Manila

[quote=mattrick]was in manila last monday and had an hour or so to kill before my flight, so i popped into la cafe for a beer. it was around 3:00 pm. sat down at the round bar an ordered one of my favorite beers (san mig cervesa negra) and a few minutes later, a young lovely asked if she could sit next to me.

after we got aquainted, i snaped a couple of photos and then a middle aged woman came up to me and announced "no pictures allowed". i then asked the girl "who is she?" and the girl replied, "oh she is just one of the mamasans here". wtf? "i thought this bar was strickly freelancers" i quickly replied.

then she explains to me that the wife of one of the owners has brought in several mamasans to get a peice of the action. she must hand over up to 30% of her take while hangin' at la cafe! i'm not sure if this is the way it is at night but i doubt it. anyway i got the girls phone number and email and said i would call her next time i'm in manila.

btw, the going rate at la cafe is: 1000-1500 st; 1500-2500 lt depending on the quality, time of day and your barganing skills. take it sleezy![/quote]i really do not know what the deal is with the "mamsans", but they appear to be just older ex-*****s who try to hussle the newer guys and girls for money. i just ignore them. in all the many, many girls i have taken out of the bar, i have only paid a "mamason" one time. i negotiated with a girl a price of 1, 500 pesos, and then she tells me i have to give the mamason 500. i said sure, and i will only pay you 1, 000 then, and she said ok. i don't care who i pay, as long as the price is the same. so after we get to the room, i figure out the situation. she was a brand new girl, and the mamasan had told her that if she wants to work in the bar, she has to give the mamason a cut. she thought that if she didn't, she would get kicked out. i explained to her that she was only being hustled. the other girls don't fill the new girls in for some reason, and she hadn't yet made any friends. another time, i saw a girl give a mamason 100p. i understood enough tagalog to know that the girl was ****, and if she didn't pay the mamason, she would get kicked out. i also get the impression that if la cafe tried to get rid of the mamasons, they would cause trouble to la cafe, so the bar puts up with them.

so, if you are ever asked for money from a mamason, just tell them directly to fuck off. and they will never bother you again.

In my case, some old haggard skag that I'd never seen before asked the girl for a cut and I said, "What's going on?". When I hear about the mamasan bull I just said "forget it" and walked away. Walked away from both of them. Well, the lady that had my attentions earlier quickly sorted things out and followed me out the door, telling me there would be no extra levy, even thought I was still in "fagetaboutit" mode.

To avoid complications it might me better to meet the object of your intended affections somewhere nearby. In front of SWHarma?

BTW, I don NOT recommend taking the advice of LAsianW. Never tell someone to "fuck off" unless you are ready to fight or run. That skinny old haggard ex-Ho can cause a whole lot of trouble if ask for it.

[QUOTE=LoveAsian*****s]I really do not know what the deal is with the "mamsans", but they appear to be just older ex-*****s who try to hussle the newer guys and girls for money.
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So, if you are ever asked for money from a mamason, just tell them directly to fuck off. And they will never bother you again.[/QUOTE]

I just got back from a trip to the PI, the first in eight months. What a homecoming! Its easy to forget the sights and sounds and smells of the PI, but it all comes back soon after arriving at the airport. The jeepnys belching smoke; the cracked sidewalks and the faint stench of raw sewage that seems to be ever-present. And the beautiful, demure girls that are everywhere.

I was in fine fettle because of a prescription drug called Ambien which has been recommended to me. I hadn't used it before and when I popped one shortly after leaving JFK nothing happened, so I popped another one. Ten hours later, I woke up and we were just a few hours from Hong Kong, so I popped another one, but this time I stayed awake. I've since been told that its dangerous to take so much, but it certainly did the job.

I checked into the Peninsula in Makati as usual--a fine hotel at a reasonable price, unpacked and headed for EDSA. As Xman pointed out, there were a lot of Koreans there although I only went to one bar, Cotton club. Several of the girls there know me from previous visits so I bought a few rounds of drinks and barfined a tiny, petite little thing. Back to the hotel for some fun. This was my only tryst with a working girl on the trip.

The next few days, I met up with two Filipina Heart girls. Each of them came to bed with little trouble. I meet them in the lobby of the hotel which is impressive; show them my room and ask for a massage. Pretty soon, their panties hit the floor. It was spontaneous and I never had time to put on a condom. Something about banging a regular girl is great.

I play tennis a lot and found a place to play nearby: the Oakwood apartments by Glorietta 4 have two tennis courts on the roof. 850 peso guest fee and 550 for a hitter to play with. For an hour. This includes a ballboy. The heat is incredible though and an hour is plenty of time to play. I had been told that the Shangri-La had tennis courts but didn't accept non-guests. I went over there on my last day anyway and they also have two courts, which, are more spacious and in better shape than Oakwood and they DO accept non-guests but I didn't ask the price. I'll definitely play there on my next trip to Manila.

I had been YMing and camming with a girl from FH so when she came to the hotel it was already established that she would be my main squeeze, so after a few days, we headed to Boracay. My first time there. Incidentally, the guy I was travelling with had only joined FH a few days before the trip and when he got to Manila he would log on and contact whatever girl took his fancy and pretty soon they would call him back! So much for writing and YMing these girls for months in advance. He selected a girl and asked her to come to Boracay with him and she said yes. Simple as that. So all four of us headed out together.

We stayed in a brand-new hotel called the Discovery Shores. They have a sister hotel in Ortigas called Discovery Suites. This is a terrific hotel and we were the first guests so they gave us gifts and took pictures. About $200 a night plus the taxes. Its almost at the end of the beach away from the masses of people. No restaurants or stores lining the beach so its quiet. We walked up the beach a ways and after a while it becomes very crowded and kind of honky tonk. I always wonder about Philippine sewage treatment after a trip to Sabang a few years ago where I saw sewage being discharged directly into the bay in front of the hotel and I don't know how long Boracay will stay nice. Right now, the water is crystal clear and the beach has beautiful white sand, but the infrastructure......

No matter how beautiful a girl is, after three days of being practically married, I'm ready to move on. So when we got back to Manila for the last two days, I started calling some of my FH contacts. The first one texted me back and said that she was actually a ladyboy and would I like to come out to see her in Quezon city? I declined this generous offer and moved to the next one who showed up at the hotel a few hours later. This one turned out to be very religious and wanted to take me to a church to pray! Respectfully declining her offer, I gave her a 500 peso note for a taxi and sent her on her way. The next day she repeatedly texted me to say that she had bought a bible for me and wanted to come by. I knew things were going too good with the FH girls. However, I called another FH girl and when she came over, she did the massage thing and I had great sex with this one, but never got to see her again.

My friend and I went to a very nice French restaurant in nearby Fort Bonifacio called 'Le Souffle', run by a New Zealander. Beautiful restaurant with great wine and good food. Reasonable prices. Highly recommended.

All in all, a great trip. Lots of fun and sex. Only in the PI kidz, only in the PI.

Don

There were some posts about MLA to AC busses in the AC thread. I have some comments about that as well as some MLA hotel info.

I used the swaggie.com "fly the bus" to AC for 500 pesos, which runs three times a day. They also arrange transport to your hotel on the AC end. The only problem I had was having a conversation with Mr. Chubby behind me. Guy never stopped talking. Some of his stuff was useful, but give me a break. He was on the way to see his honeyko, the mother of three kids (none of them his). He regularly sends money to this woman. Well, good for the five of them. Wow.

On the way back to MLA, I was too late to take F the B (last departure is 3pm), so took a trike to the Dau bus terminal. As I entered there was a Dominion bus on the way out enroute to MLA. I hopped on. 108 pesos to the Cubao terminal in Quezon city. Unfortunately, I wanted to go to the Pasay terminal on EDSA since I had a reservation at Copacapana Hotel. I got caught up on the eve. traffic so abandoned my plan to stay at Copacobana and ended up at a truly horrible hotel called Frendy in Ermita.

In the past someone at ISG recommended Bayview as a cheap hotel with a pool. They quoted me at $83, so I ended up at Frendy hotel. Back in Jan 07 I stayed there and the cleaning staff left my door unlocked. This time half of the elec. outlets didn't work - including the one for the television. As I checked out I explained this problem to the front desk. Her reply, "okay". Rooms are big, tend to have many twin bed setups....give it a miss unless you are truly desperate for a room.

Luckily, my travel agent friend booked me the Bayview for $45. So saved me money in two ways. One was the savings on the hotel. Second, she slept with my for two nights so only spent money on dinner and a a truly horrible movie called Pathfinder (Highly recommended by Mr. Chubby who was mentioned earlier in this post). I liked the Bayview, but the rooftop pool was rather small. If you need a pool go for Paco Park or Copacabana. If you are a big spender, Diamond Hotel probably has the best pool in Ermita / Malate.

X Man

Where to start? I spent about three weeks in the Philippines in March moving from location to location. These are my observations. Our trip started in Manila at the Cherry Blossom Hotel (blossoms@i-manila.com.ph). Not a bad hotel for the price with an extremely accommodating hotel staff. My friend and I head off to the famous LA Café at 7PM to grab a few beers…and a few women. The place was nearly packed even at that time of the evening. Maybe because the downstairs portion of the club is really not that big. The upstairs portion was still closed until later in the evening. My friend and I grab seats, order beers and settle in. Dozens girls eyes are already locked in our direction, homing in like heat seeking missiles. It doesn’t take us long to engage a few in conversation. Many of the Momma-Sans come by to ask if we need ladies. One of them even said she could find ladies for us for a 500 Peso finders fee. Hell, who needs help in a place like that with all that ass circulating around the bar? Not us! The night is young so we wait a while to pick our ladies. The selection is huge! We walk over to the other portion of the bar where Novelty store is and grab seats there. The Momma-Pimps were even worse over there, trying to get us to take one of their girls. I guess there is some serious pro action going on there, but we we’re not interested so we head back to the other side. Met I guy named Eugene from the USA who was staying at our hotel. Dude was a riot! It seems that many of the girls knew him. He talked mega-shit to the ladies, upsetting some and making others laugh. Eugene was a real character.

The upstairs portion of the club finally opened so we take our beers and head up there. It’s much larger then the downstairs area, but doesn’t have much of a dance floor. My friend locks onto a girl near the bar and starts chatting her up. I see one on the dance floor that has some really good move so I join her. We danced a bit and then I invited her to sit down for a drink or two. I noticed that my friend had taken his girl and conversation to table instead of the bar. The girl I met on the dance floor said her name was Michelle. I cut thru all the bullshit talk and asked her to come back to the hotel with me. She quickly agreed. I didn’t mention money because she probably already knew the fee depended on her skills in the bed. We finished our drinks and headed for the stairs after I told my friend what was up. Back in the room she heads straight for the shower. Now, I’m a different kind of monger in that I buy extra tooth-brushes, shampoo and conditioner, feminine wash, body wash, and some good smellin’ lotion for my hotel bathroom for the ladies to use. Most of them don’t comment on it, but occasionally they ask me how many girlfriends I have. All of them seem to like the small creature comforts that I provide. And it beats the cost of the stuff the hotel provides for use in the room if you buy it at the local market. She showers, I shower and we head for the bed. Michelle starts with a good BBBJ followed by a little cowgirl…with condom of course. Multiple positions later I bust a huge nut and roll over for a rest. I’m thinking about another session, and I know she’ll go for it, but I’ve been up for over nineteen hours straight traveling and drinking beer so I’m dead tired. We exchange cell numbers, I give her 1200 pesos, she showers and leaves. She’s texting me as soon as she’s out the dorr it seems. Same stuff you get from most of the girls over there….”I had a good time, I like you a lot, I miss you already, When are you coming back, when can I see you again,” and all the other shit they can think sending in a text to you. I replied with a “Had a great time I’m tired so text you later.” That normally shuts them up for a while.

My phone rings the next day around 9AM. My friend is headed to Robinsons for some coffee. I told him I’d be right over after a quick shower. When I get to Robinsons I order coffee and sit down to compare notes on last night with my friend. He claims his girl was a bust, didn’t give head, and didn’t like multiple positions. Since it’s his first time in the Philippines I tell him he will get that in some girls, so it’s better to discuss with the girl what services you would like…in a friendly, not demanding kind of way. He then tells me he found a great money changer just down the street that gave him 51 pesos to the dollar. The hotel was only giving us 48.70 so I asked him how he found this great money changer? He went into how this guy approached him on the street…..I stopped him in mid sentence and asked him if he remembers me telling him before we left Korea to stay away from people who approach you on the street because they are the ones who will likely scam you. He says yup, but I got a great deal and she even counted it to me in my hand. I asked him to put his money on the table and count it again. To make a long story short, my friend changed $300 and was supposed to get 15300 Pesos. But some how, and he still doesn’t know how, they shorted him by half so he only received 7650 Pesos. He wanted to go back and fight with the money changer, but I told him it was a done deal and to leave it alone. From then on he listened to me and all my advice about the Philippines. Damn Cherry Boy! Stay away from people who approach you on the street! They are not your friends no matter how much they’re smiling at you and offering you their services.

After coffee and a small bite to eat I decided to go back to LA Café to pickup an afternoon delight. My friend went back to his room to sulk over the $150 he lost to the money changer. When I got to the club I wasn’t there long before I met Joann. Slim, sexy, and open to taking pictures. So off we go back to my room for a picture session and hot sex. She was ok to. She could fuck and she loved having her pictures taken. At the end of it all she told me she use to me a model (bullshit?) but she fell on hard times and now lives in the apartment above LA Café and pretty much works there. She didn’t even have a cell. I gave her 1500 pesos and sent her on her way. Her pictures are posted in the pictures section of the forum. One piece of advice about operating in LA Café is to pay your tab as you drink. That way you’re free to move around the club without having to worry about your accumulated bill sitting on the table. And trust me, you’ll want to move around the club to see what’s hiding in the corners.

I hit the Crew Bar KTV under the Cherry Blossom Hotel that night. There were about six girls there, all of them 8’s or 10’s. But the lady drinks are steep at 350 pesos, and the girls don’t exactly take their time drinking them. I exchanged numbers with a girl named MeHay who texted me later and asked me to come back to the club. Bar-fine: 3000 pesos. I declined her offer. I called one of my old GF’s instead and spent the next two days hanging out with her. She knows me well and knows I can’t be tied down to one woman too long, so we had our fun together and departed ways on 5 March. Great girl though!

A note about the ATM’s in the Philippines. Most will only dispense 4000 pesos at a shot. You have to continuously put your card back in to get the amount you need, needlessly wasting money on ATM fee’s. You can avoid this by using the bank HSBC. It allowed me to take out my full limit of $500 in pesos in one transaction. I’m sure it will allow you to pull out more depending on your own banks withdrawal limit. There is an HSBC on the second floor in Robinsons near Cherry Blossom Hotel. Next report is about Puerto Galera and is or will be posted soon in “Other Areas”.

Always on the Quest

Yella Man

What is the going rate in Manila for ST and LT and where is the best place to pick up streetwalkers?

[QUOTE=Yella Man]A note about the ATM’s in the Philippines. Most will only dispense 4000 pesos at a shot. You have to continuously put your card back in to get the amount you need, needlessly wasting money on ATM fee’s. You can avoid this by using the bank HSBC. It allowed me to take out my full limit of $500 in pesos in one transaction. I’m sure it will allow you to pull out more depending on your own banks withdrawal limit. There is an HSBC on the second floor in Robinsons near Cherry Blossom Hotel.[/QUOTE]
Nice report, Yella Man. My 2 pesos about the ATMs: the ones with the low limits are the ones on the street; I never use those. You have to go into the malls to find ATMs with higher transaction limits. For example, the BPI ATMs at Robinsons and Greenbelt in Makati allowed me to take out 20,000 pesos in a single transaction.

About money changers in Ermita, I can recommend Edzen's on Mabini St a few blocks from Robinson's. Your friend should go there next time.

Well, shit - I was gonna write anice long report about my trip but Yella Man just about said it all. I only had a few days in Manila but I was determined to get a good sampling of the goodies since altho I had been there several times and lived there for 3 months, I was with GF and never screwed around.

That's history! Ermita rocks, and Filipina hoes rock! It is so cool to be able to kid around with someone fluent in English - can't spend every waking minute moving the old member around, can we?

On arrival at Cherry Blossoms I called Miranda, an escort who looked like every boy's fantasy on the Web. Pricey, but it was early afternoon and I was tired from the trip, so what the hell. She was even prettier than her photos, and a great performer (no anal though) but although her website was very explicit, well-written, and tempting, she really was not much for conversation. So instead of keeping her overnite I sent her home after a few pops so I could keep renewing my acquaintance with Ermita. I would say that it is BAAACK! Last time I stayed there was 1999 and it was dead, but now it's like it was in the '80's. On my way to the airport at 4 am today I saw several places still wide open and busy.

I hit the mandatory LA Cafe but it was so smoky and crowded downstairs that I left (upstairs wasn't open yet). Spotted the Amazonia and went in. A few nice ladies, and also some scary-looking ones. Got all sorts of offers, 3-holers etc., and they have upstairs rooms, but I was tired and settled for a pizza and beer.

Next evening I was walking back to the hotel through Robinsons, mentally outlining my evening plans, when I was approached by a mamasan. First I walked off but she persisted and after a while I was enjoying jiving with her and invited her for a drink. She was a bit old and pudgy but fun to takl to, and man, can those Pinays lay on the "handsome man" shit! She told me about the girls in her stable, all part-timers, and I thought it might be worth a look. I told her I didn't really want a very young one (and I saw lots of mongers with VERY young girls this time) but needed some tit action to compensate for Miranda's 32s. Well, she was about a 7 and a little chunky, a nurse, but turned out to be a fabulous fuck and fun too. But she wasn't 29 as advertised (33) and she couldn't stay all night which was fine with me anyway.

My last evening I took a cab to Grand Boulevard Hotel for a massage. On the way a couple of hookers nearly tore the taxi doors off the hinges and wanted to come back to the hotel. They looked a little scary and I had other plans. 8th floor massage at the Grand costs PP 1200, but the fishbowl is wall-t-wall 8's and 9's. What a hard choice! I took a 25-year old beauty, maybe a 9.5, lots of fun, actually got a good massage, and then FS for 2000 more. Excellent, no holds barred and very GFE.

So Manila is definitely a choice mongering destination for me now. I've never been to AC but see no reason to go when the women are falling out of the trees in Manila. Anyone going there will not have to lift a finger to get laid, and believe me I saw plenty of fat old dudes with lovelies in tow.

SD

[QUOTE=Shy Dude]Well, shit - I was gonna write anice long report about my trip but Yella Man just about said it all. I only had a few days in Manila but I was determined to get a good sampling of the goodies since altho I had been there several times and lived there for 3 months, I was with GF and never screwed around.

That's history! Ermita rocks, and Filipina hoes rock! It is so cool to be able to kid around with someone fluent in English - can't spend every waking minute moving the old member around, can we?

On arrival at Cherry Blossoms I called Miranda, an escort who looked like every boy's fantasy on the Web. Pricey, but it was early afternoon and I was tired from the trip, so what the hell. She was even prettier than her photos, and a great performer (no anal though) but although her website was very explicit, well-written, and tempting, she really was not much for conversation. So instead of keeping her overnite I sent her home after a few pops so I could keep renewing my acquaintance with Ermita. I would say that it is BAAACK! Last time I stayed there was 1999 and it was dead, but now it's like it was in the '80's. On my way to the airport at 4 am today I saw several places still wide open and busy.

I hit the mandatory LA Cafe but it was so smoky and crowded downstairs that I left (upstairs wasn't open yet). Spotted the Amazonia and went in. A few nice ladies, and also some scary-looking ones. Got all sorts of offers, 3-holers etc., and they have upstairs rooms, but I was tired and settled for a pizza and beer.

Next evening I was walking back to the hotel through Robinsons, mentally outlining my evening plans, when I was approached by a mamasan. First I walked off but she persisted and after a while I was enjoying jiving with her and invited her for a drink. She was a bit old and pudgy but fun to takl to, and man, can those Pinays lay on the "handsome man" shit! She told me about the girls in her stable, all part-timers, and I thought it might be worth a look. I told her I didn't really want a very young one (and I saw lots of mongers with VERY young girls this time) but needed some tit action to compensate for Miranda's 32s. Well, she was about a 7 and a little chunky, a nurse, but turned out to be a fabulous fuck and fun too. But she wasn't 29 as advertised (33) and she couldn't stay all night which was fine with me anyway.

My last evening I took a cab to Grand Boulevard Hotel for a massage. On the way a couple of hookers nearly tore the taxi doors off the hinges and wanted to come back to the hotel. They looked a little scary and I had other plans. 8th floor massage at the Grand costs PP 1200, but the fishbowl is wall-t-wall 8's and 9's. What a hard choice! I took a 25-year old beauty, maybe a 9.5, lots of fun, actually got a good massage, and then FS for 2000 more. Excellent, no holds barred and very GFE.

So Manila is definitely a choice mongering destination for me now. I've never been to AC but see no reason to go when the women are falling out of the trees in Manila. Anyone going there will not have to lift a finger to get laid, and believe me I saw plenty of fat old dudes with lovelies in tow.

SD[/QUOTE]

Interesting post dude,

Where is Cherry Blossom Hotel and how much are the rooms. Is it walking distance to LA Cafe. Oh, damn, I guess I have to ask where the Robinson's Mall is also.

Is it typical to have Mamasans approach guys in Robinson's or other malls?

How much did you pay for the ST with Miranda?

What area of Ermita were you referring to in your post? Any bar names?

Finally, I'm interested in the Grand Boulevard Hotel. Where is it? How many girls in the fishbowl and what time does it open?

TIA,

N1

[QUOTE=Yella Man]He then tells me he found a great money changer just down the street that gave him 51 pesos to the dollar. The hotel was only giving us 48.70 so I asked him how he found this great money changer? He went into how this guy approached him on the street…..I stopped him in mid sentence and asked him if he remembers me telling him before we left Korea to stay away from people who approach you on the street because they are the ones who will likely scam you. He says yup, but I got a great deal and she even counted it to me in my hand. I asked him to put his money on the table and count it again. To make a long story short, my friend changed $300 and was supposed to get 15300 Pesos. But some how, and he still doesn’t know how, they shorted him by half so he only received 7650 Pesos. He wanted to go back and fight with the money changer, but I told him it was a done deal and to leave it alone. From then on he listened to me and all my advice about the Philippines. Damn Cherry Boy! Stay away from people who approach you on the street! They are not your friends no matter how much they’re smiling at you and offering you their services.[/QUOTE]The same thing happened to me a while ago. The difference was that I live out here and knew they would try to scam me, but I was curious how the scam worked. I figured I watch the person count the money in front of me, watching carefully for any slight of hand. Anyway, I handed the girl $100 and watched her count the money and place it on the counter RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. I really did watch very carefully. And I figured great, they really do give a nice exchange rate and put the money in my pocket. I was happy and walked outside and the tout who brought me to the place started hussling me for a commission. At that point, things just didn't seem right and I took the money out of my pocket and counted it. I had been shorted by quite a bit (I don't remember how much). I went right back in, and demanded the rest of my money. She said "too late", to which I responded, "ok, I guess I will have to file a police report then". She gave me a nasty look and gave me the rest of my money.

So the point is, if you are ripped from any business in the philippines and threaten to file a police report, you will get satisfaction. This is because the police take a very dim view of ripping off tourists, and also it because it presents them with an opportunity to demand a bribe from the business, otherwise they can refer the case to the relevent licensing authority who will just want a bigger bribe. To put it in perspective, I have lived here almost three years now and have never been successfully been ripped off. Compare that to Shanghai, where I was ripped off once, and had to get into a physical fight with a guy to stop getting ripped off a second time - and I was only in Shanghai for a week!

Ermita is actually a very small area within Manila which is within Metro Manila. You can walk from one end of Ermita to the other in about ten minutes --- that includes Cherry B Hotel, Robinsons mall, LA Cafe, Amazonia, dozens of money changers, at least one interesting outdoor/live bar for (mostly) locals, etc...

Grand Boulevard is also walking distance, but in another small area of Manila called Malate. Never been to the massage parlor there since no one has ever given such a glowing review.

I've heard the GB Hotel is undergoing renovations. They have a terrible reputation for being bug/rodent infested. Nevertheless, it looks like it might have been a nice place at one time. I have never been inside, either for the massage parlor nor the rooms.

X Man

[QUOTE=Nuevo]Interesting post dude,

Where is Cherry Blossom Hotel and how much are the rooms. Is it walking distance to LA Cafe. Oh, damn, I guess I have to ask where the Robinson's Mall is also.

Is it typical to have Mamasans approach guys in Robinson's or other malls?

How much did you pay for the ST with Miranda?

What area of Ermita were you referring to in your post? Any bar names?

Finally, I'm interested in the Grand Boulevard Hotel. Where is it? How many girls in the fishbowl and what time does it open?

TIA,

N1[/QUOTE]

Does anyone have a decent map of Ermita and Malate? Or know a URL for one?

I did come across this URL which has pics of LA cafe.

[url]http://www.ermita.com/photo%20gallery.htm[/url]

X Man

CB = Cherry blossom and LA = ....duh

[QUOTE=X Man]Ermita is actually a very small area within Manila which is within Metro Manila. You can walk from one end of Ermita to the other in about ten minutes --- that includes Cherry B Hotel, Robinsons mall, LA Cafe, Amazonia, dozens of money changers, at least one interesting outdoor/live bar for (mostly) locals, etc...

Grand Boulevard is also walking distance, but in another small area of Manila called Malate. Never been to the massage parlor there since no one has ever given such a glowing review.

I've heard the GB Hotel is undergoing renovations. They have a terrible reputation for being bug/rodent infested. Nevertheless, it looks like it might have been a nice place at one time. I have never been inside, either for the massage parlor nor the rooms.

X Man[/QUOTE]

Hi X Man,

Yeah, I never heard of a fishbowl MP in the PI before. Perhaps, I will check it out. Do you know what street the hotel is located on and a cross street?

N1

[QUOTE=X Man]Does anyone have a decent map of Ermita and Malate? Or know a URL for one?

I did come across this URL which has pics of LA cafe.

[url]http://www.ermita.com/photo%20gallery.htm[/url]

X Man[/QUOTE]

Hi X Man,

Your link let's you look at upcoming events at LA Cafe if you go to the home link and then click on the LA CAfe Link. Nice.

What's the deal with Stringfellows? GROs available?