Luxury in Ortigas District!
The Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts is a World Renowned International hotel chain based in Hong Kong. It is the largest Asian-based deluxe hotel group in the region.The group started in 1971 with its first and flagship hotel in Singapore, and now has 49 deluxe hotels and resorts located in key Asian, Australian and Middle East cities with hotel room inventory of over 23,000. The hotel group also has a sister brand called Traders Hotel, established in 1989 to cater mostly to business travellers. In the philippines it has 3 Shangrila Hotels and 1 traders hotel. I stayed in one of the shangrila hotels called EDSA Shangrila which is located in the Ortigas District of Mandaluyong City near Manila.
The Edsa Shangri-La Hotel, Manila is the only five-star deluxe city-resort convention hotel in Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong City. The hotel sits adjacent to two major shopping complexes, and is a short taxi ride from the Makati Central Business District and Manila International Airport.The hotel offers two towers containing 632 incredible guest rooms and suites, each with views of Manila’s city splendor or Edsa Shangri-La's tropical garden. Four international restaurants and an array of private lounges offer guests numerous locales in which to dine and experience the unique Asian culture Edsa Shangri-La offers.
These amenities combine with the recently launched CHI, The Spa at Shangri-La to provide guests with an exceptionally high level of elegance and personal service.
Unique Quality: Shangrila Edsa has one of the best locations for a hotel in Manila and it has spacious and elegant rooms with tasteful decor and a superb bathroom with an extension phone and glass showers. But it gets terribly busy and you don't get your first choice of room type. they provide a great breakfast with a huge choice for the buffet and also still have wonderful service. But what i like the best is their HEAT International Buffet Restaurant wherein each region has a cooking/carving station for that particular region of the world and the Italian PAPARAZZI restaurant Pricewise it is about 1500 pesos (33 USD) for the Buffet and about 1800 pesos per person for the ala carte meals (38 USD).
It's close to a lot of shopping areas, especially with SM MegaMall and Shangrila Plaza, Podium, Edsa Central, all within walking distance and also an MRT station nearby. A tip - there is a wonderful Greek restaurant in Shangrila Plaza and a superb Hawaiian restaurant called HULA HULA Please, do go and try it out.