{"type":"city","city":"Manila","citySlug":"manila","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/philippines/manila","description":"Makati arrived at its current form through a kind of imposed ambition — the Ayala family's mid-century masterplan transforming what had been farmland into the Philippines' financial district, a grid of corporate towers and air-conditioned malls that somehow, over decades, acquired genuine urban texture. The Peninsula Manila, which opened in 1976 and sits at the corner of Ayala and Makati Avenues, captures that history with more honesty than most. Its low-slung, brutalist-adjacent form is distinctly unfashionable by contemporary standards, and that's precisely what makes it interesting — a hotel that has outlasted several waves of taste and remained a social institution. Raffles Makati, by contrast, represents the district's more recent aspiration toward a certain kind of refined restraint: an all-suite property occupying the upper floors of the Raffles Residences tower, its interiors drawing on a muted, residential palette that keeps the brand's colonial heritage at arm's length. The Fairmont Makati, connected to the same mixed-use development, operates at a larger scale and broader register, the two properties sharing a podium while maintaining distinct personalities.\n\nHotel Okura Manila sits just outside this Makati cluster, in Pasay, within the sprawling Newport World Resorts complex near the airport. The Okura brand's Japanese lineage — the original Hotel Okura Tokyo, designed in 1962 by Yoshiro Taniguchi, has long been considered a landmark of postwar Japanese modernism — carries a certain design credibility, and the Manila property translates that heritage into clean geometry and a material quietness that reads differently against the casino-resort context surrounding it. It is an interesting adjacency, and not always a comfortable one.\n\nManila Bay draws the remaining two properties and offers something genuinely different in atmosphere. The Conrad Manila and the Admiral Hotel Manila, part of Accor's MGallery collection, both face the bay and benefit from a quality of light and openness that Makati's inland towers cannot offer. The Admiral occupies a building with deeper roots in the city's mid-century hospitality history, a provenance that the MGallery positioning — which trades on restored heritage properties — suits reasonably well. Sunsets over Manila Bay remain one of the city's most reliable pleasures, and a hotel that faces west, whatever its other qualities, holds a geographic advantage that no amount of interior design can manufacture elsewhere.","provider":{"name":"PressBeyond","url":"https://pressbeyond.com","description":"PressBeyond provides AI-optimized hotel content with a consistent 5-image structure across its entire portfolio. 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The twin brutalist towers — raw concrete, emphatic horizontal banding, and a symmetrical forecourt of tiered fountains and royal palms — were designed by the local firm Recio + Casas, and their monumental paired massing gives the property an institutional gravity that later glass-clad neighbours have not diminished. The ceremonial entrance, visible in the aerial image, borrows the language of a European civic palazzo while remaining entirely tropical in its planting, a combination that felt deliberate then and reads as confident now.\n\nInside, the 497 rooms follow the Peninsula group's characteristic idiom: dark-stained mahogany millwork, pearl-grey carpet, and white walls edged with a thin blue cornice line — a palette that manages to feel both composed and approachable. The guest rooms show rosewood-finished writing desks paired with linen-upholstered armchairs and cane-framed ottomans, the furniture sitting close to the territory of a well-appointed club. The fine dining room, by contrast, turns more theatrical, with an oversized sculptural chandelier in silvered wrought metal suspended above navy carpet inlaid with a geometric border, dark lacquer lattice panels anchoring the far wall. The garden pool, shaded by a deep timber pergola and surrounded by dense tropical planting, offers the property's most convincing counterpoint to the concrete monumentality above it.","snippet":"A 1976 brutalist landmark anchoring Makati with raw concrete towers, mahogany interiors, and a shaded garden pool.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts visiting Manila's financial district","vibe":"Brutalist-tropical · composed","highlights":["Brutalist twin towers by Recio + Casas, completed 1976","Rooms with rosewood desks and cane-framed ottomans","Garden pool beneath timber pergola with tropical planting"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$163","pricePerNightExclTax":"$163","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhda303ub15xy0hd06tx21713358270355_b83f519a-f757-43df-85e3-6cfcb93f999f.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"The Peninsula Manila — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · The Peninsula Manila · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of The Peninsula Manila captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhj5704vx15xyx6psb6w11713358270955_81239c13-dbec-4fd3-8783-0dd3496c7d4f.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"The Peninsula Manila — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · The Peninsula Manila · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at The Peninsula Manila, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhoyf05xr15xy977bfvoy1713358271587_7509595c-84e5-40a2-9ef3-a540200d110f.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"The Peninsula Manila — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · The Peninsula Manila · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at The Peninsula Manila — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhutb06zn15xy9sirevw21713358272143_f38c8e75-e23c-45de-b8a4-1ddbfce6f728.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"The Peninsula Manila — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · The Peninsula Manila · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at The Peninsula Manila, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ui0jh081d15xyt5gdhsvp1713358272926_2d98434b-b546-4df4-8b8d-3fd63a5c69eb.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"The Peninsula Manila — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · The Peninsula Manila · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at The Peninsula Manila — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Conrad Manila","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/philippines/manila/conrad-manila","city":"Manila","cityHeader":"Manila • Manila Bay • OPTIMIZE","neighborhood":"Manila Bay","loyaltyProgram":"Hilton Honors™","designSummary":"Stacked horizontal fins of white GRC cladding sweep across the facade in a gesture that calls to mind a ship's prow cutting through Manila Bay — a deliberate architectural metaphor for Conrad Manila's position at the reclaimed waterfront edge of the Entertainment City development in Pasay. The building, completed in 2016 and rising across fourteen floors to hold 347 rooms and suites, was designed by Arquitectonica, the Miami-based practice known for bold massing and expressive geometry, with the curvilinear form softening as it descends toward a frangipani-lined pool terrace whose kidney-shaped basin and biomorphic stepping islands echo the organic language of the exterior.\n\nInside, the interiors move in a warmer direction — wide-plank pale timber flooring, full-height walnut headboard panels, and circular wave-patterned rugs that abstract the bay views framed by floor-to-ceiling glazing in every guestroom. The suite configurations use frosted sliding glass partitions to divide sleeping from living without closing either off, keeping the spatial flow generous. Most striking is the all-day dining restaurant set within the curved glass pod that juts toward the water at podium level, where angled structural columns frame Manila Bay in a composition that makes the horizon feel like a deliberate design element rather than an accident of geography. The interplay between the sculptural exterior and the restrained, timber-warmed rooms gives the hotel a coherence that purely expressive buildings rarely manage.","snippet":"Arquitectonica's Manila Bay hotel features a ship-prow facade, curved glass dining pod, and timber-warmed rooms with bay views.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts visiting Manila Bay","vibe":"Sculptural-modern · waterfront","highlights":["Arquitectonica-designed facade with ship-prow-inspired horizontal fins","Floor-to-ceiling bay views framed by sculptural glass pod restaurant","Walnut headboards and pale timber interiors with biomorphic rugs"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$172","pricePerNightExclTax":"$172","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ul8aq01yz15zvtk1nzyi01713361907494_b9986704-7c73-4053-b53a-c280e032864b.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Conrad Manila — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Conrad Manila · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Conrad Manila captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ulb9z02gp15zvwrwpzgvi1713361908711_d20939fc-2c19-4a5f-ba22-36bc30740a8d.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Conrad Manila — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Conrad Manila · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Conrad Manila, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ule5p02yg15zvnb9rskpp1713361910199_30d397ea-253c-4078-a5ee-ffa408d376ab.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Conrad Manila — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Conrad Manila · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Conrad Manila — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ulh2w03gd15zv9iv65fpq1713361909393_4e59789b-20c0-42aa-994f-cc3fd51d0114.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Conrad Manila — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Conrad Manila · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Conrad Manila, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ulk2003y115zv7ne9o4u71713361910885_57dd6a4d-e7f8-485d-9629-88544a51cd2d.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Conrad Manila — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Conrad Manila · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Conrad Manila — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/philippines/manila/admiral-hotel-manila-mgallery","city":"Manila","cityHeader":"Manila • Manila Bay • OPTIMIZE","neighborhood":"Manila Bay","loyaltyProgram":"ALL - Accor","designSummary":"Along the contested shoreline of Manila Bay, where the city's colonial maritime history collides with its vertical present, a white neoclassical facade rises eight floors before surrendering to a residential tower that climbs far above it. That tension — between a building that wants to be grand and a skyline that has moved on — gives Admiral Hotel Manila, part of Accor's MGallery collection, an unlikely drama from the street. The exterior's pilastered bays, bracketed cornices, and dark-glazed windows reference the confident civic architecture of mid-century Manila, a period the property has chosen to romanticize rather than abandon.\n\nInside, the interiors navigate a similar negotiation between heritage mood and contemporary polish. The lobby lounge deploys a coffered ceiling panel of backlit geometric alabaster-toned resin above dark-walnut occasional chairs and grey barrel-back seating — Art Deco adjacency without strict fidelity. Guest rooms arrive in a warm taupe palette, with channelled upholstered headboards trimmed in dark timber, brass wall sconces, and herringbone-laid stone flooring softened by teal and gold botanical rugs. Circular gilt-framed mirrors etched with Philippine motifs anchor the vanity walls, while lacquered chinoiserie-influenced bedside chests ground the rooms in a specifically Southeast Asian decorative language. The rooftop infinity pool, edged in cobalt mosaic tile and framed by a steel pavilion of geometric fretwork, orients itself entirely toward the bay — a deliberate restatement of the hotel's reason for existing where it does.","snippet":"A neoclassical-fronted MGallery hotel on Manila Bay with mid-century design references and a rooftop infinity pool.","bestFor":"Architecture enthusiasts drawn to Manila's colonial-modern tension","vibe":"Heritage-contemporary · bay-facing","highlights":["Neoclassical facade referencing mid-century Manila civic architecture","Rooftop infinity pool with cobalt mosaic tile and geometric steel pavilion","Guest rooms with Philippine-motif mirrors and Southeast Asian lacquered furnishings"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$176","pricePerNightExclTax":"$176","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ul7hn01ve15zvk2lx9gys1713362410738_3b488f78-888b-422f-855d-225d18602d6e.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ular202d715zvw81mawsf1713362412306_4d14f12f-6615-4fc6-96d4-ec88595ea1a9.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uldph02vh15zvq2k3idph1713362413028_67660047-3597-4157-b899-1aa16e97a0d8.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ulgjs03d115zvjsn1efft1713362414410_619a841a-9ec5-402c-8b9e-8ee8c69cf9b5.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uljj203uu15zvb8nq0wn11713362413701_2e1e57e4-96b2-4c03-a5a6-8f9ddb64026c.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Admiral Hotel Manila - MGallery — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Fairmont Makati","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/philippines/manila/fairmont-makati","city":"Manila","cityHeader":"Manila • Makati • OPTIMIZE","neighborhood":"Makati","loyaltyProgram":"ALL - Accor","designSummary":"At the intersection of Ayala Avenue and Glorietta in the heart of Makati's central business district, a dark-curtain-walled tower rising some 27 floors above the city's financial core gives the Fairmont Makati its defining urban posture — part of the larger Ayala Center redevelopment that remade this stretch of Metro Manila in the early 2010s. Opened in 2013 as the Fairmont brand's first foothold in the Philippines, the hotel shares its mixed-use complex with serviced residences and retail, the podium levels stepping back to create a terrace that holds a generous outdoor pool deck, its pale stone surround lined with palm trees and low-slung loungers against a bronze-tinted glazed facade.\n\nInside, the 281 rooms follow a palette familiar to Fairmont's mid-decade Asian properties — tall upholstered headboards in champagne leather, dark-stained macassar ebony casegoods, Eames-adjacent task chairs in tan leather, and wool-blend carpet in warm taupe. The interiors carry the atmosphere of restrained contemporary classicism rather than anything specifically Filipino, the rooms generous by Manila standards and oriented toward city views through floor-to-ceiling windows. The all-day dining restaurant introduces a more theatrical register, with blown-glass chandelier clusters — one a dense starburst form, others elongated drop pendants — suspended above linen-set tables, the walls finished in textured stone panels and antique-mirror glass that amplify the candlelit warmth of the room into something approaching genuine glamour.","snippet":"A 27-story Fairmont in Makati's financial core with a rooftop pool and theatrical dining room.","bestFor":"Business travelers and luxury seekers in Manila","vibe":"Contemporary-classic · polished","highlights":["27-story tower anchoring Ayala Center's financial district","Rooftop pool deck with palm trees and bronze-tinted glazing","All-day dining with blown-glass chandelier installations"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$251","pricePerNightExclTax":"$251","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhcsc03qz15xyk0m3z2a01713360331410_2764c25e-0939-45f2-876a-440920736368.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Fairmont Makati — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Fairmont Makati · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Fairmont Makati captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhipe04ss15xyihnl521w1713360332687_1b4f558c-8cc0-4abd-9d3a-60d4cab884d3.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Fairmont Makati — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Fairmont Makati · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Fairmont Makati, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhoe805uf15xy6il89flh1713360333353_a33688b7-fa7b-43c2-9745-2effcb169b79.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Fairmont Makati — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Fairmont Makati · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Fairmont Makati — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhu9x06w315xyrkwhdpf81713360332086_81302470-7050-4bc1-8def-dc8b5f3596de.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Fairmont Makati — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Fairmont Makati · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Fairmont Makati, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ui01z07xv15xygn0kg77a1713360334046_9e00c8dd-ee36-4de2-84c4-865768a52b5a.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Fairmont Makati — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Fairmont Makati · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Fairmont Makati — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Raffles Makati","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/philippines/manila/raffles-makati","city":"Manila","cityHeader":"Manila • Makati • SPLURGE","neighborhood":"Makati","loyaltyProgram":"ALL - Accor","designSummary":"Planted in the heart of Makati's central business district, where Ayala Avenue's glass towers define one of Southeast Asia's most concentrated financial corridors, Raffles Makati opened in 2014 as part of the mixed-use Ayala Triangle Gardens development — a 32-storey tower clad in a deep-set curtain wall grid that, from the aerial perspective, presents as quietly corporate until you register the rooftop pool deck stepping out from the podium like a garden terrace suspended above the city. The property holds 32 all-suite keys, making it among the most intimate outposts in the Raffles portfolio globally, the low room count translating into proportions that feel closer to a private residence than a conventional hotel tower.\n\nInside, the interiors draw a line between the brand's colonial Singapore heritage and a contemporary Filipino sensibility. Guestrooms are furnished with dark-stained hardwood floors, upholstered sleigh beds and tufted leather headboards in warm cream and amber — materials that carry weight without heaviness. The Long Bar evokes the spirit of Raffles Singapore's original, with mahogany millwork, beaded crystal chandeliers, exposed beam ceilings and patterned encaustic tile floors, vintage travel trunks and rattan fans completing a mise-en-scène that is knowingly nostalgic. The restaurant introduces a lighter register: teal velvet armchairs, gold-framed room dividers, and a large figurative mural drawn from Philippine folk imagery anchoring the space in something local rather than generically cosmopolitan.","snippet":"A 32-suite Raffles in Makati's CBD with colonial-heritage interiors, a mahogany Long Bar, and a rooftop pool overlooking the financial district.","bestFor":"Collectors and aesthetes visiting Manila's financial district","vibe":"Colonial-contemporary · intimate","highlights":["32 all-suite property with residential-scale proportions","Long Bar with mahogany millwork and encaustic tile floors","Rooftop pool deck suspended above Ayala Avenue"],"pricePerNightInclTax":"$312","pricePerNightExclTax":"$312","currency":"USD","images":[{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhd2103sr15xyv18xmpk21713360608988_f8e27037-bf80-4921-ae31-5fbd2094f13f.jpeg","role":"exterior","roleLabel":"Exterior","sequenceIndex":1,"alt":"Raffles Makati — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #1 — Exterior","caption":"Exterior · Raffles Makati · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full building facade of Raffles Makati captured from a street-level angle as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhiyz04uh15xysw2peb5f1713360609831_054396a2-47a1-465b-bb9e-2a4161756b11.jpeg","role":"room1","roleLabel":"Primary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":2,"alt":"Raffles Makati — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #2 — Primary Guest Room","caption":"Primary Guest Room · Raffles Makati · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Full-room view of the primary guest bedroom at Raffles Makati, photographed with natural lighting and clear sightlines as part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhont05w715xyflkg83n81713360610304_c2e834e7-d418-4f6b-ad3f-c1fb45e0652b.jpeg","role":"commonArea1","roleLabel":"Primary Common Area","sequenceIndex":3,"alt":"Raffles Makati — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #3 — Primary Common Area","caption":"Primary Common Area · Raffles Makati · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Primary common area at Raffles Makati — lobby or lounge — non-duplicative with the secondary social space, part of the PressBeyond standardized 5-image hotel sequence.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0uhuk106xv15xykr5486cp1713360610933_b2f6594a-3cef-4f87-aa0b-2fa4209c96db.jpeg","role":"room2","roleLabel":"Secondary Guest Room","sequenceIndex":4,"alt":"Raffles Makati — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #4 — Secondary Guest Room","caption":"Secondary Guest Room · Raffles Makati · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary guest room at Raffles Makati, deliberately distinct from the primary bedroom — non-duplicative imagery is part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true},{"url":"https://d89wdvrh3yrgq.cloudfront.net/resized/L__clv0ui0aw07zl15xy0r2u3m1p1713360611491_b3234e89-9622-42aa-ad27-2aca1bba830a.jpeg","role":"commonArea2","roleLabel":"Secondary Common Area","sequenceIndex":5,"alt":"Raffles Makati — Standardized Hotel Image Sequence #5 — Secondary Common Area","caption":"Secondary Common Area · Raffles Makati · PressBeyond hotel series","description":"Secondary lounge or social space at Raffles Makati — bar, dining, or terrace — deliberately distinct from the primary common area, part of the PressBeyond curation standard.","creditText":"PressBeyond","licensePage":"https://pressbeyond.com","distinct":true}]},{"name":"Hotel Okura Manila","url":"https://www.pressbeyond.com/hotels/philippines/manila/hotel-okura-manila","city":"Manila","cityHeader":"Manila • Pasay • OPTIMIZE","neighborhood":"Pasay","designSummary":"Japanese hospitality philosophy transplanted into the heart of Metro Manila's Entertainment City district is the central proposition of Hotel Okura Manila, which opened in 2020 as part of the Okura Hotels & Resorts group's southward expansion from its Tokyo origins. The building itself — a bronze-tinted curtain-wall tower rising above Pasay's casino and entertainment precinct — wears its corporate ambitions on its facade, the warm-toned glass panels catching Manila's equatorial light in ways that soften what might otherwise feel like pure commercial volume.\n\nInside, the property navigates two distinct design registers across its 488 rooms and suites. The Japanese-influenced floors, visible in the images, deploy pale timber-clad walls, dark steel shoji-screen partitions, and coffered paper-panel ceilings to achieve something close to a ryokan sensibility within a full-scale urban hotel — warm-toned wood flooring and amber leather headboards grounding the restraint. The Club floors shift register entirely toward international contemporary: quilted headboards in taupe leather, geometric patterned carpets in blue and grey, and a pivot-mounted television that divides sleeping from sitting areas without closing off the room. 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