is that people were wearing jackets like it was freezing, which of course wasn't the case.
[QUOTE=OldAndUgly;2995762]"Mabuhay!
With regards to your concern, Unfortunately we don't have online reservations from Dau bound for Baguio City. If you will ride at the dau terminal, you may just wait for a bus coming from the origin terminal. You may board if there are still available seats.[/QUOTE]Hi Ugly. Enjoy Boracay.
I get the busses everywhere I go and I've found any online research prior is pretty useless. As for timetables, don't believe what you read online.
For your future trip, I wouldn't worry about securing a seat prior. Just show up to the bus station.
In a place like Dau, there's bound to be lots of passengers disembarking there to get to Angeles so you'll get their seat.
[QUOTE=Goferring;2995821]How do I buy bus tickets from Here to There online? I've always had to buy them on the actual bus. I've never bought them from a counter, never early and never for a 3rd party if I'm not there. Can I use online to reserve a seat in a few days? Can I pay for a girl to come to my town and avoid the risk of sending her money and praying?
Thanks. G.[/QUOTE]Hi G,
Basically on the bus is the only way to go. The whole online set-up is useless from experience.
Victory Liner at Pasay is the only place I've paid at the counter prior, or maybe in Cebu to get to Bantayan Island.
As for the girl and praying. A few years ago I arranged for a girl to video call me on WhatsApp when she got to the bus station and I transferred the money via G-Cash.
Generally I've found that dangling the carrot of a few thousand pesos a day with you will justify the risk of dropping 400 on their bus fare in hope.
They always take the bait.
[QUOTE=OldAndUgly;2995830]Trust me, I've been on the buses in the PH everywhere up, and down, they are cheap, and mostly reliable, also I feel safer in a bus than in a taxi or trike.[/QUOTE]Agree and they're extremely good value. Despite the fact that timetables are rarely adhered to, on average a bus departs every hour on most major routes. Put it this way, I've had a better experience travelling by bus in The Phils as opposed to riding "The Dirty Dog" in America back in the day.
[QUOTE=OldAndUgly;2995834]I don't remember ever using Victory Liners before.[/QUOTE]Never had a problem with Victory Liner. They have a lot of busses on the road and have a major hub in Pasay. They also have an extensive network.
I've just found that turning up to a bus station in The Phils at least an hour before you want to go anywhere can help and you won't miss your bus.
_ Phil.
[QUOTE=WestCoast1;2998241]A system so silly that this probably belongs in the "Stupid Sh*t" section.[/QUOTE]While we are having a whinge about all things Philippino let's add pizzas to the list. I just Grabbed a 15" pizza from Greenwich. They are nice pizzas but two boxes arrived. The cleverer amongst us would pick that as a 'Buy one, Take one' weekend deal. But no. Some bright spark introduced 15" pizzas and forgot he needed 15" boxes to put them in. What arrives is two 15" halves smashed into 12" boxes with toppings scattered everywhere.
Enjoy your pizzas. IMFITP.
G.
I have a postpaid account, I got it for many years, and I was sure that means that you pay at the end of the month what you use, and yes sometimes when I used the phone in the neighboring countries, I just paid more on the next bill for roaming. Well, about a week ago while on some God forgotten island, where no internet was available, and cell phone service was sporadic, I used all my data allowance for the month, and the phone became only usable for voice or sms, first I didn't understand how that's possible by having a postpaid account, then when trying to buy more data, via the globe app, got the message that I need to increase my spending limit in order to do it, again I don't understand why since is postpaid and the account is in good standing, and to make it even worse: you cannot increase it, only in person at a Globe service center, which of course was a thousand miles away. Also couldn't just pay for more data via GCash because data was needed to operate the GCash app. I tried all kind of workarounds, with no results. Upon returning to more civilized places and I found a piso machine, I just bought a data promo package to get by for the time being.
Saturday after returning to AC, I went to Globe in the SM Mall, and after I waited for almost 2 hours with nobody in que but me, and the only 2 reps, assisting 2 other customers, I gave up and left, I just needed some answers, but even if armed with lots of patience I couldn't stand it any longer. My GF was joking that maybe they were building new phones from scratch for the guys being served, and that's the reason behind the long wait. Maybe I'll give it another try tomorrow.
[QUOTE=OldAndUgly;2998334]I have a postpaid account, .[/QUOTE]I'm a big fan of prepaid when I travel. I've had several SNAFUs where one call has drained my entire balance, often several hundred dollars. If I had been post paid it could have been essentially limitless.
Typically someone called me while I was travelling, we talked and they were the one to hang up and terminate the call. Normally there is no need for both callers to hang up to end a call. However for whatever reason my telco didn't register that the call had ended my end so charges continued until my account was exhausted.
Where I'm from there were numerous stories of people going on holidays, turning on Roaming, and using $000's of data for scheduled updates etc and not knowing until the next bill comes. Next thing they are on the news and it's all the telcos fault. I think all the telcos have now stopped post paid roaming and you have to buy fixed value Packs. I know I can't send a single SMS or make a call with out getting a Pack first.
G.
[QUOTE=OldAndUgly;2998334]I have a postpaid account, I got it for many years, and I was sure that means that you pay at the end of the month what you use, and yes sometimes when I used the phone in the neighboring countries, I just paid more on the next bill for roaming. Well, about a week ago while on some God forgotten island, where no internet was available, and cell phone service was sporadic, I used all my data allowance for the month, and the phone became only usable for voice or sms, [/QUOTE]I should have written about this before. Have also learned the hard way. I have the company's lowest-priced postpaid plan, I think with about 18 gb of monthly data, and unli txt and calling. In Phils I never get to the 18 gb limit as I don't watch movies or play online games. I typically use 3-5 gb of data. Outside of phils I never use the SIM card for anything. Globe roaming can be atrocious. As the phone has 2 SIM slots, one is for my Globe card and the other is my country's service provider's card. My country's card's roaming plan is considerably better price-wise than Globe. Its a bad idea to roam using Globe. Just after I send my last round of goodbye txts from NAIA after boarding the plane to depart Phils, I go into my phone's settings and turn that globe SIM card completely off. If I am out of Phils for a matter of months, I turn on the Globe SIM card once a month and let it roam for about a minute, which tells Globe the card is still active, then I turn the card off again. I turn it back on about the time my inbound aircraft gets into Phils airspace.
[QUOTE=OldAndUgly;2998334]the account is in good standing, and to make it even worse: you cannot increase it, only in person at a Globe service center, which of course was a thousand miles away.[/QUOTE]Its even worse. Last time I was out of the country, my bank at home detected fraud on my credit card and deactivated the account. Automatically they send a new card in the mail. I got a notice from Globe that they attempted to charge my old CC but it repeatedly failed. "You can add a new card in our app". I went to the app and found the payment area and input the new CC number and hit SUBMIT. It was not rejected: The SUBMIT didn't do anything. I tried several times without success. From my home country I sent a GC to one of my regulars and had her tryke to the nearest Globe store and pay the bill. When I returned to Phils I went to a Globe store and had them input my new CC number into their payment system. "Ya. Sorry that po. The credit card thing doesn't work yet in our app. Later maybe. You need to come to our store only". Maybe?
[QUOTE=OldAndUgly;2998334]Also couldn't just pay for more data via GCash because data was needed to operate the GCash app. I tried all kind of workarounds, with no results. [/QUOTE]Your standard Phils Catch-22:
YOU CAN'T USE YOUR GLOBE BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T PAY YOUR BILL. YOU CAN'T PAY YOUR BILL BECAUSE WE WON'T ACCEPT YOUR NEW PAYMENT METHOD (SAME AS THE OLD PAYMENT METHOD). Great!
[QUOTE=OldAndUgly;2998334]Saturday after returning to AC, I went to Globe in the SM Mall, and after I waited for almost 2 hours with nobody in que but me, and the only 2 reps, assisting 2 other customers, I gave up and left, I just needed some answers, but even if armed with lots of patience I couldn't stand it any longer. [/QUOTE]Specifically, Globe wait times. Don't. Get. Me. Started. Plan on 45 minutes to 2 hours before seeing an agent. If they have a Ticket system to fall in line, get a Senior ticket.
Just go to Thailand, less problems.
I have about 8 eSims in my phone, from different countries, I only use the roaming on the Globe one in places of transit or where I don't stay long, like Singapore, Macau, HK, Seoul. For all the rest I have eSims.
I started with postpaid, because I witnessed the girls constantly running out of load, and didn't want to be in the same situation, many years ago I realized that was a mistake and I wanted to change to prepaid, but is not possible to keep the same phone nr, you'll get a new one, and my phone nr was already tied up to a multitude of things, making it impossible to do that, as the years passed by more things added to the phone nr, but at some point I'll have to make a plan, and just bare the pain, go thru the nightmare, and change to prepaid and therefore phone nr. Because as usual some things, or I should say all thing in the PH are different than they appear to be, and not in a good way, except the girls.
[QUOTE=Goferring;2998258]While we are having a whinge about all things Philippino.[/QUOTE]Yes G, I think we have to put some things into perspective sometimes in the Phils.
It is what it is, though frustrating at times.
In my own country, just to get my name changed on a Government Medicare Card was a nightmare with bureaucracy.
Because my full legal name wasn't on the card, it caused me all sorts of issues.
And when we talk about 'Stupid Shit' just take a look at a few of the world leaders in other countries at the moment.
They must come across as some real 'Stupid Shit' to those in the Phils.
And to me _ Phil.
Why are they killing Koreans all the time here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmqjdMoP6vI
What about other foreigners then? Does that mean we're safe because we're not from Korea and Japan? I guess in a way it makes sense. With the way the world is going now, it seems like the only rich people left in the world are the Koreans and Japanese. Maybe a few Europeans here and there. Still, it ain't ok to target people just cause they be from some place geographically.
I say stop it. Please stop killing them Koreans. I love a good K drama as much as the next person, so stop murdering them. There. I've said my peace. And I hope the next pope is the Philippines dude. Good luck!
[QUOTE=NewtonYork;2999548]Why are they killing Koreans all the time here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmqjdMoP6vI
What about other foreigners then? Does that mean we're safe because we're not from Korea and Japan? I guess in a way it makes sense. With the way the world is going now, it seems like the only rich people left in the world are the Koreans and Japanese. Maybe a few Europeans here and there. Still, it ain't ok to target people just cause they be from some place geographically.
I say stop it. Please stop killing them Koreans. I love a good K drama as much as the next person, so stop murdering them. There. I've said my peace. And I hope the next pope is the Philippines dude. Good luck![/QUOTE]Probably those man-purses they are wearing look tempting to the bad guys, exacerbated by the idiotic money throwing they like to perform, just this past Monday I saw one Korean performing the money shower ritual out on the Red Street over the girls sitting in front of the massage place next to Royal Amsterdam. Of course this doesn't justify the killing, but it encourages robberies by doing just what their intention is: creating the illusion that the man-purse is full of cash. I feel sorry for the guy, now he's the richest guy in the cemetery.
All foreginers and most Pinoys are targets and it might be arguied osme but not all Koreans let their guard down. There are guys scouting round on bkes all the time seing who they can rob and Pinoys have their phones etc snatched on a regular basis. I find reports like those on mugging much more helpful and far more useful than run of the mill ones about bonking some run of the mill bar girl. Security guards on a hotel are terrrent but once you step oputside, you are fair game. Ditto bringing a bottom feeder back to your room. Swim with the sharks, get bitten.