AboutBill and Lorna Collings Expertise Feel FREE to ask us about traveling, living, relocating, retiring and investing in the Philippines. Guests from 83 countries make our place in Manila an incredible meeting place for world travelers who exchange travel stories and information. We understand both the joys and the hardships of living and traveling in the Philippines.
Experience I arrived in the Philippines in January 1980 to travel for 2 months; I stayed 4 months before reluctantly leaving. I met my Filipina wife, Lorna. an incredible stellar, "one in a million" individual in 1983 in Seoul and we moved to the Philippines in 1986 and opened our 3BR house to world travelers on a budget. After welcoming thousands of guests from 83 nations our place has grown to 30 bedrooms but will never lose its "Home away from Home" atmosphere. Almost everyday at The Townhouse Hotel there's a party-like social scene with vibrant, almost magical energetic conversations between our guests who have the pleasure to meet each other and share their life's many experiences. Sometimes. three groups with conversations in different langauges are going on at the same time.
So we've been exposed to every kind of person from all over the world and shared their experiences.
Publications Suite101.com, eDreams.com, expertcentral.com ( who asked me to apply with allexperts.com since About.com has bought both companies and are in the process of integrating them)
Education/Credentials some college 2-1/2 years - no degree - I've been traveling since I was 18, almost 30 years.
Awards and Honors Luckily, my wife and I have been semi-retired since we were 30 years old, more than 15 years.
Question My friend and I would be going to Philippines from 3 June to 24 June (apparently that's considered 22 days).
My friend holds a passport that only has 7 days visa free stay, but mine has 21 days. The other answers you have given to other people suggest applying for a visa waiver, but I'm not sure what to do as we're not staying in Manila. We'll be going to Tacloban. So should I get a visa? Would it be cheaper to pay the overstay fine?
By the way, could you suggest any 'must-see's or 'must-do's in Tacloban. Thanks a lot!
Answer Yes you both will need to extend unless you can change your flight to leave one day earlier or leave one day later. Looks like there's a Philippine Immigration Office in Tacloban Leyte; here's a LINK with god photos; http://www.batch2006.com/visit_tacloban.htm
Tacloban the Bureau of Immigration at Justice Romualdez St. & Real St.
Here's another link:http://immigration.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=128&Itemid=73
EASTERN VISAYAS
Bureau of Immigration Tacloban District Office
City Engr. Compound , Justice Romualdez St.
Tacloban City 6500
Dennis Mengote - Alien Control Officer
Tel. # (053) 325-6004
Bureau of Immigration Calbayog Field Office
Cinemar Traders, JV Avelino St.,
Calbayog City
Rosario Sabarre Infante - Alien Control Officer
Tel. # (055) 209-3310
Bureau of Immigration Catbalogan Field Office
#655 San Roque St. Catbalogan, Samar
Pablo Tarrius Cinco - Alien Control Officer
Tel. # (055) 251-6470
Bureau of Immigration Maasin Field Office
Maasin City, Southern Leyte
Rene Uyvico Geonzon - Alien Control Officer
Tel. # (053) 381-4136
