Bohol’s Dapdap Beach Resort

Bohols Dapdap Beach Resort (http://www.boholdapdapresort.com) is situated on a short stretch of white sandy beach with cliffs on the side. Its name is derived from Dapdap Trees which were abundant in the area. The beach is dotted with small bamboo and nipa thatched huts surrounded by Bermuda grass under coconut trees while some huts are on the cliffs with a beautiful view of the bay.

For overnight stay, cottages are available. Cottages are made of bamboo and amakan with nipa thatched roofs with verandas while others are concrete buildings with thatched roofing. Some of the cottages are elevated  with a few stone steps leading towards a well-kept tropical garden of bougainvilleas; San Francisco’s and palm trees. Others, especially the standard and deluxe cottages, are on flat ground facing the garden and the sea beyond.

Location

Bohol’s Dapdap Beach Resort is located at Candabong,  Anda, Bohol in Central Visayas in the  Philippines. The resort is in Anda Peninsula which is located in the Eastern part of  Bohol in the  municipality of Anda. Anda is about 99.3 kilometers from Tagbilaran City, the capital and lone city of the province of Bohol and takes more or less one and a half hour ride from airport or pier to the Resort.

Facilities and Services

1. Room Options

Standard Room

Standard room is a concrete building with nipa thatched roofing, windows with jalousies, and a porch facing the garden with a view of the sea. It is provided with air conditioning, 2 twin-size mahogany beds with mattresses, bedcovers and linens; a dining area with vanity table, curtained windows, a cabinet, a divan and a private bathroom.

Deluxe Room

The deluxe cottage is slightly bigger and more spacious than the standard cottage. It is a concrete building with thatched roofing, curtained windows with jalousies, a private bathroom and porch facing the garden. It is provided with air conditioning, a king and queen-size beds with bedcovers and linen, a dining area with television. A big cabinet, table, mirror on the wall are also provided. Walls are decorated with big native fans.

The Big Room

The Big Room is huge and very spacious to accommodate about 16 persons with 2 private bathrooms ideal for a big party or a clan reunion. The room is air conditioned and provided with 8 double-deck beds with mattresses and pillows. The cottage is a wooden structure with thatched roofing, windows with jalousies, walls partially made of decorative amakan and wooden-tiled floors.

2. Function Hall

The Function hall is available for rent for events like weddings, receptions, meetings, reunions, conferences and others.

3. Scenic Tours

Scenic Tours to tourists spots around Bohol (Chocolate Hills, Sagbayan Peak, Loboc River, historical churchess, dolphin watching, cave explorations and others.) can be arranged.

Contact Info

website: http://www.boholdapdapresort.com/

Address: Candabong, Anda
6311 Bohol
Philippines

Phone: +63-38-528-2011
Mobile: +63-921-833-2332
Mobile: +63-921-833-2315
Email: wecare [at] boholdapdapresort [dot] com

Blue Star Dive and Resort

The Blue Star Dive and Resort  (http://www.bluestardive.com/) is a resort perched on a ridge 40 meters above the sea level in Anda town. The resort then has an excellent view of the open sea, beautiful sunsets and the neighboring island of Camiguin as well as the contoured outlines of the towns of Guindulman, Duero and Jagna in Bohol. The beachfront is a powdery white sand, is about 68 steps from the resort, with a background of rugged cliffs and caves formed by the waves for centuries.

The resort, owned by Mr. Lorenz Wenger and Gianni Parrino, has six (6) bungalows, a complete dive center, a restaurant and bar, and its own boat for scuba diving trips and island tours.

Location

The Blue Star Dive and Resort is located at Sitio Ipo, Barangay Candabong of the municipality of Anda in Bohol, Philippines. It lies on the southeastern coast of Bohol in the Bay of Anda, close to the outskirt barangay of Guindulman. It is about 99.3 kilometers away from Tagbilaran City, the capital of Bohol

Facilities and Services

Accommodation

The resort boasts of six (6) spacious bungalows that are built and furnished in typical Philippine style with private terrace that commands a spectacular view of the beach, fringed with coconut palm trees and the blue expanse of the sea. The rooms are equipped with king-sized beds complete with pillows and linen. Mini-bar, toilet and bath with hot & cold water are also provided.

Where to Wine and Dine

Blue Star Dive and Resort boasts of a restaurant that serves Asian and European cuisine. All food is painstakingly prepared from selected fresh ingredients that are available from the local market. Vegetarian or diabetic meals, if desired, will be attended to.

Dive Center

The Dive Center lies directly above the beach and connected to it by 68 steps. The center has a shower/toilet, a training classroom, a repair shop and a drying room. It consists of two compressors, 32 tanks with adaptors (optional DIN or INT) and rental gears for diving and snorkeling.

Deco Bar

Divers can relax and unwind at the Deco lounge which is outfitted with tables and chairs. Wine and other spirits are available and food will be prepared upon order.

Medics

The resort is primarily concerned with safety. It provides a medically trained staff (by Emergency First Response-Standards) and has oxygen reserves.

Transfers

The resort offers airport and seaport transfers to the extent of reserving a room for at a hotel in Cebu for any eventual stop-over or overnight stay and provides assistance and escort on your way to the resort.

Resort Activities

Aside from the simple activities of swimming, boating and snorkelling, the resort also arranges for scuba diving trips. Diving spots, especially a species-rich house reef, are only a few minutes away by boat. Currents are from medium to medium-high with good to very good visibility and temperatures between 25 and 30 degrees centigrade.

The Anda waters are blessed with untouched reefs and coral gardens with spectacular drop-offs, caves and grottos. One will encounter nudibranches and lots of crabs, shrimps, gobies, schools of mackerel and tuna on a daily basis. There are also sightings of turtles, a napoleon or whale sharks between the months of February and April.

Diving Courses

All diving courses are given by a qualified PADI instructor according to PADI-Standards. The indicated course durations are approximate values and are, depending on the number of participants, adapted to individual needs.

Introductory Dive (1/2 day)

After a short theoretical introduction, students will experience their first breaths underwater accompanied by an experienced diving instructor. The house reef right in front of the resort provides optimum conditions for the intro dive.

Discover Scuba Diving Course (1 day)

A one-day exploration: emphasizing practical experience accompanied by a minimum of theoretical background. If the experience is ok and one decide to continue, this course may be credited to further courses.

Open Water Diver (4-5 days)

This course emphasizes the fundamental skills a diver uses and which allows him to dive safely to a depth up to 18 meters/60 feet and carefully feel ones way through the underwater world. Theory may be studied at home so that one can concentrate on the practical part during the holidays. After a few exercises, one can dive and explore other spots while accompanied by a trainer.

Advanced Open Water Diver (2-3 days)

The course covers lessons on boats, buoyancy, drift, reefs, navigation, night diving, deep diving, and more. The 2-day course will deepen ones confidence and security. The course includes 5 relaxed dives, combining practice and theory.

Rescue & Emergency First Response (4-5 days)

Students are trained to help others by simulating different scenarios of potentially dangerous and emergency situations in diving. With this training, one will be able to timely identify such situations and to correctly interpret them. The emergency first response includes a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) course which is a prerequisite to the Rescue Diver Course. The Emergency First Response Course takes 1 day and the Rescue Diver Course from 3-4 days. The combination of both provides the entire knowledge of a fully trained Rescue Diver.

Dive Master (at least 4 weeks)

This course is for those who want to be professionals in this field and be able to train others. One will learn how to correctly brief divers, how to lead them above and underwater and to take over a role model function with responsibilities. The duration of the training must be agreed in advance and done individually. A combination with the Assistant Instructor Course is possible.

PADI-Specialty Courses

Peak Performance Buoyancy (1 day)

Feel like a fish in the water. With this 1-day specialty course, one will perfect buoyancy performance within two dives and enable one to move excellently in the water and to fully enjoy zero gravity. This course is a must for all submarine photographers.

Night Diver (2 days)

A dive after sunset opens new perspectives: other marine mammals, different colours and utterly new experiences. Learn how to communicate correctly underwater at night, how to navigate with the compass and get to know the particularities of these adventures. After this training, one will feel entirely safe during future nocturnal submarine explorations.

Deep Diver (2 days)

A substantiated education allows one to dive beyond the 30 meters/100 feet limit. Learn more about decompression theory and combine it with 4 safely accompanied dives down to the maximum 40 meters/130 feet limit of sports diving.

UW Navigation

This course will teach how to become good friends with the compass, learn how to optimally orientate underwater and find ones way home thus avoid swimming long distances on the surface and from embarrassing searches for the boat or the way out.

Diving Packages

The resort offers different diving packages ranging from packages of 10 or 20 dives, a 1-day house reef or 3-days explorations. Diving packages are non-transferable.

Excursions & Activities

Various activities and excursions are available at the resort. Guests can go on boat rides through mangroves, do island tours, visit other white sandy beaches, explore caves, and do trekking to see waterfalls, enjoy lunch at a river cruise, tour heritage monuments and more. The resort staff will gladly help you set up the activities that you want to undergo.

Room Amenities

King-sized beds, pillows, bedcovers, blankets, mini-bar, toilet and bath, hot & cold water

Resort Facilities/Services

Room accommodations, restaurant, dive center, 18meter-Bangka (traditional Philippine catamaran), deco bar, medics and transfers.

Overview

The Blue Star Dive and Resort is situated in a quiet neighborhood. Perched above the rugged cliffs of this side of Anda, it commands a spectacular view of God’s bounty: the crystal blue expanse of the sea, the island of Camiguin in the far distance, and the contour of its neighboring towns: Guindulman, Duero and Jagna.

The resort is ideal for those who seek peace and quiet for it has a serene ambiance and relatively isolated from other resorts and quite distant from the populous areas of the towns of Anda and Guindulman.

The Straits Anda and Guindulman are now known for its dive sites and for years has been the haunt of Germans and Swiss since most of the resorts are owned by fellow foreigners married to local maidens.

Contact Info

website: www.bluestardive.com

BlueStar Dive & Resort
Ipo, Candabong
6311 Anda Bohol
Philippines
Phone: +63 919 453 60 90

BlueStar Swiss Office
Mettlenstr. 2
8488 Turbenthal
Switzerland
Phone: +41 76 412 09 39
E-Mail: dive [at] bluestardive [dot]com

Flower Beach and Diving Resort

website: http://www.flower-beach.com/

The Flower Beach Diving Resort is a new beach and diving resort run by Florence, a native Boholana and her German husband, Werner. The resort is endowed with white sandy beach with little native thatched huts that dots the area to provide shade. Beach beds and umbrellas are free.

Water is shallow at all tides and is safe for the children. A little way off where it is deeper is good for snorkeling and scuba diving. Boating is another pastime indulged in by the locals and the guests. The beach is a favorite landing area for fishing boats bringing in the catch of the day.

The beach area is fringed by coconut trees and beautiful flowers which are being conserved by the owners to maintain the natural environment.Flower Beach Diving Resort has a restaurant that offers musical and dance performances most especially that of the Alicia Musika Kawayan Orchestra where children play instruments made of bamboo.

Location

The Flower Beach Diving Resort is located at Virgen, Anda, Bohol 6311, Philippines. The municipality of Anda is located in the eastern part of Bohol, 99.3 kilometers from Tagbilaran City with a land area of 6,110 hectares.

Facilities and Services

Every bungalow has its private terrace with sea view and only a few steps to the beach. Bungalows and duplex units are made up of local and native materials like bamboo and amakan with nipa thatched roofs. Furniture like beds, bedside tables, and cabinets are made from Mahogany wood.
Guestrooms

The air conditioned guestrooms are located in duplex units and provided with twin beds, bedside table with lampshade, bedcovers, linen, toilet and bath with shower.Walls are made of amakan, locally weaved and decorated into solid walls. New units are on the cliff, right above the sea, and naturally ventilated with windows on 3 sides. All windows are equipped with mosquito screens to keep unwanted insects at bay.

Deluxe Units

Flower Beach Diving Resort Deluxe units are spacious and bigger with air conditioning and equipped with one queen-size bed and one single bed. Space is available for one more bed if needed. The units have terraces and can accomodate up to 4 persons per room. Built-in furniture is made of locally grown mahagony wood to provide space for guest’s belongings. Deluxe units are provided with a refrigerator, TV/DVD, minibar and warm water by solar heater.

Restaurant/Bar

Flower Beach Diving Resort has a restaurant that offers musical and dance performances most especially that of the Alicia Musika Kawayan Orchestra where children play instruments made of bamboo. The restaurant serves local and international cuisine. Disco is enjoyed on weekends.
Dive Center

The Dive Center has direct access to the sea and the boats with well-maintained complete facilities and equipments for rent. The Center has locally styled outrigger boats. Air compressors are from the leading German manufacturer, Bauer.

The Guindulman-Anda Bay boasts of a 14 km long unspoilt coral reef teeming with colored and varied marine life.Newcomers will undergo training under a German dive instructor and his crew to get a PADI or CMAS dive license.

Other Facilities/Services

Children’s Daycare, Manicure, Massage Services, Pedicure, Tour Services, Transfer Services

Overview

The Bohol Island has a very pleasant subtropical climate with air temperatures around 25 to 30 degrees centigrade all year round. Sea water temperatures are pleasant for swimming, snorkeling, and diving.

The months most suitable for tourists from cold countries are from November to February where it’s sunny with light winds and temperature around 25 degrees centigrade with occasional rain showers. March to April is Dry Season in the Philippines with higher temperatures but not above 30 degrees centigrade. May to September brings with them more rain and wind.

Flower Beach Diving Resort is the best getaway, being far from the crowded towns and resorts of Bohol.The well-maintained tropical garden, the comfortable colorful quarters, the cool sea breeze and the blue waters with the 14 kilometer long unspoiled and healthy coral reef teeming with colorful marine life beckon to ordinary guests and scuba divers alike.

Contact Info

website: www.flower-beach.com

Flower Beach and Diving Resort
Licong, Anda, Bohol

Phone  (D) : +49 (0) 6126 53181    (rarely)
Mobile (D) : +49 (0) 177 867 9402 (sometimes)
Phone (PH) : +63 (0) 918 579 6166 (always)
Phone (PH) : +63 (0) 918 625 9816 (mostly)
Phone (PH) : +63 (0) 921 460 7892 (mostly)

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