The 10 Best Luxury Hotels in Makati
From the Mandarin Oriental Makati Manila to the Admiral Hotel Manila: the finest luxury addresses in Makati, hand-picked by our travel experts. Every suitespot booking comes with free breakfast for 2, a room upgrade subject to availability, hotel credit and VIP service – benefits worth over €500.
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The top hotels in Makati at a glance
From legendary grand hotels to intimate design addresses: these properties lead our ranking for Makati. See at a glance where each hotel is located, which loyalty program earns you points and where nightly rates begin. "From" prices are current entry rates and may include limited-time promotional rates.
| Hotel | Location | Hotel program | suitespot score | Price from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mandarin Oriental Makati Manila | Urdaneta | Fans of Mandarin Oriental | – | 320 € |
| Admiral Hotel Manila | Manila Bay | ALL (Accor) | – | 70 € |
| Fairmont Makati | – | ALL (Accor) | – | 150 € |
| Conrad Manila | Manila Bay | Hilton Honors | – | 120 € |
| The Peninsula Manila | Makati | – | – | 130 € |
| Raffles Makati | Makati | ALL (Accor) | – | 240 € |
| Shangri-La at the Fort Manila | – | Shangri-La Golden Circle | – | 310 € |
| Grand Hyatt Manila | Guadalupe Nuevo | World of Hyatt | – | 200 € |
| Edsa Shangri-La Manila | Wack-Wack Greenhills | Shangri-La Golden Circle | – | 160 € |
| Makati Shangri-La Manila | – | Shangri-La Golden Circle | – | 150 € |
Current offers & deals for luxury hotels in Makati
Many of our partner hotels in Makati offer special conditions bookable via suitespot – from free nights to discounts on longer stays. Your suitespot benefits (breakfast, upgrade chance, hotel credit) apply on top.
| Hotel | Offer | Bookable until |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin Oriental Makati Manila | Bookable for stays from | December 13, 2026 |
| Conrad Manila | 33% discount for stays of three nights or more | December 28, 2026 |
| Edsa Shangri-La Manila | Fourth night free | February 23, 2027 |
| Admiral Hotel Manila | Third night free | June 18, 2027 |
| Fairmont Makati | Third night free | June 18, 2027 |
| Raffles Makati | Third night free | June 18, 2027 |
Your guide to the best 5-star hotels in Makati and Manila
Mandarin Oriental Makati Manila · UrdanetaWith every booking through suitespot you receive a comprehensive package of suitespot benefits:- Complimentary breakfast for two
- Room upgrade subject to availability
- Up to 100 USD hotel credit per stay
- Early check-in and late check-out subject to availability
- Standard points and status benefits in the hotel programmes
The ten in order of entry rate: the Mandarin Oriental Makati Manila (from around 325 €), Shangri-La at the Fort at 30th Street in Bonifacio Global City (312 €), Raffles Makati on Raffles Drive (247 €), the Grand Hyatt Manila on 8th Avenue in Bonifacio Global City (203 €), the Edsa Shangri-La Manila at Ortigas Center in Mandaluyong (165 €), the Makati Shangri-La Manila at the corner of Ayala Avenue (154 €), the Fairmont Makati (151 €), The Peninsula Manila at the corner of Ayala and Makati Avenues (137 €), the Conrad Manila on Seaside Boulevard in Pasay (127 €) and the Admiral Hotel Manila on Roxas Boulevard in Malate (74 €).
Eight of the ten carry Manila in their name rather than that of their own city district – only Raffles Makati and the Fairmont Makati do not. That is not an accident: this is the part of the capital most international visitors mean when they say Manila. The business district, the malls along Ayala Avenue and the airport road all meet here.
The selection now reaches beyond Makati, and we would rather be precise about how far. What it covers well is the central business district, Bonifacio Global City, Ortigas Center and the bay area. What it does not cover is the historic quarter of Intramuros, Quezon City, or the resort islands – for those, the honest answer is that we would send you elsewhere in the Philippines or on to a second leg of the trip.
Two of the ten share one address
Read the addresses and something stands out immediately. The Fairmont Makati and Raffles Makati both sit at 1 Raffles Drive, off Makati Avenue – they are two houses in one complex, run by the same group, sharing a site.
Admiral Hotel Manila · Manila BayTheir entry rates are 151 € and 247 €. That is a premium of roughly 64 per cent, at the same address.Personal luxury travel adviceOur travel advisors personally accompany your booking – 365 days a year, from the first offer to late check-out. Reach the suitespot VIP service via email or WhatsApp.Phone: +49 30 81452346 · hotel@suitespot.comThis matters because it removes location from the comparison entirely. Whatever you are paying the extra for at the Raffles – the room, the service level, the suite categories named Artists, Legacy and Presidential – it is not the address, because the Fairmont has exactly the same one. It is the clearest illustration in our Philippine selection of a point that holds more widely: in Makati the premium is for the house, not the position.
Part of the field is within walking distance of it. The Makati Shangri-La Manila (154 €) stands at the corner of Ayala Avenue, and The Peninsula Manila (137 €) at the corner of Ayala and Makati Avenues – the two main axes of the district, a few minutes apart on foot. The Mandarin Oriental Makati Manila (325 €) at Ayala Triangle Gardens closes the Makati field at the top.
The other five properties are genuinely somewhere else, and it is worth being clear about that. Two are in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig: the Shangri-La at the Fort (312 €) on 30th Street and the Grand Hyatt Manila (203 €) at the corner of 8th Avenue and 35th Street. One, the Edsa Shangri-La Manila (165 €), stands at Ortigas Center in Mandaluyong. And two sit on the bay: the Conrad Manila (127 €) on Seaside Boulevard in Pasay and the Admiral Hotel Manila (74 €) on Roxas Boulevard in Malate. If your appointments are on Ayala Avenue, Bonifacio Global City is the wrong side of the divide – and the other way round.
Two booking notes worth having in advance: the Grand Hyatt Manila and the Admiral Hotel Manila both require a minimum stay of two nights, which rules them out for the single night before a flight.
Where the 5-star hotels in Manila actually are
People searching for a five-star hotel in Manila are usually looking for Makati or Bonifacio Global City, whether or not they know the names. With us it is no longer quite that narrow.
Fairmont MakatiMetro Manila is not one city but sixteen, and the international hotel stock is not spread evenly across them. Our ten properties sit in five of those sixteen. Here is where.
Makati central business district
Five of our ten properties. The Fairmont Makati (from around 151 €) and Raffles Makati (247 €) share the site at 1 Raffles Drive off Makati Avenue; the Makati Shangri-La Manila (154 €) and The Peninsula Manila (137 €) stand at the Ayala Avenue corners a short walk away; and the Mandarin Oriental Makati Manila (325 €) at Ayala Triangle Gardens is the most expensive house on this page. This is the densest concentration of offices, malls and restaurants in the country.
Bonifacio Global City, Taguig
Two properties: the Shangri-La at the Fort (312 €) on 30th Street and the Grand Hyatt Manila (203 €) at the corner of 8th Avenue and 35th Street. BGC is newer, more planned and more walkable than Makati, and it has become the second business centre of the capital. It is a separate city from Makati, and the drive between them is short but subject to traffic.
Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong
One property, the Edsa Shangri-La Manila (165 €) at 1 Garden Way. Ortigas is the third business centre of the metropolitan region, sitting between Makati and Quezon City on the EDSA – the arterial road that gives the hotel its name. Of our ten properties it is the furthest from the airport.
The bay area: Pasay and Malate
Two properties on Manila Bay. The Conrad Manila (127 €) stands on Seaside Boulevard in Pasay, in the conference and entertainment district on the water – and therefore in the same city district as the airport. The Admiral Hotel Manila (74 €) sits on Roxas Boulevard in Malate, within the city of Manila itself; it is the least expensive house on this page and the closest of the ten to the historic centre.
What we do not cover
We hold nothing inside Intramuros, the walled colonial quarter, and nothing in Quezon City, the most populous district of the metropolitan region. Nor do we hold resort islands: if your trip is built around Palawan, Cebu or Boracay, Manila is the beginning or the end of it with us rather than the destination – and our travel advisors will tell you so.
The practical upshot is simple. Distances in Metro Manila are short in kilometres and long in minutes, and traffic is the single biggest variable in any day here. Choosing between Makati, BGC, Ortigas and the bay is really choosing which of those crossings you want to avoid making daily – so book the district your appointments are in, and treat the price difference as secondary.
What a 5-star hotel in Makati costs
The median entry rate across our ten properties is around 160 €, which places Metro Manila at the affordable end of our Asian portfolio: only Kuala Lumpur (148 €) is cheaper, while Bangkok (around 176 €), Beijing (198 €), Hong Kong (245 €) and Seoul (269 €) all sit above it.
Conrad Manila · Manila BayThe Admiral Hotel Manila at 74 € is the least expensive house on the page – an Accor property on Roxas Boulevard at a rate almost no Asian capital in our portfolio matches. The Peninsula Manila at 137 € is the one most likely to surprise: a Peninsula, on the main corner of the business district, below the median of every other Asian city on this list. The Conrad Manila at 127 € sits lower still.
At the other end, the Shangri-La at the Fort (312 €) and the Mandarin Oriental Makati (325 €) are the only two above 250 €, with Raffles Makati (247 €) just below them. They are different propositions – the Raffles a small suite-led house sharing a site with the Fairmont, the Shangri-La a large hotel in a different city district.
Between 74 € and 325 € lies a factor of 4.4, and that is the real finding of this page: the spread runs along the districts rather than along the stars. Because the field is ten properties deep there is genuine choice at the entry level – and, unlike on a small selection, the category above is now worth a look too. The Conrad Manila lists six suite categories, the Mandarin Oriental Makati Manila five and the Grand Hyatt Manila four; Raffles Makati lists Artists, Legacy and Presidential, and the Fairmont a Gold Corner and a Presidential. Ask our travel advisors what is actually available for your dates.
Points, programmes and ratings
Nine of our ten properties belong to a hotel programme, and the shape of it is unusually clear. ALL covers three: the Admiral Hotel Manila (74 €), the Fairmont Makati (151 €) and Raffles Makati (247 €). The Shangri-La Golden Circle covers three as well, and in three different districts – the Makati Shangri-La Manila (154 €) in Makati, the Edsa Shangri-La Manila (165 €) at Ortigas and the Shangri-La at the Fort (312 €) in Bonifacio Global City. Three more carry a programme of their own: the Conrad Manila (127 €) with Hilton Honors, the Grand Hyatt Manila (203 €) with World of Hyatt and the Mandarin Oriental Makati Manila (325 €) with Fans of Mandarin Oriental.
The exception is The Peninsula Manila, which takes part in no loyalty programme. You will not earn points or apply status there – the suitespot benefits apply regardless, and at 137 € it remains one of the better-value addresses in the district.
That leaves collectors unusually well served: two programmes cover three houses each, and in both cases the choice is simultaneously one of district and of price. As an Accor guest you choose between 74 € on the bay and 151 € or 247 € at the same Makati address. With Shangri-La it is Makati at 154 €, Ortigas at 165 € or BGC at 312 € – which is really the district question again.
Where our own guests have rated a house, the Conrad Manila stands at 4.6 and The Peninsula Manila at 4.3. We hold no ratings for the other eight, so that is two data points rather than a ranking.
Manila as a first or last night
For a large share of our guests Manila is not the destination but the connection – the night before an early flight to Palawan, Cebu or Boracay, or the night after coming back.Personal luxury travel adviceOur travel advisors personally accompany your booking – 365 days a year, from the first offer to late check-out. Reach the suitespot VIP service via email or WhatsApp.Phone: +49 30 81452346 · hotel@suitespot.comThat changes what matters. Proximity to Ninoy Aquino International Airport counts for more than the view – and the airport sits in Pasay, which is neither Makati nor Bonifacio Global City. The closest house to it is therefore the Conrad Manila, in the same city district. The Makati field follows, led by the Fairmont and the Raffles at 1 Raffles Drive. Bonifacio Global City is noticeably further out, and the furthest of all on this page is the Edsa Shangri-La Manila at Ortigas Center.
It also changes what to book. For a single night before a dawn departure, the Conrad Manila at 127 € or The Peninsula Manila at 137 € do the job without spending the budget that belongs to the islands. The cheapest house on the page is out for that purpose: the Admiral Hotel Manila (74 €), like the Grand Hyatt Manila (203 €), requires a minimum stay of two nights. Save the Raffles for the nights at the end of the trip, when you will actually be in the room.
As a suitespot guest you travel with VIP status: we pass your preferences to the hotel before you arrive – in Makati most often a high floor away from the avenue, and a late check-out when a flight leaves in the evening. On top of that, every property includes breakfast for two, an upgrade subject to availability and up to 100 USD hotel credit.
Because this is a ten-property selection across four districts, our travel advisors can be specific rather than general: tell them your flight times and which district your meetings are in, and they will name one house rather than a shortlist.
Earn points & use your status in Makati
suitespot rates are genuine direct rates: you keep earning regular points and elite nights in the hotel's loyalty program and retain your status benefits – on top of your suitespot benefits. These programs are represented in Makati:
| Program | Hotels | Examples in Makati |
|---|---|---|
| ALL (Accor) | 3 hotels | Admiral Hotel Manila, Fairmont Makati, Raffles Makati |
| Shangri-La Golden Circle | 3 hotels | Shangri-La at the Fort Manila, Edsa Shangri-La Manila, Makati Shangri-La Manila |
| Fans of Mandarin Oriental | 1 hotel | Mandarin Oriental Makati Manila |
| Hilton Honors | 1 hotel | Conrad Manila |
| World of Hyatt | 1 hotel | Grand Hyatt Manila |
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Frequently asked questions about luxury hotels in Makati
How much does a 5-star hotel in Makati cost?
Entry rates across our ten properties run from about 74 € per night at the Admiral Hotel Manila to 325 € at the Mandarin Oriental Makati Manila. The median of the ten is roughly 160 €.
In between: the Conrad Manila at 127 €, The Peninsula Manila at 137 €, the Fairmont Makati at 151 €, the Makati Shangri-La Manila at 154 €, the Edsa Shangri-La Manila at 165 €, the Grand Hyatt Manila at 203 €, Raffles Makati at 247 € and the Shangri-La at the Fort at 312 €.
That places Metro Manila at the affordable end of our Asian portfolio – only Kuala Lumpur (148 €) is cheaper, while Bangkok (176 €), Beijing (198 €), Hong Kong (245 €) and Seoul (269 €) sit above it. The most striking single rate is The Peninsula at 137 €, for a house on the main corner of the business district. With suitespot you always book at direct rates, and the benefits worth more than 500 € come on top.
Which are the best 5-star hotels in Manila?
Our ten properties spread across four districts.
In Makati, the central business district, five: Raffles Makati (from around 247 €) and the Fairmont Makati (151 €), which share the site at 1 Raffles Drive; the Makati Shangri-La Manila (154 €) and The Peninsula Manila (137 €) at the Ayala Avenue corners; and the Mandarin Oriental Makati Manila (325 €), the most expensive house on this page.
In Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, two: the Shangri-La at the Fort (312 €) and the Grand Hyatt Manila (203 €). At Ortigas Center in Mandaluyong one: the Edsa Shangri-La Manila (165 €). And on Manila Bay two: the Conrad Manila (127 €) in Pasay and the Admiral Hotel Manila (74 €) in Malate.
Eight of the ten carry Manila rather than their own district in their name, which tells you how the city itself thinks about the distinction. We hold nothing inside Intramuros or in Quezon City, and our travel advisors will say so plainly if that is where your trip is centred.
Should I stay in Makati or Bonifacio Global City?
It comes down to where your days are, because crossing between the two is the thing you want to avoid.
Makati holds five of our ten properties and is the older, denser business district – Ayala Avenue, the malls, the highest concentration of offices in the country, and a short drive to the airport. Bonifacio Global City in Taguig is newer, more planned and noticeably more walkable, and we have two houses there: the Shangri-La at the Fort (from around 312 €) and the Grand Hyatt Manila (203 €). If neither fits, we also hold houses at Ortigas Center and on the bay.
The distance between them is short in kilometres. In Metro Manila traffic it is not short in minutes, and that is the whole of the argument. Book the district your meetings are in and treat the rate difference as the secondary question – our travel advisors will place the properties against your schedule.
Why do the Fairmont and Raffles Makati have the same address?
Because they are two houses in one complex. Both carry the address 1 Raffles Drive, off Makati Avenue, and both are run by the same group.
Their entry rates are 151 € for the Fairmont and 247 € for the Raffles – a premium of roughly 64 per cent, at an identical location. That makes the comparison unusually clean, because location drops out of it entirely: what you are paying for is the house itself, its service level and its suites, not the address.
Raffles Makati is the smaller, suite-led of the two, with Artists, Legacy and Presidential categories. The Fairmont is the larger, with a Gold Corner and a Presidential suite. Both belong to the ALL programme, so points and status work the same way at either.
Do I earn points and can I use my status with suitespot?
At nine of our ten properties, yes – and the structure is simple: two programmes with three houses each, plus three with a single house.
ALL covers the Admiral Hotel Manila (74 €), the Fairmont Makati (151 €) and Raffles Makati (247 €). The Shangri-La Golden Circle covers the Makati Shangri-La Manila (154 €), the Edsa Shangri-La Manila (165 €) and the Shangri-La at the Fort (312 €) – three houses in three districts. Beyond those: Hilton Honors at the Conrad Manila (127 €), World of Hyatt at the Grand Hyatt Manila (203 €) and Fans of Mandarin Oriental at the Mandarin Oriental Makati Manila (325 €).
The Peninsula Manila takes part in no loyalty programme, so no points or status there. At 137 € it is still among the better-value addresses in the district, and the suitespot benefits – breakfast for two, upgrade subject to availability, up to 100 USD hotel credit – apply exactly as they do everywhere else. Your status benefits at the other nine come in addition to those.
Which hotel in Makati is best for a night before an early flight?
Ninoy Aquino International Airport sits in Pasay, and so does our closest house to it: the Conrad Manila at around 127 €. Makati follows, led by the Fairmont and the Raffles at 1 Raffles Drive; the furthest out is the Edsa Shangri-La Manila at Ortigas Center.
For a single night, the Conrad Manila and The Peninsula Manila at 137 € are the sensible choices: full five-star houses at rates that leave the budget where it belongs, on the islands. Two are not options for one night – the Admiral Hotel Manila and the Grand Hyatt Manila both require a minimum stay of two nights.
Two practical notes. Manila traffic is the variable that decides how early you need to leave, not the distance, so build in more time than the map suggests. And if your flight is in the evening rather than at dawn, ask us about late check-out – it is one of the suitespot benefits and it is worth more on a departure day than almost anything else.
Does suitespot have hotels elsewhere in the Philippines?
Our Philippine selection is concentrated in Metro Manila, and this page covers ten properties across four districts – Makati, Bonifacio Global City, Ortigas Center and the bay. That is the honest scope of it.
What that means in practice is that Manila works well with us as the arrival, departure or business part of a trip, and less well as the whole of one. The country's draw is the islands, and most guests who come through here are on their way somewhere else.
If you are planning that kind of trip, talk to our travel advisors before you book the city nights. They can tell you what we cover, what we do not, and how to sequence the domestic flights so that the Manila nights fall where they are useful rather than where they are unavoidable.
When is the best time to visit Manila?
The dry season, roughly December to April, is the comfortable half of the year. December to February is the coolest and least humid stretch and the best window for anything spent outdoors.
March to May is hot, and the humidity builds through it. The rainy season runs from around June to November, with the heaviest months usually July to September; this is also typhoon season, and heavy rain can flood roads and make the city's traffic considerably worse.
For a business trip the weather matters less than the calendar – Holy Week and the Christmas period both change how the city runs. If Manila is a staging point for the islands, the timing question is really about them rather than about the capital, and our travel advisors will plan the sequence around that.
