One Night In Manila

[fredbloggs]

If Raymonds is still there, worth a visit for the Thermae like atmosphere

Bangyai.. That pic brings back a lot of old memories..
Anymore?

[tonyroma]

hobbit house is a great spot top class food and drink and some lookers ...

[9999]

Is this midget bar in Makati?

Been staying in Pasig for the last month.

There's plenty of little poker rooms dotted around the city if that is your flavour.

Haven't found a decent bar but haven't really looked that hard. High Rider was OK for an expat bar, apart from the expats.

[SiLeakHunt]

no better feeling than when your shorebound chopper lands

[ossierob]

Manila Bay and Hobbit House - both worth a visit

[MANICHAEAN]

I normally book into the Peninsular Hotel in Manila. A De Luxe room will cost you about 140 quid a night, and it’s the dogs bollocks, (huge bath, enormous bed, view over Makarti, God knows how many TV channels.) They even knock on the door to “turn down the bed!” Great bar on the ground floor: dark, cigar smoke, comprehensive range of bourbons, whiskey’s & brandies. Most of the ex-pats turn up with their girl-friends and a few to spare as well.
Filipino girls ugly? Get some new glasses laddie. Tight little bodies, long black hair, Spanish / Chinese eyes. The specialty is “Dahan, dahan, lang!”

[beerlaodrinker]

No doubt about it the Filipino girls are really hot I've been in the Philippines 2 weeks now and have had the occasional spontaneous erection just walking around the mall, eye candy galore, will be in Manila tomorrow night for more perving. On them, got the wife along so no tampering unfortunately, I'll be checking out a few girly bars though. Post up some pics when I get back, got a night in Angeles on the way out to, hope I can resist em:

[terry57]

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Wondering about security issues ? Many punters say they feel unsafe getting around the place .

What do you reckon ?

[pseudolus]

terry - owe you a green for you now deleted comment in "white skin". LMFAO.

Anyway. I stayed in Manila a few times and only once had any bother which was in, or rather from, Greenbelt mall. Having a coffee there a few years ago a strumpet winked at me; she was dressed office like but clearly on the game. Anyway, resulted about an hour later with a bang on the hotel door and a few blokes dressed as coppers telling me all sort of bullshit before I had even got my fingers wet which ended up in giving them a considerable bung to feck off and take their guns out of my face.

Be safe - check ID first. Take a picture if you like, because this was a scam and she was in on it judging by her lack of surprise and fast getaway.

[Boon Mee]

Went to Manila with my old man on one of those Veteran's Tour things. He and his buddies wanted to revisit - kinda like some Viet Nam Vets go back to the Cu Chi Tunnels etc.

Heh, got a picture of me old boy taking a piss on a Jap gravestone. His buddies were lining up to do the same.

Drank the original San Miguel beer (got a brewery out on Corregidor), ate a Baa Loot (disgusting) and toured the island.

Good trip.

[beerlaodrinker]

Been coming to the Philippines since I was 18 tel ,you definitely need to watch your arse a bit and I've been scammed a few times, mostly just from being young dumb and full of cum, never had agro from them though, but have seen the shit go down a few times, flips are good people who will tolerate a lot so it's usually the people who are natural assholes who will have a problem with the locals, treat them with respect and they will give it back to you twofold, still a heavily armed country to, went pistol shooting in the gun club in Cebu the other day, I had never fired one so wanted to give it a try, my instructer was a hot little number who certainly knew how to handle a weapon, she would of. Been more than welcome to handle the mr wobbly weapon, no chance of that happening though, been hitting the beaches and the piss and working on my tan and beer gut tons of photos to post when I get time

[beerlaodrinker]

I will try to keep the beer gut out of my post though, unless punters request , plenty pics of the girls though, boracay was chock full of korean chicks ,all easy on the eye and with hot chassis ,

[grasshopper]

From recollection, there is a Hobbit House there on Boracay as well. Some lovely ladies there also but no a big P4P scene as far as we could make out.
That Tanduay dark rum was good stuff though. 12 years old and smooth as. Cheap too.
Found the service staff were pretty and sweet at the Grand Hotel (?), I think it was.
Those motor cycle guys/touts were pretty shifty though.

[terry57]

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I think Ive always steered away from the place as Ive never been there, don't know the go and heard all the gun stories.

Suppose newbies feel that way about Thailand.

[SiLeakHunt]

What's the cost of living like in the Philippines like these days, still cheap or heading the way of Thailand ?

Cheers

[MANICHAEAN]

There is a full range from 5 star hotels in Makarti to cheap doss out dives.
Food is cheap generally and if you move out into the country very fresh and tasty.
Booze is cheap: Red Horse beer, Tanduary rum, gin all local. Imported stuff you pay more.

[9999]

Wondering about security issues ? Many punters say they feel unsafe getting around the place .

Security is pretty hard core. The guards at the taxi ranks have M-16's or shot guns. They also walk around heavily armed in public squares like Eastwoods, everyone gets scanned before entering a mall, etc.

The place is a shit hole. I've been everywhere in Thailand, and never seen the level of dirty slummery that lines the main roads around Pasig City. Defo want to stay away from the real slums.

treat them with respect and they will give it back to you twofold

Totally different to my experience. I treat everyone with respect, and have received nothing but contempt and petty thievery. From the maid, to the main local guy in the business I'm helping set up.

If you think the Thais are out to fuck you, watch out for these shify flippos!

And 4,000 peso barfines ... WTF ??? No thanks! Bunch of mingers the lot of em.

[beerlaodrinker]

Have to agree with you that Manila is an armpit of a place, you should get down to the province. People are much nicer especially the visayans, can't agree with you about the women being mingers though, you can see stunners on a daily basis, getting there panties of is a different story though, you need to marry them for that, unless they are in a bar.

[9999]

This bloke I am staying with lined up a complete stunner on an online dating site,, she charged him 5,000 pesos :O.

What part of the provinces would you reccomend? I'll be going to Cebu at some point.

[Mr Orange]

Ahh the Philippines. Great memories of palawan island, manila nightlife and the paradise island I proposed to my wife on...

Then I got wasted with the locals and lost my camera and all the photos

[dobella]

1983, i was in Manila same week when Aquino was shot dead at the airport.
Not a great time to be on a 10 day holiday from 2 months oilfied work but it was a great trip with a lovely girl from Leyte and her name was Letty, what a darling took me to the dark pool halls and i never threat threatened then but looking back i feel lucky at it was the backstreets and these guys had nothing but they were great for that time i was there.

[beerlaodrinker]

9999 manila and pasig is the absolute armpit of the philippines you will enjoy cebu its a lot more laid back and you shouldnt have to sleep with 1 eye open, most people dont consider manila the real philippines anyway, another couple of places i like in the visayas are ilo ilo city, dumaguette, tacloban and even Butuan city or surigao city in the catholic part of mindanao is ok, I reckon Palawan would be the go as well but still havent made it down there, i was travelling with the wife and 2 young kids and from what i can gather you need to get around a bit to the hard to reach places so it would of been a bit hard this trip, maybe next time.

Grasshopper they still have a hobbit house bar in boracay but it didnt have any eye candy.......unless midget chicks are your go, The 12 year Tanduay is still an excellent rum and cheap as chips, theres also an 18 year old tanduay now to , just back in Laos this morning and have been trying to download my photos onto photobucket but the connections so slow its going to take me a while i would guess, might wait until monday when all the Laos arent using the internet, slow as fuk on weekends

[MANICHAEAN]

I have a second home in Bicol in Caramine Sur and have never had any security problems there. Mind you, the wife always sends one of the sons to keep an eye on me. I love the fresh food ( fish still flapping, blood still coming out of the pork) real organic vegetables & eggs. Get through a bottle of Tanduary every time I go back.

[9999]

9999 manila and pasig is the absolute armpit of the philippines you will enjoy cebu its a lot more laid back and you shouldnt have to sleep with 1 eye open, most people dont consider manila the real philippines anyway, another couple of places i like in the visayas are ilo ilo city, dumaguette, tacloban and even Butuan city or surigao city in the catholic part of mindanao is ok, I reckon Palawan would be the go as well but still havent made it down there, i was travelling with the wife and 2 young kids and from what i can gather you need to get around a bit to the hard to reach places so it would of been a bit hard this trip, maybe next time.

Cheers for the rundown BLD. Manila totally sucks balls but I won't write the place off before even leaving the capital.

[tonyroma]

lots of small bars reopening in ermita ...