Latest Screw-up In Baloy

Comment from a reader on Baloy Beach:

The Baloy beach area seems to get worse and worse and the latest decision is another fine example.

True, there is a decent beach area and a few decent restaurants but with the amount of sewage being released, one would be ill advised to swim in the water. Street vendors are becoming more and more aggressive and those who try to park along the streets are being no-so-subtley advised they need to pay a "fee" to do so. To this is the "check point" which is nothing more than an entrance fee to those who are unsuspecting.

Two or three inches of rain will flood the area and the road from the national highway turnoff is about as bad as any road in Zambales. And now comes the decision to not allow trikes from Barretto into Baloy and not to allow Baloy trikes into Barretto. This means that if you come from Barretto to Baloy, you must get out of one trike (and pay) and get into another trike (and pay) if you want to go to Baloy. Same for the reverse trip. One would think that with all the businesses in the Baloy area that there would be enough influence to get some of these problems fixed. In conversations about this mess, one name keeps coming up time and time again.

Sure doesn't sound like there is any plan to improve the place for the various foreign and local visitors, which is their bread and butter.