Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino is a four star

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located in

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. The hotel has 561 guestrooms. Hotel function rooms include the Pacific Grand Ballroom, with over 2,000 m² floor area, ten function rooms, and two pool gardens.

History

The Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino was opened in 1998, in time for the

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Tourism Forum held within the same year although plans for the hotel date back as early as 1993. The Cebu City hotel is the second establishment opened under the Waterfront Hotel & Casino brand with the first being in

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island which opened in 1996.

Facilities

The hotel has a gaming area called Club Waterfront. The Casino Filipino is also in the hotel. It also hosts a 7,000-people capacity Pacific Grand Ballroom, which is the biggest

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venue in Cebu City.

Notable events

*2005 –

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tournament *2011 – IBF International

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title match between Rey Bautista and Heriberto Ruiz with Bautista clinching the belt. *2012 – Concerts by Engelbert Humperdinck,

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, and

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*2024 –

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leg of the Biniverse concert tour by the

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group Bini.

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