Doc67 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 1:17 pm I have a trip coming up which involves transiting through Manilla en route to Vancouver, but my arrival and departure times are horrible. I could end up paying for 5 nights for what is actually just two overnight sleeps.

The more I look at them, the worse they get.

Has anyone got any ideas about how to manage this, any tricks that I am missing?

Visit #1

I arrive in Manilla on 1 March at 04:40 so will arrive at the hotel about 06:00

I leave Manilla at 19:00 on the same day so will need my room until about 3pm

(They are going to want to charge for the previous night and might then want to empty the room by 12pm or it's an extra night)

Visit #2

I arrive in Manilla on Tuesday 28th April at 03:30 so will arrive at the hotel about 05:00

I leave Manilla on Thursday 30th April at 22:10 so will need the room until about 18:00

(Again, they are going to want to charge for the 27th/28th/29th and quite possibly the 30th because of the 6pm checkout.)

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2020 9:39 am
Actually Mish, the trip is just 9 days in Vancouver (visiting my son). Thereafter it's 1 week in Mexico City and then 2 weeks in Medellin Colombia up to the end of March. Month 2 in undecided but likely to involve Panama City, Costa Rica and then, maybe, the very dodgy places like Nicaragua, El Salvador etc. We'll see. I'll start a thread in the On The Road section and post a few pics.