The very courteous people who hosted me at that hotel will not appreciate reservation calls at $600/day for a suite. Even 3-Star Holiday Inn motels charge more that $600/day for a suite these days.

$20,000 for one night. The article erroneously stated that this 7-Star hotel charges $20,000 for one month. Wrong. Not for one month. $20,000 is for one night. I am sure I wrote "for one night" but the computer misread it.

Burj Al Arab charges $20,000 per night. And the presidential suites are even more expensive.

This rate provides each guest a staff of four in attendance. That's the ratio of staff/guest: four staff per guest. A butler and maid on call as well, choice of mattress and pillows, a chef for parties in your suite. Each room brings the outdoors in, at least 30 live plants in each suite. A $20,000 a night accommodation has a lot of creature comforts to offer.

At peak season, they only accept bookings minimum of one week. No overnighters. Obviously, the staff of the hotel is not about to reveal who have stayed or are staying in this luxury hotel.

But from published reports they get mostly Hollywood celebrities, royalty, the extremely wealthy, those on company accounts, and heads of states as guests.

A Dubai publication last year reported that our own First Gentleman, Mike Arroyo, was at the Burj Al Arab.

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And now from an incredible hotel rate, to those obscene Philippine shows:

TFC (The Filipino Channel) is on 24/7 in the Middle East. OFWs watch them in the mornings, the programs get replayed and watched again by the same OFWs at night. TFC is to the OFWs a means of bonding, a link to the Philippines.

I spent the Christmas holidays in the Middle East. I saw that when not in the Philippines, TFC provides the OFW what they crave for, Philippine-style entertainment. TFC has become a major implementor, role-model of Philippine culture, TFC culture, to many millions of Filipinos abroad. Almost every household subscribes to TFC.

But the culture of some of the TFC programs is debatable. Remember that TFC is watched by as many impressionable children as adults. Seeing the quality or lack of it in these programs is scary for future generations.

Take for instance Willy Revillame's Wowwowee.

Revillame and his kind seem to be in the belief that "If a little (Filipina skin) is good, a lot (of Filipina skin) must be better." These young Filipinas are hired to show skin, gyrate on cue, visually seduce the audience.

In more decent shows, we see costumes with bare midriffs, about three inches wide. of young Filipina showgirls.

Revillame apparently believes that if three inches is sexy entertainment, he will make it six inches or more. This will make the DOM (dirty old men) lust more for Revillame's Daisies (daisy siete, daisy otcho, daisy nueve).

I was forced to watch a Wowwowee program where costumes of these Filipina props are bare from the base of the boobs, bare down the belly button, bare down the hips, all the way down the hairline. Then, these girls are made by Revillame to gyrate to music.

This is what Filipino children all over the world watch daily. This becomes the children's culture. Thereafter, almost-naked TV dancing and singing jobs are what all young Filipinas hope to do when they grow up.

What a miserable role model Revillame's TFC programs are for the young Filipinas. Is the MCTRB watching at all?