It also the way the site is setup you can not make new threads unless you are admin. So you will see offtopic stuff posted as it is setup that way. There is a post wall of fame and you can search. So live with how it is and enjoy the pussy.
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It also the way the site is setup you can not make new threads unless you are admin. So you will see offtopic stuff posted as it is setup that way. There is a post wall of fame and you can search. So live with how it is and enjoy the pussy.
[QUOTE=Mattrick; 1168132]Thanks for bringing this to attention!
This thread used to be loaded with info but many senoir members have hijacked this and other threads and feel it is their own "Club ISG" (now did I spell "senior" correctly!). Many have met and know each other personally but they fail to use the PM function and continually post non informative BS. [/QUOTE]I am always happy to address specific questions about anything if I know the answer.
However, I dislike lazy people who come on here and ask the simplest questions without having read ANY posts at all.
As I said in another post. We have discussed every topic at some time somewhere on this board. If people want an update, then by all means ask for it.
For example? Is the barfine at Rogues still 1500 php like it was last year (or whatever)?
The best part of each thread is when guys post REPORTS of their adventures, whether in Manila, Malate, Greenbelt, Burgos, Davao or Cebu et al.
There seems to be fewer and fewer of them so far this year.
[QUOTE=Frenzy3;1168223]It also the way the site is setup you can not make new threads unless you are admin. So you will see offtopic stuff posted as it is setup that way.[/QUOTE]On the contrary, since the new format came into effect senior members can start new threads!
[QUOTE=Yiddo;1167843]I have just read three pages of posts on the Davao thread, and five pages on the Cebu thread. I have found out about restaurants, the Queen's English, the internet and countless other random topics, but FUCK ALL about girls. Might just as well be reading the Lonely Planet.[/QUOTE]If we want newbs to join and report (we do, as the actual reports have become scarce) , it behooves us to not get uppity and act like board-gods. When new guys ask a question, its not fair for us to tell him to RTTF if there's not an answer to his question in the last few pages. Its easy for us to think others will go back and search or read 10 pages of stuff, but nobody does that. We should just answer his question, or point him directly at the already-answered question with a link?
[QUOTE=Barba; 1167930]GE, I do not want to bring an extensive discussion about Davao into the Cebu thread, but in all fairness there is a huge difference today and say 3-4 years ago. The licker ban with the closed Torres "clubs" seems to be a marker in history as well. Places are definably not packed. Anything but a weekend, Davao is more or less a ghost town. As someone said. A village disco of Thailand beats the main attraction in Davao any given day. Saturday there will be a hand full of "GRO:s" in [email]Evibe@Torres[/email] But apart from this, the girls are actually not trowing themselves at you by any means. Not seldom you need to work on your game and expect visits to the beach and / or the parents to have any form of quality punani. I think it can be deceptive to live in Davao and see all of these girls, but once you try to have a continuous flow of action you soon hit the stop signs over and over again. GE, you have seen the amount of money I fuck away in a couple of weeks, and this is an indicator of why I have a fair success rate in Davao. Conservative girls wishing you Gods bless, is more likely than girls throwing juiced up knickers at you.
Davao is laid back and a has a nice, provincial touch but we got to be fair and talk about this city for what it is. Where else (apart from maybe CDO) would you have a handsome guys in his mid 30:s in the head attraction of davao, walking up to Barba asking if any of the four girls present perhaps could be a working girl (this was one of the two top clubs that Friday night we had dinner att DBK)? Out of the four girls present, non was available for p4p. He had been in town for three days and since he did not do street walkers, he had not been laid once! The four girls where another team of girls dancing in a square with their pinoy men drinking beer behind them. Just out of interest I took several drives down and around Tlonko street that is the hunting ground for street walkers under 25 years (not Peoples Park where you mostly find more mature females and ladyboys). Normally 6-8 tattooed gang-girls sitting close to Central bank but no girls on the side streets as there used to be. There are always 2-3 ugly ones at the end of Rizal and some drugged out wreck on San Pedro. The girls that used to hang around Victoria and Gaisano seem gone. Can anyone tell me what is going on with Davao? Is the finical crisis that bad? Maybe we move this to the Davao thread.
One newfound friend asked me if it was normal for Davao when his suggestion for a happy ending in a seedy massage establishment was met with a "maybe if you come again tomorrow I will do it". He is used to Pattaya, so no more comments needed.
I would say that one should come prepared to Davao. Either prepared with names and numbers or with good walking shoes for scouting the malls. There is not much of fall back plans to talk about. The mentioned bars and massage places normally will have mostly wash outs from Manila and Cebu, together with one provincial young diamond if you are lucky. GE the picture you paint of an abundance of smiling and willing girls, would make me very happy and I do not want to be a spoiler, but Davao as I know it is mainly a city for normal and often slow moving girlfriend-boyfriend relations. You can have many girlfriends, and there is freedom in the relations of course, but it is still not anything close to walking in to a bar packed with 20-30 teens that will fuck you ten minutes after you donated your 1700 pesos.
Before I go on, I will invite other opinions from recent visitors. Sometimes we get fed up or home blind, but so many guys I met the last two years where disappointed with Davao. The last guy I met when we where leaving Davao, said that he had spent a few days and did not see once single pretty girl. This was a 60+ American, so not exactly Brad Pit looking for Miss Jolie.
Sorry for being off topic in the Cebu thread.
Regards Barba[/QUOTE]Idk I work in mindanao for uncle sam and we have been "cleaning this place up" so to speak so maybe that may be the reason. Also I know for a fact back in 09 or 10 the insurgency got a hold of about 50 tourist / journalist and ransomed and executed all of them. In fact the state department put a travel warning out here, so I would suggest staying out of Mindanao for the time being. I think the working girls are staying off the block because of this. Just my thought
[QUOTE=Sukebetaichou82;1168438]Idk I work in mindanao for uncle sam and we have been "cleaning this place up" so to speak so maybe that may be the reason. Also I know for a fact back in 09 or 10 the insurgency got a hold of about 50 tourist / journalist and ransomed and executed all of them. In fact the state department put a travel warning out here, so I would suggest staying out of Mindanao for the time being. I think the working girls are staying off the block because of this. Just my thought[/QUOTE]I think you've got your facts fairly well bent out of shape. First, in the 8 years or so I've lived here, and worked in virtually all of the insurgent regions of Mindanao, I've never heard about that ransom and execution, largely because it never happened. You may be referring to the Maguindanao Massacre, during which 56 people-about 36 of them journalists-were executed by the Ampatuan clan. As despicable as this was, no foreigners were involved and it happened deep in the Bush and no where near where any foreigner has any reason to be.
Second, the continuous US military presence in Davao is between sparse and non-existent, and would have no correlation to a reduction in the number of sex workers, which has never been as high as it is in other cities. I would suggest rather that there is a direct correlation between economic development (Davao is booming) and the proliferation of sex workers. As economic opportunity increases, fewer people take jobs of last resort.
Third, the "advisory" regarding travel in the Philippines was issued more than 8 years ago, though it gets updated once or twice a year. I'm sure it has an overall negative impact on tourism, but the fact is that in relation to Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia, the Philippines has never attracted a river of tourists who prefer places with better organization, better infrastructure and perhaps more interesting and accessible cultures.
There's so much distorted information about the country that circulates internationally, and there's no need to perpetuate it here.
GE
[QUOTE=Sukebetaichou82;1168438]Idk I work in mindanao for uncle sam and we have been "cleaning this place up" so to speak so maybe that may be the reason. Also I know for a fact back in 09 or 10 the insurgency got a hold of about 50 tourist / journalist and ransomed and executed all of them. In fact the state department put a travel warning out here, so I would suggest staying out of Mindanao for the time being. I think the working girls are staying off the block because of this. Just my thought[/QUOTE]See GE's post for an excellent rejoinder to this totally inaccurate "advisory" from Suke. . .
I lived in Davao myself from 2002. 2004 and still travel occasionally to Mindanao for business reasons and there is absolutely no problem with living in Davao or Cagayan deOro in the north either. There is no correlation whatsoever between insurgency or conflict in parts of western Mindanao (the islands particularly) and a decrease in the number of working girls. Not sure where Suke got his data from but, as GE eloquently pointed out, it is seriously incorrect.
And here I thought this was a CEBU thread.
What the hell does this have to do with Cebu? Plez have your rants and bickerings in the proper threads and cities.
Sheesh.
It's no wonder you though that this was the Cebu thread because it is the Cebu thread. Are you making progress?
Those that go to Davao have often been to Cebu first. Travel warnings affect the whole country, and sometimes the livliehoods of people who live on the islands. The posters involved have given far more information than you can imagine. Sheesh, it's amazing how some newcomers [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord140][CodeWord140][/url] in the same pot that they drink from.
In order to avoid the wrath of Mr. Cankor S, I would like to report that Cebu gets far less rain than Luzon this time of year. In my opinion, warped as it may be, the gals are better looking too. That's why I'm planning a Cebu touchdown in mid July. X Man.
[QUOTE=Roycankor; 1168776]And here I thought this was a CEBU thread.
What the hell does this have to do with Cebu? Plez have your rants and bickerings in the proper threads and cities.
Sheesh[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Roycankor; 1168776]And here I thought this was a CEBU thread.
What the hell does this have to do with Cebu? Plez have your rants and bickerings in the proper threads and cities.
Sheesh. [/QUOTE]I could understand your pique perhaps if you had contributed more than a grand total of 5 posts to this forum. As it is, I think I'll just put you on my growing ignore list.
I agree with red here. Please read the forums. There is a search tool that works reasonable well. In any case, please read old postings, they are still relevant. It is sort of boring to answer same old questions, when you should be reading the posts. We like posting information, but definitely not everyone's personal valet.
Ciao,
CT
[QUOTE=Red Kilt; 1168234]I am always happy to address specific questions about anything if I know the answer.
However, I dislike lazy people who come on here and ask the simplest questions without having read ANY posts at all.
As I said in another post. We have discussed every topic at some time somewhere on this board. If people want an update, then by all means ask for it.
For example? Is the barfine at Rogues still 1500 php like it was last year (or whatever)?
The best part of each thread is when guys post REPORTS of their adventures, whether in Manila, Malate, Greenbelt, Burgos, Davao or Cebu et al.
There seems to be fewer and fewer of them so far this year.[/QUOTE]
Arriving in Cebu today at 1:00am, meaning there will be few taxi drivers around so it's either pay their jacked up fee or stand there and wait. So to deal with this, I got a hotel close to the airport. Feel like belting out Steppenwolf tonight so anyone know a KTV in Lapu Lapu that won't charge me an arm and a leg? If anyone wants to join me, let me know. I'll be in Cebu for a while, so I'm finally going to get to know the area and people beyond mongering which is cool. But of course I will be meeting as many girls as I can too. Have a couple set up for tonight late night, but if they end up bailing, I'll just head out and explore Lapu Lapu scene-any suggestions would be appreciated.
I've been absent from ISG for a while, but hope to post frequently now that I'm on the ground again.
[QUOTE=AchillesHeel; 1169053]Arriving in Cebu today at 1:00am, meaning there will be few taxi drivers around so it's either pay their jacked up fee or stand there and wait. So to deal with this, I got a hotel close to the airport. Feel like belting out Steppenwolf tonight so anyone know a KTV in Lapu Lapu that won't charge me an arm and a leg? If anyone wants to join me, let me know. I'll be in Cebu for a while, so I'm finally going to get to know the area and people beyond mongering which is cool. But of course I will be meeting as many girls as I can too. Have a couple set up for tonight late night, but if they end up bailing, I'll just head out and explore Lapu Lapu scene-any suggestions would be appreciated.
I've been absent from ISG for a while, but hope to post frequently now that I'm on the ground again. [/QUOTE]Few taxi drivers around? Usually plenty of white cabs in line waiting for passengers on the second level. Simply exit the terminal and pass all the yellow taxi touts and give them a smile and tell them you will NOT be riding with them today, instead cross the road and head for the gate and then up the stairs to the waiting line of white local taxis. Yellow airport taxis charge 70P-4. 50p and the white taxis are the regular 40p-3. 50P. To be fair my Premier Elite status with PAL provides me with a priority baggage perk so my bag is one of the first to come out. I leave the terminal, meet my GF outside and I am in a taxi and on the way to Cebu City in a few minutes, leaving everyone else to fight for taxis.
The "jacked up fee" you mentioned might only apply if your hotel is outside the Lapux2 or Cebu City area, and sometimes the request is acceptable and sometimes not. Again YMMV depending on your situation. Once in awhile the yellow airport taxi drivers will ask for a flat fee to take you to your hotel instead of using the meter if he thinks he can suck an extra 50p or 100P from a first time visitor to Cebu.
Yellow taxi from the airport to Fuente average usually around 375P-400p which is expensive IMHO. The cost for a white taxi from the airport to the same destination will average around 180-230P depending on traffic and time of day. The cheapest taxi I payed was a 120P white taxi. That was during the Christmas holidays with zero traffic and a crazy-assed driver who told me no CITOM working the holiday so no need to slow down or stop. LOL. I gave him 150p.
AchillesHeel,
My mistake I just noticed the 1am part. If you will be on an International flight there should be a few taxis but if you arrive on a domestic good luck. You can walk over to the guard booth at Waterfront and ask them to call a taxi. You will have to deal with the taxi driver and he will ask for "extra" because the guards will demand a finders fee.
[QUOTE=Roycankor; 1168776]And here I thought this was a CEBU thread.
What the hell does this have to do with Cebu? Plez have your rants and bickerings in the proper threads and cities.
Sheesh. [/QUOTE]We also import our girls from Mindanao so we need to know the girl situation see if it is changing. We may need to plant more seeds here if supply get low. LOL