Help Needed

[Shortie81 0]

My wife is leaving on sunday for manila for her medical exam on monday. She has never been to manila and we need help finding a couple of names of hotels near the embassy/ St Luke Hospital weither walking or short taxi ride away.... Please Help

[john_and_marlene 162]

The Bayview Park Hotel on Roxas Blvd. is fairly nice and right across the street from the U.S. Embassy.

http://www.asiatraveltips.com/BayviewParkHotelinManila.htm

[Shortie81 0]

The Bayview Park Hotel on Roxas Blvd. is fairly nice and right across the street from the U.S. Embassy.

http://www.asiatraveltips.com/BayviewParkHotelinManila.htm

She already has called them and they have non available for the day she arrrives

[phirephly 0]

My wife is leaving on sunday for manila for her medical exam on monday. She has never been to manila and we need help finding a couple of names of hotels near the embassy/ St Luke Hospital weither walking or short taxi ride away.... Please Help

I don't think this as close as you'd like, but it was a nice place and we'd definitely stay there again (including for immigration stuff) :

http://www.mnlceosuites.com.ph/

Nice, friendly staff, pool, TV/VHS, movies to borrow, free breakfast, etc. like the website says. Have your wife call for the reservation; they'll give much better rates to filipinos. You should be able to get them down to at least about US$40/night. In case you don't have any options left... ttyl,

mich

[dmartmar 1]

If you would only make a search on Google.

[CarolineM 0]

while it's easy to tell someone to do a search on google...isn't the whole POINT Of this site to use others to make informed desicions?

Having someone who has actually STAYED in the hotel would be nice when you're getting advice...

sheesh. Can't even ask a simple question around here anymore.

[Shortie81 0]

If you would only make a search on Google.

Yeah, That is a really smart comment.......Don't you think that I have done that already? But you should also know that most of the small name hotels are not listed in a Google search. You should also know that there is no advice like the advice of someone who has done it already, someone who has already made the St. Luke Medical and the US Embassy walk. So before you go telling someone to make a simple Google search....I would really think about what they are asking for first

Edited May 27, 2006 by Shortie81

[phirephly 0]

If you would only make a search on Google.

Yeah, That is a really smart comment.......Don't you think that I have done that already? But you should also know that most of the small name hotels are not listed in a Google search. You should also know that there is no advice like the advice of someone who has done it already, someone who has already made the St. Luke Medical and the US Embassy walk. So before you go telling someone to make a simple Google search....I would really think about what they are asking for first

That's really a bummer that you didn't get better responses; I thought you would. There seem to be plenty of fil-am couples here. Maybe the regional forums would have been more help for you... live and learn, i guess. Anyways, I don't have anything better, and it's probably too late, but maybe digging around here a little would give a little more info:

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-1915...ila_vacations-i

The first one on the list, for example, has like 53 reviews, so at least you're not completely blind about how the hotels really are. It looks like the mapping data is a bit askew, though... it says one of the Manila hotels is in Utah. Google? What's that? Yahoo! has you covered

Also, when I was over there with my wife, this seemed to be the "yellow pages" of choice that she used when we needed to find something (the URL should take you to hotels on roxas blvd, but for some reason isn't completely limiting to manila) :

http://clickthecity.com/search/results.asp...+blvd%2C+manila

perhaps cross referencing these results with the y! ones above would give good data. Anyways... yeah... prolly too late to be helpful, but in case you can still use it, hope that it's helpful. ttyl,

mich

One more thing I found... people writing about their trips to Manila:

http://travel.yahoo.com/trip?action=search...anila&x=22&y=11

ttyl,

mich

[aussiewench 9]

Shortie

Have a read through the archived MANILA thread. I just had a really quick browse once I located it and it does mention a few places. I also only read the first dozen or so posts......so should be worth a little time reading through it.

Edited May 28, 2006 by aussiewench