Hotel Near to British Embassy, Manila

Does anyone know of a good cheap hotel near the British Embassy in Manila? Needs to be accessible for a disabled person (me) and with air-conditioning. It's just for one night so I can make an affirmation for marriage before flying onto Cebu. I will only take hand luggage to the hotel.

I am leaving my luggage at Terminal 3 overnight (flying in by KLM) and will then fly out from Terminal 3 to Cebu on the afternoon of the following day, just hours after completing the affirmation in the early morning. I intend to book a flight around 4pm, which gives me plenty of time to reach Manila airport. By the time I get through immigration in Cebu my fiancée should have had time to finish work and get to Mactan airport.

Also, any tips to avoid rogue taxi drivers at Manila airport? This will be my first visit to Manila.

Howerd
When I visited British Embassy, I stayed at F1 Hotel, 10 minutes from embassy,
If you use trip adviser website and search F1 Hotel, the map will show other hotels in the area.

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_...a-Taguig_City_Metro_Manila_Luzon.html#MAPVIEW

All Howerd's flights arrive and depart from Terminal 3 and regular metered taxis are not "encouraged" to pick-up at the terminal - those arriving with passengers are directed to the Departures area and can not get back to the Arrivals bit. Unless you're prepared to walk to the main road and (attempt to) hail a taxi or take a Jeepney or have a hotel pick-up arranged, all arriving passengers at this terminal are now at the mercy of touts. You really should NOT take a so-called taxi from these guys: none of the drivers have a Professional License, so if there's an accident and you are injured, you will have to pay your own medical expenses as you will not be covered by the LTO default policy and the driver is most unlikely to be paying for private-hire insurance. It is potentially worse than that: as the foreigner, you may well be required to pay for any damage, hospital bills etc., in respect of the "taxi" and anyone else involved in an accident with it.

Oh and please remember: NO baggage can be taken into the Embassy compound.

Don't go for cheap Howerd, go for comfort, get yourself booked into a five star hotel, only the best for our Howerd

It seems transportation arrangements for NAIA Term 3 are changing

Buses, non-airport taxis now allowed.
http://www.philstar.com/business/20...non-airport-taxis-now-allowed-naia-terminal-3

Legally they can but the problem is that the touts pay-off the guards ...

You're well out of date with Coupon Taxis - they disappeared years ago and were replaced by touts at T1 and, since international airlines began operations from T3, T3 as well.

Oh no! That is going to add a huge amount of congestion as colorum buses and unofficial taxis vie for passengers. As far as I'm concerned, I'll now fly Davao-Cebu-Tapei and join the Manila-Amsterdam flight there. Anything to avoid NAIA and Luzon in general.

There is an airport called Clark... but limited airlines and may cause an overnight stay?

According to the following website, coupon taxis operate from all four terminals at NAIA and there has been a clampdown on illegal taxis since August 2014...

http://www.ihatetaxis.com/airport/M...port/Manila-Ninoy-Aquino-Airport-taxi-service

I just noticed that there are several offices for the British Embassy in Manila (at least 5). The one I am going to is in the Consular section in Taguig City (Upper McKinley Road)

I had expected that I could not take baggage to the Embassy, but I can find no reference to this on the GOV.UK website; the email confirming booking makes no mention of bags at all. I do hope I can wear a small backpack (holding overnight clothes), or am I only limited to carrying the documents I need for the embassy?

What you're talking about aren't coupon taxis!

The 'official' coupon taxi service, at Terminal 1, was closed around 2008 or 2009 and one paid in the office for the ride in advance using foreign currency, fares were quoted in US Dollars or Japanese Yen (they would accept Pesos, albeit grudgingly). They were replaced by touts who make out a "ticket" that the driver hands to a guard on exiting but one pays the driver (who never has any change) direct - fares are an even multiple of 100 Pesos with 800 Pesos being charged between T3 and T2/T1. Coupon Taxis were driven by drivers with Professional Licences but cars organised by the touts are driven by ordinary drivers - who may be fresh off the boat from another island!

You do know where Clark is and what it was, right? About 2 hours north of Manila by bus and fringing Angeles City, it is the former US Air Force base which has been making a succession of pitches to become the international airport for the Philippines pretty much ever since the USAAF left town. Just outside the airbase is Fields Avenue which is popular with sex-tourists and nobody else.

Yep its former American Airbase and runway long enough for now defunct space shuttle.
It is also used as an emergency alternative if flights can't land at Manila.

Its gateway to North

http://crk.clarkairport.com/

QATAR and Dragon Air (part of Cathay Pacific) operate from here. Emirates may also operate from here in the future.

CEBU Airways , Philippine Airways

Its been considered to become International Philippine Hub airport instead of Manila in the future. There may even be a Japanese company looking into the feasibility of high speed rail link between the two??






http://angelescity.com/attraction.php#outdoor

not far from subic

http://www.clarksubicmarketing.com/subic_bay_travel_guide.htm

Ah, I was looking on Google maps that showed five separate offices! As I use crutches, having a backpack is the most convenient way to carry anything. I don't want to leave the luggage at the hotel before going to the Embassy. As soon as I have finished at the embassy I just want to go the airport.

Just the one place

http://www.british-filipino.com/index.php?threads/british-embassy-manila.9539/