My wife, our 10-year-old daughter and I...
My wife, our 10-year-old daughter and I stayed here during May 10-13 to celebrate Mother's Day and my birthday. It's a new, charming, relaxing and intimate place (developed on only 0.5 hectare of beachfront property) with a wonderful view of the ocean and faraway islands. It was stormy so we couldn't really swim in the ocean, but the newly finished pool was very refreshing.
There are only five rooms and we were the only guests at the time. The rooms are very clean, spacious and comfortable, although the front balcony area could be larger. Grace and her staff were very accommodating, and responded positively and warmly to all our requests, including our largely vegetarian meals. The service level is among the highest we have experienced anywhere in the Philippines, thanks to the eight months that Grace trained her staff before opening and her hands-on management of the resort.
There are landscaped terraces and steps leading down to the fine white sand beach. This could be problematic for very small kids and the elderly.
This resort is the perfect place to chill out. And Anda is also a good location from which to tour Bohol's natural wonders -- Chocolate Hills, tarsiers and Loboc River, where one can take a lunch cruise that makes a few stops along the river to showcase local communities performing local songs and dances.
Here's what my wife thought of the resort: "I can say that this is the very first time that I deeply experienced peace in a resort. Maybe that was just a time of my life, but my meditation has revealed to me very strong positive energy of the place. The people were genuinely pure and friendly. Despite the weather at that time that prevented us from swimming in the sea, I still had a GREAT time at the beach. Grace, the owner is highly "developmental" to the staff and the place. The place also gave me for the first time a very genuinely happy stomach in a resort setting...the organic or indigenous menus and the superb cooking of the cook all added to the pleasant experience. Service was tops, and I was able to satisfy my craving for "tuba" (coconut toddy) and the subsequent "kinutil" (sort of eggnog). I definitely would like to go back to the place again, and maybe bring other indigenous plants and healing herbs to further the healing aspects of the place."
Thanks Grace and staff and we'll definitely be back!