I've done both but I have been to Thailand many more times. I went to Angeles in the Phillipines and would go there again just to see if it was as bad as the first time I went there. I went to Cebu and it was for a wedding so different circumstances.

There is more crime and guns in the Phillipines and the hotels in Angeles have iron gates and armed guards on the front door, even McD's has two guards with sawn off shotguns on the doors in daylight when te kids come out of school.

I didn't see anything like that in Thailand