City Garden Hotel Makati
Open 24hrs
website: http://www.citygardenhotels.com
Call: (632) 899-1111
Address: Makati cor. Kalayaan Avenues, Makati City
City Garden Hotel is 1 of the best value hotels I’ve ever experienced in the Manila Luzon area. With all the facilities, restaurant, gym, rooftop bar and swimming pool (has a jacuzzi inside the pool) and great views of Manila city from the gym/swimming pool. We even have a small sauna and a spa here. Great value hotel! Room prices from $64 to $92 per night.
Location: Located in the heart of Makati’s nightlife district, Burgos Street is right around the corner, a 1 minute walk from the entrance of City Garden, lots of 24 hour restaurants, go go bars aka gentlemens clubs, 1 nightclub, lots of 7/11 and laundry shops, internet cafes and many pizza places nearby too, Dominos, Pizza Hut etc. Very good location!
Facilities: Nice gym, swimming pool, jacuzzi, whirlpool, sauna and restaurant
The Staff: The staff here has always been super friendly, wishing me happy birthday wishes, hooking me up with free internet cards (shhhh secret!!).
The Room: I stay in the deluxe room, costs $74usd/night. My room consists of a half kitchen, water boiler with complimentary bottled water, coffee, tea, has a couch, an older but decent size tv. The bed is nice size and very comfortable. I even have a small couch and 2 desks. The bathrooms have a tub/shower, good counter space too, gotta love that
Extras: Sometimes you can get a 1 hour free internet card, and if you’re nice maybe they’ll hook you up with a free 24/hr internet card
Tip: When you walk outside City Garden take a left go towards Burgos Street and there is a little laundry place there called “Lets Talk Dirty” laundry and cleaning services, I paid only 180 pesos for 2.8 kilos of laundry, can save you like 5x’s compared to paying the hotel laundry prices. Just a tip for you
Negatives: The internet here is VERY bad, sometimes you can go hours with it being fine, but then you get logged off for hours at a time, either the network goes down, or their 3rd party internet company is having issues.
Also, today I had to wait for 30 minutes in the gym, til somebody could assist me, I need a locker key, towel, and to turn on the sauna. I hate to talk about the negatives but I want to give a great unbiased review, I will cover the goods AND the bads