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Makati Shangri-La, Manila is a 5-star luxury hotel located in Makati and one of the three hotels managed by Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts in Metro Manila, Philippines. It opened on April 27, 1993. The hotel has 696 rooms and suites, including Horizon Club floors located on the 22nd to the 25th floors, an outdoor pool, a 24-hour gym, spa, outdoor tennis courts, function and banquet halls that can accommodate up to 1,200 people, and a number of restaurants and bars. Called an “Oasis in downtown”, it is renowned for its service and hospitality that sees it frequently appear on world’s best hotel lists, as well as being considered the number one hotel in the Philippines 20 years after its opening. == History == When it opened, the Shangri-La Makati was “one of the first international five-star properties at a time where few large chains were present in the Philippines capital”. It was developed by the Ayala family with an aim to keep the area as Manila’s luxury address. Originally it opened with 703 rooms over its 28 floors, at a cost of $118 million. It was the first new hotel in Makati in 17 years and featured the largest meeting spaces in the city.〔 The hotel has undergone several renovations over the years to keep it fresh, including 3 restaurant overhauls and the refurbishing of more than 200 rooms in 2001 in order to make the hotel more technically savvy, with finer optic cabling and broadband internet. The cost per room of the renovation was around $30,000. The entire renovation, which continued until the end of 2002, cost $130 million. The Rizal ballroom was renovated in 2009. A second ballroom named “Isabela” opened in November 2013 with an aim to provide a modern event space with interchangeable furniture and audiovisual technology. In 2010 the hotel embarked on a program called “Green Housekeeping” in order to reduce the use of chemicals and improve cleanliness, with initiatives like low-temperature washing and lower electricity use.〔 The same year it was the first hotel in the Philippines to equip its concierge team with iPads. The hotel turned 20 in April 2013, but after several upgrades and renovations maintained its standing as the city’s best hotel. In 2013 the hotel joined its partners from the Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts in the Philippines to launch a radio show titled “Inside 5-Star“ on Radio High 105.9 FM. In the show, which ran every Friday at 8 to 9 p.m., from 5 April to 19 July 2013 over 16 episodes, topics included spa essentials, tips for traveling with families, healthy eating paired with a healthy lifestyle, five-star fitness challenge, how to care for a marine sanctuary, vacation tips for any season, destination weddings etc. The hotel achieves an average 80 percent occupancy, most of which are corporate clients such as the American Embassy. The current manager is Alain Borgers, from Belgium, former manager of the first Shangri-La in Europe, the Shangri-La Hotel, Paris.〔 He was also the GM of Makati Shangri-La in 1999. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Makati Shangri-La, Manila」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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