 Voodoo [Photo by Dave F] |
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alibago
is home to Field Avenue, a go-go bar strip sometimes referred to as the
tourist area (Bar Hopping Map). This area has somehow survived the closing of Clark Air Base
and remains an R&R (rest and recreation) style of vacation retreat for
unaccompanied men who enjoy exciting nightlife!
Voodoo
[Photo by Dave F]
It's all here: alcohol and sexy, young women. There are over 100 bars full of attractive and readily available women eager to show you a good time. Balibago is a nonstop, drunken revel seven days a week, everyday of the year. Recreational sex is the sport of choice. You can enjoy full privileges with one or more attractive young females regardless of your age, weight, physical appearance, interpersonal skills, wealth or social class. Go-go bars start to open at noon and a few keep the music pumping until 5:00 AM. Some small hostess bars are open 24 hours. Prices in Balibago are extremely low, which means you can carouse in full throttle without wiping out your life savings. English is widely spoken. You don't have to learn a single word of the native language.
Las Vegas [Photo
by JC]
Top go-go bars in Balibago which have their own web site include Champagne Group (Champagne, Lancelot, Brown Sugar, Camelot), Roadhouse, Insomnia and Flamingo. Bar locations can be found on online maps [Map 1] [Map 2] and on the UTP Angeles City map available for sale at various retail outlets throughout town.
For more bar info, see AngelesCity.com . For an interactive forum, go to the Ac2 Message Board. Buying a drink for a girl you find attractive is a good way to break the ice. A man who doesn't buy drinks for any of the girls while he's bar hopping is called a Cheap Charlie. Generally, eight drinks will buyout a dancer or waitress from her shift and she will leave the bar with you. The politically correct term for this is early work release or simply EWR. It's most often called a bar fine. The bars are able to release employees before the end of their shift; however, the law prohibits bars from controlling or directing the conduct of its ladies once they're out the door. You pay to get the girl out of her shift. Nothing else. Some girls will go out to eat with you, some will go bar hopping, some will spend the night, some will fly home with you. Discuss it with the girl of your choice over a drink.
If you're a big spender and want to see a lot of smiling faces, each bar has a bell you can ring to buy drinks for all the dancers and other staff. Depending on the number of employees, friends and relatives of the mamasan, this can end up costing you over $100. Spend a little money, make some new friends.
As you explore the tourist area, you might make a turn down A. Santos Street. Here you will find old-style bars of the non-go-go variety. This is called Blow Row. These rundown, small bars each have a dozen girls at the most. They are open around the clock and the girls will try to get you to go into one of the rooms in the back! The transvestite population has mostly disappeared. There aren't any gay boy go-go bars like you'd find in Thailand. And, the go-go bars only employ genuine females so if you're looking for lady boys or gay nightlife you're in the wrong place. Gamblers will like Casino Filipino.
In addition to having dozens of go-go bars, Balibago has many restaurants. These are useful since man cannot live on alcohol and sex alone. On the western edge of Field Avenue near the money changers is the 24-hour Margarita Station, with plenty of smiling waitresses. If you like spicy food order the salpicao. At the corner of Field Avenue and A. Santos Street is Kokomo's. Among other things this 24-hour restaurant has an ATM machine, a go-go bar and a hotel.
Try taking one or two of your new loves to Krung Thai Restaurant located across from DMZ bar. At Field Avenue and A. Santos Street is Ristorante Verona located atop Lancelot Bar. Above Roadhouse and Private Dancer is Salvatore's which serves pizza, pasta and imported New Zealand mussels. The dining room provides a quick escape from the noise and hustle of Field Avenue. A casual restaurant that's open late, Chic'n Ribs has the best pork ribs in town. It's located on lower Field Avenue between Blue Nile and MacArthur Highway. American-style submarine sandwiches are available on Field Avenue at Sub Delicious. On MacArthur Highway there's Fortune Hong Kong Seafood Restaurant for Chinese food, and Ribeye Restaurant for steak and lobster tail. Out near the America Hotel you'll find the Edelweiss Bar & Restaurant. If you want good, inexpensive food and don't mind walking a bit, another spot to try is RUMPA.
Bananitas [Photo
by Jack Axe]
Though Angeles City doesn't have a beach, it has lots of daytime activities other than bar hopping at the daytime bars. These include shopping at the SM Mall, exploring Pinatubo and the lahar fields in Porac, motorcycle riding (rent at Nice Bike), shopping at the markets for local crafts at bargain prices, and taking a guided tour of Clark / Angeles (call 322-0507 or 322-4484).
For nightlife coupled with beach resort activities, head out to Puerto Galera. Other popular excursions are LaUnion and Baguio.
If you're in Metro Manila and don't want to fight the traffic out to Angeles City, there are quite a few bars at the EDSA Complex in Pasay City and on P. Burgos Street in Makati. Generally, these bars are more upscale and have more dancers. Prices are higher than in Angeles. For more information, go to the AngelesCity.com Manila page.
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