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Just to add my two cents. I had requested my hotel for a pick up from Terminal 2 to my hotel near greenbelt and I was charged PHP 800. After I changed hotel, when I checked out from my hotel in Malate, the taxi to Terminal 2 charged PHP 145. Very strange indeed!

[QUOTE=Manfield04;1964424]Just to add my two cents. I had requested my hotel for a pick up from Terminal 2 to my hotel near greenbelt and I was charged PHP 800. After I changed hotel, when I checked out from my hotel in Malate, the taxi to Terminal 2 charged PHP 145. Very strange indeed![/QUOTE]Hotels make huge margins on those services as you just demonstrated.

T1/ T3 to Makati say Dusit is PHP 440 on the white taxis. I find this convenient. When I leave the taxi at most is PHP 175 and includes the Skyway fee (the DUsit had tried to charge PHP 1500) - some hotel picks ups are really private firms not actual hotel employees paying a margin to the hotel for the ability to market itself to guests.

If use Uber etc is cheaper as GE uses this and is very happy.

YMMV.

[QUOTE=Manfield04;1964424]Just to add my two cents. I had requested my hotel for a pick up from Terminal 2 to my hotel near greenbelt and I was charged PHP 800. After I changed hotel, when I checked out from my hotel in Malate, the taxi to Terminal 2 charged PHP 145. Very strange indeed![/QUOTE]Here is my understanding of the transportation Hierarchy at Manila Intl Airport. Someone will correct me if I am wrong.

1. Tout 'Taxis' - Most Expensive but always available; try to avoid them.

2. Coupon Taxis. Fixed rates, second most expensive, readily available.

3. Yellow Airport Taxis. Start with a higher base meter than white taxis. Depending on timing, there can be a long line for them.

4. White common taxis. Cheapest, but can have the longest wait.

Walking out of Terminal 3 (Delta's terminal), cross the first lane and take a right for transportation. Touts begin harassing you everywhere, but Coupon taxis will be the first of the others that you will encounter. Ask how much to your hotel. For me, I was quoted 750 php to Heritage Hotel in Pasay last week at 10 pm on a Friday. I almost took the bait, having in the past encountered lines 20-40 deep for the other taxis, whose arrivals were limited by traffic. But I kept walking, thinking I could always return. At the end of the strip, the white taxis were on the left side, and the yellows were on the right. Luckily, there was a line of whites queued-up and only 2-3 customers in line. Fare to the Heritage was 96 php. My lucky day! It was a nightmare the previous month at 9 pm on a Friday and I ended up in a Coupon cab.

I see no advantage in arranging for the hotel shuttle to return you to the airport (they always ask at checkout). The price is ridiculous and they get there no faster than an Uber or a Grab! taxi.

I mostly use Uber now so I don't have to worry about the cab driver not having change. But Grab! often offers a quicker pick-up.

[QUOTE=Fantasys;1964410]Are you use it before, they will wait you when the fly delayed?[/QUOTE]I'm not sure how long they wait. My inbound int'l flights are never delayed. The only flights that are routinely delayed are domestic flights.

[QUOTE=Fantasys;1964410]20 USD is a good price, save time and trouble. Are you use it before, they will wait you when the fly delayed?[/QUOTE]When I was delayed from Dubai they waited (3 hrs or so). Hotel managment banter with me when I arrived; "we follow / track your flight (most likely not the driver but the management handling booking of hotel cars and inform the driver)". This is also a question you can address to the actual you book airport pickup through.

I use an AC driver to pick me up at NAIA when I first come into RP. Usually I land around 9:30 pm in T1 and then he drives me to AC. Along the way I can get a cup of coffee and a small meal. Generally I am into AC hotel between 12:30-1:00 am and I have a girl coming in 30 minutes.

A few times the plane has been late by an hour. The worst was over 4 hours. We circled NAIA for an hour in a holding pattern and then was forced to land at Clark to refuel. We were not allowed to get off the plane and were parked in some remote area along with 6 others planes that I could see. The refueling wait took over 2 1/2 hours. Finally the pilot announced we were allowed to take off and to get back into the holding pattern which was estimated to be over an hour. After about 15 minutes in the air the pilot announced a slot had magically opened but. He would have do a steep dive to land in that opened slot. At that point I didn't care.

My driver had waited over 4 hours plus he had gotten to the airport an hour earlier. I have to tell you that I have a regular phone with Smart Sim that use for Phil. A day or two before my arrival I do an online load for it and as soon as I land in Manila it is working. So I was always in contact with the driver to keep him informed. I tipped the driver an extra 200 along with his regular tip for his troubles.

My advice is to always use the same driver if you can and to have a working cell phone upon landing.

Interesting is I usually pay 3 k all in for the driver to AC. The past few times I have been able to book MNL to CEB and CEB to CRK for around 3 k. So I stay in Manila a few days and then go to Cebu for a few days. Both places I have former AC bg and their friends available.

I'll be in Manila for a very short time. Can anyone recommend a nice in-call place to get a Nuru massage?

[QUOTE=BestHunter;1969040]I'm talking with a girl for 1 month. She is beautiful really, from Visayas, without work, 1 kid, shy, she is online always for short time but I cannot know it because on Facebook she can disable her visibility. She lives with her kid and auntie. I met her on Facebook the first time. She told me she has a account on filipinocupid but she doesn't serf there anymore because she lost her password. I checked it on filipinocupid and it is true because for 2 months she is not online there.

Sometimes when I talk about hot topics (for me innocent topics) she slips away toward another topic without answering. When I asked her if we can take a shower together, she answered it was not possible. I tried to stop talking with her and she told it was possible to take a shower together. She is a smart girl. Why do I ask this question? I like to know better the culture of the Philippines and I like to know also the behavior of the girls. Do you think she could be a good actress or a regular girl?[/QUOTE]She is an unemployed single mother who spends all her time online chatting old men on dating sites and Facebook. I think it is safe to say that she is a freelancer. Anyway, unless you are planning to marry her it does not really matter. You want sex and she obviously needs your money. Don't waste her time if you're trying to get free sex. That kind of behavior on ISG is known as sexual shoplifting. Instead of playing games and asking her about taking showers together, just tell her that you are considering visiting the Philippines to have sex with women and the amount that you are willing to pay for her favors. One month of online chats is a luxury that a jobless single mother in the Visayas can ill afford unless you are sending her money to compensate for her time, electricity, internet access, and opportunity cost.

[QUOTE=BestHunter;1969040]I'm talking with a girl for 1 month. She is beautiful really, from Visayas, without work, 1 kid, shy, she is online always for short time but I cannot know it because on Facebook she can disable her visibility. She lives with her kid and auntie. I met her on Facebook the first time. She told me she has a account on filipinocupid but she doesn't serf there anymore because she lost her password. I checked it on filipinocupid and it is true because for 2 months she is not online there.

Sometimes when I talk about hot topics (for me innocent topics) she slips away toward another topic without answering. When I asked her if we can take a shower together, she answered it was not possible. I tried to stop talking with her and she told it was possible to take a shower together. She is a smart girl. Why do I ask this question? I like to know better the culture of the Philippines and I like to know also the behavior of the girls. Do you think she could be a good actress or a regular girl?[/QUOTE]Rather than ask lots of questions BH both on the forum and countless PMs to various members I know (including me), try coming to the Philippines and find out? A novel idea for you maybe but one you should try and stop being a keyboard warrior using one hand only.

If she ask for cash I suggest you send it to me first and I will vet her for you poor to me sending her the cash.

[QUOTE=BestHunter;1969040]I'm talking with a girl for 1 month. She is beautiful really, from Visayas, without work, 1 kid, shy, she is online always for short time but I cannot know it because on Facebook she can disable her visibility. She lives with her kid and auntie. I met her on Facebook the first time. She told me she has a account on filipinocupid but she doesn't serf there anymore because she lost her password. I checked it on filipinocupid and it is true because for 2 months she is not online there.

Sometimes when I talk about hot topics (for me innocent topics) she slips away toward another topic without answering. When I asked her if we can take a shower together, she answered it was not possible. I tried to stop talking with her and she told it was possible to take a shower together. She is a smart girl. Why do I ask this question? I like to know better the culture of the Philippines and I like to know also the behavior of the girls. Do you think she could be a good actress or a regular girl?[/QUOTE]

No idea. The only way you will ever know is to go to Phils and meet her and many others. Build you knowledge through participation.

From your description of the conversation she sounds like any one of the millions having conversations. She's probably treating you the same way. She thinks "another guy online chatting for over a month but he has no arrival date, no arrangements to be in Philippines, seems like he's just wasting my time. "

Is she a good actress or a regular girl? I would suggest she is just a person. Please don't expect too much strategy from provincial girls.

BD.

Besthunter or The Hunter (as he calls himself on another forum) asks the same question time and time again on several forums. He doesn't seem to have a clue what he is doing. Don't waste time guys answering this guy. If you answer him he starts off shooting new questions from his hips and even answers he gets (by now understandably very few, as BMs have understood he is, well I'll be nice, HM, odd) will be questioned and even disagreed by him. Why ask in the first place if he knows so well what he wants. Just a head up. I am out.

She must be chatting on line with dozens guys at the same time. That explains her temporary lapse of attention, lack of focus and delayed responses to you.

There is an industry of chat girls who milk lonely, gullible guys all over the world out of hundreds millions dollars every year. They learn tricks from one another how to manipulate guys to feel in love and feel good in sending money to strangers. Then they celebrate their windfalls and laugh among themselves how some of these guys are so stupid and gullible. They are some of the most professional scammers and swindlers in the world.

You should go to China, Thailand, the Philippines and visit some internet shops to see how these chat girls operate, spending all day on line selling alleged love and sex for big money.

Until you are on location and finish an objective, professional investigation of all the facts she gave you, just assume she gave you all brazen lies, lies, lies.

[QUOTE=BestHunter;1969040]I'm talking with a girl for 1 month. She is beautiful really, from Visayas, without work, 1 kid, shy, she is online always for short time but I cannot know it because on Facebook she can disable her visibility. She lives with her kid and auntie. I met her on Facebook the first time. She told me she has a account on filipinocupid but she doesn't serf there anymore because she lost her password. I checked it on filipinocupid and it is true because for 2 months she is not online there.

Sometimes when I talk about hot topics (for me innocent topics) she slips away toward another topic without answering. When I asked her if we can take a shower together, she answered it was not possible. I tried to stop talking with her and she told it was possible to take a shower together. She is a smart girl. Why do I ask this question? I like to know better the culture of the Philippines and I like to know also the behavior of the girls. Do you think she could be a good actress or a regular girl?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=BestHunter;1969040]Sometimes when I talk about hot topics (for me innocent topics) she slips away toward another topic without answering. When I asked her if we can take a shower together, she answered it was not possible. I tried to stop talking with her and she told it was possible to take a shower together. She is a smart girl. Why do I ask this question? I like to know better the culture of the Philippines and I like to know also the behavior of the girls. Do you think she could be a good actress or a regular girl?[/QUOTE]If I understand this correctly you want her to shower while you watch online, right?

If she is genuine then the possible reasons are:

1) She's shy about stretch marks.

2) She's shy about her lady penis.

3) She doesn't have access to a private western-style shower.

Of the three I think the third is most plausible if she is very poor. A shower is a spigot and bucket. If she is poor and in an urban area it may be a communal toilet and shower.

[QUOTE=BestHunter;1969267]Sorry but I think you have not read carefully my post. She has not Internet but is using free data on Facebook.[/QUOTE]

Actually he gave you a good answer. You neglected to mention her facebook is the free one.

Reading Vita's comment and your curt reply to Chocha I have I idea where this is going. I encourage you to learn some manners, for example a simple "thank you" to Chocha was deserved.