I booked a room at the Remington (which was recently converted into a Holiday Inn Express. The hotel is easy to reach on foot via the skybridge from T3, and the rates are hard to beat. The rooms are quite small, but colorful. If you have any status at IHG, make sure to flout it at check-in to bypass the line, which was horrific when I arrived. Definitely avoid any tight connections in MNL, and prepare for traffic nightmares. A few miles can take a few hours. One pleasant surprise from my last trip was that it only took about 10-15 minutes to get from Pasay/MOA to T1 during the middle of the day thanks to the new toll expressway.