If you are in Metro Manila for some sort of convention, you couldn’t have chosen a better place. The Philippine International Convention Center Complex on Roxas Boulevard is perhaps the finest convention center in Philippines. This convention complex can satisfy all your needs. With a high capacity (up to 4000 people) convention hall as well as meeting halls for hundred to thousand people at a time, this is the place you would like to convene any important meeting. Besides that you might like to use resort hotels situated outside the town for your conventions. If you want further information, you might like to contact the Philippine Convention Visitors Corporation (PCVC).
Now about some other reason for Manila travel-yes getting entertained! Manila offers all the night creatures a lot of spots to get entertained. It doesn’t matter what your taste is like. Local pop artists perform in most of
the better restaurants and hotels. The Manila Metropolitan Theater and the Repertory Theater at Shangri-La Plaza and various such theatres offer you classical concerts and ballet performances for people having refined tastes. For others there are numerous folk dance troupes, jazz bands and string quartets.
Want to spend you night with dancing to the rhythm; well you are welcome to Makati Avenue and Pasay Road in Makati, Timog, Greenhills in San Juan and Roxas Boulevard and Malate. In addition to that you could also visit Quezon Boulevard andWest Avenues in Quezon City. Techno sounds rent the air in these discotheques that would make you forget everything and dance with the ecstatic crowd there. Jazz bars and music lounges would quench your thirst of wines and exotic music. What is more, you could also use these places for conversing with your partners. Feel like singing along with the music. Well, come to the Karaoke bars and nightclubs. Just forget yourself and drink and dance and feel the rhythm flowing through your body.
Feeling itchy in the hands! Well, there are two casinos here to let you ride your luck. Be it cards, slot machines or roulette, test your luck here. If you are amongst the ones for whom shop till drop is coined, well Manila travel is the place for you. There is no dearth of shopping malls, bargain centers and flea markets. For antique hunters, well it is really a paradise. Handicrafts shops could be found on the way when you travel from the airport to the city.
Like any other metropolis, Manila Metro also boasts of a large number of huge shopping malls. Cubao in Quezon City, Crossing in Mandaluyong, Ayala in Makati and Ortigas in San Juan are some of the major names. Like any other major shopping complexes, these also encompass virtually everything that you would think of. So, right from antiques stores to jewelry shops to drugstores to gourmet restaurants to virtually everything, you can find anything and everything in these malls. And yes, here you can watch movies also.
If you have had enough of shopping malls, welcome to the flea markets of Manila. By the way what is the use of Manila travel if you don’t see these because shopping malls you can find anywhere but not these markets. Quiapo Divisoria and Baclaran abound with plenty of stalls selling fabric to readymade garments, house ware to décor items to fresh produce. Malate Manila would satisfy your taste for antiques and handicrafts while San Juan would do the same for relics, ceramics, earthenware and brassware.
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