Alona Katchajo Inn

Alona Katchajo Inn: A Pool-Equipped Budget Option Near Alona Beach

Alona Katchajo Inn holds a “Good” 7.2 rating on Booking.com from 27 reviews, fetched 15 July 2026 — a modest score and sample size worth weighing alongside what the property actually offers, which includes a genuine differentiator for its price bracket: an outdoor swimming pool, something most budget inns on this stretch of Panglao don’t have.

The Rooms

Rooms come with a balcony, a separate dressing area, air conditioning, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, a sofa bed, and sound-proofed windows. Private bathrooms include a shower, free toiletries, and a hairdryer. The sofa bed configuration makes rooms here workable for a small family or two friends splitting a room, rather than strictly a two-guest layout.

Rates

The listed estimate is 2,000 PHP per night, drawn from five comparable Panglao properties with a similar OTA rating rather than a live quote from the property itself — treat it as a planning reference and confirm the actual rate on Stay22 or directly before booking. Other booking platforms have shown standard and deluxe rates for this property in a broadly similar range, a reasonable cross-check even though none of these figures should be read as a locked-in current rate.

Amenities

Beyond the pool, the property lists a restaurant, room service, a 24-hour front desk, free WiFi, a bar, billiards, a garden, a terrace, and free private parking, with car hire arrangeable through the property. That’s a fuller amenity list than most inns in this stretch of Panglao’s budget category, which typically stop at WiFi and an air conditioner.

Location

Katchajo sits about 600 metres from Alona Beach and roughly two kilometres from Bohol-Panglao International Airport — close enough to walk to the beach in under ten minutes, with tricycles readily available for the airport run or into Tagbilaran.

Panglao Context

The pool and fuller amenity set here put this inn closer to the small-resort end of Panglao’s budget category than the bare-bones tourist inns nearby, though it still sits well below the beachfront resorts’ price point. Guests who want billiards or a bar on-site rather than walking to Alona’s restaurant strip for evening entertainment get that option here, a genuine point of difference worth factoring into a comparison with similarly priced inns that only offer a room and WiFi.

Inland, the towns beyond Panglao’s coastal strip remain largely agricultural — coconut and root crops dominate the interior barangays — a contrast worth keeping in mind if a day trip inland is on the itinerary, since the landscape changes quickly from beach resort development to working farmland within a few kilometres. The Chocolate Hills, roughly 1,776 cone-shaped mounds across Carmen, Batuan, and Sagbayan with some peaks close to 120 metres, are a common half-day trip from here; local legend holds they formed from a heartbroken giant’s tears, a piece of folklore rather than documented geological history. The Philippine Tarsier & Wildlife Sanctuary in Corella, a protected reserve with more than 500 tarsiers living and breeding under strict no-flash, no-touch rules, is typically paired with the hills on the same tour.

Panglao’s water supply is worth understanding before any stay here: the island has no river system, so hotels — this one included — draw from a freshwater lens in the porous limestone below, and dry-season over-extraction has pushed chloride levels in some wells past the WHO’s drinking-water threshold. Bottled or filtered water is standard practice across the island.

Reaching the Reef

Being close to Alona Beach puts Katchajo within easy range of the dive and snorkel operators based there. Trips to Balicasag Island, a marine sanctuary about 20 minutes offshore by outrigger, run daily; the local government caps visitor numbers at 150 divers and snorkelers per day, limits each diver to two dives, and charges a roughly ₱250 environmental fee — a deliberate limit meant to protect the wall dive locals call the Black Forest and a reef known for sea turtle cleaning stations.

The Island Itself

Panglao is technically a separate island from Bohol, joined to the mainland by two bridges — one at Tagbilaran-Dauis, another on the Maribojoc side. It covers roughly 44 square kilometres with about 40,000 residents at the 2020 census, and its parish fiesta, Hudyaka sa Panglao, falls on 28 August each year at the church and watchtower compound in Poblacion.

Who Should Book Here

This suits small families or pairs of friends who want a sofa-bed layout and don’t mind being a short tricycle ride or walk from the beach rather than directly on it, plus anyone who values having a pool, bar, and billiards on-site over walking to the main strip for evening options.

Getting There: Katchajo sits about 600 metres from Alona Beach and two kilometres from the airport; tricycles cover both routes for a negotiated fare.