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vic
as long as you pay on a double basis which is only a few hundred pesos extra,they will not care who you bring in,so save the joiners fee and negotiate for a fixed double rate ex 200 pesos plus for double then just have different companions regards

all
currently on vacation in palawan with my regular cebu girl and my new AC girl,sorry if i am taking time to answer but you guys would undertand my days and nights have me drained totally,just did the honda bay yesterday fantastic islands,then all night in my king sized bed in one of the best hotels in puerto princesa hotel flueris,only 1500 pesos a night travel trade rate for the 3 of us,try this for the past 3 days and you know why i have been absent

Hello all,
Been lurking here for a while. I am finally going to make it to Cebu in a few weeks.
I have a general question. How many of you dine at the Y in Cebu? Will they let you?

Thanks,

Thenoop

Hello Cebu Local,

A couple of quick questions:

1. I was in Cebu back in April, and met up with a fellow Canadian at Moalboal. He recommended a nice hotel in which I stayed on the way back. But now I can't remember the name of the hotel. All I remember is that it's a low rise building (actually 2 buildings), white in colour, and it has large rooms. There is a large semi-circular stairwell leading up to the second floor, and a small restaurant/bar on the main floor.
I have searched the web for hotels in Cebu, and the closest I find is the Acropolis Hotel. I've checked out the Acropolis Hotel website and the only photo they have doesn't look like the hotel I stayed at.

http://www.gsilink.com/user/pactmgmt/prwa0003.html

Could you please let me know if the hotel I'm describing sound like Acropolis? Oh, and the taxi drove by a food/grocery market on the right on my way to Osmena Circle. Don't know if that's enough for you to figure out what hotel I'm talking about, but hope it is coz I want to stay there again this year.

2. Which leads me to my 2nd question - When I was there last year, I didn't have any luck at Ayala, and you subsequently said it was because it was near Good Friday/Easter (I did find a girl at a karaoke - of all places, in Moalboal). I'm planning to visit again this year before Christmas - I know, I'm planning early; keeps me alive in the cold Canadian winter. Am I going to run into the same problem again at the malls? I would really like to try the mall scene this time. Last visit I also tried one of the Casas - so so looking girl, Bad Bad service.

I really hope you can help me with these 2 questions. I may have more questions as the months go by. But I figure I'll post these now (especially the second one as X'Mas is still in the not too distant past).

Thanks. Enjoy the warm weather for the rest of us freezing back home.

diver69

cebu local and fastpiston: Thanks for the input on my question, so I probably will head to Cebu instead of Puerto Galera.

The choice of hotels listed in the airfare hotel package from Hong Kong are (from most expensive to least): Shangri-la Mactan, Bluewater, Cebu Plaza Hotel, Waterfront Hotel Cebu City, and Waterfront Airport. I assume that the Waterfront Cebu City is the same as the Waterfront Lahug listed in previous posts, so that probably is my first choice right now. The Waterfront Cebu City 3day/2night airfare/hotel is listed at about US$290 with US$28 per extra night.

My only worry is that it might not be in a good location for decent scuba diving. I do not need to be on top of the water, but I do not want to be an hour away from diving either.

Just looking for a nice compromise between diving and nightlife.

If anyone has any questions on the scene in Shenzhen, China, let me know. I would be happy to reciprocate any help.

Thanks

tangent
waterfront lahug is only about a half hour from decent not good diving in mactan,so it is not that bad compared to the mactan resorts which are about 20 minutes nearer the water regards

diver 69
i can only guess that the hotel is near fuente osmena circle,since the supermarket was most probably rustans,any more clues ??
the mall scene is touch and go,but you can see from previous posts that people have done well at malls,casa girls tend to have poor service since they are like indentured servants owned by the casa,have you tried freelancers or ktv girls would be happy to give you some places to try regards and my sympathies went home to visit family and friends in vancouver last christmas and i tell you,between the cold and rain in bc,i was so glad to be back in cebu counting the days until my return

Hey Cebu Local,

I will be in Makati next week for 3-4 weeks. Anything happening in Cebu during this time?

Drop me an email if your in Manila, I'll buy you a beer.

Salamat.

I am from Quezon City and I just arrived Cebu last December 26. Where can I find a good massage parlors here that offer extra services? How about good clubs that have freelancers and some freebies? I am here in Lahug to stay for a year. Hope you can help me with my "loneliness".

How about good pick up points?

cebu local,

nah - that's about all i can remember about the hotel...i had the girl from moalboal with me, so my attention was really not on the surroundings. the market though is like a street market where they sell fresh veggie and stuff.

do you know anything about acropolis? i have a very strong suspiscion that it is it. if you can describe acropolis to me may be i can figure it out.

speaking of the girl from moalboal; it was actually a funny story:

met her at the ktv in moalboal, she came back to my resort at panagsama the first nite and we did it three times - she initiated the last 2 times. boy, she was just a sex machine. anyhow, the next nite she couldn't come and the third day i was leaving. so i asked her to come along to cebu city and she did. i can't remember how many times we did it that night, but then i found the secretion from her genital to be very offensive - the best i can describe is it's like a rotten egg smell.

anyhow, the next day, she calimed she didn't have enough clothes, and we went to ayala. along the way, she stopped by and pick up her "cousin". as we were shopping (i should say they were shopping), i realized she was buying for both of them. it would have been alright if her cousin was a looker, but she wasn't. and i realized they kept peeking into my wallet as i was paying. anyhow, i got fed up and told her to put away some of the stuff she (they) had chosen, and she got upset.

anyway, to make the long story short. i didn't really buy her that much stuff, but i was sick of it. i was ready to leave her a nice sum before i left pi, but her greediness i didn't like. so, i told "cousin" to go home by herself, and we went back to the hotel where i told her to pack up; gave her money for taxi and bus and kicked her out.

i have no problem with buying gifts and even leaving some money for her, but it was that "i can't wait", and "let's see how much money this sucker has left in his wallet" look that did it for me.

anyhow, that's my story.

hope you can give me a good descrip of acropolis so i can solve this puzzle.

by the way, toronto - tonight - -27' c with windchill. count your blessing you're in cebu.

diver69

I really appreciated the honest story of diver 69. I have been posting msgs under wsg for a time warning guys not to fall under the 'spell' of girls. It is very easy to do so. When a girl wants to go 'shopping', be careful. If as diver 69 said you see you are being treated like a lucky dip, reverse out like diver 69. I met a quality Filipina in Manila and have been with her for 5 years. She has always been extremely careful about spending my money in shops and has regularly said she should go out and work rather than use my money. She has told me what the girls say behind the backs of guys. Believe me, they really do look around for suckers and plan carefully. Most are short of money, not because they do not get any money, but because of expediture on drugs and Filipino boyfriends who tap their earnings from foreigners. A kind of money food chain! Show that you know the game, tell them what is said here and believe me, they will respect you and respond accordingly. Then you can have a longer holiday with more cash in your own pocket! You may even get to know the real girl rather than the bullshit!

Diver69,

I am glad to know you did what you did. Kick them out at the first sign of overspending your money like you're a bank.

Being former U. S. Navy back in the hey days of Subic Bay and Clark, we had a saying to all 18 yr-old seaman fresh off the farm in Iowa, visiting the PI for the first time: You can take the girl outta the bar, but you can't take the bar outta the girl. Fortunately, diver69 didn't fall in love with her and began pursuing marriage, like alot of young sailors and marines have done in the past. That girl's motives were typical, but her actions to land him were downright stupid. A smart bargirl will always try to get under the skin of every man she comes across (no pun intended) until she cons one who's willing to help her out of her impoverished environment.

Having said that, diver69 did help her out by patronizing her services during the time they were together. What he should not have done, was take her and her cousin out shopping. That was an invitation for him to feel like a chump in that the time and money he spent with her shopping would've been better spent banging another girl (now, if he was banging both of them at the same, that's different). Wherever you go in the PI for a good time, you want to be a "butterfly" (as one girl puts it) going from flower to flower (in my case, bar to bar). These girls are pretty much cut from the same cloth and therefore, there's no reason why anyone can't have a different girl for each occasion.

However, be nice regardless of how bad she might have made you feel. Remember, most of us can go back home to comfortable lives in First World countries. Regardless whether or not she treats you or someone else bad, she pays the price everyday waking up to the same shitty situation around her and wondering if she will ever get out of her Third Word existence.

cebu local, since ur in the travel bus, any deals on cebu hotels?

also, is club c still open?

btw, how old r u? desc? just curious. spent last 2 yrs on/off in cebu. i must have met/seen u around.

Hi Everyone....Long time lurker , first time poster . Kudos to all the guys who take the time to share the info we are all after, especially Jackson, Cebu Local, and ******* . You da men !!!!

I'm a 51 year old fat, beer drinking, blue collar American guy, probably a typical hobbiest, winging my way to Manila on February 21. Staying at the Heritage Hotel for 3 days, hope to see EDSA complex and Makati, and then on to Cebu on Tuesday the 25th. Staying at the Cebu Marriot for the first 2 nights, and after that the decks are clear till I have to go home March 8th. I have a few ladies to see but I would love to meet up with anyone from the board at any time .

Thanks again for all the info that was critical to me in planning this trip. Anyone interested can reach me at tpdtom@yahoo.com

Tom