Author: Reekay V.
Since 2012 I’ve been traveling through various islands of the Philippines as a full-time Expat and spent 1999 living in Vietnam.
Share with me my ongoing adventures of life in the Philippines. Hopefully you find my observations helpful in your own adventures.
— Reekay
Tell us about KTV bars. They are all over Cebu city and even in Cambodia. K stands for Korean and the TV refers to karaoke on the tv. I think. I’ve never been in one, but I know girls that work there and when I met them online, they invited me. They pretend to be looking for dates, but they were. They are fishing to bring men into their bar. And behind the screen, there may not even be a girl.
I think the highest retail you can pay is marriage to any woman but especially a western woman
You didn’t even get close to worst scenario where the girls drug you and take everything in your wallet. Depending on what they slip you, you may even help them clean out your ATM card. I have managed these places in Florida, so yes it even happens in the US.
im sorry if your bill at any bar is 600 because your not paying as you drink then you deserve anything that happens to you
I live in Thailand, I have seen all this but I’ve never been stupid enough to go into these establishments, you already know the outcome…. If your not stupid
stay away from the the girly bars but if your going to go i recommend you avoid playing pool against them
keep your tool wrapped and for the love of all things holy do not butterfly if you see a girl on the regular you belong to her and she may snip you if she catches you
Reekay, thanks for the solid advice as usual. I can’t ever see myself seeking “professional” company. However, your AI asian ladies made me realize a man can not fully understand his weakness until she is a few feet away, beautiful and a trained wallet assassin.
I really don’t see the point of traveling 10K miles to do that prostitution thing, especially when it is so sordid in that context.
The only way I’d avail the services of a professional would be if she actually was a professional escort, and my time was more valuable than hers. Which it’s not the case because I don’t make a grand per hour.
17:25 is key
i was over there in olongapo nearly 60 years ago.then the total price including motel was $8.00 lol,,,,,,,,,inflation has hit. lol,,,,,,,but it was a deal because you got your free dose of clap. lol
I would add this one additional thing. In Angeles City ( maybe other places too ) NEVER EVER NEVER go back to a room with a girl you meet out in the street. I mean that comes up to you on a sidewalk.
I told this to a guy from Chicago that was taking a space A flight to Angeles. Just trying to give him somr knowledge. He ignored me to his regret. I will tell the whole story later if anyone is interested. But….
Basically there are only 4 reasons that a girl is trying to pick you up in the street. 3 of them are bad for YOU.
#1 She cannot pass the health department VD screening and can not get the health card that ALL bar workers need weather they do barfines or are just straight waitresses.
#2 The word has went out on the Mamasan ( Bar manager ) network that she is a thief, cheat, liar or generally bad news, so no bar will employ her.
#3 She is trying to set you up to get conned, robbed or beaten AND robbed. She knows that if she was in a bar you or the police would have somewhere to start to track her down,
The 4th reason is not bad for you but is rare.
#4 She just does not like giving half her bar fines and tips to the bar.
BE WARNED. As I said I told someone this before we got to Angeles and he ignored me. I KNOW he later with he had listened.
Well, i don’t do this nonsense in my own country and over the last 15 years in and out of the philippines i never go into ANY of these places i already know the score myself long before i landed in the philippines. Nice restaurants high end in BGC and Boracay but as for anything else i simply not interested. All your troubles often start in them places and finish in them places and the women my personal opinion are total garbage would not give them the time of day. Better things in life in the best parts of the philippines without prostitution bars. As seen on youtube from other bloggers in the years gone past many have and come unstuck on a fast flowing river without a paddle. Basic common sense really not hard to understand why!
Very good video. I was last in the Philippines in 1986. It worked just the same way back then.. I went there with this knowledge. So I never had these problems. BUT I saw PLENTY of people that did.
I’ve always avoided bars. If i drink i drink at home with my wife. But I’ll admit a good ol honky tonk can be fun occasionally lol.
ANOYHER GREAT VIDEO
I love those places. Just talk to them and meet them after their sift. Get it for a low low cost.
Only thing better than learning from your mistakes, going to a girly bar with a pocket full of money!! 🙂
This is pretty much the norm in any strip club/gentlemen’s club in the US for many years. The worst place to fall for this is in Vegas around the strip, drinks for yourself can easily be $30+ and lady drinks can be $100 each. If you’re dumb enough to get a bottle, you could be out an easy $1000-$2000+
Very good advices. I think you forgot to mention about the other ‘price’ that some or many will pay besides money. It is the taking of venereal diseases and including AIDS from those women. I’ve learned that bars are the places in the Philippines where one can get AIDS, either from some girl or from someone who sticks you with an intentionally infected needle.
I’m, glad I’m not a bar person.
Hey! That’s my girlfriend in that video.
That b****.
Lots of great advice in this video but summed up simply, like you said, “overpriced sloppy seconds”.
Well… Good thing i found my company before leaving America. I don’t like sex work
07:30 You forgot Honolulu, Hawaii. Honolulu is not as intense though.
Well l don’t like to drink alcohol so I won’t be going into those places, maybe a place that serves food along side with alcohol. But nope, no desire to go there but thanks for the video
Throughout my travel, I stay away from nightlife, bars, massage, gambling, drugs….etc nothing good will happen from those places.
About 12:33: It could go further south. You can be an A-hole jerk blank-blank and they decide to follow you home and have a “discussion” later. I did a girly bar in Amsterdam and consider myself fortunate as I paid more attention to the rowdy guys than I did the girls. (So sue me, a couple of the rowdy dudes were very rowdy and made Sumo wrestlers look small…)
Never never let them have you keep signing every round. Pay as you order period
It’s unbelievable how many guys get involved with these girls. Most of these guys won’t listen and it will not end well financially and emotionally or both. They don’t seem to understand these girls are sex workers (prostitutes) and it’s simply a business transaction. And of course also possible to pick up STD.
Thanks Dr. Reekay for the reminder why I don’t do Bars especially when I visit the Philippines next year…I usually have a wine when I am forced to go with friends or my Crew members after a flight…But we usually have 1 drink due to us having a trip in the morning..But a girly Bar does nothing for me whatsoever…I’ve never been that desperate to pick up a Bar girl and do my thing with her…I will just pass on the Girly bars overall…
Great video
Reekay, are these the same girls dressed in identical sexy uniforms hanging out in front of the bar as you walk by?
Angeles works differently. Its one price. You just pay the bar and they pay the girl half. Manila you pay both.
Spent some time in Thailand visiting some well-known streets, and there is nothing more off-putting than a girl you do not know, trying to lock eyes with you and then grabbing your arm and refusing to let go until you agree to her price.
And that is saying nothing about the overtly fake “wow you so stroooong. I like yoOuUu…”
600 usd !? Waoh, seems that inflation has gone crazy since 2008…
I remember a time at los angeles s dollhouse spending a good time with drinks and girls, then taking the cutest one to the hotel for 5,000 pesos max. (3,000 for the girl, 2,000 for a lot of drinks and plenty of time at the doll.).
I guess that time is over.
I’ve got no time for the career hose milkers, lol. Not here, not there.
Reekay can you do a video on expats here who have gone to jail and why. That would be a great video.
11:20 who is the vlogger?
Excellent advice I hope this advice saves some expat life.
Facts.
Although not all guys that go in bars are idiots or not able to get a girl outside the bar.