Southern staycation
What is notable about the hotel is that it is Filipino-owned and -managed by the Garcia family, which operates the Richville Federated Group of Companies. Their other property is Vivera Azure, a family vacation house turned into a resort in Mabini, Batangas.
The Filipino-owned Vivere Hotel in Filinvest City Muntinlupa.
One of the tallest buildings in Alabang is Vivere Hotel. It is among the few five-star hotels south of Metro Manila.
Vivere boasts large spaces in its 200 rooms and suites, the smallest of which is at 35 square meters. This is unexpected as it is not a sprawling property. It compensates by being high and vertical, the benefit of which is the view from the higher floors.
Vivere Hotel general manager Elvie Sanchez-Quiazon. | Photograph courtesy of Elvie Sanchez-Quiazon
The one-bedroom suite on the 21st floor, with wide windows, offers a commanding vista of communities and buildings around the hotel, the highways and Laguna de Bay. Popularly called Laguna Lake, it is actually Lake of Bay (pronounced "bah-eh"), portions of it crisscrossed with lines of many fish pens.
Spacious suite perfect for staycations. | PHOTOGRAPHS by ROEL HOANG MANIPON FOR THE DAILY TRIBUNE
The room is very spacious, almost totally painted in white. A bathtub, a little kitchen, and living/work area promise a relaxing time. The adjoining bedroom is a cocoon but also has a view.
Even the hallways are airy, because the building is built with an atrium that seems to pierce through the entirety of the building. Those with a fear of heights, don't look down.
The height and the view are taken full advantage by the hotel's dining outlets — The Nest Dining in the Sky and Picasso — at the 31st floor.
