Manila Hotels

[Bob Bowie]

i am looking for a nice apartment with high speed internet in information would be appreciated.

i have used vrbo. it seams safer then craigslist, you can read reviews before you send a deposit.

[DriveAllNight]

i am looking for a nice apartment with high speed internet in information would be appreciated.

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you would be well-served to seek information on this subject by using the isg search function.

[Devils 1]

i am looking for a nice apartment with high speed internet in information would be appreciated.

i have used craigslist in the past. lots of good deals there. they will all tell whether they have hi-speed internet available. if you are looking for long term use "apts / housing" category. if you are looking for short term use "vacation rentals."

it is some times hard to tell how nice something is from the pics, so it is advisable to look at several while in manila or have someone already there view them for you. the problem is the nice ones get booked months in advance.

good luck

[Black Snake]

i am looking for a nice apartment with high speed internet in information would be appreciated.

[Liondale]

What's happening in Manila this week? Tried to book Intercontinental, Peninsula, Mandarin and Dusit but they were full. .

Let me answer myself, as I have reached Manila. Staying in St Giles, which seems to be very good value for money. Clean and seems quite new. Not huge or extravagant rooms, but nothing to complain about.

The reason the hotels are full, as explained by my taxi driver, is that this is graduation time, so a lot of family comes to Manila to take part.

[Liondale]

What's happening in Manila this week? Tried to book Intercontinental, Peninsula, Mandarin and Dusit but they were full. .

[Buko Max]

Recently had the pleasure of staying here. Recommended! Although the rooms could be sexed up a little, the hotel met my needs. Good food. Mostly ate here rather than hunt for restuarants, I supose this speaks volumns for the Southeren Cross.

Wifi was adequate. Location is excellent, all your clubs and bars are walkable within several minutes. Shall stay here in future. Staff were all very pretty, hehe, and above all, helpful and efficient. Big thumbs up!

Yes I would agree with your assessment! The next day you can hop their shuttle to Angeles!

[Lord Balut]

Dear fellow hobbyists,

I am going to Manila beginning of April, and was just wondering whether some of you had recent experience with Fraser's Place Condo's in Makati. Website looks very nice. Was specifically wondering whether it is a girl-friendly place.

Thanks for your advice!

Vogel

Whether you'll enjoy a stay at Fraser's Makati will depend on your understanding (and liking of) what you are trading in compared to the other accommodation options in a similar price range, notably the luxury hotels Mandarin, Peninsula and Shangri-La.

What you are essentially getting is space, vast space. The 2 or 3 BR apartments are larger than almost all of the top hotel suites, between 215 and 280 sqm, at a price usually a little higher than an executive floor hotel room and significantly lower than two of those rooms.

Quite a few long staying guests try out Fraser after being stuck for whatever reason in the smaller hotel rooms for weeks or months. A lot of those choose a hotel again though next time once they realize that it's really an apartment and lacks most of the hotel services they might be used to.

Last time I checked it out was about 2 years ago. The apartments looked more worn out than I liked, but then most places in Manila do, LOL. They may be renovated or refurbished by now, back then they didn't have the flat screen TVs yet that they show on the website and I remember the style quite a little differently.

The fact that you trade a lot of service for a lot of space will hardly have changed though.

It's girl-friendly like almost every other place in Manila but I suspect some of the long-staying people sticking with Fraser do so for even more privacy ironically. It's one thing hotel policy ignoring your adventures but another thing the regular staff seeing you do your thing for six months straight. Less personal care and service may be preferred by some, haha.

[AfAsia]

1125 Del Pilar st.

Ermita.

Manila.

+63 2 521 2013.

1 499p per night double

Recently had the pleasure of staying here. Recommended! Although the rooms could be sexed up a little, the hotel met my needs. Good food. Mostly ate here rather than hunt for restuarants, I supose this speaks volumns for the Southeren Cross.

Wifi was adequate. Location is excellent, all your clubs and bars are walkable within several minutes. Shall stay here in future. Staff were all very pretty, hehe, and above all, helpful and efficient. Big thumbs up!

[Vogel09]

YES IT IS! To the extend when you get stuck in an elevator with a girl and after 10 min wait you say fuck it and start taking her clothes off and then the elevator is restarted and takes you to the ground floor. While being half dressed and the girl scrambling to hide her naught bits the door opens and the bell boy just hands me the new card and says have a good night. I think I wrote about it here somewhere.

Overall location is not bad but you will have to walk 10 min to greenbelt and will have to catch taxi to anything worth seeing. Price is, well not cheap for manila. They don't service the apartments on Sunday. Pool is shit. Restaurants and cafe outside is ok. Internet was good but don't think they had wifi. Master bedroom is superior to the other if you are sheering with a wing men you will fight for the bedroom. The place also has lots of diplomats and rich philipinos staying so you may feel kind of out of place.

LOL, did I mention I got stuck in the elevator. This after watching The Devil (movie about people being stuck in an elevator) few hours before that. The damn thing just took my key and took me for a joy ride before lights went out. Good thing my mobile phone worked inside the elevator so I called reception. Overall I would NOT recommend or repeat but it is a GIRL FRIENDLY place.

One more thing. Taxi drivers don't know the place so you will need to tell them to take you behind the PACIFIC STAR BUILDING or next to CITI BANK otherwise good luck to you. Perhaps 1 of every 10 taxi drivers knew the location and we talking Makati taxi drivers here.

My suggestion, give it a miss and look into better places around the area.

Dear McDon,

Haha, I had too laugh hard really HARD reading your story! Especially on the elevator part. Wow, but I salute your creativity for being stuck in the elevator and finding 'something else' to do with the girl that was with you. Ok, will reconsider, and see if they can at least make me an (price) offer that I can't refuse.

Great advice, always good to have a wingman, but this time, I'll be all by myself.

Take care,

Vogel

[Mc Don]

YES IT IS! To the extend when you get stuck in an elevator with a girl and after 10 min wait you say fuck it and start taking her clothes off and then the elevator is restarted and takes you to the ground floor. While being half dressed and the girl scrambling to hide her naught bits the door opens and the bell boy just hands me the new card and says have a good night. I think I wrote about it here somewhere.

Overall location is not bad but you will have to walk 10 min to greenbelt and will have to catch taxi to anything worth seeing. Price is, well not cheap for manila. They don't service the apartments on Sunday. Pool is shit. Restaurants and cafe outside is ok. Internet was good but don't think they had wifi. Master bedroom is superior to the other if you are sheering with a wing men you will fight for the bedroom. The place also has lots of diplomats and rich philipinos staying so you may feel kind of out of place.

LOL, did I mention I got stuck in the elevator. This after watching The Devil (movie about people being stuck in an elevator) few hours before that. The damn thing just took my key and took me for a joy ride before lights went out. Good thing my mobile phone worked inside the elevator so I called reception. Overall I would NOT recommend or repeat but it is a GIRL FRIENDLY place.

One more thing. Taxi drivers don't know the place so you will need to tell them to take you behind the PACIFIC STAR BUILDING or next to CITI BANK otherwise good luck to you. Perhaps 1 of every 10 taxi drivers knew the location and we talking Makati taxi drivers here.

My suggestion, give it a miss and look into better places around the area.

Dear fellow hobbyists,

I am going to Manila beginning of April, and was just wondering whether some of you had recent experience with Fraser's Place Condo's in Makati. Website looks very nice. Was specifically wondering whether it is a girl-friendly place.

Thanks for your advice!

Vogel

[Vogel09]

Dear fellow hobbyists,

I am going to Manila beginning of April, and was just wondering whether some of you had recent experience with Fraser's Place Condo's in Makati. Website looks very nice. Was specifically wondering whether it is a girl-friendly place.

Thanks for your advice!

Vogel

[Lalake]

RK and WR, as always thanks for the advice. Yes, I do plan to hire a car. I arrive at 9:20pm (new Darwin-Manila flight) and booked a hotel car to pick me up at the airport. I will tell the driver to wait, as I'll head upstairs, shower and head right back out. It's been over three years for me, and I'm pretty excited to be back in Makati.

[Wicked Roger]

I arrived at Terminal 3 (opposite Marriott) at 8. 30 pm on last Friday, the busiest night of the week, and I was in Makati in 20 minutes using an airport taxi.

They use the new skyway into Makati that is against the rush hour traffic that is all going the other way.

I had an easy run and very few delays.

WR is right about poor infrastructure and most roads being clogged but I think the run to Makati using the highway that connects with Arnaiz Ave (Pasay Road) will get you into Greenbelt inside 30 mins. For 3 free nights it's a no-brainer. Just get a hotel car with the $$$ you have saved and ask the driver to go the quickest route.

Good observation RK and the taxis I take do use the same that but maybe I get unlucky (well have to be unlucky in something LOL) , but there are times when whatever route you take it is clogged (returning to Makati from Burgos with a cutie and hard on can be tad annoyingly slow. Or so it seems!)

[Red Kilt]

It is a very long ride to Makati made even worse by the rush hour traffic. Those mongers who I know have stayed there say it is a nice hotel but they only stay if leaving very early in the morning so prefer to be close to the airport. But if it is free well am sure the long taxi ride (up to an hour in rush hour IMHO) won't bother.

I arrived at Terminal 3 (opposite Marriott) at 8. 30 pm on last Friday, the busiest night of the week, and I was in Makati in 20 minutes using an airport taxi.

They use the new skyway into Makati that is against the rush hour traffic that is all going the other way.
I had an easy run and very few delays.

WR is right about poor infrastructure and most roads being clogged but I think the run to Makati using the highway that connects with Arnaiz Ave (Pasay Road) will get you into Greenbelt inside 30 mins. For 3 free nights it's a no-brainer. Just get a hotel car with the $$$ you have saved and ask the driver to go the quickest route.