Help - Stuck in Philipines anyone have any ideas how we can get home?

[fred]

you can stay at mabuhay manor in Pasay around 3k pere night and has average size pool. Only 20 mins to aiirport and across Roxas Blvd from Mall of Asia, just google it. Very clean and respectable.

Or for another tenner you can stay in the Heritage which is also across from mall of Asia..(Book on-line though via discount site)
Theres a resort in Imus that from memory has a nice pool..Around 2,500 P ,per night.

[scott&ligaya]

thanks Fred, long time since I used the Heritage, (was over 6k) just checked with Agoda and you can get deluxe room for £55 or 3750 pesos. The Manor iis okay biut the Heritage is far superior hotel especially since the room refurbishments. We will start using the Heritage again. By the way do you remember me talking to you here about paying youu to fly over to Palawan to have a thorough look over our house before we decide to renovate it or flatten it and start over? My wife and babies are going to stop there for several months from mid may so if you have time I would value your opinion on our place as I have been merrily ripped of and misled by various local tradesmen.

Scott

[fred]

Scott...PM sent.

[scott&ligaya]

At last my flight back to Birmingham leaves tonight. I have not had a crap time in my enforced stay in Hong Kong having lived there before (met my honey there and had our 1st baby) but I have been away over a month now with our three week vacation in the Phils and I want a decent full English and a proper dark ale

Ligaya and the little ones are stopping on for several months whilst we hire a nanny to bring to the UK so I need to survive without Thai, Malay, Chinese and some Pinoy food and of course my moving blanket!!!!! Oh well there is always those websites that keith and Joe were telling me aboiut

[joebloggs]

Ligaya and the little ones are stopping on for several months whilst we hire a nanny to bring to the UK

you need to have employed the nanny for at least one year with evidence before you can apply for a visa for her.

[scott&ligaya]

here that Joe, we have already hired, paying SSS and got proper contract and set up her bank account for 1st wages. We have friends who applied at 9and even 8 months and been successful so we will try around christmas and hopefully they fly back in late Jan. We have good medical support from her specialist and GP here for the home office side in the UK stating she has a "for life" condition that when it flares up she is unable to care for the children due to very painful joints (she has dermatomyasis(wrong spelling I think). if it takes a a year or more so be it we need to have someone in the house she trusts. We tried European aupair but they did not get on.

We will see what happens and thanks for the reminder Joe