Duty-free shops: what's worth buying?

**CVT** · May 17th, 2013 08:13 AM

OT: I miss the days when we would park beside the road fronting the bay, past midnight, and enjoy the FedEx planes a few meters above us, descending and landing every 3-5minutes...(we were never asked to move out of the area during those times.....).... Surreal experience....

BTT: The duty-free goods are okay.... The parking area is so so..... not like before....

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**vinj** · May 17th, 2013 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by yebo

petron in front of puregold subic was where i got a ton of water in my diesel. beware!

Geez... that's where i see a lot of the CRDi SUVs and vans load up pa naman. There's still Eastern Petroleum and Total in Subic as well...

Is American Hardware still alive? I liked window shopping there before.

*CVT, sad that they moved out the FedEx hub from Subic. I also miss the old track days on the SIR with Kookie Ramirez giving one-on-one lessons (we'd all stay at the cheapest accommodations we could find... minsan yung dating military hospital na ginawang hotel)

**CVT** · May 17th, 2013 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by vinj

Geez... that's where i see a lot of the CRDi SUVs and vans load up pa naman. There's still Eastern Petroleum and Total in Subic as well...

Is American Hardware still alive? I liked window shopping there before.

*CVT, sad that they moved out the FedEx hub from Subic. I also miss the old track days on the SIR with Kookie Ramirez giving one-on-one lessons (we'd all stay at the cheapest accommodations we could find... minsan yung dating military hospital na ginawang hotel)

Yes, bro.,- so sad for our economy.... They could not expand the airport, and so they moved out to Hong Kong... I was extended the privilege to tour their package sorting facility... Wow! Really... really... really.... state of the art...

The planes landing one after the other normally lasted for about an hour, around 1AM.... By that time, may tama na kami (from the beers we were drinking)... and it was time to hit the bed, or the bars on the other side of the base...

... Oh well,- those were the days....

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**boybi** · May 17th, 2013 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by vinj

Is American Hardware still alive? I liked window shopping there before.

Is that the one outside of Royal Duty Free? The last time I was there was around a year ago and open pa naman.

**vinj** · May 17th, 2013 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by boybi

Is that the one outside of Royal Duty Free? The last time I was there was around a year ago and open pa naman.

Yep... That's the one. Ewan ko nga paano kumikita yun since mahal yung items. Sarap lang tumingin.

**boybi** · May 17th, 2013 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by vinj

Yep... That's the one. Ewan ko nga paano kumikita yun since mahal yung items. Sarap lang tumingin.

Kumikita sya kasi mahal nga items

I was always tempted to get their tow hitch dati every time I went there.

**vinj** · May 17th, 2013 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by boybi

Kumikita sya kasi mahal nga items

I was always tempted to get their tow hitch dati every time I went there.

What i almost bought there were their Simpson racing shoes. May mga JDM surplus parts pa sila sa back area.

**miLes** · May 20th, 2013 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by vinj

Magpa-gas na rin kayo sa Subic or Clark. :D

you need coupon na sa clark to avail of tax free fuel. nagpafull tank ako last April 18, nasa 49 something unleaded, same price sa manila. it was 47 tho sa pangasinan area

**lowslowbenz** · May 20th, 2013 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by miLes

it was 47 tho sa pangasinan area

There's a town in Pangasinan or Tarlac (forgot where exactly) that sells cheaper fuel than the rest of the other towns.

BTT:

I can only buy those Mezzetta pickled jalapeno peppers inside Clark Puregold. Wala sa iba, talaga!

**badkuk** · May 22nd, 2013 11:19 AM

For reasons that are still unclear to me, we ended up in Royal instead of PureGold. There were a few bargains, but like some posters have mentioned, beware the expiration date.

Ung mga de lata nila not necessarily cheaper; yung sigurado ko lang is yung Spam niya. Andaming tao when we went there so we just ended up eating hotdogs outside :p

Confirmed, American Hardware is still open; di lang nga kami pumasok, medyo madilim yung loob