Originally posted by admin@Jul 6 2005, 10:08 AM
The good samaritan happens once so the press makes a big thing of it. I returned a handbag with credit cards in last year to a womans house, I never got in the papers.

Bribery & fraud is a crime in the Philippines yet it goes on everywhere, especially if your a Westerner. It starts as soons as you get off the plane, to when you leave. The airport charges you an illegal tax, but unless you pay, you can't leave the country. This is forum experience, not just mine.

If it's so safe why do Westerners live in walled castles with guards, and not with the general population? I wonder
Airport departure tax is not illegal..

check your ticket next time you fly from a british airport... you will find that if you fly yp the far east you will be charged £85 departure tax...

or what tax are you saying is illegal?