A total of 13 staycation hotels in Metro Manila have resumed operations following the recent switch of the National Capital Region (NCR)-plus to a more relaxed community quarantine status. (Photo by Ralph Darabos / Unsplash) These staycation hotels have 5,986 rooms available for booking, the Manila...
Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno'' Domagoso sees the long lines in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination centers as a "good problem" as it shows that people are determined to get the vaccines that will protect them from COVID-19. Manila residents wait in line to be inoculated at the Manila...
Manila City's elderly people and those with comorbidities can now get the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday (May 18). A residents in Manila receives her first dose of Pfizer vaccine at the Manila Prince Hotel on Tuesday (May 18, 2021). (Ali Vicoy / MANILA BULLETIN) The city government has deployed...
The Manila Hotel's Café Ilang-Ilang offers halal-certified food for takeout and delivery Vegetable biryani, harmour harra, vegetable samosas, and baklava The pandemic may put some of our usual activities on hold, but it is not strong enough to shake our religious traditions. For our Muslim...
Check out what they are cooking for mama's special day The Manila Hotel's Halal offering and Hilton Manila's Heart-Shaped Macaron Cake This coming Mother's Day, give your mama a break from her kitchen duties and bring to your table the best food from Manila's luxury hotels. The Manila Hotel The...
Qs or quarantines (with different classifications) have drastically affected the hospitality industry this past year, especially hotels that missed out on events, special holidays, and two summer seasons. But even with the restrictions imposed by government, the hotels in Metro Manila did not...
The Department of Tourism (DOT) on Thursday, May 6 expressed "grave concern and dismay" with tourism establishments that continue to violate health and safety protocols that had been set by the government amid the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. This, after the DOT received a...
Budget hotel booking platform RedDoorz Philippines has emphasized the need to follow safety measures and take advantage of available technology, saying these actions will help keep the hotel industry afloat amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. (Photo from Pixabay) During a recent...
A total of 150 frontline staff of quarantine hotels were among the thousands of workers who benefitted from the symbolic vaccination of laborers against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) last Saturday, May 1, as part of the government's celebration of Labor Day. (Manila Public Information Office...
In other words, what are your plans for Holy Week 2021? THE EASTER EGG HUNT Where are you going this Holy Week on lockdown? One of them is hidden in diamonds. Yes, it’s called “Mirage, the world’s most expensive Easter egg, which belongs to an anonymous collector. On its outer shell, it is...
College basketball star Eric Farinas’s Java Hotel in Laoag is why you should go on a trip to Ilocos now, if you can Last week, we arrived from a 10-day culinary tour of Northern Luzon. It was the longest yet most fun work I had done ever for our food show "Foodprints." The surprises of new food...
Bloomberry Resorts Corporation, owner of Solaire Resort & Casino and Jeju Sun Hotel & Casino, reported an audited consolidated net loss of P8.3 billion for 2020 compared to net profit of P9.9 billion in 2019. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said its 2020 results...
