A one-piece type heat resistant polyester bottle having excellent strength in its bottom portion, heat resistance, symmetrical panel-sinking stability in the presence of a vacuum pressure and self-standing stability obtained by stretch-blow-molding a thermoplastic polyester and having a neck portion, a barrel portion which is dram and is heat-set and a bottom portion, the barrel portion thereof being provided with a panel-rib structure to prevent poor-looking deformation of the bottle caused by the vacuum pressure, wherein the bottom portion includes a bottom center portion having a thick portion at its center which is inwardly recessed in an axial direction of the bottle and a peripheral grounding portion which downwardly extends in the axial direction beyond the bottom center portion, the portions excluding the neck portion, part of the barrel portion continuous to the neck portion and the thick portion at the center of the bottom portion, have a thickness which is reduced to not larger than 0.6 mm and are molecularly oriented to have a birefringence in a circumferential direction of not smaller than 0.070 and are further heat-set to have a crystallinity of not smaller than 35%.