15 PHILIPPINES Scams, Rip Offs & Tourist Traps (Watch Before You Go To Manila in 2024) !

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  • What are the BIGGEST Scams, Rip Offs & Tourist Traps to avoid on a trip to the Philippines in 2024? We walk around Intramuros, Mall of Asia, BGC and More and tell you what to watch out for. Make sure you leave a comment down below and let me know if any of these Rip Offs have happened to you!
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  • @liezelvevang5306
    @liezelvevang5306 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Scam is not all over Asia it's also in Europe so as Western world

  • @johnmcaulay8448
    @johnmcaulay8448 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Scam 1 - Make sure it's a girl, and don't get a big surprise.

    • @frankiefernandez9225
      @frankiefernandez9225 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      True🤣🤣🤣

    • @emilyacana341
      @emilyacana341 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      In Singapore whatever you purchase is chargeable 9% tax called GST.

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Good to know

    • @relskirod1016
      @relskirod1016 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😅😅😅 good one

  • @jarihult
    @jarihult หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Good advices and tips for avoiding most of the rip offs🤔😎Thank you for sharing Jay🙂👍!!!

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks Jari

  • @loganz
    @loganz หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Not really a scam, but if you book a tour where a driver takes you around to different tourist sites, double check if your tour rate includes entry to those places you're visiting or if you need to pay for it yourself.

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Great tip! Definitely something tourists should watch out for though… def a tourist trap! Thanks

  • @richardcortez9903
    @richardcortez9903 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Appreciate the info brother love the channel keep the videos coming

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      More to come! I appreciate it

  • @dinnes3375
    @dinnes3375 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    WOW! So well described and balanced. Thanks!

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you! I appreciate the kind words

  • @awesomeadamfrom2099
    @awesomeadamfrom2099 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Awesome job jay .

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks Pertna!

  • @bobblebunny219
    @bobblebunny219 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thank Jay Jay, love these videos.

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Enjoy vegas my friend!

  • @lamartyler8096
    @lamartyler8096 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video!

  • @momcation9786
    @momcation9786 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Awesome! Highly informational video. It’s helpful for tourists to have an enjoyable vacation experience not only in the Ph but anywhere else in the world! Thank you Jaycation for the effort!

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Gotta be in the know!

  • @ahom9387
    @ahom9387 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very helpful thank u!

  • @rickb8423
    @rickb8423 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thanks Jay for being real

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Just want people to have a nice trip!

  • @alexwallace6120
    @alexwallace6120 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks !for the good advice .You have to b careful anywhere.

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly! Thanks

  • @leaalegre8773
    @leaalegre8773 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for sharing.

  • @orlandozambrano8806
    @orlandozambrano8806 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thanks Jay!

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for watching

  • @SeanKaleponi
    @SeanKaleponi หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Good tips Jaycation. I liked getting the fake jerseys and shirts. And good advice on not getting fake shoes since that could actually hurt your feet.. Also, I never thought about the drinks and how it could get spiked. Very valuable information all around. Although if the food looked good and the vendor may not be licensed. I might just take a chance. Lol. But I can say that you at least warned us😁Glad you have safe travels in 🇵🇭

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thanks bro! I bought Jordan 11s there as a kid once and they hurt my feet so bad! I also got a louis vuitton suitcase that broke right as i got home haha lessons learned. I hope you get to visit the philippines someday my friend. Cant wait to finally release the Hawaii Series next month! I got carried away with the Philippines and wanted to finish that first before i got back to Hawaii. Lol talk soon!

  • @williefufu2985
    @williefufu2985 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for the advice, I really enjoyed your video, you are a cool cat.

  • @johnclark7973
    @johnclark7973 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Well done, appreciate you.
    What are the Philippines' popular dating apps and websites, please?

  • @rosst1
    @rosst1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good video thanks for your advice. You reference a lot from the USA that I did not understand as I don't live there.

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching. Where do u live?

  • @philippines.lapulapu.maribago
    @philippines.lapulapu.maribago หลายเดือนก่อน

    great video

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you!

  • @user-xq3px1hu1x
    @user-xq3px1hu1x หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Scams not only happened to the foreigner but to the local either. It is particularly if they notice you look like an ignorant person coming from the province.

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      💯💯💯 can happen to anybody

  • @user-oo3lh1ls4r
    @user-oo3lh1ls4r หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You give the best advice kababayan. Some of these foreigner vloggers are dishonest and telling everybody that Philippines is safe and honest but its a click bate.

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks, just keeping it real! I want tourists to have a great time but to also be aware of the unfortunate side of the PH

  • @frankiefernandez9225
    @frankiefernandez9225 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What’s up my Freind 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yooo

  • @cecilwampler8733
    @cecilwampler8733 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The hand scale for the luggage is a new one for me. I didn't even know that thing existed. I just ordered one from aliexpress. Great info.

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nice! The hand scale comes in huge

  • @EvralTatum-Mcfield-ov2mi
    @EvralTatum-Mcfield-ov2mi หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I learned my lesson regarding the weigh of my bags, and had to pay, $120 for 14 pounds over, got one of these luggage scales, now, before i head to the airport, i already know that is 50 pounds even, in each one, regards from Boston MA!

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Good call! It really saves money in the long run.

    • @bartonpercival3216
      @bartonpercival3216 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yup I did the same thing when leaving Boston going to the Philippines in 2023. I had 2 pieces of checked luggage and weighed it before I left for Logan. Both were exactly 49.5 lbs and when I checked in at my airline counter at Logan Airport, the digital scale showed 49.5lbs on both!!!! 👍

  • @PhilippinesMyParadise
    @PhilippinesMyParadise หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Full support and best regards/Ned👍👏👍

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks Ned!

  • @Fk74303
    @Fk74303 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Also you don’t use your credit card…always use cash…..cuz they can swipe more the once and you are gonna be dealing with headache with the bank if you need to dispute it and having your CC cancelled

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Where that happen to you? Using my CC was totally fine

    • @Fk74303
      @Fk74303 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Jaycation Fyre in Makati (if you know what I’m talking about that bar)

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @Fk74303 never heard but i kinda get what type of bar it is lol

  • @TheHost345
    @TheHost345 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I thought you were rapping Parokya ni Edgar 🤣

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bakit!

  • @user-oo3lh1ls4r
    @user-oo3lh1ls4r หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for the scam info, even our own kababayans or balikbayan filipinos get scammed in the Philippines, especially the airport in Manila. That's the biggest scam airport there.

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks! Yeah its u fortunate but it does happen a lot in Manila

  • @kinichi20
    @kinichi20 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great tips but these scams are everywhere, not just in the Philippines

  • @shadowtruck5991
    @shadowtruck5991 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Expat will realized after.....they married a whole family !!!!

  • @pat75
    @pat75 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It seems like *many* of the scams you discussed are specific to or quite prevalent in the Philippines! Like, what ex-pat from an Asian country comes to North America looking for a wife? 😆

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You hit it right on the dot my friend!

  • @HyunAYuchi
    @HyunAYuchi 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    There are two more scams at airports in the Philippines that i know of, and 2 others in the streets:
    1. When you have your bags at the x-ray, a guy will steal your bag as it comes out of the x-ray machine, if you're not looking, and quickly walk away. Airport cameras will suddenly not work, or will take a week before they are shown to you.
    2. Tanim-Bala. Airport officials will put/plant a bullet in your bag, and flag you. They'll arrest you and ask you for alot of money to let you go free and not go to jail for carrying bullets that they have planted.
    3. There are cops that will plant a packet of meth inside your car when you open the window (they'll just chuck it in). And they'll inspect your car and find that packet of meth that they put inside your car, and ask for a lot of money in exchange for letting you go.
    4. Kidnapping cases for rich foreigners and businessmen spike up months before elections.. i'm not saying that corrupt officials kidnap rich foreigners and businessmen to extort money from them so that the corrupt officials have money to run for elections, but yeah :) Also, RCBC Massacre, when corrupt officials send their goons to rob a bank so that they have money to burn for elections :)

  • @yvonneacosta2539
    @yvonneacosta2539 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the heads up on scams.
    Alot is true anywhere you go, even your own hometown. Just use some common sense.

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน

      💯💯💯

  • @jamesanthony7013
    @jamesanthony7013 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Party like a rockstar

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Great song

  • @SS-yv9cq
    @SS-yv9cq 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Philippines and scams should be synonyms.

  • @frankiefernandez9225
    @frankiefernandez9225 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    ❤️❤️❤️🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭💯💯💯

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน

      👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

  • @edwinmarquez3768
    @edwinmarquez3768 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Used the Grab app to make sure the price was the price for the taxi..no surprises there with that. Air Asia really tried to suck money out of me..but it's still cheap compared to the US.

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yup! Way cheaper

  • @gildizon6458
    @gildizon6458 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Our mannerisms sticks out no matter what you do there. Luckily our driver was a friend of ours & watched out for us

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah i stick out like a sore thumb 🤣

  • @kvdgadj
    @kvdgadj 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Sound like your back home?

  • @AllenMcElroy
    @AllenMcElroy หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    first

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      💯💯💯

  • @JoeSteffe
    @JoeSteffe 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Airport scam is airports say bags are to heavy . Well I went thou 5 airports b4 i got to Manila so my bags were not over weight in the other airports . I told them i am not paying for over weight charges . And i can prove this . with all 5 airports i been thou already

  • @erickayson588
    @erickayson588 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There's also Wells Fargo, Bank of America and major banks in Manila. You can access your money there with the peace of mind.

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I saw the wells fargo building!

  • @NeilMacedo
    @NeilMacedo หลายเดือนก่อน

    Relationship scams can work for Men as well, I’ve been getting a lot of Filipino men asking for money

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Dont fall for it bro!

  • @shawngregg3796
    @shawngregg3796 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Scan 12 - From my experience, never give money to beggars, no matter who they are. Most of the time beggars work for crimanal operations, the poor never get to keep it. It is OK to buy them food if they say their hungry though. One time on the last night there I used the last of my pesos to buy a women with a little boy a meal. Am sure they won't take that burger 🍔 back to the crooks they deal with.

  • @Peichen01
    @Peichen01 หลายเดือนก่อน

    28 pounds, that’s not even a kilo… Jay’s conversion is way off 😂😂😂. Kidding kidding😁

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Im confused lol

    • @Peichen01
      @Peichen01 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Jaycation The joke is 28 lb. = 12.7 kg but you said “not even a kilo” so the lb. to kg conversion is way off. Bad dad pun joke😁😅😁😆

  • @forthesnowflakes7691
    @forthesnowflakes7691 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I didn't know this until a few years back but using and saying the word "gyp" is a racial derogatory slur.
    Took me a while to remove it from my vocabulary like other words but I did.
    Is that being PC? Yes. Does that mean society is getting soft. No. It just means we're all being more aware or aka woke. And id rather be woke then asleep.
    I'm sure you didn't know, like i didn't know and I'm sure you don't want to offend anyone.

  • @boraborabob1
    @boraborabob1 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Money money money, money money money.
    Almost all these blogs end up discussing money. Her, family, friends, allowance, etc.
    When you get married and settle down half is hers. So why discuss it.
    You should be asking her if you can buy a new bike. It's "your" both of the $$.
    After "money" the second most used word is "give". The real activity should be "share", not "give"
    Yes I'm jealous. Wish I had same thing after loosing wife when I was 67 and in great shape. 82 now with cancer so a little late. Bank account full and nothing to spend it on.
    If I had the energy and time left I would spend $10,000 (american) a month to have such a young beautiful girl rubbing my shoulder.
    Well, maybe I should give it a go. Can't take it with me!

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      YOLO!

    • @boraborabob1
      @boraborabob1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Jaycation Take all your finances and put her name on the accounts too. That's what married people in love and married do. RIGHT. Haven't seen one blog where that's the case. Ah she loves me so I'll give a little money to her each month and maybe a little to the family. RIGHT.

  • @alvolutionary
    @alvolutionary หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm filipino and I just prefer to avoid the Philippines. You should check out Macau if you get a chance. I heard a lot of Tagalog over there. Macau will be just like Las Vegas but fancier. The Wynn, Venetian and MGM are in Macau.

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Love your final boss pic! 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾ill make it to Macau someday

  • @jwlindem1
    @jwlindem1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Are there men that really spend money on women. Why would a man do this. No woman is worth this. Am I missing something. I don't get why a man would spend money on a woman, just not worth it.

  • @heroreyes1219
    @heroreyes1219 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This guy talks like the scams he mentioned happens only in Manila, Philippines. This scams are all over the world. He should have titled this vlog as "Scams, Rip Offs & Tourist Traps when Travelling"

  • @charlesdiputado28
    @charlesdiputado28 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No offense for this content, it's obvious since the Philippines is still a developing country, sadly POVERTY is virtually evident in the Philippines society that's why scams, rip-off and even extortion is rampant everywhere even in tourists destination. That's my social observation, no offense to Pinoys seeing this✌✌✌

  • @FiftyfourhundredWatt
    @FiftyfourhundredWatt 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've lived here in the Philippines for 13 years and moved from America when I was 35. I have never experienced a problem listed here. Here is what I suggest for foreigners.
    Most of all, BE NICE ALWAYS. People will never be rude to you like in the States. Things just are different here so learn to adjust.
    Learn there is much more to the Philippines than Manila and tours. Learn to not get angry or control it at lease. Learn to talk quietly and be patient above all. I have been married now in the Philippines for 10 years and we live in rural Bicol (the bondoks) Her family is important to you and how you interact with family and neighbors define your reputation. As a foreigner you should care a lot about your reputation.
    So just be good, easy on drinking like an idiot and treat everyone with respect. Remember there is a language difference and be patient of that.

  • @anton-gn2ot
    @anton-gn2ot 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Scam talaga mga kalesa dahil nag punta kami dyan sa intramuros sasakay sana kami ng kalesa sabihin ba kami 1k daw

  • @thomasrider8221
    @thomasrider8221 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks Jay!

    • @Jaycation
      @Jaycation  หลายเดือนก่อน

      I appreciate you watching!