Metro Manila Malls With Seating Spaces + Customer Lounges
For when you're also waiting for your friends.
(SPOT.ph) Going to a mall entails a lot of walking. You walk, and walk, and walk—and maybe you're forced to keep moving because there isn't enough seating spaces or lounges where you can rest your weary feet and arms from carrying all the shopping bags for a bit. Or maybe there are spaces, but there are just too many people waiting for their friends, too. You could always go eat inside a restaurant or chill inside a cafe, but you don't want to spend more than you already did.
There are malls around Metro Manila that offer lounges or more common seating spaces where you can pause for a while without the pressure of other starving customers waiting for a table.
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Check out these malls in the Metro with customer lounges and common seating spaces.
Megaworld Lifestyle Malls
Lounges and common seating spaces around Megaworld Lifestyle Malls—Uptown Mall, Newport City Mall, Venice Grand Canal, Eastwood City, and Alabang West Parade around Metro Manila, to be more specific—are free of use to every customer.
Eastwood Mall, for one, has wide, outdoor spaces with park benches you can enjoy the afternoon in—and that's with or without your pets. But if you want more exclusivity, say, a VIP or natal care lounges, some of their properties have them.
Uptown Mall, too, has an outdoor space on the mall's upper deck in front of their parish chapel, the St. Gabriel the Archangel. You could have a relaxing moment with the Taguig skyline in the background. It's on the fourth level of the Uptown Mall.
SM Prestige Lounge
The SM Prestige Lounge is exclusive to SMAC Prestige Card members. To use the lounges, you have to be an active SMAC member with a cumulative spending of at least P150,000 within the current calendar year at The SM Store and other SM Retail Partners.
If you present a valid card to the desk, you're set for a comfortable time between shopping in an exclusive lounge area. You can relax there with complimentary refreshments as well as free WiFi. Does your phone need a quick recharge? The Prestige Lounge has accessible charging stations. You have access to clean and deluxe powder rooms, too.
The Prestige Lounge is available in select SM branches:
- SM Araneta City Cubao
- SM Makati
- SM Aura Premier (Upper ground floor)
- SM City Fairview
- SM Mall of Asia (Third floor, Marina Way, Mall of Asia-South Wing)
- SM City Marikina
- SM Megamall (Second floor, SM Megamall Building B)
- SM North Edsa
- SM City San Lazaro
Robinsons Malls
Select Robinsons Malls have patches of green areas where you can chill between shopping sessions. These indoor greens, as they call them, have popping, cool seats around them. Check out the Robinsons Malls in Metro Manila where you can find them.
- Galleria Ortigas
- Metro East
- Galleria South
Ayala Malls' Lounges
If you need a quick breather from shopping and you're inside select Ayala Malls, they have customer and family lounges for you to rest in. That is, if you register as a Zing member. You can claim five customer lounge passes upon registration, and it is valid at Ayala Malls Customer Lounges nationwide (according to the app, customer lounges are available in Market! Market!, Glorietta, MarQuee Mall, Metropoint Mall, and Fairview Terraces around the Metro while family lounges are found in Abreeza and The District Imus). Registration is free, too.
If you also have a BPI Amore Cashback Card, you have unlimited access to these spots.
Greenbelt, to be more specific, has scattered benches around its outdoor area, like the ones near the Sto. Nino de Paz Greenbelt Chapel. Alabang Town Center a.k.a "Town" too, offers a respite from the hustle and bustle of a shopping mall in their Town Plaza. It's an open area in the middle of establishments where concerts or weekend markets are usually held. You can find benches and seats in and around the area.
Festival Mall
Nothing beats taking a quick rest surrounded by lush greens—Festival Mall has the exact thing for you with its little patch of nature called the "Water Garden." It's an open area that goes around the mall (which, by the way, houses more than 800 local and international brands and two indoor amusement centers) enveloping a, well, water garden. You could spend a whole afternoon there thinking about your spending choices. Your wallet took a major hit, but at least you have a good view.
The Festival Mall is open from Mondays to Sundays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and is located at Filinvest City in Alabang, Muntinlupa.
Parqal
Parqal also has a spot for those who need to rest from walking around the beautiful mall—ICYDK, Parqal is included in the "World's Most Beautiful Emporiums" list by the Prix Versailles—in its amphitheater. It's an open space around the back of Parqal where some of the mall's initiatives or events take place.
Parqal is open from Mondays to Wednesdays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Thursdays to Sundays 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and is located at Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard, Tambo, Parañaque City.
Gateway 2 Mall
There are many things to do, such as going to stores to shop and going to restaurants to eat in Araneta City, and rest assured that there's more to come in the newest Gateway Mall 2. And if ever you get tired exploring all of them, you can take a breather at their pocket garden called the Sensory Garden. It's a landscape deck that has spaces where you can sit down and relax for a bit.
Just a few steps away from the Sensory Garden is Sagrada Familia Church, which has some public seats around it too.
Araneta City also has Topiary Garden, which is an open-air spot at the very top of the Gateway Mall. It's decked with tables and chairs as well as lush greens. You can access it through the Gateway Tower or by using the elevator or stairway at the cinema lobby of the Gateway Mall.
Gateway Mall 2 is at 255 General Araneta, Araneta City, Quezon City.