I have booked a vacation to the Phils after Christmas for a couple of weeks & am hoping to meet someone over there when I go - already opened my accounts with a couple of dating agencies. The plan is to stay a few days in Cebu , travel south to Dumaguete ( where an ex-pat Brit who I knew from many years ago now lives ) and end up with a weeks vacation in Bohol.

My main question is with regard to the weather & get some feedback from Brits who have travelled there. Like most of us , my main experience of the heat is a fortnights holiday in the Med but from what I can read , the heat & humidity is of a completely different scale over there. It is very difficult to translate raw figures of temperature & humidity into what it is like in reality , especially when it is so cold here ( I scraped ice off my car this morning! )

Albeit I will be staying in aircon accommodation , just how hot & humid does it feel? How pervasive are the mosquitos? Did you find it completely hellish or is it manageable ( for a reasonably fit, adaptable mid 40's guy like me )?