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Goes from developed to extreme third world pretty quick. I don't want to fearmonger but my last two days on P.Burgos were a crime fest as I stupidly decided to prance down the street going for breakfast at 6am (anybody else there, go to the Filling Station, the 1950s themed restaurant above cafe cubana with same menu if that early and they have a smoking section if interested). Twice I was swarmed pick pocketed with a dozen junkies and kids all trying to get in my pockets until the security guy beat them off with a baton (glad I tipped the Cafe Cubana security all those times). I also caught a robbery setup, some woman with kids who begs foreigners until they pull out wallet and give 20p to go away, who then turns around and signals three young 20s looking street guys where the wallet is who follow the foreigner. I don't give shit to high pressure beggars so only saw this happen to other people. Told security and their response is only 'yes, those are bad boys'...?? In my country bouncers would beat you senseless if you hung around front of their bar stealing. Be aware this was 630am and nobody should be out at that time I was basically lucky I didn't get jacked. 5:00am most of the bars close and you should gtfo the street until at least 7:30am.

Full Makati Diamond Residences review. Even though they screwed me on check in making me wait forever for a room I paid for a year ago, it's prob one of my fave hotels. Greenbelt 1 entrance is literally across the street, and you can walk to Cafe Havana easily to check out the enormous LB freelancer action but you will be sweating your nuts off as inside will be full, so only patio seating avail. Instead I went to Starbucks and relished the aircon (37degC here other day, 80% humidity so felt like 44) and checked out the huge amount of freelancers. Bringing one back to your room is fine before 10pm, then they ask for IDs/register. A good trick is avoid the front and always Grab/Taxi from the rear entrance, much more relaxed there security wise. I walked through both entrances with freelancers no problem or questions asked around 8pm. There's a really good bar on the 28th floor you can smoke in, beer is about 200pesos but tons of whiskey on offer too. Not terribly priced for a supposed 5star hotel. However I never got the chance to repeat Greenbelt because there's tons of girls/LBs at the hotel for some reason, many from Japan and Korea who picked me up in the common areas like the designated smoking area (rooms are non-smoking), bar and restaurant. I also totally slayed Weechat, just having the girl meet me at back entrance and sending her grab load to get there.

Indeed service is shit but almost every bar I've gone to here the wait staff just sit on their phones ignoring everyone so I assume that's normal these days.

A really good bar on P.Burgos is 'Cheers' run by an Irish ex MMA fighter. Tons of expats to drink with and you can smoke inside if you want. Located right beside the Citadel Inn. Always some LBs and bargirls in there playing pool too.

More hotel reviews, for Salcedo Village in Makati (12min walking distance to Cafe Cubana or 60-80php Grab/Taxi fare) Salcedo is super safe, no Sir Massage? or pickpocket kids. Tons of really good looking girls around. Restaurants to take a date everywhere. Walk middle of the night and no problems. Grand Valero Suites: Great hotel, sort of LB friendly the security take and hold IDs. Bum guns. Walk to Tsumura Sushi Bar which has a smoking room where you watch the Japanese owner slice up sushi. Prob one of the best restaurants I've been to. Walk to train station to go to Greenbelt or anywhere else. Cheap Filippino food galore, a Rustans Fresh supermarket all within 2min walking. No smoking rooms u have to smoke in the garage which is 40+ degrees since militant Makati anti smoking laws. Picasso Serviced Residences I'll try next in same area. Grab is so cheap to P.Burgos no point in staying there unless renting fuck pads at Alley 8 Zen rooms. Edit: Citadel Inn update you can buy rooms or rent long term, info is posted in the lobby. 25k PHP for monthly rent or 2.8m PHP to buy a unit. Operates like a strata council from what I can tell. The front counter guy is a total scammer though (when I was there), claiming all kinds of BS why they can't take cards (our machine is broken excuse) and tried to screw me with a shit room without a balcony even though I paid for one. Spent one second in there then back to lobby to remind him he just sold me a balcony room. (You already paid, can't switch rooms) When I told him to keep the money and give me back my deposit I asked for his name and told him I was calling the owners to fire his scammimg ass then of course magically a balcony room was available and magically the card reader worked, which I didn't use as he was so untrustworthy. If you stay here treat the front desk like they are 5yrs old and get them to spell out exactly what the room offers or view it first because they will bait & switch then play dumb. He also tried to nickle and dime me for every dirty towel and electricity I didn't use. Thankfully I did not use the safe there.

Some more hotel reviews as I quest for fuck pads. ZEN Rooms Alley 8 Makati: dirt cheap, big very clean rooms with balcony, and within 30sec walking distance of Best Western or Mixed Nuts. Paid $32/night USD. Used only as a fuck hotel because very loud at night with bars all around cranking music and karaoke. Security is also very lax, would not keep any valuables here. There's another ZEN hotel beside it on Durban st but no balcony and more money. MPT Suites: If you've ever stayed at the Oxford Suites Best Western, while waiting for the elevator if you look out the hall window you'll see a derelict tower. That's MPT. Great location but total roach infested shithole. I would stay at the Citadel Inn before here. Checked a room, refused to stay. Located by Mixed Nuts. RedDoorz Bel Air: Hard to find as the lobby is a bare office. Its across street from Herald Polaris by 7/11. Condos aren't too bad, you get a balcony. No bugs but half assed cleaning, bring your own towels and things. Lots of locals stay here so very loud with kids everywhere. Wifi didn't work. 30 second walk to Cafe Cubana but be careful at night, lots of homeless/crackheads in the side street. I always walked down Durban or I walked down Makati ave to get there if late at night. Again Polaris St is ok safety wise but the side streets feeding into P.Burgos are a 3rd world dump after dark so walk around them. Dragonlink suites: office located beside RedDoorz. You rent a condo beside century mall so not in same bldg. Total dump, roaches and half assed cleaning. Fly by night outfit so impossible to get a hold of them once they have your money. I didn't stay, only checked room and a British guy in the elevator told me whatever I do don't stay here. Security is shit too. Jazz Residences: Finally a half decent condo. If you can get Tower B it has the least long wait for the elevator. You have to pay cash daily to use the pool but it's huge. Small rooms, but get a balcony in most of them. I used Airbnb instead of local agencies. Has its own mall for anything you want. Highly recommended and was only $35/night for an OK sized 1bedroom. Food delivery is easy too, right to your door whereas other places I noted security makes you come down. Not good for taking back random girls, need to register a guest so GF option not freelancer option. Trump Tower is baller to the max and about $40-80/night off Airbnb depending on suite size but none avail during my time here.

Adding some Manila/P Burgos reviews Best Western Oxford Suites standard 19th floor (1910) has no hot water, ants/roaches, disrepair, no in room safe and elevator takes forever. It has bum guns tho and balcony. Moved to 7th floor standard room and newer furniture, no bugs, has hot water, in room safe, balcony but no bum gun. You want any suite ending in 08, 09 or 10 to see the street action or one of the suites with wrap around windows. I would say 1010, 910, 810 ect are the best cheapest rooms. Lowest floor with balcony is 5, ask if 510 or 509 is avail and check it out first will have the best views of freelancers. No asking girl for ID just security guy in lobby at night asking for room number if you bring 2+ chicks back. They always fuck up something here, like broken wifi or missing towels, ect. Security is OK, walked out to my floor once and saw a row of shady looking local G wannabes loitering around who I thought were going to rob me in the hall. Left of you is Starbucks and ATMs for intl bank cards (Chinabank), and a family mart. Right/straight is Cafe Cubana, and piles of freelancers. Royal Bellagio Jr suite is good value, best bed I've found yet. Bum guns. Little window you can open in bathroom. Elevator takes forever but in best location (inside cafe cubana). Half the time bypass 2nd floor lobby completely and go straight to room. Cleaner than Best Western. Nothing fucked up by staff but no in room safe, must use lobby safe. Security is OK considering anybody can go upstairs if elevator security attendant not there. Phones everywhere in halls to call for emergency. Best option is this hotel imho Citadel Inn located across street from 7/11 on PBurgos is hilariously dilapidated but has balcony and decent staff. Room decor is sealed in the early 80s, very cheap but at least clean. No bum gun but has detached shower head. No in room safe, lobby safe only. Security is OK. Long elevator wait. Sunette Tower Condo Suites. Nightmare + 1. Elevator down right frightening, didn't even check out rooms I was so scared of that shitty ready to crash elevator. Looks like a dump.No security when I was there. Makati Diamond Residences beside Greenbelt. 5 star, no prob with LB guest but I pre registered her name. Crazy amount of security staff with dogs and sometimes rifles. Rooms are excellent, pool is excellent. Staff excellent. Herald Polaris Suites. Perfect business hotel, not girl friendly. Used it as a business base of operations and rented fuck pads. Some of the freelancers share an incall near tickle bar so you don't even need a mongering room. Just 1 block from PBurgos but highly dangerous to walk at late night, sketchy drug addicts everywhere in side streets but Polaris St is safe, walk down Durban (same street BWestern is on) and down Polaris at night, not the other streets like the one beside Makati Palace its a dark lit robbery waiting to happen. Security excellent Rooms extremely clean and new but small. Has guest policy of no unregistered guests after 10pm so OK with gf but not bar girls or freelancers. Really good hotel and quiet. Bum guns.

Speaking of price, a great looking LB freelancer who claimed to be brand new to the area just offered me 500p short time across the street from cafe cubana, so Angeles prices are possible on P.Burgos.

Alas I was going to review the LBs in LA Cafe when I ended up just dating one I met at Cafe Cubana, so to avoid playing with fire didn't go but prelim research I found a review of the Brickstone hotel attached to LA Cafe here 1500p a night, not bad rooms either and also Motel 168 looks promising if you were going to ladyboy monger there and want to avoid mad traffic back to your reg hotel. Everytime I walk past Cubana its filled with guys sitting with ladyboys, was again tonight. If I were to do this all over again I'd get a large suite at Royal Bellagio for just a few days, meet some stunners in the cafe then airbnb sexy vacation with the one LB the rest of the time near greenbelt or around Phils away from the sex district. Edit, also look at couchsurfing site, LBs in manila offering their apts with 'shared bed'

Other day I was sitting in that open air tequila/Mexican themed bar across the street from the Best Western and every guy in there along the rail was waving in LBs from the street to sit and drink and then name a price. That's another good bar to scope the talent outside and make an offer instead of approaching on the sidewalk where you'll get swarmed lol

Forgot to note, if you get one of the Best Western rooms ending in 10, like 1410, 1210 ect, you will have perfect view from balcony (ask front desk to unlock it) of front of cafe cubuna and LBs standing outside Best Western at night. Or suite in front with big wrap around windows. If you can get a lower floor, something under 10 because the elevators are shit and take forever stopping every floor for huge group of employees. To complete the weekend review Sat night most of the LBs get picked up fast, tho later at night like midnight there will be some stunners showing up. Price is whatever you offer, never ask them or get huge inflated price. They'll also will go with you to Cafe Cubana if asked where if you seem flirty/normal and not a creep over drinks the asking bid will prob be taken. Finally they love to be submissive, so if you whisper to them in Cafe Cubana how you're going to make them be your sissy girl they'll go totally crazy unless one of the alpha top ones, there's a few walking around offering their services very bluntly.

Review of P.Burgos on the weekend. Cafe Cubana will have some stunner looking LBs show up for breakfast in the morning. They sit near the washrooms morning and night almost always where the standing tables are so they can show off outfits and look at every guy going to and from the bathrooms. The whole block seems owned by Saudis, so often arabs are there eating and scoping out the LBs but they are generally respectfull of the LBs (not the wait staff tho, grabbing their asses and shit), the Americans and Australians are also cool with the worst tourists as purely an anecdote being the young Brits. Don't sit near them because they can't hold liquor worth shit, treat staff like garbage, make lewd comments at the LB tables near the bathroom and twice I saw security surround them with tasers and tell them to leave. First was them picking a fight with a LB table and second was some idiot throwing money and change at a waitress. Remember these are only anecdotes from the 3 days and nights I've been there, so 6 times in total, usually its very friendly inside. A few doors down is Arabian Nights club and sisha restaurant with surprisingly good food, esp the breakfast platters. Can sit in there and watch the street or get takeout. I didn't go to the night club but I'm betting its like high society in Angeles with freelancers galore. The street beside 711 near Cafe Cubana, if you walk down there you'll find Ziggurat restaurant which is a really good patio Arab restaurant. Perfect place to bring dates tho they always want to go to Cafe Cubana to show you off to other LBs. Fri night there was at least 40 LBs hanging in front of the Best Western and walking up and down past Cafe Cubana. I preferred the ones inside the cafe to walking the street since they look much better, and after buying them drinks/dinner they didn't want any $$ tho I paid for taxi generously. No theft or drama issues, really nice girls actually. If you want a reg GF just go to the cafe forget the dating sites. Finally I always tipped the Cafe security since they are the only real professional security I've seen yet in Phils meaning they don't stare at your girl, they hail cabs for them and negotiate a good fare, and they allow them in where other places they will have to wait outside for you. Edit, at night if walking with a LB nobody will harass you, whereas if walking by yourself on P.Burgos hookers latch on to you, kids swarm you and those fake iphone vendor guys are relentless following you around. Your date will just shout "school" in tagalog at the kids and they scatter.

Royal Bellagio has them in the JR suites, the hotel attached to Cafe Cubana. Has the best bed too I've found. Oxford Suites Best Western has them in standard rooms as well. One thing I noticed is you also want a shower with detachable head, because girls want to shower but not mess up their hair which will require an hour of preening afterwards.

Hilarious sign inside the hotel attached to Cafe Cubana. There is some model looking Russian chicks sometimes freelancing across the street by Makati Palace hotel, no idea what they charge but prob a lot

Some more advice, an Australian guy the size of hulk hogan sitting by the rail at Cafe Cubana was getting pestered by those annoying street vendors and I had to prevent him from killing the vendor and getting into police trouble. I just say no thanks, make hand signal I'm not interested and look away, they never ask me twice. Or I totally ignore them (best strategy). He made the mistake of saying hey I'm trying to eat here, can you understand to fuck off and none of these guys speak good English so just assume they can continue pestering you. It almost seems organized, usually armed security out front of cafe cubana blows a whistle then chases away the beggers and vendors harassing patrons but at the same time a distraction with security is happening the vendors exploit this and arrive like a tsunami blanketing the front patrons until security returns. Avoid the immediate rail seats and patio, you can still see all the freelancers in the street one table over. Some Europeans (Swedes?) were at the patio drinking and left their phones sitting there on the table like they were back in Sweden and no surprise it got snatched. Security caught the kid and returned it but FFS, hide all valuables away from arms reach of passerby desperate homeless and organized snatcher kids.

Angeles is really great to meet other foreigners, often these old hilarious as fuck Aus and British guys at Margarita Stn or Phillies. As way as LB mongering districts go Angeles is more relaxed and fun (and cheaper) than P. Burgos but better looking models walking around Greenbelt and P.Burgos. Front desk girls will giggle at Queens if you walk in with your obvious LB though I teased them about it so all good, and seems LBs is far less tolerated than Manila. Feel sorry for them actually, tons of discrimination with those clowns shouting bakla everywhere and being denied into any bar without an invite.

Decided to try out Cafe Cubana. It is teeming with LBs after dark all sitting in the cafe past the patio or outside. There is a wall of LB freelancers hanging around the front of the nearby Best Western Oxford Suites too. You can grab one, and buy viagra/cialis from a dozen different hustlers on the 10 second walk back to your hotel. Some ridiculously beautiful ones that show up later in the night. They don't bother you unless you look at them and smile tho sometimes they may sit with you if brand new and don't know the game well. You can also just pick a table full of them and party it up with drinks, lots of guys did that going right to a LB table. I saw one sit in front of a guy who wanted no part in LBs, so watched them uncomfortably tolerate each other until I decided to invite over to eat with me and saved the guy. Apparently just arrived that night in Manila from a province. Bought dinner, drinks, asked me if crashing at my hotel was OK as too late to spend the long ride home to her Manila suburbs apt tho I had no intention of sex just wanted a dinner date. Didn't ask for any money, I paid anyway as was one of the greatest GFE ever. Crazy fetish for tall men, climbed me like a tree and really got off on it. If you want maximum discretion, stay at the Royal Bellagio, the hotel above cafe cubana so can bring your lb date to the elevator in the bar inside and disappear to your room. Theres an elevator security guy but the place is arab owned and they don't care at all about bringing up LBs from the bar. I unfortunately stayed at the Best Western which if you don't get one of the executive rooms and just a reg room, is a total dump with roaches in the bathroom and filthy interior, air-conditioning leaks occasionally, bed is good though. Security didn't ask for ID of LB guests which has already been posted here. Weechat around midnight had countless freelancers within 200m search by distance. Anyway if offered a 19th floor room, refuse it is a shithole. Same pick pocket Mindanao kids hanging around in groups getting constantly chased by security. Expect them to try and snatch sunglasses, phone, anything. Why Phil cops don't clear these kids permanently who knows. Traffic at night (Wed in my case) is a parking lot. Nothing moving at all except dudes on suicycles racing beside the sidewalk so prob a bad idea to taxi here at night. Edit: if you need an ATM, theres 2 across the street from Cafe Cubana outside of the Makati Palace Hotel where the guards stand at the main entrance.

Pic attached is a great LB I met outside Phillies, is there almost every night, always wears the most striking and self described slutty outfits. Totally sweet, didn't take anything or pull any tricks, highly recommended. I asked if ok to post Viber contact to anybody in Angeles, otherwise don't waste time if not there.

Another shill for Queen's hotel, right beside it is a korean run moneychanger with almost the same rates as XE app. Off by only .286 when I was there other day. Open until midnight. If you want to Visa yourself some money, use World Remit. You don't get charged cash interest(i wasn't, your country issuing card may vary). Sit in SM Clark, use World Remit app to send yourself money, pick up at BDO collection booth. Also I have yet to run into a scamming or thieving LB. I think if you treat them like a girlfriend they won't try and jack your shit. Numerous times I fucked up the girl proof cleaning and left an expensive phone laying around or money outside the safe and nothing was touched.

Some more info, I don't do any drugs and highly, highly recommend nobody in Angeles does but all the LBs I talked to said every one of them knows local dealers and can get anything, claiming Aus clients always want weed and coke. One LB, I showed her some youtube vids of LBs filmed outside Phillies, and she was able to tell me which ones are all whacked out on ice now. Somehow I lucked out and none of the ones I pulled had any drug problems. In fact they were really honest, moreso than I expected. One left her watch and told me to keep it as a gift. Each LB I picked up and brought back to hotel, they later video chatted with their other LB friends who immediately stripped and offered me threesome which I didn't accept for safety reasons, maybe if I knew them better. And of course the teasing "I saw u at Skytraxx yesterday, you with other ladyboy who fuck ass" tho I just arrived and obv wasn't there. They also tease Koreans for having tiny dicks, I have no idea if this is an actual fact or anything and I'm certainly not packing a fire hose. Edit: clothes advice. Do yourself a favor and buy breathable Supima or Ramie cotton clothing. Rohan sells a shirt called 'Equator shirt' and it is hands down the best shirt for this extreme heat and humidity. Outlier sells an expensive ramie cotton button up shirt and it was also great for the heat. Get some nutbag powder too, any unscented talc or Gentleman Pinaud powder to cover inside of groin/thigh. The equator shirt I walked to SM mall in and even tho sweating buckets it stayed dry and airy

Sunday my driver claims was now hit and miss, sometimes ok and other days ppl stay all weekend in Pampanga and then a million ppl go back to work for monday, depending on whatever is happening. I arrived Saturday late night/Sunday AM, highway was clear to angeles and other way was the biggest traffic lineup I've ever seen. Mon to Thurs is best going to MNL or Angeles my hotel claimed with Sunday being flipping the dice. I noticed it is worse during the day, so if you walk arm and arm with a ladyboy that looks obvious, always remarks from locals. I don't really care but embarrassing for your date. The pickpocket kids are always around that choke point near Narcisco St where the sidewalk is fenced and moneychangers are there. I cross the street and avoid them now, watching them plunder foreigners. They also for some reason were around AngelWitch twice at night running through and trying to snatch shit.

Stayed at Queen's Hotel, 'executive' room is great, every small ammenity is taken care of like condoms on the minibar. Aircon works flawless, security is tight and you can usually just walk past the front desk with a ladyboy they didn't ask for ID but my ladyboys were like 6' tall in highheels so maybe that's why. I like boning the turbo slutty ones in peel off outfits because they call you 'thief' while screwing them meaning you are stealing their heart. Back to Queens, the females in the top floor lounge are available, you can't directly barfine them but after 2am they can just come to your room for 1500p. Some were cute. They are paid entertainers but no talk of early work release or hookering can happen unless completely on the downlow. Another bonus of Queens is in the morning when you go for breakfast, click the "Make Up" room button inside your suite and by the time you return its brand new again. Population of Queens is half westerners and half Korean as most of the restaurants and bars immediately around it are Korean. None of the Koreans said shit about my titanic sized ladyboys I pranced through the lobby with they are OK. Phillies is right around the corner, a 45 second walk, can pick up and walk back to hotel safely avoiding trike mafia tho weechat is better, same ladyboys are on there under search by distance and have them come to you otherwise be prepared for a guy in your face shouting "HEY THATS BAKLA, U DON'T KNO IS BAKLA??" on every block if you're walking together, I just pretended they didn't exist and kept walking. I was swarmed twice by child pick pockets, bums and drug addicts right outside AngelWitch while going to pick up. Saw some bar fights too, some Korean guy launching beer bottles at some other Korean outside the 24hr smart cell shop by Angelwitch, and some locals fighting at the entrance to fields. Phillies at midnight had a huge amount of ladyboys all around, just go upstairs and check out which one you want. Too sketch for me with all the pickpockets and idiots screaming 'bakla' so I used weechat and pinaylove site like takeout. The trike drivers hanging out beside Queens is who a lot of the ladyboys use so win/win they walkout and their trike guy right there from what they told me. Used the margarita station driver pickup service for Manila airport, well worth the money though be prepared for going between cars on one lane at 100mph on the freeway since its Asia. Try to run off the plane to queue up for the huge immigration line. Do not go to Angeles on a Friday or go back to Manila on a Sunday it will be a total traffic nightmate. We went top speed down that hwy on Sunday to Angeles when the majority go back to Manila for the work week. It was a parking lot that stretched for miles on the other side of the hwy. If you smoke, only do it in designated spots because of the new law. You'll see locals smoking everywhere but I saw numerous Koreans getting fined by cops walking down the street smoking so as a foreigner beware. Queens has ashtreys in the room and balcony plus cigarettes in the mini bar if u want. The 20mg Cialis the vendors sell on walking street works. It was 500something pesos for 4 tablets that work 24hrs or so. TL:DR my advice is avoid Fields if you're brand new, and click to order your ladyboys on weechat/elsewhere who will still be there within seconds. Don't ever ask them the price, give your offer and they may accept or later that night accept if no other takers. I went to plenty of Angeles restaurants who do bbq and beer all away from the mongering district, California Shwarma which was excellent, and a small family place that served duck adobo which was excellent. Some great food in Pampanga outside fields tho I did like Kokomos super garlicky Fillipino breakfast. However I didn't like every idiot in my face saying shit about my date or trying to rob me "My friend, I was sent to pick you up get in" or pickpocketing swarms of street kids all night and day. Went to Manila afterwards and had my pick of supermodel looking LBs in the malls and weechat, and again the price wasn't too bad as I always quoted first 'Hey, be my girlfriend tonight for (insert bid of choice)". No pickpockets or idiots in your face either. Edit: surprisingly the ladyboys outside Phillies and on weechat were honest, also didn't even ask for money which was unexpected though I paid them to make sure no idea of relationship was happening where it can get dangerous if they catch you with other LBs, remember their trike guys right outside the hotel can relay info and girls all want to take pics of you if you go out for dinner/breakfast other LBs will find.