Mandarin Oriental and Fastem launching

Mandarin Oriental Manila’s GM Helmut Gaisberger made a quick visit to Cebu a week ago with Director of Communications Charisse Chuidian who exerted every effort to gather media friends for lunch at the Buona Forchetta (owned and managed by the irrepressible Paolo Pasini) in Lahug. The Italian menu was exceedingly good, and the overly nice Paolo offered red and white wines, on the house.

Anyway, the Mandarin Hotel bigwigs came to inform the media group of the latest goings-on at the hotel. This year, Mandarin Oriental Manila is undertaking a P87.5 million renovation with the opening of two guest facilities in the first two months of the year.

An award winning global hotel, well-recognized for providing luxurious experiences around the world, the Group is focused on expanding its global presence, as well as increasing the appeal of its hotels, in particular to the sophisticated leisure traveler with new brand-defining services and amenities. These include the luxurious and holistic spas at Mandarin Oriental, the "Hideaway Resorts", award-winning restaurants and bars, and highly sophisticated guest entertainment systems with other cutting edge technology.

For more information and reservation regarding Mandarin Oriental Manila, please get in touch with Cebu representative Emma Ramas at tel. nos. 415-8170 and 232-2615.

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The Fastem Launch. Now ongoing at the Cebu Business Park is Fastem Housing and Development, Incorporated’s Tower Palace, its first major condominium project in Cebu. The company has chosen the location (right across Ayala Center) and design in order to realize their vision of a balanced and luxurious housing with a full range of amenities and conveniences in the heart of a vibrant commercial area.

Just recently, Fastem President Sun Kyu Baek hosted cocktails cum dinner to launch the 19-storey, 200-unit residential condominiums at its showroom at the corner of Cardinal Rosales Ave. and Sumilon Road, Cebu Business Park.

Before dinner, Rep. Nerissa Soon Ruiz and Rep. Raul del Mar cut the ribbon to start the "New Beginnings" – theme of the affair. A tour of the two model units, all state-of-the-art condo suites were shown the guests including the price per unit. These were all beautifully and tastefully furnished and decorated by Joy Benedicto, daughter of Consul Enrique Benedicto and wife Helen. Joy, by the way, owns and manages the Philosophy Lifestyle Studio located in Juana Osmeña Street.

Present during the launch-dinner affair were: Lee Young-Beom – Vice President/CEO, Archt. M.W. Kang – Fastem Managing Director Young Jin Baek with his mother Mrs. H.Y. Jung ( in complete Korean attire), Marketing Director Chacha Realiza Rama and husband Atty. Enrique Rama, and Cebu Archt. Jose Mari Cañizares, Perlita Jacalan – managing director of Advertising Services and Promotions, was the organizer of the launching affair.