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If you have not gone to the spice restaurant in Valencia I highly recommend it, they serve up some very good indian, thai, and western cuisine. And if you ever heard the expression it is so clean you can eat of the floor then this is the place.

 

Actually that is one lesson every foreigner here should learn ASAP that it is the Foreigners who will take you for all they can get including your life savings if you are not careful. The average Filipino is usually only looking to make a couple of extra piso at a silly long nose expense. I can live with that as I usually give a wink and smirk and play the game no problem. But, the foreign con men/women are a different story altogether. They will pretend to be your friend and when your guard is down will try to clean you out. Don't think just because they speak your native language and look like you they can be trusted. Trust must be earned. I have seen many foreigners really hurt by other foreign con men/women here. Be alert and use better judgement please!

 

I had to travel to Spain in November because of a family urgent issue. I had to obtain the health permission and more paperwork done just to travel to Manila first, then in Manila my PCR came positive (totally fake) so they transfer me to a hotel (Prince Manila, not too bad and free) to stay isolated inside the room for 10 nights with a new PCR (negative) done 4 days before the last night, and then I could go to the depressingly empty airport to take a plane with face shield all the time required (Qatar, Emirates only mask)
The most stressful event were during immigration clearance to leave the country because I didn't got an ECC as usual: the lady in immigration told me that if your stay was less than 12 months it could be done at the airport BUT the officer in the airport told me that it is not exactly true, it is a "privilege" that only the officer in chief can grant, but in the end I could pay the ECC directly there and fly...

Once in Madrid I prepared my trip back around the end of December but had to present a lot of papers to get a visa (as a parent of a filipino minor, not married): birth certificate of my daughter, barangay document stating that my daughter was actually there, and the usual photocopies of flight tickets, hotels, etc... My visa came on December 30 when the restrictions were tightened so I had to change my tickets to February 1 but suddenly my Emirates flight got cancelled because it was exceeding the maximum port of entry capacity, and the first flight available was on February 22 to Clark (first available to Manila was March 1) which I took.

At check in there was no need to present a PCR test (now it is very easy to get fake ones) so they prepare a big space in the gates after leaving the plane to fill more forms and pay for a PCR that is to be done after the 5th day in a approved hotel.

Then the IATF 101 came on Febrary 26 saying that travelling through PH should not be restricted with quarantines or PCR tests, so I didn't contact the Dumaguete DoT that was before a requirement (with quarantine hotel stay of course) So when I tried to flight I was rejected because I was not in the travel authorised list... I was told that Dumaguete Dot (or DoH..) needed time to implement the new rules (how stupid of me to not ask...) so I had to send another batch of paperwork to Dumaguete including an already expired PCR test... so in the end 2 days later after making sure I was not required to do another quarantine I could fly...

Arriving to Dumaguete we had all our bags sprayed with some kind of stuff (that is not new here in PH), fill some more forms (of course!) and off I go!

 

If anyone enters another person's property without authority, it is very likely they intend to cause harm. The occupier has every right, IMO, to take effective preventative action and not wait to see what occurs (when it might be too late).

Allow me a shotgun and I would paint my walls with anyone who tried to act against my home, without clarifying first if it only my money or if it is my life they seek.

 

A horrid response to this question has diverted what might be an interesting discussion. The rebuttal BobBski offered seems great to me. But the question might be usefully answered by asking "What do I as an expat like about Dumaguete?" Very briefly after having visited a few times and stayed to study and send kids to school there, let me say: Great quiet little town, peaceful as one can expect. A university ambiance, maybe not the best, but pretty good schools. Silliman has a decent library. Waterfront area is great fun, attractive, clean, good food and drinks at bargain prices. The Filipinos and expats are friendly and gentle for the most part, and the occasional bigoted drunk makes the rest of us look good by comparison. So even they have their uses. I especially like the accessibility of airflights and passenger ships. And yes, there are lots of attractive college women, thanks for that. But they are hardly flinging themselves at fat old foreigners, as I, being one, can attest.

 

Just saw this on travel to Cebu for vaccinated.