Read my report from last year. In a nutshell: (1) the PI (outside AC) is a place to take your time, and (2) the authorities in Cebu seem to be actively cleaning up Cebu's reputation by discouraging P4P.
A gratifying dose of Schadenfreude:
There was a pathetic obnoxious hooker, old enough to be a grandmother, who in spite of my rebuffs kept accosting me in the SM City mall one day. On one of her fly-by's she said "short time" over her shoulder. (I don't recall ever hearing this term in the PI before.) On several occasions I froze in my tracks when I noticed her maneuvering ahead to intercept me. I had never seen a hooker brazenly hawking herself like this in a family-type mall before.
The next day I was back in that same mall buying school supplies and phones with some beautiful kids that I am sponsoring, and their mom. I was about ten paces ahead of my troop because they kept getting distracted by all the fancy stuff surrounding them. Then I noticed the hag ahead with her wry smile. Once again, she was preparing to intercept my path to make her unwelcome sales pitch for the umpteenth time. I stopped and let my "family" catch up to me, picking up the smallest one to carry.
What happened next resembled the scene toward the end of The Wizard of Oz when the wicked witch gets doused by a bucket of water: "I'm melting, I'm melting..." I loved it.
Never saw her again. 
This is someone else from another mall:
Photo: Mall Hooker
Mango Square: there was nothing there that I would touch.
Pattaya: Skank Video
Wanted to respond to BigPoppa's comment on Blazers' recent report but didn't want to start "going around the bend" on Blazers' dime. Yeah, Pattaya ain't what it used to be, no question about it. Ironically, I come down here from Bangkok less frequently than I used to come from the U.S.A. There aren't nearly as many girls, especially young stunners. (The Thai economy is improving in spite of the Thais' blunders, probably due to Abhisit Vejjajiva's stint as PM a few years back. There are more opportunities for young Thais now, so fewer go into prostitution.)
My favorite restaurant in Pattaya is still Hopf, corner of Soi 13/1 (not Soi 13!) and Beach Road 1. If only they were open for lunch! They don't open until 2 p.m. and they don't take reservations except on New Year's Eve. (It's a bit dressy. Don't come in looking like shit.) Excellent Eye-talian food for farang and Thai food for your date. They brew their own beer on the premises!
I love the spaghetti carbonara and seafood pizza. And their tiramisu is the best I've had.
Air Travel:
Philippine Airlines (PAL) might a good carrier if you want to get over here from California in one hop. (LAX to MNL is about fourteen hours.) I couldn't stand economy class on such a long flight. Niceties: (1) They sell emergency exit row seats for an extra $50 to $80, which I would consider well worth it if I had to come across the Pacific. (2) I've made tight connections at MNL and my checked bag made it every time. PAL is getting expensive, though not as bad as Thai.
You get what you pay for; it depends on what matters to you. Booking months in advance (for those who can) seems to get the biggest discounts.
The really cheap flights on Kayak.com often have long layovers, sometimes with different carriers --forget that. (What if your checked luggage gets lost? The two airlines will be pointing fingers at each other while you get madder by the minute.)
I was booking my flight back to BKK on PAL's pretty decent web site, planning to buy the emergency exit row seat at the airport, when I noticed that the business class seat cost less than TWO-HUNDRED PESOS more!? (It said "business class promo.") The no-brainer of the century. But could it be true or was it a mistake?
At the airport they gave me my boarding passes with single-digit seat numbers. Could it be true?
Yea verily, I rode business class all the way home! The food was excellent, as was the service. The business class section was mostly empty, just me and about a dozen others, half of whom were uniformed PAL employees. There just aren't a lot of people flying those routes, I guess.
The "Vitamin C Revolver:"
The Vitamin C "revolver" (pictured here) is fantastic. It's fifteen 5 mg. tablets on a card --easy to carry in a pocket, and you can adjust your dosage. (For you big guys, taking three of these is the only way to get a 15 mg. dose because it doesn't come in that dosage.) And it's free. It's a sample card. Ask your urologist.
Web Sites:
Booking.com: FUCK booking.com!! NEVER use it unless you have to! (I only know of one hotel in Pattaya that reserves rooms exclusively via that site.) I got into the wont of using them and thought it was great, but I decided to leave one hotel a couple days early and had to pay for those two nights anyway. The pisser is that I could have reserved directly with the hotel via their web site (or with a phone call) and left early for free. Booking.com just displayed: "This booking cannot be canceled or changed because it begins in the past."
DateInAsia.com has once again proven to be a bust, a complete waste of time. The pictures are sometimes fakes. One can meet girls that look at least that good at the malls anyway, and find out right then and there whether they're prospects or not. Plus the cocksuckers disable your account and ban innocuous photos without citing any reason.
ClubHombre.com: Last one out turn out the lights? I'd hate to see our quaint little site go, but ironically the low traffic is the only thing keeping our collective ass under the radar right now. Sniffers and other hacking tools have been rampant on the Internet for two decades, but what's going on now cyber-wise is just unbelievable. These are positively shark-infested waters, guys, and we're STILL LOGGING IN WITH PLAINTEXT (unencrypted) CREDENTIALS?!?! Jeepers! That's like a thirteen year-old girl walking around nude inside San Quentin!
