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Where are you staying bro.

[QUOTE=Goferring;2268963]Arriving in Cebu today, Jan 3rd. Staying near Ayala for about a week.

PM if anyone wants to meet over beers or lies.

Cheers, G.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=InterTravel224;2273425]Where are you staying bro.[/QUOTE]Thanks for the shout out but I've left Cebu.

I stayed at the Trillium Residences behind the Mandarin.

Enjoy, G.

Trillium Residences is all packed till 15th of Feb. Seems like quite a popular place!

[QUOTE=Goferring;2273503]Thanks for the shout out but I've left Cebu.

I stayed at the Trillium Residences behind the Mandarin.

Enjoy, G.[/QUOTE]

So the follow up of my Manila post.

I paid the travel for my girl from dipolog to iloilo via cebu, by Visa on the ceburair site, whilst I was coming from Manila direct to iloilo.

Surprise, ceburair had refused the payment for her arguing it was a foreign payment, hopefully she had 10 k with her and able to pay the travel already booked. I didn't knew that kind of control or limitation.

Then everything went well, she is 30 yo and 3 child's, right but she has still a very nice body and mainly we have a very good chemistry. I think I suffer the same as Mr FL Hawks, difficult to use condoms, I can stay hard long time but can't cum so often, so getting several girl a day is really not for me. Even one everyday maybe.

So here we spend quite all days in bed, strange experience, cuddling all day and may be night, very great company, no issues, joking, chatting, eating chocolates, cuddling. No question of any money up to now.

Let's see where this goes.

Still 5 days together.

So, internet chats long time in advance can also give this kind of result, where you can know better who is on the other side and be crystal clear on the objectives of the stay, which can be summarized here as fucking stay.

To be followed.

[QUOTE=Albert9989;2274070]Surprise, ceburair had refused the payment for her arguing it was a foreign payment, hopefully she had 10 k with her and able to pay the travel already booked. I didn't knew that kind of control or limitation..[/QUOTE]Very surprised with Cebu Pac as I always use my foreign CC to pay for tickets for cuties and never an issue. Some at the call centre are admittedly stupid and have no clue plus will repeat what you say 5 times (like a parrot) which is annoying. Also can take a long time on the phone with them to get very little achieved (I know from experience).

But I would ask your bank why it was refused as I have never had issues in 10 years using a foreign card (but it is not a USA one).

It can't be a foreign payment as you pay in pesos with the choice to pay in the currency of the card. Either way it works so the logic you say does not make sense unless you got unlucky and the merchant had issues processing it for some reason.

[QUOTE=WickedRoger;2274219]Very surprised with Cebu Pac as I always use my foreign CC to pay for tickets for cuties and never an issue. Some at the call centre are admittedly stupid and have no clue plus will repeat what you say 5 times (like a parrot) which is annoying. Also can take a long time on the phone with them to get very little achieved (I know from experience).

But I would ask your bank why it was refused as I have never had issues in 10 years using a foreign card (but it is not a USA one).

It can't be a foreign payment as you pay in pesos with the choice to pay in the currency of the card. Either way it works so the logic you say does not make sense unless you got unlucky and the merchant had issues processing it for some reason.[/QUOTE]I have never had any trouble with foreign or domestic cards on the Cebu site.

I suspect as is often the case here is that Albert got a customer rep who is simply clueless about how to do his / her job. Then (s) he makes up excuses as to why the transaction cannot go through always that it is somehow your fault, when in reality all (s) he had to do was look at the screen and click on the foreign transaction button for it to go through.

I didn't understood this payment issue. As I was in the waiting room for national flights in Manila and my girl blocked in dipolog, the situation was a bit difficult to manage. But at least I had a cebu air desk in the room. So I ask, they check on their computer and the only thing they found is that my payment had been accepted and later on refused and refunded. I can confirm that I have the debit when I booked on cebu air and yesterday I got the refund.

So, as I couldn't get any other way to solve this, fortunately my girl had 10 k with her and the total cost was 8. 5 k so she payed.

Still unclear. I just heard someone speaking about foreign payment. Should they mean foreign payment for a Phil girl was not accepted? Everything on cebu air being under her name and email.

Don't know.

[QUOTE=Albert9989;2274400]I didn't understood this payment issue. As I was in the waiting room for national flights in Manila and my girl blocked in dipolog, the situation was a bit difficult to manage. But at least I had a cebu air desk in the room. So I ask, they check on their computer and the only thing they found is that my payment had been accepted and later on refused and refunded. I can confirm that I have the debit when I booked on cebu air and yesterday I got the refund.

So, as I couldn't get any other way to solve this, fortunately my girl had 10 k with her and the total cost was 8. 5 k so she payed.

Still unclear. I just heard someone speaking about foreign payment. Should they mean foreign payment for a Phil girl was not accepted? Everything on cebu air being under her name and email.

Don't know.[/QUOTE]Cebu Pacific do:

Accept foreign credit card payments for domestic and international flights when the payer is both inside and outside the Philippines. It doesn't matter if the card holder is travelling on the ticket or not.

You're a little unclear on if CP refused to accept your card or if your bank refused the CP transaction. I have had flight bookings trigger my banks' fraud detection algorithms. I'd suggest giving your banks call.

As an aside, why are you dealing with humans, the weakest link in the whole chain? CP has an efficient online and phone app system. I've found it very easy to use to make and change bookings.

[QUOTE=Goferring;2274406] I have had flight bookings trigger my banks' fraud detection algorithms. I'd suggest giving your banks call..[/QUOTE]That could be the issue as in the past when the CC transaction was declined my bank said it had triggered fraud issues so all I did was call the bank and put them straight, made the call centre person hang on until I did the transaction again and bingo all was fine.

To be more specific, I used CP website, booked on 15 Dec, my girl had an email on 3rd Jan but didn't pay attention, I had the refund yesterday.

Copy of email is attached.

May be they couldn't link the mail given with the card used. Filipino email and foreign card. Could be that they suspected she used a stolen card, may be I should have put my email.

FYI. I just booked flights with Air Asia and Cebu Pacific without any problems using an USA credit card.

BTW, I am in PH doing the booking if that makes a difference.

Thanks, but the only reason I can see is that the passenger name was Phil, the email receiving confirmation of the booking and payment was Phil, the credit card was foreign. I think that their filter detect here a possible fraud so they ask for a Phil payment with proof of identity of card owner or cash.

Lesson: give your email when booking for someone else so the email and the card will be related as both foreign, I guess the filter will not react.

Here's my take on Sinulog festival in Cebu City in terms of mongering.

I've been to cebu many times but never for Sinulog. For this trip I didn't plan to be here for Sinulog. It just happened to be when I booked my trip. I arrived 5 days before the main Sinulog weekend though there was a buildup each day with more people and more events.

PROS.

- Every hot girl for a hundred miles comes to Cebu for Sinulog. Sitting at The Social bar at Ayala Saturday night in particular was a never ending stream of hotties.

- Big party atmosphere with lots of locals and foreigners.

- Tons of music and events.

CONS.

- Every non-hot girl and their brother, mother, father, and 100 k other people come to cebu. It's crazy crowded and traffic just stops.

- Local authorities ordered all cell / mobile services cutoff for the majority of Saturday + Sunday. Why? For "security reasons".

- You can't reach any girls online because the cell service is cutoff.

- Almost no establishment took credit cards because cell service is cutoff.

- Hotels and airbnb are hard to find and extra pricey.

I will definitely avoid Sinulog next time.

Anyone know the Appleton Hotel in Cebu? Located on Mactan Island - 6 km from airport. Supposed to be across the street from a Mall but I see none on Maps. Can anyone describe the neighborhood? I see it is a distance from Mango Square - 10 km. Are there girls out and around that area? Not my choice to stay so far.

[QUOTE=MangoKing;2276427]
- Almost no establishment took credit cards because cell service is cutoff.[/QUOTE]Does that mean ATMs were off line as well?

It's a bit rough if you can't get new girls or pay current ones. 😁.