Fields vrs Baloy Beach vendors
If you don't like the AC Fields vendors then I recommend that you do not go to Baloy Beach. The Baloy Beach vendors act desperate and are just about the most persistent and annoying vendors I have ever come across. You can try to ignore them, but they have nothing better to do so they hang out waiting for you outside of the restaurants and hotels in second attempt to sell their goods in case the first attempt to make the sale as you entered the restaurant was not good enough. At times I feel sorry for them when I consider the deplorable economic situation that drives them to sell lousy seashells for next to nothing to uninterested tourists on the sea shore. It is one hell of a shitty low paying job. But then when they try to exploit my most vulnerable weak point I. E. When I am walking the beach with a girl and they intrude on our conversation refusing to take my first polite "no thank you" for a final answer and force me to stop, come out my romantic mode, and say in more forceful way;"NO THANK YOU! NOT NOW" that I begin to hate them a little. But, yeah, it is their country and I am shagging all their women for a few pesos, so even though they annoy me, I do try to stay polite. That muscle boy tourist deserved to get his ass kicked.
I was told the reason these guys hang out on Baloy Beach and not so much on Barrio Barreto main strip is because Baloy Beach is out of Olongapo jurisdiction. I assume this is true because it accounts for the tenacity of their sales approach. Anyway after experiencing Baloy Beach vendors, I find AC street vendors mild by comparison. I like Subic a lot despite these guys. It is just something you have to put up with and not let it tick you off.