Top Local Tips for Angeles

Use your common sense When traveling anywhere here in the Philippines, it is not good to show large amounts of any currency. $500.00 US Dollars is a large amount. This is a poor country and they have poor people that try to survive anyway they can. But this also can be a nice place to be if you learn the rules. The reason I wrote the review was to tell you not to take anything for granted. Make sure of your travel plans in advance. Use your room safe. Leave your credit cards in the safe when u go out for the day or evening. Ask the hotel about your options for local travel.

Take the Tricycles Jeepneys are cheap but are subjects to gangs of pickpockets who will cut your pocket with a razor and steal anything they can. Trike are more expensive but generally a safe mode of transport. For $A2 you can get around the tourist area of Angeles