Manila Hotel


  • Classification: Five (5)-Star Hotel
  • Number of Rooms: 570
  • Location: Ermita/ Intramuros
  • Address: One Rizal Park Roxas Boulevard, Manila, Philippines

The Manila Hotel is one of the Philippines’ top five (5)-star hotel and restaurant which offers an exquisite lodging experience blending the past, the present and the future.

Located in the heart of one of the capital Manila’s foremost tourist spot, the Rizal Park, the Manila Hotel offers its visitors a wide selection of activities in and out of its majestic bay-side compound. You’ll also feel a sort of pride if you’ll find out that you’re lodging at the same place where Ernest Hemmingway, James A. Michener, The Beatles, former US president John F. Kennedy, Sammy Davis, among others stayed, not to mention being Gen. Douglas MacArthur residence from 1935 to 1941.

The building sits tall along Manila’s Roxas Boulevard, one of the main avenues in the capital, and along side Quirino Street which during clear and crisp mornings, one would find not a few joggers, family and fitness buffs alike, running for fitness as well for handsome breathes of seaside fresh air.

A 20-minute ride by car from the Ninoy Aquino International Aiport and a few meters from Club Intramuros Golf Course, the hotel has an easy access to most, if not all, of your needs, which also might include a hunger for the past.

A stone-throw’s distance from the Manila Hotel is the Walled City Intramuros. The site is famous for being the “Old Manila” during the Spanish occupation of the Philippines. Its roads are paved with stone bricks and its stone walls, tall and stout, with moss, dusts and history. Inside it are churches, antique shops, universities, the Department of Tourism and the Fort Santiago—a garrison for Spanish soldiers as well as prison for Filipino revolutionaries of the past. It houses the Rizal shrine and the ruins of the cell where the Philippine National Hero was imprisoned during his last days.

After a dose of history, one would want to sit back and relax—and Manila Hotel’s exquisitely designed suites and rooms never run out of relaxation. All 500 newly renovated and re-furnished rooms weave the practical comforts of the present, which includes a stocked minibar, central air conditioning, TV with cable, bedside radio, the Ving Electronic Card security system, among others, with the luxurious and plush furnishings which would transport you to the rich mansions and palaces of the past. The Presidential, Penthouse and MacArthur suites even provide an on-call for 24 hours butler service.

Located strategically, visitors would have a choice between the Manila Bay, famous for its orange sunsets, the Rizal Park and its iron cast monument of Jose Rizal or the centuries-old walls of the Old City, to be seen from their windows.

Aside for making your stay aesthetically beneficial, the Manila Hotel also assures its efficiency as a business class hotel for providing various tasks busy guests could need. The Executive Business Center offers various equipments and services that a busy office person would surely consider handy. It includes a print shop, dictating machines, telecommunication services, computers and internet access, postal handling and other secretarial services.

The Bay Club, the in-house sports and fitness club of the Manila Hotel, offers sauna, Jakuzi, tennis and squash courts, and indoor pool with bar (the Pool Bar). The Manila Hotel also has a Game Room where visitors could play friendly card games and chess.

One could also visit the hotel’s Barbershop and beauty salon, the medical and dental clinic, the photo shop, and could also use the Limousine and luxury car rental service or the roof deck helipad as choices for hotel transport if the need arises. If the scenic outdoors once again call to you, and you don’t want to leave the luxuries of the hotel’s suites, they could arrange sightseeing tours using the hotel’s luxury cars.

When the tour drains you gastronomically, the Manila Hotel offers a wide selection of cuisine: the Champagne Room offers fine French dining, the Cowrie Grill for seafood and steaks and Ginza, a Japanese restaurant, not to mention the Pool Bar which offers various drinks and juices which you’ll be able to enjoy without leaving the cool waters of the pool.

Let Manila Hotel become a part of your own history and choose it to host weddings, debuts, balls and homecoming events. Choose from a wide selection of packages which includes complimentary stays in the hotels.

And, as the night grows nigh and near, life in and around the Manila Hotel never becomes sleepy. The Manila Bay could offer various night life escapades and if one would venture out into the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex, a majestic architectural feat in itself which produces plays and other artistic presentations, about 15 minutes in car from the hotel, one would find Harbor View Square the place to be, with its 24 hour bar and grill restaurants, coffee houses and a floating restaurant.

Before leaving, be sure to buy souvenirs for your friends, loved ones and associates. The hotel’s concision store, gift shop and flower shop would definitely bear the mark of that which reminds you of your enjoyable stay, and journey, in the heart of Manila, in the Manila Hotel.

Just this January 17, 2008, the Manila Hotel Tent City was blessed. This elegantly designed tent reception area could accommodate 7,000 guests and seat another 2,500 for weddings, debuts, conferences, and other special occasions.

Accepts all major credit cards and prices can be checked online. Online booking shall avail you of special discounts and packages.

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