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Amazing Race 5 Hotel Update: Upgrading in Manila

Where: Corner of Ayala and Makati Avenues, 1226 Makati City, Manila, Philippines

The Coconut Palace, reportedly built by the shoe queen, Imelda Marcos, in an attempt to the Pope, was the pit stop for the penultimate leg of the Amazing Race 5. Apparently Pope John Paul II was coming to Manila and she ordered that this structure of mostly coconuts be built to house the pope.

These days the palace is no longer a hotel of any kind (despite its 7 bedrooms) and serves as a museum, a tourist attraction, and a venue for fancy parties.

After teams spent a long day of chasing an ox around a mud pit let's hope CBS upped the ante and put the contestants and crew up in a sweet Manila hotel like The Peninsula Manila.

The 498 room Peninsula Manila is really an upscale business hotel in the midst of Manila's busiest business district, and boasts free broadband in every room, so contestants could send an email home to their families.

Furthermore, the Peninsula is a five star hotel for right around $100 a night, and possesses some very good hotel security in Manila.  Sure you would have to take a taxi to and from the Coconut Palace, but we are hoping CBS greenlighted an all star hotel like the Peninsula for contestants to rest in before their final race leg.

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