Ibis Styles Araneta City

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Ibis Styles Manila Araneta City
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Location within Philippines
General information
StatusCompleted
AddressGeneral Roxas Avenue, Araneta City, Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines
Coordinates 14°37′15.5″N121°3′08.8″E / 14.620972°N 121.052444°E / 14.620972; 121.052444
Construction startedAugust 2018
Topped-outJanuary 20, 2020
CompletedMarch 2024 [1]
OpenedMarch 7, 2024 (Soft Opening) [2] [3]
Cost₱2 billion
Owner Araneta Hotels Inc. (AHI)
Management AccorHotels [4]
Height84.86 m (278.4 ft)
Technical details
Floor count22
Floor area38,000 m2 (410,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architecture firm RTKL Associates, Palafox Associates and Aidea
Developer ACI, Inc.
Other information
Number of rooms286
Number of restaurants3
Parking3 (underground)

The Ibis Styles Manila Araneta City [4] (stylized as ibis Styles Manila Araneta City) is a 286-room hotel located in the Araneta City, Quezon City, Philippines. The upcoming economy hotel is part of AccorHotels, and set to be the first hotel under the Ibis Styles brand in the Philippines. At present, the hotel opened its doors to the public on 7 March 2024 and is set to begin its full operations within the second half of 2024. [1] [3]

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History

The plans for the Ibis Styles hotel were laid out as early as 2014, as part of the Gateway Mall 2 complex, an expansion development of Gateway Mall, set to rise on the former Gateway Food Park. [5] Following the successful opening of the Novotel Manila Araneta City in March 2016, Araneta Center Inc. (ACI, Inc.) announced in March 2018, that a second hotel would be built at the Araneta Center (now Araneta City). The second hotel was touted to be "a lifestyle budget hotel" run by "a popular international brand". [6] Groundbreaking started in August 2017, while the ceremonial groundbreaking for the Gateway Mall 2 including the adjacent Ibis Styles hotel took place in the same month on the following year, in August 2018. The Ibis Styles hotel, like Novotel Manila Araneta City is also a hotel brand under AccorHotels under the Ibis Styles brand [7] , and costed ₱1.5 billion to build, with Megawide Construction Corporation serving as the general contractor. The Araneta Group also appointed AMCOM & Company Inc. serving as the general consultant for the projects, along with the New Gateway Mall. [8] [9]

On January 20, 2020, the hotel was officially topped off, [10] and is scheduled to begin partial operations in late 2020 with full operations projected by early 2021. [11] However, due to the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the country, the opening of the hotel, along with the adjacent New Gateway Mall was delayed, and the total price of the construction has inflated to ₱2 billion. [12]

Another factor in the reasons that the hotel's construction was delayed was due to an ongoing case being filed between the Araneta City Inc. (ACI) of the Araneta Group and Megawide Construction Corporation, regarding costing issues in various projects, such as the Gateway Mall 2. Due to these developments, the Araneta Group hired Stages, Design and Construction (SDC) as the new general contractor for the finishing works of the complex. [13] [14] The hotel began its soft opening on March 7, 2024, after being moved from November 2023, while the full grand opening of the hotel, alongside the Gateway Mall 2, is expected to take place within the second half of 2024. [1] [15] [2] [3]

Development and Location

The hotel is part of the Gateway Square complex, a 5-hectare (12-acre), 400,000 m2 (4,300,000 sq ft) prime mixed-use, transit-oriented superblock within the Araneta City. The superblock features retail shops, offices, restaurants, leisure amenities, lodging spaces, and entertainment facilities, while having over 3,000 parking spaces upon completion, and is directly connected to other buildings via sky bridges and walk paths. The complex consists of the two Gateway Malls, the Gateway Tower, the Gateway Office Building, the Novotel Manila Araneta City, the Smart Araneta Coliseum, and the Araneta Coliseum Parking Garage. [16] [12]

The hotel is located adjacent to the Gateway Mall and the upcoming Gateway Mall 2 along General Roxas Avenue, and stands at the north-western corner of the Araneta Coliseum. The hotel is also accessible near malls such SM Cubao, the Farmers Plaza, and Ali Mall, the New Frontier Theater through the Gateway Link Bridge, the Manhattan Gardens condominiums, the Araneta City Cyberpark towers; railway stations such as the MRT 3 Cubao Station on the west, the LRT 2 Cubao Station on the north, and other transport terminals, such as the Araneta City Bus Terminal and the Araneta City Busport, the Farmers Plaza UV Express terminal, and the Araneta CityJeepney Terminal.

Architecture

The hotel was designed by RTKL Associates in collaboration with Sudhakar Thakurdesai, along with the help of local architectural firms Palafox Associates and Aidea. [17] The architecture of the building is similarly designed to the Cyberpark Tower 1, located at the Araneta City Cyberpark, which features an asymmetrical facade with touches of brown hue varieties within the white colored exteriors, while the hotel's rooms and interior designs will be based from the historical events in the Araneta Coliseum throughout its 60-year (1960-2020) history, such as "stage-inspired" reception lobby utilizing stage equipment boxes for the reception desks and ceiling-installed stage lights. [10] [3] The hotel also features "Boxing glove Sofas" located within the hotel's ground floor lobby and main lobby, located along the 4th floor, which is inspired from the Thrilla in Manila, a historic boxing match held at the Araneta Coliseum between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. [3] Vertical fins were also installed at the hotel's facade and exteriors, which enhances the facade's aesthetic design. The hotel will also include basic LEED green building initiatives, which is similar to the initiatives taken in the Gateway Mall 2. [18]

Features

The Ibis Styles Hotel Araneta City stands at 84.86 m (278.4 ft) tall, [10] and is directly connected to the Gateway Mall 2 shopping mall through the hotel's first five floors and three underground parking spaces. [19] The hotel has a total floor area of 38,000 m2 (410,000 sq ft), which includes a total of 286 rooms, and is divided with 22 guestrooms on each floor. Ibis Styles also houses a total of six different function rooms for various meetings and conferences. [12]

The hotel also feature a lobby lounge at the ground floor, a main lobby at the fourth floor, a gym named "GET FIT" Gym, and a roof deck swimming pool named "Get Soaked" located along the topmost floor. The hotel also hosts three restaurants, namely StrEats, an all day dining restaurant and patisserie, located along the 5th floor of the hotel, features world-class cuisines and can be accessed by both hotel guests and shoppers; the Le Bistro, a bistro bar located adjacent to the StrEats, and a roof deck pool bar, named "The Edge Skyview Bar", providing guests with a special view of the Manila Bay sunset. [10] [20] [21] [3]

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