submitted on16 Jul 2008
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up votes224
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mnic001 12 points 2 days ago[-]

all that effort and they write a single paragraph? lame...

mnemonik -1 points 2 days ago[-]

FOR REAL

uspn 6 points 2 days ago[-]

I don't want to sound like a grumpy, old backpacker, but I HAVE traveled independently through 60+ countries during the last 10 years or so, and this kind of room standard is pretty usual to encounter. Actually, I've seen worse, but those places were too small and/or too dark to be photographed.

And frankly, if you're surprised by getting something like that for 2 dollars, I think you should lower your expectations a bit, or save up so that you can go up a notch or two in accommodation classes.

Deacon 15 points 2 days ago[-]

How'd they find my first dorm room and move it to the Philippines?

fishbicycle 37 points 2 days ago[-]

Going around the world looking for the cheapest hotel rooms seems like a good way to end up dead.

clipmann 3 points 2 days ago[-]

Yeahh, i saw syphilis running in the background.

Actius 3 points 1 day ago[-]

So you pay to stay in prison?

automatedresponse 48 points 2 days ago[-]

like you need a big room to fuck underage hookers?

automation 9 points 2 days ago[-]

Why don't you take a seat over there..

Bakrain 5 points 2 days ago[-]

What are you doing here?

Suplyndmnd 12 points 2 days ago[-]

I was just here to tell her this was a bad idea.

ghettopia 21 points 2 days ago[-]

Not bad; that would cost you at least $4 a night in Boston.

stonedonkey 12 points 2 days ago[-]

But for that extra $2, you get diseased rats to chew on your face while you sleep.

asymptotic 7 points 2 days ago[-]

You have to go to Room 101 for that, Comrade.

samseed101 10 points 2 days ago[-]

You should see what $1.83 gets you in Bratislava!

mnic001 1 point 2 days ago[-]

good movie, surprisingly

rancmeat 6 points 2 days ago[-]

But is he man enough to try out the glory-hole after the lights are out?

brownstone 17 points 2 days ago* [-]

Not a bad deal for $2 - it even comes with a toilet in the room for no extra charge.

I've paid far more than $2 to sleep on the floor, in a hostel, in a room full of strangers, with the closest toilet 50 yards away.

pingwax 5 points 2 days ago[-]

If you are happy with this, you should read their story on the room in china for $2/night. http://www.wackyarchives.com/offbeat/the-cheapest-hotel-room.html

representation3 2 points 2 days ago[-]

Not a bad deal for $2 - it even comes with a toilet in the room for no extra charge.

In America, this is called a maximum security prison.

pavel_lishin 1 point 2 days ago[-]

Yeah, but they stick you with a roomie.

monocasa 11 points 2 days ago[-]

Who subsequently sticks you.

sheeprevolution 0 points 1 day ago[-]

With a shiv on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, his penis on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and both on Sundays- a special treat to be sure.

mexicodoug -1 points 1 day ago* [-]

Cush, but there's no glory hole behind the toilet in the jail, and that's a serious flaw.

HerbertMcSherbert 1 point 1 day ago[-]

It can also buy you a Martini in a bar, four bottles of beer, a 750ml bottle of spirits, or quite a few other things.

Plenty of better things to do with $2 here than spend it on a police cell like that.

moogle516 6 points 2 days ago[-]

I thought this was gonna be about cheap Philippinio whores

ketchuponmyketchup 8 points 2 days ago[-]

It's Filipino.

hongnanhai 6 points 2 days ago[-]

or, for the rest of you straight people, Filipina

911was_an_inside_job -1 points 2 days ago[-]

Pinay

agentace 1 point 1 day ago[-]

Punay

Jim_in_Buffalo 6 points 2 days ago[-]

How much extra is it to have the bellhop wake you up in the morning by dumping a load of rotting fish all over you?

pavel_lishin 2 points 2 days ago[-]

I think it's extra for that NOT to happen.

ZaaK433 5 points 2 days ago[-]

Linens actually look rather clean.

maxyRO 5 points 2 days ago[-]

I heard there's a discount coupon for transvestite hookers included.

ghaitched 5 points 2 days ago[-]

Full Metal Jacket comes to mind - what do we get for $10?

Kilgore_Trout 12 points 2 days ago[-]

Five dollars is all my mom allows me to spend.

dreamlax 0 points 1 day ago[-]

Five dollars is how much I paid your mom.

orbitz 7 points 2 days ago[-]

Everything you want

floridiot2 5 points 2 days ago[-]

Everything?

satx 3 points 2 days ago[-]

Except anal.

Judy-Lee 3 points 2 days ago[-]

No wonder they won.

iduffee 1 point 2 days ago[-]

No "brothers" either. They're too big.

whatwedo 1 point 2 days ago[-]

Too Beaucoup? Excuse me, ma'am. Now what we have here Little Yellow Sister, is a magnificent specimen of pure Alabama Blacksnake, but ain't too goddamn beaucoup!

JarvisCocker 2 points 2 days ago[-]

that's not terrible for the price

campigenus 1 point 2 days ago[-]

Oh? If you had to pay a day's wages for your accommodation would you still say that? Think about it.

njakubow 2 points 2 days ago[-]

That's probably just his dorm room.

dean16 2 points 2 days ago[-]

What does $2650 get you at the Peninsula Manila? A private butler, among other things.

The Peninsula Suite

moogle516 2 points 2 days ago[-]

For that price it better come with an unlimited amount of asian hookers that do anal

pumpupthevolume 1 point 2 days ago[-]

i doubt it does. but you do get the odd tank crashing through the hotel lobby.

architech 1 point 2 days ago[-]

The many extremes of the Philippines...

chuck_c 2 points 2 days ago[-]

I wonder if this was an old jail or something. IF I knew what the inside of a jail cell looked like, I would envision it like this!

MoreCowbells 1 point 2 days ago[-]

That room likes like a metal shipping container.

Xondar 1 point 2 days ago[-]

I'm going to the Philippines in December, and if I stayed in that hotel room for my whole trip I'd pay $42 total. Sweet deal!

Fortunately, I'm staying with friends for free.

mosox 10 points 2 days ago[-]

Actually, that's not a hotel, it's your friends' guest room.

pavel_lishin 2 points 2 days ago[-]

No, that's the master bedroom suite.

You don't want to see the guest room.

Xondar 0 points 2 days ago[-]

My point being that I can stay with my friends for free rather than that shit shack for cheap.

movzx 2 points 2 days ago[-]

If I give you $42 can I stay with your friends instead?

Xondar 0 points 2 days ago[-]

No chance. Sorry.

movzx 4 points 2 days ago[-]

But you said sweet deal!

vafada 1 point 2 days ago[-]

You get what you paid for.

bdelgado 1 point 2 days ago[-]

At least it has its own toilet. Can't argue with that.

Deacon 4 points 2 days ago[-]

That's the sink.

Churn 1 point 2 days ago[-]

My needs are minimal, what can I get for a buck fifty?

urusai 3 points 2 days ago[-]

A bucket and a piece of cardboard to lie on?

mosox 0 points 2 days ago[-]

I see teh US dollar is still strong in there.

annoyed 1 point 2 days ago[-]

$2 a night is a bargain compared to this:

http://www.nps.gov/archive/goga/spug/alcatraz/azon.htm

mexicodoug 1 point 1 day ago[-]

Now that's a scam on a P.T. Barnum scale!

Daleeburg 1 point 2 days ago[-]

Internal server error? I think you can get that cheaper if you mess with your .htaccess files.

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    kukon 2 points 2 days ago[-]

    I think it's a thumbnail for the main page

    cefm 0 points 1 day ago[-]

    I think it can get you 15 minutes with Natalie Holloway.

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      somethinginteresting 0 points 2 days ago[-]

      NO! It won't. Please stop asking.

      vajorie -3 points 2 days ago[-]

      stupid american is stupid

      Zolty -2 points 2 days ago[-]

      for 3 dollars do you get a working site, or a mirror?

      stonedinxs -2 points 2 days ago* [-]

      you've got to be an idiot to pay even 10 cents to take up a room without seeing it first.

      philippines: - cheap room for the night: $2 - petite filipina hooker for 4 hours: $20 - look on your face when you see that its not the hooker who is giving you head but a rat who's chipping away at it rather bloodily: PRICELESS