Originally Posted by
tentseller
I have always been upgraded to suites facing the pool with full club access as a IC RA at IN Manila.
Like Nickolash27 said, it is not the newest hotel but staff are friendly and I have always received RA service.
Manila is what it is and nothing is going to change.
Surprised someone with BKK as their location would change money at airport and not aware of scams or know how to deal with it.
Read carefully: The first "upgrade" was from deluxe to "club" without club access. Club access is 3.000 ++ PHP. The next room was worse. Now I am staying at decent room which they call suite, which is just a little bit bigger then a standard room. A suite consists out of a bedroom and a living room. Room 1206 has a sofa but not an extra living room. Club access is 3.000 PHP.
I did not change money with a panhandler at the airport I changed at the official booth of the national bank. The national bank of this country is part of the fraud system.
I was sent to the overcharging taxi company by a narcotic investigation unit officer in uniform who had access to the security zone of the airport.
I have never seen such shacks like in Manila except in Africa.
Greenbelt shopping malls are impressive with all their Gucci, Prada, Burberry flag ship stores. But has this mall anything to do with the country or the IC?
If all this is the result of 100 years of domination and colonization by the USA I am very glad that Cuba did not have the same fate like the Philippines.