Lately, I’ve been going to Resorts World Manila (RWM) at Newport City (Villamor Airforce Base, across from NAIA 3) for evening entertainment — specifically, to watch Maximus at the casino’s Bar 360.

Maximus is a foreign acrobat entertainment act featured at Bar 360.  It’s actually a compilation of various acrobats — Power Duo, Essence Trio, Yulia & Yuri — from Russia,  Ukraine and Belarus.  Whenever I’ve watched Maximus, Brazilian dancers Juliana & Rafael also perform.  They are pretty entertaining, as well.

Maximus is worth watching, and I’ve seen them more than once.  If you plan to go, make sure though that they are performing.  I had a mishap the other day, when I took a friend to watch on a Monday, and apparently the management had changed the schedule and Maximus was not performing.  I think it is safe to say that if you go on a Friday or a Saturday night, they are going to be there.  Come early on a weekend night (around 8pm) so you get a good seat.

Bar 360

Bar 360 is located in the middle of the casino’s ground floor.  You can’t miss it if you come in from the casino’s front door.  Drinks are reasonably priced, so go ahead and order that bottle of wine if you are with a group.  The service is alright, with some bright spots (and unfortunately, some dim ones).  The casino is quite new, so who knows, service could still be settling down with many more improvements to come.

Last week, Bar 360 started a Ladies’ Night special event on Wednesdays.  I hear this will continue.  On these nights, ladies enter for P700, inclusive of three Lemontinis — a pretty good deal, actually!  My brother and sister-in-law went on opening night and enjoyed with many funny stories the following day.  I’m going to have to try that out sometime.

One thumbs down I have for Bar 360 is that they do not serve food.  The only pica-pica they offer are ridged potato chips and peanuts.  See, the problem with that is they don’t go with all the other drinks offered at the bar.  You can’t really pair those with wine.  I figure they should at least have a more extensive pica-pica menu and some choice desserts to go with coffee.

The other thumbs down I have is that you have to pay for parking and valet (regardless of how much you spend at the restaurants and bar) unless you play at the casino!    You think after spending a decent amount of money at non-gambling entertainment that it would at least deserve free parking!  Oh well, that’s a wish.

There are other places at RWM worth visiting.  But, if you’re going to plan a first trip there, make sure to see Maximus.   You won’t be disappointed.