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Originally Posted by AAB
After 4 years traveling around the world and having been to 76 countries, I found Philippines to have the worst accommodation in the world for the highest prices in the world. You can get a meal that will feed you for $1 worth, travel upwards of 100km for $2, but you'll shell out 1500 Pesos (almost $40) for the biggest piece of shit dust mites and cockroaches infested, mouldy walled, dark and smelly room with plugged up shower drain. Nowhere in the world is accommodation this shitty and this expensive at the same time. If you compare what $40 buys you in western Europe - in Barcelona or Berlin for example - you won't believe where those FIlipinos take the nerve to charge so much for world's hands down shittiest rooms.
Hours after I left Tarlac, someone threw a grenade into a bar next to my hotel killing 6 and wounding 11. In Bangued, someone got murdered in a park downtown while I was visiting there and while a funeral was taking place for 2 16 year old kids that were murdered a few days prior (a girl and a boy, both born in 1995 - got pics of it).
It's also a country with hands fucking down slowest cashiers in the world. There are always lines up to pay for merchandise because it takes hours to process a line of 3 customers. It's utterly ridiculous. I filmed countless videos of it and still can't believe when I watch it. And let's not forget out of the whack population density (them twinks breed like rabbits). Hoards upon hoards of them pieces of shit always hurling at you from every side and the end of the hoard is never in sight. No wonder their homicide rates are off the hook. Never being able to take more than one and a half steps without 5 thousand people getting in the way got on my nerves too. The fact that no matter where you are it stinks like shit cause every male pisses on the street is just a side note.
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Originally Posted by AAB
Which part of "I travel around the world" did you not understand? I visit one country after another and spend substantial time in each which also takes me to off the beaten track areas. I don't just quickly scan through popular tourist traps taking pre packaged tours. I go to every corner of every country by using local transportation and interact with locals by eating in local eateries, buying fruit from market places and hanging out in places where locals hang out. This way I get to know what the country and its people are really like. My experience goes beyond interaction with hotel staff and sellers of souvenirs. Though I'm not entirely sure why I'm wasting time trying to explain this to someone who got to 5 trying to add 2 and 2.
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Well I smell something rotten in Denmark.
All that "substantial" time immersing yourself into the culture in a way as detailed as you describe, yet you missed the 2 biggest hotel chains that happen to be all over the country. Both offer decent, secure, clean, bug free, mold free rooms... for about 1,100 a night for one of their "I am NOT a baller" budget-rooms. So which is it? Blind? Or no one liked you enough to give you decent advice regarding SOGO and Victoria Court?
Prices vary and I average them out to be about 1,100 pesos per night in either of those chains for one of their (cough)
budget (cough) rooms. And 1,100 would be the chump price at that considering people in the know all know that both chains offer discount cards...
Then again, I don't backpack like some college freshman with no money out recording a "countless" (
as you say) number of videos of slow moving lines while shopping. Dude, you're a wild man. I want to party with you!
And where on earth were you shopping? If you are going to specifically look for the scrubbiest places to shop, then that is what you are going to find. Personally I do like the palengkes though. Palengkes can be off the hook for meeting some nice sweet very attractive non-professional girls!
A grenade? Oh, lol, welcome to earth... need a tissue? Were you surprised to learn about the invention of the grenade?
Buck up and grow a pair. 16 year old kids get wasted all over the world every day. Maybe you don't see things like that... sheltered and living with Mom still?
Try doing it for real next time instead of as cheaply as possible counting centavos trying to budget yourself... get a real room. (WHY IS IT so many people believe QUANTITY OVER QUALITY is what is better? JFC people!
But hey... what do I know anyway? I don't rent rooms to sleep like a backpacker... and I sure as hell don't make countless videos of slow moving lines for fun and excitement like you do.
What I do know is that for about 3,200-5,200 a night you could have had an incredible room with 2 plasma TV's, refrigerators, dining areas, couches, private outdoor patios and tubs big enough to fit a female basketball team which is actually what I make my videos of in case you were wondering...
This room was 3,500 per night. You were complaining about the plumbing... the drain on this tub was fine. Water was nice and hot, and the waterfall worked flawless. And yup... big enough for at least 8 more girls! The first picture is to give you an idea how big the tub is in that room
This is a picture showing more detail of the bubbles. Notice the bubbles? The bubble bath liquid came for free of course.
This picture is so you can see, the entire tub was marble... and quite easy to move around in. Very functional seating on the edges too.
With everything that you describe, I would say you rented all the asshole rooms at the asshole rates in the most asshole places.
And in those 76 countries, none of the 76 happened to be Japan eh? LOL... Mofo you don't know anything about over priced until you go to Tokyo.