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Green Mango Inn in Manila, Philippines

365 Aguirre Avenue, BF Homes, Sucat, Parañaque City, Manila
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2-person rooms were really small. The hostel was located far, far away from the heartbeat of the city. I would much rather recommend any hostel from t...

karhumies234, Finland, stayed on 26th Nov 09

About Green Mango Inn


enjoy conversations with fellow travellers & cold beer under moonlight & coconut trees in the city, use your laptop in our lush gardens... come experience Metro Manila's only tropical garden-style international guesthouse & youth hostel with tranquil open spaces, colorful flowers, coconut & palm trees, a giant mango tree (free mangoes for all guests)... More Important---Nearest 4 biggest airports, just 15 or 20 minutes away (if no traffic jam)...FREE WiFi for laptops, cheap ice-cold beers for sale 24-hours in verandah bar under the mango tree, FREE borrowing of books & magazines in library, etc. FREE guest lockers in AIR-CONDITIONED DORM ROOM (other hostels dorm rooms only electric fans), Hot Showers...Warm personalized service... Young English-speaking staff offering you sincere welcome & service...

...located in the new part of city in Metro Manila at safest, secure, gated neighborhood of BF Homes (with nice restos, bars, shops just walking distance)... environmentally-friendly or 'green', clean... offering 24-hours ice-cold drinks/beers & hot meals, hot-showers, free WiFi for your laptops, international cable TV channels, cheap high-speed internet... Spanish colonial-era classical architecture mansion converted into quiet laid-back 24-hours open 'Green Mango Inn' ...

Green Mango Inn is...
NEAREST 4 INTERNATIONAL & DOMESTIC AIRPORTS, so ideal for your convenience & good rest---no need to rush or wake up too early---for your next airline flights home or to other isles of the Philippines.

OUR ADDRESS IN METRO MANILA, HOW TO REACH US? Green Mango Inn---365 Aguirre Avenue (near El Grande Avenue & only 8 houses from BPI Family Bank), BF Homes, Sucat, Parañaque City, Metro Manila...just a few meters walking distance to 9 banks & ATM centers (plus 12 more in other areas nearby), 5 convenience stores & groceries, bistros, fastfoods, restos, bars, 35 massage & health spas, fitness gyms, 24-hour bakeshops, churches, antique shops, art galleries, 27 laundry shops, pizza parlors, many entertainment & other fun places.

FREE WIFI for your laptops!
ALSO HAVE HIGH-SPEED INTERNET at only P 30 pesos per hour...We offer high-speed DSL internet computer and also Free WiFi for your laptops (please ask reception desk for the password), plus hot showers and nice big kitchen (free unlimited use of kitchen but we ask only P50 pesos per day for use of cooking oil & other stuffs like soy sauce/condiments).

FREE TOWELS & NEW BEDSHEETS...We offer free new towels & free new bedsheet daily, but please request from staff if you need them, because we presume you are ok not to change them daily if you don't ask, since we support environmental cause of using less waters and less detergents as the first 'green hostel' in the Philippines, or environmentally-friendly hostel...

WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK PLS...The young owner knows what you need and hopes to get more feedback (even complaints welcome) on how to further improve our new place & service, because he loves travelling and has been to almost all parts of Europe, nearly all provinces of China, also much of Asia and North America; he plans to travel more to other parts of the globe. Write us!

***24-hours we offer BEERS!!! ice-cold delicious CERVEZA!!! Hope you can give us empty Beer Cans or bottles or even cans/bottles of your country's liquors? The young owner has on May 30, 2008 started a small international beer cans and beer bottles (plus international liquors) collection. SHARE YOUR COUNTRY'S BEER CANS...If any of you can bring empty foreign beer can or beer bottle or coasters or other beer-related materials to contribute to this collection, please give us. It would be on display at our dining area and bar for our international guests to enjoy a cozy place while drinking our ice-cold beers available 24-hours at Green Mango Inn and while watching international cable TV or socializing with other guests. WE ARE ALSO PLANNING TO EXPAND & BEAUTIFY OUR BAR & DINING AREA...Cheers!!!

FREE LOCKERS...For dorm rooms, we also offer Free lockers for your use, please ask reception desk for your free locker and key.

MOST SECURE, SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD IN NICER PART OF METRO MANILA...We are a hostel with safest, clean neighborhood in the city, with security guard outposts at all entrances in a gated upper-class & mid-class residential/commercial community called BF Homes (Asia's largest at 765 hectares), so you can drink beer/liquor all-night in nearby resto bars or jog in the streets in early mornings without fears or worries or discomforts. Across the road at Green Mango Inn is also a 24-hours security guard outpost with female securirty guards.

CHEAP, EASY PUBLIC TRANSPORT...Public transport easy and affordable, with tricycles always nearby and other choices anytime. Since we're located in a gated, secure neighborhood, taxis cannot just enter or pass outside our street, but our staff can call taxis for you anytime, just please tell our staff.

NEAR MALLS, RESTOS, BARS, SHOPS, BANKS...Also near Green Mango Inn is SM Sucat mall, we are also very accessible to world's 3rd biggest shopping complex called SM MALL OF ASIA with hundreds of shops, bars, restos, cinemas, entertainment. We are also near the biggest casino center in the Philippines called Pagcor, which is run by the government and a favorite of tourists too.

AFFORDABLE ROOMS, UNIQUE ARCHITECTURE...A charming former mansion of 18th century Spanish colonial-era classical architecture with hand-made capiz (mother-of-pearl seashells) windows, our cozy private rooms (P 700 Pesos or P800 Pesos) & nice dorm rooms (only P250 Pesos!) ALL have air-conditioning. We also have international cable TV in ALL rooms. We also have hot shower facilities. We have nice big kitchen. If young owner is here at Green Mango Inn at night or daytime, you can use his van and driver for trips to nearby airports or other places Free of Charge anytime.

RELAXING LAID-BACK PLACE, WITH GARDENS...Welcome to our laid-back inn with lounge area in our garden with tropical palm trees & flowers...safe & fun location... casual, relaxing atmosphere...

YOUNG STAFF WITH SINCERE SERVICE, 24-HOURS FOODS & BEERS...sincere service by our young staff...hot & cold showers... affordable hot meals 24-hours available... but we are walking distance to fun places...we are near SM Sucat Mall (just a tricycle & jeepney away), and our staff can advise you how to take P25 pesos one-ride via FX van to world's 3rd biggest shopping mall complex called SM Mall of Asia which is beside romantic Manila Bay & has IMAX theater and other fun.Green Mango Inn is also most convenient if you plan visit world's smallest active volcano of Mount Taal in Tagaytay, because our part of Metro Manila is nearest to Tagaytay too by public bus or rented car (ask our staff)...

INTERNATIONAL CABLE TV...some features of Green Mango Inn---international cable TV in All rooms for EuroSport, CNN, HBO, BBC, AXN, ESPN & other world channels... romantic verandah with antique water-proof mulawin lumber furniture & orchids on brick walls & hanging plants on trellis... our al fresco dining area in patio has curtains made of rare seashells, has own small organic vegetable garden & with color TV on the wall...you can also cook in our big clean kitchen, so spacious it's airy & nice...in our organic vegetable garden right beside the dining room, if vegetables grow, you can pick fresh vegetables and have them cooked by our staff in the kitchen :) enjoy ice-cold beers, red wines, martinis, fresh juices, coffee, tea, whiskey, champagne, etc....

FREE MAPS, LIBRARY, TRAVEL INFOS...we offer you our dear guests free lockers, free Metro Manila maps, travel infos (ask staff or ask them to call young owner), free fresh linens & towels, free use of big kitchen, free telephone for local calls, free use of refrigerator, free luggage storage even after you check-out, free Smiles daily (!)... library of diverse books and magazines, laundry area (you can hang clothes at backyard for free), 24-hours TV lounge... most of all, above all, we offer you our Free Smiles :)

NO CURFEWS...No Curfews, No Lock-Outs, quiet sleep, more new amenities & fun coming soon like free DVD library & free use of DVD... Le plaisir, l'enthousiasme, bien dormir...Spaß, Spannung, gute Schlaf...有趣,兴奋,睡了个好觉

GOOD NEWS! it's almost the season of sweet mangos (free for our guests to pick & eat) from the lush giant 48-year-old tree in the garden by our gate, there are already new fruits! You can also ask staff to make you fresh calamansi (local lemon) fruit juice from our calamansi trees in the garden...

This is a Spanish colonial-era style mansion with tropical garden converted into cozy GREEN MANGO INN

the young owner has passion for travel, culture, history, adventure & hopes this inn will be your unique 'home away from home'...also coming soon, a new lounge, dining & recreation hall for socializing, fun & free DVD movies (coming soon the DVDs)

ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY, therefore 'GREEN'...Green Mango Inn is also the Philippines' first 'green' or environmentally-friendly small hostel or inn...

Cette auberge espère pour vous faire jouir et de se sentir à la maison pour les voyageurs internationaux et les étudiants, bienvenue! Diesem Gasthaus Hoffnungen zu machen, Sie genießen und sich wie zu Hause fühlen für internationale Reisende und Studenten, herzlich willkommen! Esta posada espera hacer que disfrute y se sienta como en casa para los viajeros internacionales y los estudiantes, la bienvenida!

A few reasons for international guests to consider staying here at the Green Mango Inn:

***great location---secure, peaceful, quiet neighborhood for good sleep and rest, but only walking distance to and very near many restaurants, groceries, fastfoods, pizza parlors, banks, bars/entertainment pladces, pharmacy/drugstore, entertainment, massage spas & gyms/health clubs, many internet cafes & others...

***experience history, a unique architecture---a former 'bahay-na-bato' ('house of stones') mansion but now transformed into a garden-style guesthouse built in colonial-era classical Filipino/Spanish architecture style of over 200 years ago with elegant old bricks, Philippine narra mahogany lumber, hand-made capiz (mother-of-pearl seashells) windows for all guestrooms, furnitures made of rare mulawin & narra Philippine hardwoods & also bamboo furnitures...designed as mansion of the colonial-era landlord elite families before...there are no more houses of this kind in modern-day Filipino cities...

***Lowest Room Rates---We support Affordable Tourism...All our private rooms have air-conditioning, color TVs.. for groups of friends, students or families, we also have big rooms good for 3, 4 or 6 people, if you are a group...

***NEAREST all 4 major airports...you can wake up late for your next flights to Boracay, Cebu, Bohol, Palawan, no need to wake up too early, because Green Mango Inn is near the Philippines' international and domestic airports...

***unique as a garden inn---enjoy fresh air, nice relaxing view of nature surroundings with palm trees, coconut trees, a giant mango tree, avocado trees, other trees, plus fragrant and colorful tropical flowers...its unique eco-friendly :green' features are relaxing, romantic...we are the only garden hostel & inn in Metro Manila, in the heart of the city...

***laidback---Green Mango Inn has a laid-back siesta atmosphere with flexible check in/check out time 24 hours daily.

***travel tips & information---We'll provide you with plenty of information about the city and how to get around other places of exotic fiesta-happy Philippines, so you can make the most of your stay in Manila. Please ask reception staff to call the young owner anytime, so he could talk to you and share boundless informations (no exaggeration, true) about the Philippines or even of Asia, because he loves to travel and to read a lot!

***Books & magazines---Library! We have a growing library of books for free borrowing (you only give P100 pesos deposit but this money returned after you give back the book) with titles ranging from bestsellers, thrillers, acience fiction, romance to history, literature & others. We welcome exchange of books with you, to benefit our international guests who love to read, the owner of this hostel loves to read too!

***DVDs!---We collect and share animated DVDs (the DVD lounge area is Coming Soon...) and other movies and will soon have a common area with cozy bar where you can socialize with other travellers.

***More fresh new ideas from our many international guests from all over the world---We will never stop changing & learning---Coming very soon...Green Mango Inn's dining & bar area under the mango tree, enjoy socializing with international travellers, exchanging stories, drinking, eating, fun...

***Peaceful Quiet---Though we like to have fun, we are not a party inn or hostel. We aim to provide a quiet, nature-surrounded and relaxed atmosphere in Green Mango Inn, so if you'd like to really party all-night with wide choices of places, you can just walk down the road to visit some of the clubs and bars close by.

Green Mango Inn...a fun and relaxing location...

Have a nice journey, we look forward to welcoming you!

Overall Rating: 73%From a total of 28 Reviews

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Facilities

  • Internet
  • WiFi
  • Cots Available
  • Other meals on request
  • Kitchen Facilities
  • Payphone
  • Car Parking
  • Secure Parking
  • Laundry Facilities
  • Meeting Facilities
  • TV Lounge
  • Board Games
  • TV
  • Air Conditioning
  • Desk