• Pampanga Culinary Tour

    Our first stop was, oddly enough, Starbucks for our daily dose of caffeine. It was followed by a very American lunch of hamburgers and steaks, and a quick duty-free shopping at Subic. But despite the rather slow start and the quest to find the original Razon’s branch (which happened to be closed), the dinner made…

  • Jetstar: Connecting Asia and Australia

    So I was skulking around Jetstar’s website again and discovered two things: The introduction of the StarClass for International flights on the A330; and Starting November 23, 2006, they will start flying from Melbourne and Sydney to Bangkok, Phuket (November 24), Vietnam (November 30), Denpasar (December 8) and Osaka (March 25, 2007) This is probably…

  • The C Channel Network

    THE C CHANNEL NETWORK The C Channel is building a multi-interest website that brings together 3 distinct sites – Travel, Shopping and Weddings. Each one features articles, destination profiles, vendor profiles and a whole load of new tools to attract a global audience. This includes the still young Travel Forum, and the Wedding Agenda, a…

  • The Oasis is now open for booking

    [UPDATE 11 October 2012: Oasis has stopped operations in 9 April 2008] Oasis Air, the Hong Kong based long-haul low-cost carrier is now accepting bookings for its first flight to London-Gatwick on October 25. Round trip economy fares starts at HK$3,643 (Php25,501), while business class fares starts at HK$15,163 (Php 106,141). 25K for a roundtrip…

  • A different kind of review…

    Travelling to Penang, Malaysia anytime soon? I found this blog entry by a Penang resident, who lists her Top 5 Hotel Restrooms.

  • Shambara Guesthouse

    When I was still on the planning stage of my trip, I discovered Shambara Guesthouse. It looks great in the pictures, and every site I came upon have rave reviews for Shambara, from travellers who have stayed there before. I wanted to stay in Khao San Road, and Shambara’s the best guesthouse in the area…

  • Budget Travel Magazine

    I’ve seen this magazine at Borders in Singapore, but I was unable to go back to buy it (because I’ve used up all my money shopping). I scoured the magazine shops in Manila, but I don’t think I ever saw this locally (or if I had, I must have been broke when I came across…

  • I’m on TV!

    Well, no. 😛 I went to ClickTheCity.com to look for movies showing currently, when an article about Manila walking tours caught my eye. Having joined one recently, and interested in joining another, I clicked on the link to read the full article. It featured two guides: Carlos Celdran and Ivan ManDy. The article started of…

  • Business class on a low budget airline?

    [UPDATE 11 October 2012: Oasis has stopped operations in 9 April 2008] This October 2006, there will be a new no-frills airline flying the sky: Oasis Air. Based in Hong Kong, their edge among the other low cost carriers in Asia is that they offering long-haul inter-continental flights.

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