San Pablo Holidays

This is my honest review of Prince Plaza II. I have stayed in this condotel or hotel in previous years but my last stays in April and in November were not as satisfactory compared to my previous stays. No more free breakfast, the elevator is not operating automatically, you have to call for the operator if you want to go down. As far as safety is concerned, it is safe. Make room is on request, my bed was clean. Shower floor is slippery. Shopping malls are walking distance. Transportation is easy to get. Personnel is friendly and helpful. An added TLC in the room would be appreciated by previous and new guests. Oh, the last room I was assigned into was next to the cleaning personnel's headquarter and it was noisy at times. Closing of room door was loud and at point, someone was pounding something when I was taking an afternoon nap.

Check in / front desk and guards are very helpful and they always greeted you with a smile. The place is very clean and new, just a simple suggestions, it would be nice if there’s a kitchen towel, pot holder to use inside the unit and instead of a small oven toaster, i think microwave will be more useful and additional socket adaptor for small kitchen appliances would be better as well, but overall experinece is excellent! The operator is also very considerate, almost forgot to mention that! you!

The room was nice enough but a bit shabby and not overly clean. The communication from the management team was excellent and Mel was very accommodating. We didn’t really research the area and wish we had as it wasn’t the best, when you can rent rooms by the hour around the corner that gives you a pretty good indication! Overall experience was ok but I wouldn’t stay again.

Diamond Hotel remains the classiest lodging facility in Manila.

This is a nice hotel right in old Manila. That means narrow roads, foot and vehicular traffic with hit and miss sidewalks, crowded, chaotic with people from various walks of life. It’s right beside Binondo church (Dominican 1596) and it’s the “first Chinatown” across the river from Intramuros which is the Spanish colonial fort. The modern infrastructure like electricity and communications can be seen to be retrofitted as times modernized; these were the first models of lessons learned in the present urbanization playbook. In many ways the place is frozen in time and for me, that’s the charm.