Cost of Activities
Following are the cost of the activities. These are quoted in Australian Dollars and are a per person cost.
Note: Room costs at Wyndham are provided for free by Pi and Gwen but there are housekeeping charges per room which are charged to the occupants. The charge is $128 per room for a 1BR and $142 per room for a 2BR. This charge is split between the two occupants. This is a one-off charge for the duration of the stay.
For non-attending Philippine based souvenir t-shirt orders, the price will be pegged at PHP 1,150 which is AUD30 against an exchange rate of 37.95, rounded up to the nearest PHP50. The exchange rate was calculated with the formula highest exchange rate for the previous 1 month period plus the lowest of the period plus the current rate (as of this writing) mutiplied by 4 and the total divided by 6. That’s (39.5200 + 37.4551 + (37.6878 * 4)) / 6 which results with and exchange rate of 37.95 and a cost of PHP1,139, rounded up to PHP1,150.
For Philippine based orders, point on this is Arjun. Please put your orders and payments through him. The deadline for this is 28 August to give us time to put in the order with the supplier by the beginning of September.
Note: The exchange rate of 37.95 is only for the t-shirt cost for the Philippine orders. For payment of individual charges, please use the method described below.
Payment Methods
Philippine based payments (Pesos)
Payments can be made through deposits to Dennis’ BDO account (Please note that this is not our PSHS73 account). Details to be posted in the VIBER group.
For the exchange rate, we will use the published rates in the Google Finance website. Click on the link to view the page. As the rates fluctuate during the day we will use the prevailing rate at 1:00AM UTC as the rate for the entire day. This way, both sender and receiver will use the exact same rate to calculate. 1:00AM UTC is 9:00AM Manila Time, so you need to wait for the exchange rate to be published before depositing your payment. Once the deposit is made, let us know so we know to look out for it. Once received, we will debit our ledger with your deposit with the equivalent Australian Dollar. Where no published rate is available on the day (weekends), we will use the previous day’s 1:00AM rate.
Sample screen above. (Please note this is not the rate we will use and is used for illustration purposes only.) To get to the 1:00AM rate, simply move the cursor until the time shows up as above. In this case, the rate is 37.7547 and not 37.6887. Simply multiply the AUD amount by the exchange rate to get the PHP equivalent.
As an alternative to the above method, you can remit the AUD amount directly to our Australian bank account. Please message us if you want to get our Australian bank details.
When making deposits, please include your surname as the reference so we know who made the deposit.
US Based payments (USD)
For US based payments, Leslie has graciously volunteered to collect the payments and remit to our Australian Bank account. Kindly coordinate with Leslie when making your payment.
Individual Charges
Please find your individual charges in the document link below. These charges are based on the activities you’ve selected to join. If there are any discrepancies, do let us know and we will adjust the charges accordingly. And please double check that the charges are correct before making your payment.
Gift for Mr Brilliantes
Mr Brilliantes will be attending our Reunion Dinner as our special guest. As a token of our appreciation for what he has done for our batch, we would like to present him with a gift. We are, therefore, soliciting monetary donations from all of you for this purpose. This is purely voluntary so please do not feel pressured into giving. To make a donation, just add a bit of extra to your payment and anything above your charge amount will go towards the gift for Mr Brillantes. Thanking you all in advance.