Am I being scammed?

[englishbird]

I just think that most Filipinos male or female couldn't afford to eat in the sort of places or stay in the kind of hotels that most westerners would expect to. They would usually travel by jeepney or motorella where as we would usually take a cab. I think he just wants to give you the kind of holiday he thinks you'll expect and unfortunately, he doesn't have the money to do that.

Most of us guys paid for everything when we went there to meet our girlfriends and that usually included treating the whole family to meals out etc, so I think you ought expect to do the same. I know that it's traditional for the guy to pay, but when the woman comes from a western country and the man comes from a very poor country like Phils then I think that you must expect to do things differently.
Iain.

I will be flying out to Manila in Nov to see my BF and I am expecting to pay for everything. I know he will probably feel awkward but there is no way he can afford to pay for me, when he is on his 3 month break from the cruise ship he earns nothing for that time that he is home.

He keeps telling me to book a cheap hotel, but I don't stay in cheap hotels anywhere, so definately not in Manila.