Conrad Manila and Edsa Shangri-La made it to this year's list of best hotels in the long-running Readers' Choice Awards hosted by Condé Naste Traveler
The travel magazine annually conducts the Readers’ Choice Awards for more than three decades where registered participants cast their votes for their top choices across several categories such as countries, cities, islands, resorts, spas, airports, cruises, resorts, and hotels.
A record 600,000 voters joined the 2019 survey, which revealed Conrad Manila and Edsa Shangri-La among the world’s top 50 best hotels. Respectively bagging the 45th and 46th place, these hotels are two of only seven Asia-based hotels to be featured in the coveted list.
The hotels included in this list are those that offered an unforgettable stay — great food, cloud-soft sheets, and extraordinary service, among other standards that made the voters hail them as one of the bests.
Edsa Shangri-La, Manila is the very first Shangri-La hotel in the Philippines. The two white towers of this hotel are set in a tropical garden amid the shopping and residential Ortigas Centre district. It boasts of outstanding interiors — marble floors, wooden rails, Asian paintings, and floral arrangements. The Tower Wing rooms offer a breathtaking view of the cityscape while the Garden Wing offers either the cityscape or the hotel’s stunning gardens. The service is praised as excellent with multiple restaurants serving a variety of cuisines from Japanese to Cantonese to Italian.
John Rice, area vice president of operations for the Shangri-La Group in the Philippines, expressed their gratefulness and delight to be listed among the best hotels in the world. “We feel more inspired and driven to serve with the legendary warmth of the Shangri-La hospitality our guests have come to expect”.
