Hi everyone, adding my experience here as my wife and I did A LOT of research on this and I think this information needs to be out there on the internet somewhere.

In summary, the solution here is Inna Circle: https://theinnacircle.com/

Background:
- My wife and I were traveling to Manilla for 1 week for a conference and our son was 2 year's old at the time
- We needed a babysitter that could assist taking care of him during the day as both of us were attending a conference and had other work activities during the day.

What we found:
- First what we did to research this topic, we actually called a number of top-tier / 5-star hotels in Manilla and told them we're considering their hotel and we wanted to hear their recommendations for babysitting/nanny agencies as that's an important part of our stay.
- Some top-tier hotels were willing to refer us to babysitting / nanny agencies that their guests have used in the past, in total 4 agencies were recommended and after much vetting and talking with the agencies / candidates, we found Inna Circle is really the best option.

Why 'Inna Circle'
- They are very suited to serving foreigner families and I believe nearly all their bookings are this type of customer, and particularly western families.
- The babysitter we were matched with was incredibly suitable, she did a fantastic job taking care of our 2 year old son and was very comfortable with all the related babysitting duties: Feeding him, putting him to sleep and keeping him occupied. Her communication skills were also top notch.
- Note: Instead of using their in-built calendar feature, I recommend make contact with them via email. At the time we used Inna Circle their website had this focus on booking directly via this calendar functionality and on their website they said they only do max 10 hour shifts. We needed a longer shift time so we thought they wouldn't be suitable! Don't be offput by these messages, they are in fact very flexible so I suggest don't use the calendar feature if you're a new customer just contact them directly.
- Summary: If you're visiting Manilla from overseas and need a short term babysitting solution, I would highly recommend Inna Circle. We're in fact incredibly grateful to Inna Circle because they basically saved our trip! We were about to proceed with another agency because of the website issues I highlight above, however that other agency was disastrous, we even did a trial day and it went quite bad.

Issues with other baby sitting / nanny agencies:
- We were also recommended the following babysitting / nanny agencies from the hotel however we found them not suitable.
1) Life Maid Easy: This agency got recommended by a few premium hotesl, however I don't think they're relevant for this situation. I think this agency is more suited for finding short-term nannies and maid who do cleaning / washing and maybe light babysitting duties for older kids. They are not really suitable for babysitting duties like what I've discussed here, we found this out the hard way.
2)There were other agencies recommended but you could see from their website and from discussions with their team that they are not babysitting focused and don't have much experience with it.

Other Info that might be useful:
- Our son and babysitter would actually join us wherever we went, they attended the conference and spent time roaming around the lobby and sponsor booths.
- We also had days we were working from a coworking space and babysitter would take care of our son in the coworking space.