Finding cheap rooms in Manila is easier when you know where to look. We compare live hotel rates across the top booking sites and point you to the neighborhoods where hotels are cheap but the location is still great.
Rooms come in more shapes than hotels — in Manila you can also compare apartments with kitchens, vacation rentals for families, B&Bs and budget hostels in one search.
The business district, with many hotels, malls and restaurants.
A modern, walkable district with newer hotels.
Near Manila Bay and Intramuros, with budget hotels.
Near the airport and large resort complexes, handy for flights.
Zoom and pan the map to compare hotel prices by neighborhood; rates come live from the booking sites.
The dry season, roughly December–May, is best; June–November is the rainy and typhoon season, with lower rates.
Malate and Ermita have many budget hotels, and Makati has good-value deals at weekends.
Very — choose a hotel close to where you need to be and allow plenty of time for airport transfers.
Yes. Manila’s airport has domestic flights to Cebu, Palawan and Boracay.