Balesin Vacations from $829

Property is very clean and close to shopping center and eating places.

A super view at night, clean room, superb staff. But breakfast to me was somewhat odd; soup for breakfast? Just improve your breakfast. Thanks ! But, overall, I love the place and planning to come back next year.

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.