Cebu Midtown Hotel

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Cebu Midtown Hotel

Area: Fuente Osmena (city center, uptown)

Review: The Cebu Midtown Hotel is built on top of the Robinsons Place department store. The standard rooms are a decent value for the price. The hotel has a few great things going for it: 1. the central location. You can’t beat it. 2. The convenience of having a supermarket, cheap internet cafe, some restaurants and retail stores like Guess in the same building. The Cebu Midtown Hotel is also very close to Cebu’s historic center. The hotel has a fairly wide selection of foods during the breakfast buffet. From the restaurant, which is on the fourth floor, you can get a good view of Cebu City. From the 10th floor, the view of Cebu City is stellar.

Some issues I had with the hotel are…
1. I stayed in two rooms, a smaller room with a king sized bed and a larger room with double beds. The smaller room had a smaller bathroom, which was not wheelchair accessible. See the Rooms, Bathroom section below.
2. The toilet seats in both rooms were extremely loose.
3. Mainly, it was the hotel’s entrance accessibility, which stopped at 9pm. See Accessibility section below.

If I were to stay in the Fuentes Osmena area again, I would choose the Fuentes Pension (for a longer stay because it is very inexpensive) towards the north end of Osmena Blvd or the Holiday Plaza Hotel across F. Ramos St. Cebu Midtown is a nicer, brighter hotel than the Holiday Plaza Hotel but I found the 9pm curtain call and the extra step it took to reach the actual hotel a little inconvenient.

The Cebu Midtown Hotel is located on the east side of Fuente Osmena at the corner of Mango Ave/Maxilom Ave and Ramos Street. Osmena Blvd flanks the Midtown Hotel on the west side.

Tip
There is a driveway that leads up to the Cebu Midtown Hotel (4th floor) lobby for vehicles. The entrance to the driveway is on Osmena Blvd. Have a cab drive you up to the entrance after 9pm. It will cost P30 and drivers do not mind taking you up that short distance.

Location: Fuentes Osmeña, Cebu City
Site: www.cebumidtownhotel.net
Email: cmhsales@skyinet.net
Ph: (6332) 253-9711

Rates: Between $45 – $90. Agoda has rates as low as $45 during low season. Room rates for walk-in and the hotel’s own site start at $58.

Accessibility: The Cebu Midtown Hotel is wheelchair accessible as far as ramps and elevators and two wheelchair accessible rooms are concerned. However, there are two sort of irritating ways to enter the hotel if you’re in a wheelchair. The first way is to go down a kind of steep ramp into Robinson’s Department Store on the ground level. Then, you’ll have to take the service elevator up to level 3. At level 3, you’ll have to get out, turn left and take another set of elevators to the 4th floor, which is where the Midtown hotel is located. Then, you’ll take hotel’s elevators to your floor. So, 3 sets of elevators altogether in the first option of reaching the hotel in a wheelchair. The other way is to take a cab up to the lobby from the driveway.

The problem with the Robinson’s entrance – aside from the inconvenience of having to take 3 elevators – is that the freight elevator stops operating at 9pm.

Ramp/Step: Steps and a ramp to an alternate entrance
Elevator, Lift: Yes
Rooms, Bathrooms:
1. There are two wheelchair accessible rooms and they are the suites. I did not check them out because they were occupied.
2. The bathrooms in the standard room with the king sized beds are not wheelchair accessible as there are two inch thresholds you must climb over, which is not a big deal, into the small bathrooms and the tubs are kind of dingy and narrow. The tubs do have handrails. The toilets are placed inconveniently behind the door so you have to get out of your wheelchair, push the wheelchair out of the bathroom, then close the door to reach the toilet. Two thumbs down!
3. The standard room with the double beds are much larger and the bathrooms are as well. You can turn your wheelchair around anywhere in the rooms. The bathrooms still have a 2 inch threshold or raise you must climb over. There is more room but the toilets are still half-way behind the door. The problem is, the toilet seats are completely loose so you can not use it to brace yourself and transfer. So, you must then climb out of the chair and scoot onto the toilet. But, the room is a big improvement.
Bathtubs with Handles: Yes
Roll-in Showers: ?

Features: breakfast buffet, restaurant, lounge, currency exchange, safe boxes, tourism services and transportation, gym/fitness room, swimming pool, massage, laundry