Downtown Cebu

[cawe33]

Ok..thx a lot for u help:-)

[Humbert]

I visited Cebu in 1987 on a business trip. We arrived at the airport late at night and were hit by a wall of hot air when we disembarked the plane. There were no lights on but were met with the sounds of hundreds of people shaking the chain link fence begging.
We stayed at what was purported to be the best hotel in town up a winding road at the top of a hill someplace. Can't remember the name. It was a dump. We had dinner one night at a restaurant a short walk from the hotel. There were giant cockroaches all over the ceiling.
After meetings at local factories our guides took us to downtown Cebu for lunch and the local specialty - 'chicken easels'. That's what it sounded like anyway. It turned out to be a big plate of fried parson's noses. Sickening. Chicken assholes.
Every establishment in town was guarded by thugs with machine guns or rifles. It seemed like every business person we met was a petty mafiosi and looking for a wad of cash from us.
I was happy to leave that shithole and judging by the pics it hasn't changed much.

[cawe33]

Hi again.i dont think it was victorias court, info from there homepage they dont have anything in cebu,if they have there rooms are very nice,this place we went to was very simple,the rooms was ok,but dont look at all as the picture from other victorias court

[Davis Knowlton]

^There are short-time drive-in motels like that in every town in the country. I just mentioned Victoria's Court as it is the largest and best known nationwide.

[beerlaodrinker]

Maybe it was the place called Queensland lodge, that seems to ring a bell, also a drive in sort of a set up

[cawe33]

Yes ,maybe it was that,it sounds ,like i heard that name before

[kekalot]

Maybe it was the place called Queensland lodge, that seems to ring a bell, also a drive in sort of a set up

hahaha, that is funny.. I don't know how many Queensland there is in Cebu City (could be many?) but I literally lived across the street from that drive in short time place.. it was on Vincente Rama Avenue, a short walk up from North Bacalso

actually the lady I was seeing at that time was not allowed to come visit me in my room across there (the owner was very catholic strict) and she was getting frustrated and suggested that we should go to that short time place (I laughed and said no)

the only thing I miss about the Phils is that they almost all spoke English.. now I live in Thailand in a Thai town and well, 90% of them do not speak it.. and the one they do learned it from "unofficial" places.