Large spacious rooms, decent hotel location.

Good location close to the airport and a huge mall, the rooms are nice and spacious, the hotel reception is a little baron and sterile though.

If you are coming to the Conrad from NAIA, then you can expect the travel time to only take about 10 minutes with no traffic and about 25 minutes with, thanks to the recently opened NAIA Expressway. Right next to the hotel is a huge mall called The Mall of Asia. Here you can find lots of Filipino and Western-style restaurants inside the Mall, and a huge entertainment complex just outside. A selection of the more common Filipino style resto-bars can be found in the bay area opposite the hotel, which is a nice walk in the evening with many bars often hosting live bands whilst watching the sunset. You can also take a quick 5-minute cab ride at night to one of the numerous hotels and casinos further down the bay area.

Check-in to the hotel is fairly painless. There is a large albeit empty “welcoming area” whereby you need to take an elevator up one floor to get to the actual reception area. There are a good 5 or 6 desks and the actual check-in process was quick and professional as you would expect from a Hilton branded hotel.

The hotel is huge. By total room square footage, it must be one of the largest hotels I have stayed in. Taking the elevator up to the room then meant a good 3-4 minute walk past hundreds of rooms to get to my own. Honestly, if you are meeting friends in the bar downstairs, give yourself 5 minutes walking time to get from your room. Just before I checked out, I think I worked out that I could have saved a minute or so by taking a different elevator and cutting back across the hotel reception floor, but the initial point stands.

I stayed in a king one-bedroom suite as I was attending a conference and got it at a preferable rate. The room itself was very nicely laid out, divided into a living area, bedroom area, huge walk-in wardrobe, and a very large bathroom with a deep bathtub. Seriously, you put your phone down somewhere, and then you spend the next 10 minutes walking around trying to find it again. There were some nice welcome chocolates and fruits in the living room when I arrived, which were soon taken care of.

As mentioned, the bathroom has a very deep tub, two sinks, a TV, and a very powerful shower which is excellent for waking you up in the morning.

The conference was hosted well by the hotel, very professional, decent food, and the drinks in the bar area where you could sit outside were also quite relaxing after a hard day.

The only downside to the hotel is that it is very sparse without seemingly much to do. I don’t think you’d find yourself staying inside the actual hotel very often besides a quick drink at the bar and sleeping in your room — that obviously doesn’t matter much if you are happy to go to the nearby restaurants at the Mall. I’d say more of a hotel for business travelers like myself.