Plane Spotting Hotels: MNL

The Holiday Inn express (the old Remington) with cracking views over much of the field - looking across the intersection of all runways with T3 to your right and the Air Force museum below and to the left. To find the hotel from T3 arrivals keep going up levels until you find the food court and sign for Manila runway walkway which leads you to The Belmont and other hotels (HiEx @10 min walk to the right). Worth noting that your arrival and departure info into/out of the country is required to be logged on an easy to use downloaded government app.

Room 10032, anything from 10027-10036 (no #34) would give similar view or on 9th floor below. Everything can be read off and enough light at night to clearly identify aircraft. If it moves you wont miss it - if it doesn't then you are a bit stuffed!! No views over cargo, biz ramps or the storage ramps north end of the field. I couldn't arrange any access at short notice so took a (wasted)walk along some of the walled/fenced off perimeter. Grab taxi app a good way to get home safely.

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Full album from Jazz Club.

The hotel is accessed via the ‘Runway Manila’ bridge from Terminal Three, which the hotel overlooks.

We requested an airport view room on within the booking. Only one twin room was available, which was room 846. This gave good views of T3, across to the northern end of T2 and views of both runways. It also gives (restricted by trees) views of the Air Force ramp. The room is higher than the airport infrastructure so monitoring movements was relatively stress free.

The other had room 1046, which was near the end of the hallway which had a corridor window with very similar views to room 846.

We also spent limited time at the rooftop pool area. From here, you are higher still and can see the Cebu Pacific & Philippines AirAsia maintenance areas including stored aircraft, as well as one of the FBO aprons. Although we got a few strange looks from other guests using the pool, the Staff were very friendly and appear to understand what we were doing, especially when looking through my telescope!

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