Great hotel, great people and location.
5 / 5
Was impressed by this hotel which was rated 3 star, but had many of features associate with 4 stars I normally stay in. For example, laptop safe, coffee/tea making, robe and slippers, good gym opens early, nice pool.
Room itself was reasonable size with nice clean bathroom. I ate at pool bar on roof several times, nice food, reasonably priced. Also had buffet breakfast and availed myself of omlette station who brought eggs to my table, nice touch.
All staff were very welcoming, and helpful e.g. booking taxis, directions, providing map.
Wifi generally good, one short outage during my 5 night stay, but they even sent me note apologising and advising time fixed.
Manilla itself is very congested and you could see polution haze from my 9th floor room. Advise using Grab taxis , when used others the drivers used all the standard cons, e.g. 'oh look seems my meter has broken,' trying to triple agreed price. Reception happy to book and change larger bills.
Room was surprising free of street noise, slept well.
Only real negative was there were only 2 lifts servicing about 25 floors so sometimes bit of a wait.
Location was great, within short walk had banks, restaurants, covenience stores, barbers, all I needed. You are close to the small (by Thai standards) 'gogo bar area, but not noisy, and pretty understated early evening.
Used hotel laundry who did good job at reasonable cost.
In summary a very pleasant stay in nice well equiped room. Would definitely be my 1st choice on next trip.
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City Garden Hotel Makati