When Raffles Hotel is said being the embodiment of Singapore’s rich culture, the Manila Hotel is the favourite muse of most hotels within the Philippines. This particular hotel is called the “living testimonial of Philippine heritage.”
All the rooms of the hotel are designed for provide great comfort to its guest. In each one of the room there is a fully-stocked mini refrigerator, coffee and tea makers from the mini kitchen, bath essentials about the bathroom, there’s a colored Cable/satellite TV for entertainment, a complete premium cable that’s py-per view movies is also available. Keep in touch with the family over the NDD/IDD phones and high-speed access to the internet that are available. And also the 24-hour room service, everything is just on the tip from your finger tips.
The doors around the Manila Hotel were first became available in 1912. It used to host the festivities during the inauguration of the Philippine Commonwealth government. But when the Japanese occupied the Philippines by the 1940s, the hotel took over as headquarters around the Imperial Army. After the duration of the Liberation came, Manila was bombed from the Americans in order to attack the Japanese forces seeking refuge in the capital. A great miracle as this hotel still survived the bombing and was later rebuilt to its finest structure.
Around the current, it’s the one that holds the important political events and inaugurations with the Philippines. Foreign leaders and Heads of State like Prince Charles stayed within this hotel, along with entertainers Sammy Davis Jr. as well as the Beatles. It had already been a house to authors Ernest Hemingway and James Michener, Time publisher Henry Luce, and actors John Wayne and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
One of the notable personalities that stayed within this hotel, there’s one that truly made a mark: Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who played an important role in liberating the Philippines in the Japanese invasion. General MacArthur stayed on this hotel for a while prior to the War occurred in 1940. The same room that Gen. MacArthur stayed in was preserved until recently in its original condition. This room was even named once the brave general who became dear to the Filipinos’ hearts.
The hotel’s major renovation and reconstruction was done during the time of the Marcos dictatorship. It had been reopened in 1977 with an even grander and much more glamorous appeal.During this time that it can be considered that it’s the time with the hotel’s peak of glory.It had been on this era when the Manila Hotel won many international awards and gain recognitions from all around the world.
Should the Manila Hotel could only tell stories on what it had bee gone for the past years, the publishers of it will really ran out of books to release. But even without speaking, the architecture, the style and the design with the Manila Hotel could already testify to what it had experienced. So that as a symbol of Philippine culture at its finest, Manila Hotel won’t ever cease to inform its stories to the coming generations.