checked-in at manila grand opera hotel on a monday (mar 14, 2011)

mar 14, 2011... monday...
check-in day at Manila Grand Opera Hotel & Casino located at Santa Cruz, Manila, Philippines...
beside LRT-DOROTEO JOSE station...
the only 5-star hotel in ChinaTown...
for a week long seminar on the Epidemiology of TB & whole lots of stuff...
seminar starts tomorrow... so post for now is about the hotel and some settling-in pictures...


CHECKED-IN...

green and white polo shirt with hoodie (mint), black jeans (baleno), blue boat shoes (calecei)

but first... packing for the trip...

pants for 5 days... variety...

INTRODUCING... MANILA GRAND OPERA HOTEL & CASINO...
#925 Rizal Avenue corner Doroteo Jose Sts.
Sta. Cruz, Manila, 1003 Philippines
(632) 3140090 to 99
info@manilagrandopera.com

http://www.manilagrandopera.com/
 

commotion at the check-in counter...

my room...

view from my hotel window... in front of the hotel...

  

let's continue our tour inside the hotel...

 hallway...

 i haven't checked out the casino yet...

hopefully tomorrow or some other day...

i'm hungry...

across the street...

PM snack... i missed tropical hut burger...
chicken and spaghetti your next... on some other days...

Let's get some good old 7/11 dinner... just like the old internship days...

but first some camwhoring at the fully mirrored elevator...

 facade at night...

 dinner...

coffee tastes like hazelnut/mocha...

it's time for some night swimming...

it's time to test the underwater feature of my TX5...

 hey it worked...

work/seminar starts tomorrow...

...

chen