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The Henry Hotel Manila
€71.70/ Night
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A 34-room design hotel in a post-war Pasay compound turned artists' enclave, with interiors by Eric Paras, a heritage garden and a quiet that the city outside never reaches.
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Need To Know
- 34 rooms and suites across five restored 1950s "Liberation-style" houses, each individually furnished.
- In a gated compound on F.B. Harrison Street, Pasay, about 20 to 30 minutes from Ninoy Aquino airport.
- An art enclave: the Avellana Art Gallery and Eric Paras's A11 furniture showroom share the grounds.
- Apartment 1B is the in-house restaurant; there is a garden pool but no gym.
- Our Favourite Rooms: a Suite in the old main house for height and original detail, or a Garden Suite for direct access to the greenery
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The design. Interiors by Eric Paras pair refurbished aparadors and Ambassador chairs with his own modern pieces, each room individually furnished.
- The compound. An artists' enclave as much as a hotel, with the Avellana gallery and Paras's A11 showroom on the grounds, much of it for sale.
- The garden. A mature tropical garden in the heritage landscape tradition, the reason you forget Pasay starts at the gate.
- The detail. Original baldoza tile, claw-foot tubs, grillwork drawn from old Manila; the adaptive reuse is genuine, not themed.
- Apartment 1B. The in-house restaurant does proper gourmet comfort food in a room of original tile, a destination in its own right.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at The Henry Hotel Manila
€71.70 for 1 Night
Location
Address
2680 Compound, F.B. Harrison St, Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Travel Info
The hotel sits 20 to 30 minutes from Ninoy Aquino airport, with transfers on request, which makes it a strong first or last night in Manila. The Mall of Asia and Roxas Boulevard are close. The compound is gated, with parking on site.
Nearby Places
Just a 20-30 minute drive away from Ninoy Aquino International and Domestic Airports (MNL). The Henry Hotel Manila can provide transfers on request.
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Last Updated: 2026-06-27
Expert Review
Origins
The Henry occupies a compound built around 1950, when a Chinese-Filipino businessman raised a cluster of wood-and-stone houses in the post-war "Liberation style" as a family home, set in a tropical garden in what was then the fashionable seaside town of Pasay. After the patriarch died the family moved on, and from the early 2000s the compound found a second life as an artists' enclave: the gallerist Albert Avellana took one house, the furniture designer Eric Paras and others followed, and the place became a creative hub.
In 2013 the hotelier Hanky Lee, who had already created The Henry in Cebu, leased part of the compound and converted four of the houses into a hotel, opening in 2014. The brief was adaptive reuse rather than redevelopment: keep the wooden floors, the tile, the proportions, and let Paras's interiors and the surviving garden carry the character. The galleries and his A11 showroom stayed, so the hotel shares its grounds with the art world that revived the place.
Top Secret
Almost everything you sit on or sleep beside is by Eric Paras and can be bought; his A11 showroom on the grounds turns a stay into a chance to take the design home.
The Review
Manila is not a city that gives itself up easily, and most of its hotels answer the traffic and the sprawl with towers and lobbies that could be anywhere. The Henry does the opposite. Behind a gate on F.B. Harrison Street in Pasay sits a compound of 1950s houses in a mature tropical garden, and the moment you are through it the city falls away. It is the most characterful place to stay in Manila, and the least like a hotel.
The story is the appeal. The houses were a Chinese-Filipino family's post-war compound, abandoned, then reborn from the early 2000s as an artists' enclave before the hotelier behind The Henry Cebu turned four of them into a hotel in 2014. The conversion kept everything worth keeping: original baldoza tile, restored wood floors, claw-foot tubs, grillwork drawn from a demolished old-Manila cinema. The 34 rooms, spread across five Liberation-style houses, are individually furnished by the designer Eric Paras, who mixes refurbished aparadors and Ambassador chairs with his own modern pieces; his A11 showroom and the Avellana gallery still share the grounds, and much of what fills the rooms is for sale.
That makes a stay here closer to sleeping inside a design gallery than checking into a hotel, and the small scale is part of it. There is a garden pool and the in-house restaurant, Apartment 1B, which does genuinely good gourmet comfort food in a tiled room, but there is no gym and little in the way of resort facilities; this is a place to slow down, not to work out. Service is first-name and warm, the kind that remembers you.
It is not for everyone. Pasay itself is unglamorous, the rooms vary as heritage houses do, and travellers wanting a full-service city hotel should look elsewhere. But for design, story and calm, and for a first or last night in Manila twenty minutes from the airport, nothing in the city comes close. The Henry is proof that the most memorable hotels are often the ones that kept the building rather than replacing it.
