Philippines
6 ranked
hotels in Manila
2 MICHELIN Keys · 4 Forbes Five Star · 0 World's 50 Best placings
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Makati's Ayala corridor and the bay's casino resort towers
Manila has 6 hotels ranked in the finehotels.world index. Fairmont Makati leads on prestige score at 5.20 out of 10, followed by Okada Manila and Raffles Makati. Of those, 2 hold MICHELIN Keys, 4 hold a Forbes Five Star rating, 1 are rated by La Liste.
Manila's ranked hotels are unusual on this index for leaning on Forbes rather than Keys: four of the six carry Forbes Five Star ratings, two hold MICHELIN Keys and one is recognised by La Liste. Raffles Makati and Fairmont Makati share a tower on Makati Avenue, and The Peninsula Manila has held its corner at Ayala and Makati Avenue, with a vast atrium lobby, since 1976.
The rest cluster in Entertainment City on reclaimed land beside Manila Bay, where Okada Manila, Nuwa Manila at City of Dreams and the Sky Tower at Solaire pair suites with casino floors and theatres.
| Hotel | Prestige | Distinctions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairmont Makati1 Key · 280 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
| 2 | Okada ManilaForbes · La Liste | 5.20 | Forbes Five Star; La Liste 98.0 |
| 3 | Raffles Makati1 Key · 32 rooms | 5.20 | 1 MICHELIN Key |
| 4 | Nüwa Manila at City of DreamsForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 5 | Sky Tower at Solaire Resort Entertainment CityForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
| 6 | The Peninsula ManilaForbes | 5.07 | Forbes Five Star |
Prestige score is shown out of 10. Sources: MICHELIN Guide hotel selection, Forbes Travel Guide 2026 Star Awards, The World’s 50 Best Hotels 2023 to 2025, La Liste Top 1000 Hotels.
Makati's Ayala Center district is the business and dining core, walkable between malls, galleries and the Greenbelt gardens; Entertainment City in Paranaque, on the bay southwest of the centre, is a self-contained strip of resort towers close to the airport; Bonifacio Global City and Intramuros sit at opposite ends of the city's history and appeal.
The cool dry months from December to February bring the best conditions and the fullest hotels, particularly over the long Christmas season; March to May is hot, and the June to October typhoon and monsoon window is the quietest and least predictable.
By prestige score, the three highest ranked hotels in Manila are Fairmont Makati, Okada Manila, Raffles Makati. The score is a composite of MICHELIN Keys, Forbes Travel Guide Five Star ratings, placements in The World's 50 Best Hotels for 2023, 2024 and 2025, and La Liste's hotel ratings. finehotels.world tracks 6 award holding hotels in Manila in total.
Manila has 2 hotels holding MICHELIN Keys in this index.
Each hotel is scored on a fixed formula built only from award facts, then shown on a scale of 5.00 to 10.00. MICHELIN Keys carry the most weight, a Forbes Travel Guide Five Star rating adds a flat six points, placements in The World's 50 Best Hotels for 2023, 2024 and 2025 are weighted equally, and a La Liste rating moves the total slightly. Nothing a hotel supplies about itself enters the score, and the full formula is published on the methodology page so any figure in the table can be reproduced from the awards beside it.
The cool dry months from December to February bring the best conditions and the fullest hotels, particularly over the long Christmas season; March to May is hot, and the June to October typhoon and monsoon window is the quietest and least predictable.
Makati's Ayala Center district is the business and dining core, walkable between malls, galleries and the Greenbelt gardens; Entertainment City in Paranaque, on the bay southwest of the centre, is a self-contained strip of resort towers close to the airport; Bonifacio Global City and Intramuros sit at opposite ends of the city's history and appeal.