Travelling to Bacolod from Iloilo by ferry, Philippines
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- How easy is the journey from Iloilo city on Panay Island to Bacolod City on Negros Island? Websites offer differing and outdated information on ferry companies and timings. My hotel receptionist was also no help at all. In many hotels around the world - hotel receptionists would hold vast knowledge on how to move between local cities, but mine was clueless.
In this video I caught a ferry between the two cities, then navigated my way by trike to my designated hotel which I'd reserved in advance. Foreigners are not entitled to Senior discounts in the Philippines, but some can avail of a discount at the discretion of each establishment or travel company.
Negros residents have a love for knowledge and works of art, and at Silay City there are a collection of heritage mansions built during the height of the Philippine sugar industry's success, of which Negros was the very center.
Whilst in Bacolod, you should definitely make a trip outside the city to Talisay City to see "The Ruins" the ancestral mansion of the family of wealthy sugar businessman Don Mariano Ledesma Lacson. Built on a 440 hectare sugar plantation in Talisay City, Negros Occidental, in the early 1900s and now under the private ownership of the great-grandchildren of Don Mariano Ledesma Lacson and Cora Maria Osorio Rosa-Braga, the family have preserved it in its ruined state, among operational farmland, as a tourist attraction or hired for events.
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Just a small Thanks for your entertaining vlogs. Hopefully will meet one day. Tim.
Many thanks Tim, you're a Gentleman! I hope we meet one day too. Best Wishes!
Recently broke up with my thai gf currently live in the UK. I said to myself come November i will book a 3 week travel aroud the Pi. Explore a new place. I been to Thailand so many time's its all become dull and predicatable trip. I watched a couple of these travelling vids you made about travelling around the Philippines, it made book another trip back to the land of smiles. I dont understand why the Philippines is such a difficult country to visit. I have been 2 in the past but its just so difficult for me to come back and experience it once more. Thanks for sharing my the way.
I first visited Thailand in 1988. Already then it was such an easy place to travel around. I was there again this January - all bus times posted up clear to be seen. Why can't they do that here? Went to a bus station this week, asked for bus times - was told 6, 7, 8am. Turned up at 6.45. 6.30 bus had just left. Next bus 7.30. WTF.
You need to be very patient to travel here. But if you're able to laugh it off and not get wound up - it's well worth giving it a go. Best wishes.
OMG... I feel your pain, I spend every X-mas in Bacolod/ Silay city.
I did that trip Iloilo to Bacolod, among others. It’s exhausting with the constant haggling, delays and confusion. I did it for the experience but prefer not to deal with it. Perhaps Thailand is better for me.
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It much depends on your monthly budget - life can be fun in any country if you do not have to live on a shoestring 😊
Hes lucky he gets the senior discount in some places as its only ment for Filipinos and permanent residence like the srrv holders.
Other than that its at the discretion of the establishment.
Which is why it shouldn't be asked for. Don't take generosity for granted. It may make things for future retirees more difficult/expensive.
Check out Silay city near Bacolod. It is an historical type little city, around 12 kilometres from Bacolod.
I was there last year. Check my video. Loved Silay!
@@BiggWorldCinema Nice! I love it too.
One hundred and twenty pesos beer in hotel is cheaper than in a retail side road shop in the Seychelles. A 500 ml can local beer in a shop is around 215 pesos and an imported beer around 315 pesos. If you are thinking to buy a beer in any decent hotel here think above 500 pesos for 500 ml beer.
Again you have done an excellent job in capturing a true what it’s like to be traveling though the Philippines and its experience
The hotel's logic about only 10% discount because you are only one, is non-sensical. If that was the case, there would be a difference in price for any place that gives a senior discount. One of the most frustrating things is hotels in the Phil. One time I paid for early check-in, only to arrive on time and they said "room is not ready". Fast forward 2 hours later, room is available and I asked for refund for the early check-in fee. They refused and even after calling the manager. At a different hotel in a different province, checking out the hotel room and was told 1500 pesos per night. Room looked good and ready to check-in. Then they said 1700 pesos per night. My Filipina said no, you said it was 1500 pesos. They denied it and said "no, we are 1700 pesos per night".
You dont get 10 percent discount in any part of the world only in the philippines so dont complain... if your complaining dont come to philippines stay where you are and enjoy winter
@@Fritz71 What a stupid thing to say. I guess you are a Filipino.
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The staff are not trained very well. Particularly frustrating when the management are also clueless. They only think of their immediate gain - other places would have said you can have the 1750 Queen room the following day for 1500. So they lost a customer. I transferred to a much nicer establishment who were happy to see me AND give a 20% Senior discount without question.
Your interaction with the hotel clerk reminded me of those old Consumer Reporter segments on the nightly local news.
"Why are you advertising a 20% discount and then switching to a 10% discount when I turn up?" "This is Phil Bigg, BWC News, reporting..."
There clearly is no truth in advertising in the Philippines. I'm just glad you didn't call her lazy. 🙂
That was a funny interchange about the discount. Hi Phillip, it’s Kimon from So Cal.
Hey Kimon. Yeah, it was a long drawn out process which I included to show how clueless these places are. Hope yr good!
@@BiggWorldCinemaso why are you there then? And by the way this can happen in the uk as well...so why single out the philippines? These are minor inconveniences given the benefits of living there.
sorry sir, we realized you are a foreigner, no discount for you
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I also just rode a ferry to Negros Island but on the other side, San Carlos. Going to Dumaguete tomorrow. Have fun Philip!
is there a special id card for seniors or do you just show your drivers license. and where do you get your senior id.
I just show my ACR card which has my date of birth on it. As long as they can work out from it that I'm over 60.
I think manila is polluted and crazy traffic maybe living an hour or 2 away would be ok
Hello Frenchie! Lookin good as usual.
No way , nice people there
Do they have flights from Cebu to Bacolod and Iloilo? This ferry trip didn't look too bad. That Boracay one looked pretty annoying with all those lines and confusion. I would definitely pay for the expedited service if I ever do that one.
Hello Sir, when you swim do you have a style of swimming or freestyle for exercise?
I've been traveling the Philippines for 6 weeks... 20 destinations and counting looking for a place to live within 30 minutes of a beach... I value your opinion, any suggestions?
Semi-province... A little civilization would be great 🤷♂️
Hello 👋
Poor girl at the hotel is thinking I get paid 3 dollars an hour to listen to this foreigner argue over a dollar
Actually, she is probably thinking how lucky she is to have that job and sit in an aircon room all day. A lot of people would love to have that kind of job in the PI.
Probably more like $1/hour
it's not a ton of money, but they clearly don't know what they are doing in terms of policies and procedures. tells him on phone he can have a discount, arrives there and isn't given one, when he is it's less than what he was told and has to add it up for them, etc.
@@JohnnyLawrence293 It's not about the amount. That kind of stuff just gets annoying after awhile.
@@samiam8114oh dear, so annoying...just chill man and enjoy your life and how bloody fortunate you are...moaning about nowt
What is the typical cutoff for the senior discount? I have heard it discussed a few times on your channel
You need to be 60.
The reasons are:
1. nobody is taking care of any content in Internet
2. every ferry is „maybe“ going
3. Filipinos haben gaaanz viel Zeit zum hingehen und dann einfach warten
4. it’s more fun or headache in the Philippines 🤣
Senior discount in the Philippines is only for filipinos. The lady wasnt aware of that. You should have not complained. Lol
Wrong. Are you a Senior? Have you visited the Philippines? Foreigners are not "entitled" to a Senior discount, but many, many places will give a Senior discount regardless if you're a filipino or foreigner. But what do I know?
I live in the Philippines
and i have the senior citizen card so i get the discount.
Im afraid your just on a tourist visa so not officially entitled to it just if they want to give you..
If a Filipino went to England on a tourist visa they don't get any benefit like cheap travel etc
Why don't u have a girlfriend
Because he has a brain.
@@derekwatson7037 Because hes hard work
He could have one, if he wanted one.
Cuz he hasn’t found the right one.
He's definetly hard work lol
Walk dude don't let them scam you , on your seniors discount
How old you have to be to get a senior discount in philipines
60
Is that standard class or buisness