6 Best Hotels in Cebu IT Park: Where to Stay in the 24-Hour District

IT Park is not a tourist quarter, and that is the reason to stay there. It is a 24-hour business park in Barangay Apas — office towers, condos and the Central Bloc mall on a flat, well-lit grid — laid out on the grounds of the old Lahug Airport, which served as Cebu’s main airport until operations moved to Mactan in the mid-1960s. The land sat largely idle after the airport closed, then was redeveloped from the late 1990s into what began as the Asiatown IT Park. That former airfield is why the district reads the way it does: a flat, already-cleared plane let planners lay down a generous, legible grid — wide streets, deep setbacks, one planned block — instead of working around the organic tangle of old downtown.

For a traveller, that planning pays off in ordinary ways. The night-shift economy that runs the call centres keeps food, coffee and pharmacies open around the clock, so arriving at 2am jet-lagged is manageable here in a way it is not elsewhere in Cebu. We ranked these six by how close they put you to the Central Bloc food core — starting with the only hotel actually inside the park — and noted where the edge picks trade the address for a pool or a kitchen.

Here are the best hotels in and around Cebu IT Park, in order.