Alona Princess Suites

Alona Princess Suites: Family Rooms in Danao, Panglao

Alona Princess Suites sits in Danao, a barangay on Panglao Island’s south side within roughly a 12-minute walk of Alona Beach and about 1.2 miles from Bohol-Panglao International Airport. It’s a small property built around family rooms rather than a beachfront resort layout: each room has air-conditioning, a private bathroom with a massage shower, a balcony, a Smart TV, a tea and coffee maker, a work desk, and free toiletries. A 24-hour front desk and an on-site coffee shop cover the basics outside of scheduled meal times, and the property includes a free evening social alongside WiFi and parking. Children of all ages are welcome, though the property charges guests 11 and up at the adult rate — worth checking before booking a family room for older kids.

On Booking.com the listing carries a 7.3 score (“Good”) from 33 reviews as of a mid-2026 check. That’s a smaller review base than most Alona-area hotels, which is typical for a newer or lower-turnover property — it’s worth reading a handful of the individual reviews directly on Booking.com rather than relying on the aggregate score alone, since 33 reviews swings more per data point than a property with a few hundred. The ₱2,000 nightly figure attached to this listing is an estimate built from comparable Panglao properties at a similar rating, not a live confirmed rate, so treat it as a starting point rather than a quote.

Location and What’s Nearby

Danao sits a short tricycle ride from the Alona Beach strip itself, putting Alona Princess Suites closer to residential Panglao than to the restaurant-and-dive-shop cluster directly on the sand. Hinagdanan Cave, a natural limestone cave with a swimmable underground pool, is about 6.8 miles away, and Baclayon Church — one of the oldest stone churches in the Philippines — is roughly 13 miles off, both reachable as stops on a countryside day trip rather than a walk from the hotel.

Panglao Beyond the Room

Panglao itself is a separate island municipality connected to the Bohol mainland by two bridges, covering about 44 square kilometres with roughly 40,000 residents as of the 2020 census — small enough that Danao, Tawala (where Alona Beach sits), and the quieter, north-facing Doljo Beach are all a short ride from each other rather than separate trips. At Poblacion, the island’s civic center, the Panglao Watchtower — a five-storey hexagonal coral-stone tower built in 1851 and declared a National Cultural Treasure in 2011 — stands beside St. Augustine Parish Church, most of which dates to 1894 through the early 1900s, with its nave finished in the 1920s and its concrete portico added in 1925. The watchtower was damaged in the 2013 Bohol earthquake, restored, and reopened to the public in December 2017; next to both stands the ruined façade of an even earlier 19th-century church, so the compound shows three distinct building phases in one place. The parish fiesta, Hudyaka sa Panglao, falls on 28 August each year.

For food, the area’s Larsian-style barbecue stalls set up along the Tawala road toward Alona Beach from late afternoon, and kinilaw na tanigue — raw Spanish mackerel cured in coconut vinegar, ginger, chilli and onion, using vinegar produced locally on the island — is a dish worth seeking out at a proper sit-down restaurant rather than a beach stall, since it needs to be genuinely fresh.

Danao itself sits further from the tourist strip than Tawala, and Panglao’s interior barangays generally still run on agriculture — coconut and root crops — rather than tourism, even as the coastline around Alona and Doljo has built up around hotels and dive shops. That mix of a working interior and a tourism-dense coast is part of what makes Panglao feel larger than its 44 square kilometres suggest.

Inland, in Barangay Tangnan, a small cooperative called KASOTAPA runs a sorbetes — Filipino ice-cream — production line under the Department of Trade and Industry’s One Town One Product program. It’s a minor stop compared to the Chocolate Hills or Hinagdanan Cave, but it’s one of the few places on a Panglao itinerary where visitors can see a real local livelihood project rather than another dive shop or beach bar.

Who It Suits

This is a fit for families and small groups who want private bathrooms, air-conditioning and a balcony without paying resort rates, and who don’t mind a short tricycle ride rather than a beachfront walk to Alona. It’s a weaker fit for travelers who specifically want to step out of their room onto the sand, or who want a large review sample to lean on before booking. Book through Stay22 or Booking.com and confirm current rates and room availability directly, given how thin the review history still is.