how to buy or rent a tricycle

Hello,

Firstly thank you all for sharing this usefull information on this site.
We are a group of 6 people from Poland travelling to Philippines from 27 Oct to 15 Jan
We would like to buy or rent 2-3 tricycles, so we have a few questions regarding our trip.
Thank you all for answering them.

- is it possible to rent a tricycle for such a long period and how much could it cost.
- i have found used tricycles to buy for about 40000 pesos. is it a good price, what can i expect for such amount of money.
- how about a registeration - do we have to register them if we plan to stay in Philippines for 3 months
- where we can buy them. We fly to Manila but prefer to buy/rent in more quiet area (especially to learn how to drive them )
- which type of driving licence do we need (is car category enough or do we need a motorcycle category)

and last but not least is it possible for any of you to help us in any way to contact a person willing to sell/rent 2-3 tricycles.

[Rhoody]

I would skip the trike Idea,

for 40 K you don't get much quality and can expect a lot of your time in repair-shops. Another problem is also getting from Island to Island with the trikes. To be honest I did not hear about anybody renting trikes out without driver, but I assume there might be something in Manila.

With a rented trike they wont let you to other Islands also.

For 40 K you can travel in a more convenient way and rent a scooter if needed.

TO rent a scooter your car-license is enough. Officially you can use a foreign license up to 60 days to drive. Considering you are here at the end of the year there are more control points on the streets and you can be sure that they will find something wrong on each foreigner driven vehicle to make some peso aside.

cheers

Rhoody