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Well, it saddens me to have to say this but...

FUCK the Firehouse!

I have always had a bit of a soft spot for the place - even though I am NOT a regular customer...

The Firehouse goes back in Manila, almost as long as I do! (And that is saying something...)

Although I was never able to visit the original Firehouse in Del Pilar Street, Ermita, Manila, (on the corner of Santa Monica,) I often hear storeys about the place from my fellow shipmates. (The company that I work for used to have a cable repair ship, called c.s. "Cable Enterprise," based in Manila...)

After the Firehouse moved to the EDSA Entertainment Complex in Pasay, the old building in Del Pilar Street became the Hotel La Roma - with the bar downstairs becoming the Trattoria la Vechia Italian Restaurant. I stayed in La Roma Hotel on many occasians... every time my crazy Filipina bar girl wife kicked me out of the house that I had paid for with my own hard-earned cash. (Another storey, tha one...)

After Hotel La Roma went bankrupt and I moved home, (permanently, by then,) to Hotel la Corona, the place laid derelict for a couple of years, untill it became what is now the Amazonia Hotel and Bar

Amazonia, I can highly recommend.

Firehouse? I'm afraid I can not!

I was there, on the piss from 7pm to about 3:30am the other week. I bought a shed-load of ladies drinks, had a whale of a time - and spent a good slice of my monthly salary in one night. Fair enough, nobody forced me to pay over 300 pesos for a "ladies drink" and, to be fair, some of the totty was top class. And never mind the fact that the one I really liked preferred Japanese and Korean men.

It's a free world, right!?!!

But what really pissed me off is when I went back for a revisit earlier on tonight, I was refused entry because, as usual - and as per last time - I had a compact camera on my belt. Well, some stupid fucking guard with an AK 47 (or whatever!) explained to me that picture taking was not allowed, I explained to him, very politely, that I was aware of the house rules and I had no intention of using said BUWISIT camera. I was told to hand in my camera - or FUCK OFF (basically.) So I decided to FUCK OFF!

No way was I going to submit to interrogation by armed guards and have the law layed down to me over a stupid camera - just for the PRIVIELAGE of being ALLOWED entry into the holly ground of the EDSA International Entertainment Complex. And what REALLY PISSES me off sometimes with this country is that you get these assholes ALL THE TIME. I mean, a cellphone with a camera. No problem! But an actual CAMERA camera! Wow! What a big fucking deal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I took a short bus ride (23 pesos, or about 50 cents, US) and, half an hour later, I was drinking San Miguel Beer in the good old Diamond Dust on the Aguinaldo Hi-way, just South of Imus Cavite. It's a bit of a dump but the beer is cheap and the girls are VERY friendly!

Stuff the Firehouse!

Next time I want to waste some of my precious time and money on some top class Filipina totty, I am off to Air force One in Paranaque.

Never been there yet but I'll let you know what I think of the place after I have managed to pay them a visit!

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 wacky, on Aug 2 2008, 02:12 PM, said:

I guess i also have to say this...nobody knows anything about what they say in one place or to another... they often misunderstood what really is the big deal in one business! Yeah, that's what i mean... coz it's just business as usual. If you don't want to spend a lot of money,,, go somewhere else that is much cheaper (as they say), but is it worth it? Or are you gonna be really satisfied??? I mean what do you expect in a place like Firehouse... drinking a beer with complete entertainment,,, aircon, girls dancing, and take note all the audio/video equipments that really costs a lot of money compared to other places or bars. The music is also good coz if you will stay long,,, you will notice that video jocks there plays different kind of music in each set... depends upon request also which some times often misunderstood by others. Say it,,, but a bar will always be a bar... having fun is good but i hate say it... EXPENSIVE! So next time,,, don't go on a place that you cannot afford! LOL!

Point taken! Yeah... I must admit, when I wrote that stuff, I was probably being a bit unfair... But my main gripe, (whinging Pom that I am!), was the business over the camera and the way that they handled it. I suppose the place is pretty popular and they can afford to turn punters away?

Anyway... Thinking about it, The Firehouse in the EDSA Entertaiment Complex in Pasay City, Metro Manila is not a bad place really. And I've got no intention of taking any pictures without permission but, just to keep them happy, I'll have to leave my camera at home next time I go there.

I still need to check-out that Airforce One place though. It sounds like a bit of a great night out!

Oh... And, of course, there are still the Classmates and Pegasus bars in Quezon City, that need my perusal...!!

Anyone heard what happened to the Embassy Club at the Fort, (Fort Bonifacio)? Last I heard, the bar had been closed down because of some kind of trouble or other? Mind you, if you are talking about expensive, I believe that place really takes the biscuit?!!

'Better stick to the Red Garter and Amazonia Bars in Ermita. Nice girls, good aircon, very cold beer - and only about 120 or 130 pesos for a ladies drink in Red Garter. The girls in Amazonia, (and LA Cafe) are all freelancers.
You only need to give them about 100 pesos for a massage at the bar - and maybe 1000 for a "short time"!

Cheers!

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I recently had to entertain a friend whom I hadn't seen for a couple of years.

So, after some decent British grub at the Duck Inn in M.H. del Pilar Street in Ermita, Manila, we headed-out for Airforce one in Pasay. (It's on the road to Sucat, near a big Macdonalds, if I remember correctly?)

Airforce One is a bit expensive. The girls are all stunningly sexy and good-looking. But if you want to chat with them, you pay along the Japanese lines with a so-called 'time system.'
3,000 pesos will get you a very attractive girl and a very comfortable VIP room with karaoke for an hour. There's also a certain amount of free drinks included in the price. However, if you just want to sit at the bar and watch the sexy dancing, there is a minimum cover charge of 500 pesos, ("consumable,") which is enough for about three San Miguel Pale Pilsens. My friend wasn't over impressed with the place - he prefers something a bit more down-to-earth but I find it very civilized, comfortable and classy. In short, a great place to start the evening off and watch some first-class Filipina totty strutting their stuff on stage!

As my friend wanted something a bit more raunchy, with affordable bar-fines; we ended up at the Firehouse in the EDSA entertainment complex. (EDSA, North side, opposite the Heritage Hotel, up near the Roxas Blvd. fly-over.)

I'd deliberately left my camera at home this time, so we had no problems getting in.
The place was bopping. The reasonably priced beer and ladies drinks were flowing and the girls were great! I would have bar-fined one myself except that I knew I'd get some really strange looks from my friend over my personal choice of a very skinny, flat-chested young lady. (Well, each to their own... I'll have to go back their alone sometime!!)

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Where to find hot horny sexy young girls in the Philippines...

The Firehouse is good - but Space girl, as I discovered yesterday is better!!

Also in the EDSA Entertainment Complex in Pasay - Manila right next door to the Firehouse, (I believe it is owned by the same people?)

One of my friends there has promised me some pictures... Watch this space!