Hotels near the Manila VA Clinic (Roxas Boulevard, Pasay)
Corridor guidance for a stay built around the Manila VA Outpatient Clinic on Roxas Boulevard—not a ranked hotel list and not a promise of drive times or discounts.
Scouting-trip hotels for a 2- to 4-week stay
What earns a scouting-trip tag in Cebu, Clark/Angeles, Subic, and Dumaguete: kitchen, laundry, usable Wi-Fi, power backup, and real errand access.
U.S. military rates and the SRRV Courtesy checklist for a scouting stay
A checklist for chain military/government rates versus Agoda prices on this site, and what PRA’s SRRV Courtesy sheet actually requires before anyone wires a deposit.
What the numbers support
The Department of Tourism does not record “veteran” or “expat” as an arrival category. The case for these pages is the size of the U.S. market plus the visa paths people actually use for a long stay. Re-check the DOT dashboard before refreshing these figures.
- 2025 arrivals. The Bureau of Immigration counted about 5.94 million foreign arrivals. Adding overseas Filipinos brought the broader total to about 6.48 million. South Korea was the largest foreign source market (about 1.35 million). The United States was second (about 1.31 million). Source: Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco, reported by the Daily Tribune, 20 January 2026.
- 2026 arrivals. Foreign visitors passed 5 million in the first 10 months of 2026. By early November the United States was the largest source market, at about 987,000 arrivals, ahead of South Korea. Through August, U.S. arrivals were about 927,000, or roughly 21 percent of 4.42 million visitors. Sources: Context.ph, 16 September 2026 and 5 November 2026.
- Retirement rank. Expatriate Group’s Retirement Abroad Index 2026 ranks the Philippines first of 20 countries (78/100), ahead of Thailand at 77. A separate 2025 TripZilla Asia award is not the same index—do not read that as “two years running” on one ranking. Sources: Expatriate Group and the Philippine Information Agency.
- Long stays. People who stay on live here on an SRRV, a 13(a) visa through marriage to a Filipino citizen, or a string of tourist-visa extensions. There is no DOT headcount of that group on this site.
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