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A Regent Grows Inside a Radisson?

By all accounts, 2007 was a banner year for Philippine tourism, with the number of foreign arrivals topping the three million mark (the previous record for yearly visitors was 1.9 million). According to Department of Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano, 2008 promises to deliver even better numbers, with his department focusing on the "opening of new hotel projects and properties."

One of the most ambitious of these new projects will be the Regent Manila Bay by hotelier Carlson, bringing 5-star opulence to the Philippines.

The Regent Manila Bay will be part of a unique hotel-within-a-hotel development, offering luxury accommodations within the Radisson Hotel Manila Bay. The hotels will share a common structure but will have many separate amenities, such as driveways, entrances, lobbies, guest facilities and staff. It will also include a signature restaurant, lounge, fitness center and swimming pool -- all exclusively for the use of Regent guests.

The 80-rooms, including 10 "basic" suites, 69 executive suites and one presidential suite, all overlooking scenic Manila Bay, are expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2009.

A Regent hotel inside a Radisson? That's almost as crazy as the three-hotels-in-one that is set to open in Times Square. Almost. But we don't think anything is crazier than that.