Self storage in Manila and Cebu: a locked unit of your own, on your side of the city
A secured unit you enter yourself, on a flood-free site near the district you work in. For the expatriate whose Makati condominium is smaller than the last house, the family whose residence is not ready, the company with stock to reach. Asia Relocation Philippines runs the sites; its packers bring the load in if you would rather not.
Self storage is the storage where you stay in charge: the unit is yours, the lock is yours, what goes in and out is your decision. It suits the expatriate with more than a Makati condominium can hold, the company that fetches a carton of files every few weeks, the family in a serviced apartment until the residence is ready.
It asks in return for honesty about the climate and the map. Manila's heat and humidity do more damage than any burglar: a standard unit is right for furniture and cartons, wrong for a guitar, a laptop or a box of photographs. And in an archipelago the unit must be on the island the goods will end up on, and on your side of the capital, or you will stop visiting it.
Asia Relocation Philippines is where this company began, in 2011. The sites are our own warehouses in Manila and Cebu, in flood-free zones, watched around the clock. The packers who move households bring your load in and hand you the key.
What comes with the unit, and which of the other two services you may need
Three ways to store with us; the difference is who opens the door.
Carried by the service
- A unit sized to the load, individually locked, in a clean, dry, lit building, resized as the contents change.
- Entry for you and the people you name: opened on notice, quickly, and for nobody you have not authorised.
- A site built to be trusted: cameras at all hours, access control at the door, burglar alarms, ground in a flood-free zone.
- A plain agreement: unit, term, access rules, what may not be stored, and a monthly invoice with only those lines.
- Help when you want it: packing materials, our packers for the move-in, delivery to your door when the unit closes.
Unit size and figure are put in writing after the survey.
A different service
- Things the climate would ruin. Electronics, instruments, art, antiques and paper belong in air-conditioned storage, held for you in Manila, Cebu or Davao.
- A load that will cross water again. Goods bound for another island or another country do better sealed into reinforced crates, which survive being craned and stacked as cartons do not.
- The move itself. A household going from one Philippine address to the next is our moving service in the Philippines; the crew can drop part of the load here on the way.
- A roof in the meantime. If the furniture is in the unit because the home is not ready, temporary housing in Manila is the other half of the problem.
One file covers all of it. Mention the rest in the inquiry.
Four loads that take a unit in Manila or Cebu
Same unit, same lock; what differs is how often the door opens.
The tower apartment that could not take it all
The most common case in Makati, BGC and Ortigas: a household that landed with more than a tower can hold. Spare furniture, golf bags, the cartons never unpacked.
Between the hotel and the residence
The container has cleared, the family is in a serviced apartment, and the lease has slipped. Everything sits in a unit for a period nobody can fix; the term extends, then the unit shrinks once the essentials come out.
Stock, samples and archives
Furniture from a floor given up, marketing material, event kit, files a company must keep and occasionally produce. A corporate account, a list of who may enter, one monthly invoice.
The home in works, the home downsized
A renovation that empties two rooms, a move from a house in Alabang to a city flat, a retiree in Cebu keeping less. A unit for months, closed with a delivery home.
Five steps between the first call and your key
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The consultation, and the island question
What is going in, for how long, and where it will be delivered afterwards. From that we propose a site and a unit size, and flag anything that belongs in a controlled unit.
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The unit
Chosen from the sizes on the site, and it can change later: larger for a full household, smaller once a few cartons remain.
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The agreement
A short document in plain words: unit, term, who may enter, what may not be stored, the monthly invoice. Signed, and the unit is yours.
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The move-in
Yourself, with our trolleys and the loading area, or our packers collecting anywhere in Metro Manila or Cebu and placing the load with what you need first at the front.
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Visits, on notice
Tell the site you are coming and the unit is opened, under the cameras, for the people you have named. When the hold ends, we deliver to the door or you collect.
The four clients who keep a key to a unit with us
The expatriate who landed with too much
A Manila tower is often smaller than the house left behind. The unit takes what does not fit, on your side of the city, so it is actually visited.
The family whose residence is not ready
Between a serviced apartment and a lease that keeps slipping, with a container already landed. The term extends, the unit shrinks.
The business that must reach its stock
Inventory, samples, archives, furniture from a downsized floor: what a company keeps and occasionally fetches, under a corporate account.
The household in an interval
Renovating, downsizing, retiring to Cebu with less, or leaving for a year with a return clause. A unit for months, then delivery home.
Two sites, Manila and Cebu, and the side of the city that matters
Units in Metro Manila and Cebu, both in flood-free zones, both our own buildings.
Metro Manila is where most units are taken, and where siting matters most: a unit on the wrong side of the capital is an hour of traffic away, and then it stops being visited. We ask where you work before proposing a site.
Cebu is a full second site rather than an agent's shelf, so a household bound for the Visayas is not held in the capital and sent down by sea. Davao has air-conditioned units only; if you need a unit you enter yourself in the south, ask, and we will say plainly what we can offer.
What clients ask before taking a unit in the Philippines
How is self storage different from your warehouse storage?
Manila or Cebu: which site should we take?
Can we get to the unit whenever we like?
What may go into a unit?
Is a standard unit enough for electronics and artwork?
Will you bring the load in for us?
What if our dates change?
How is self storage priced in the Philippines?
Two other ways we store in the Philippines
You would rather we held it for you, at a steady climate
For the electronics, instruments, art and paper that humidity spoils: a controlled unit we manage, in Manila, Cebu or Davao, released on request.
Air-conditioned storage in the Philippines →The whole storage service
Self storage, air-conditioned units and reinforced crates, and the one question, which island, that picks between them.
Storage services in the Philippines →Say what is going in and which city, and we size the unit
A written figure after the survey, a unit of your own on signing, our packers if you want them.
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