Anda De Boracay White Sand Resort

Anda De Boracay White Sand Resort is a 3-star property in Anda’s poblacion area, on Bohol’s remote eastern peninsula — roughly 110 kilometers and two-and-a-half to three hours by road from Tagbilaran and Bohol-Panglao International Airport, with no sea route in. The name borrows from Boracay, the country’s best-known white-sand island some 350 kilometers away in Aklan; it’s a marketing signal about sand color and quality, not a claim of proximity. This resort has no operational connection to that island beyond the reference.

What’s On Site

The resort runs a full-service spa offering massages, body treatments, and facials, plus an outdoor swimming pool and a small fitness center — a heavier amenity list than most Anda guesthouses carry. Cafe Tacio, the on-site restaurant, serves local cuisine; free breakfast, free Wi-Fi, and free parking are included. Guest feedback on TripAdvisor, where the property sits in the mid-30s among roughly 110 Bohol-province B&Bs and inns, is consistent on two points: the beach is genuinely white sand with clear, calm water, and the facilities are basic enough that some guests have noted weak water pressure in the showers. That combination tracks with the Booking.com rating on file — 6.6 out of 10 in the “Review score” category, from 28 reviews — a straightforward mid-tier stay rather than a resort competing at Panglao’s level of finish.

Location and Cave Pools Nearby

The property sits about a five-minute drive from Cabagnow Cave Pool, one of a handful of caretaker-run cave-pool attractions in Anda’s interior — this one involving a climb down an iron ladder into deep water, with a PHP 50 entry fee — and roughly nine minutes from Anda’s public beach. None of the area’s cave pools operate as a single ticketed circuit; each is a separate small operation run by a local family or barangay group, meaning entry fees go directly to a handful of households rather than a company. Small bills are worth having on hand, since none of them take cards.

Price Note

The PHP 1,420 nightly figure on this listing is an estimate rather than a confirmed live rate. Anda didn’t return enough directly comparable properties to price it the standard way, so this number is built from five coastal Bohol beach-town resorts carrying a similar OTA score (around 6.6). Treat it as a planning reference and confirm the actual rate on Stay22 or Booking.com before booking, particularly since the spa and Cafe Tacio are amenities that can move a quoted rate above a bare-room baseline.

Local Food and the Wider Area

Cafe Tacio’s “local cuisine” framing likely covers the same coastal staples served across Anda: kinilaw built on tanigue or bariles rather than the tuna used further north in Bohol, and grilled squid finished over coconut-husk coals. For a break from the resort grounds, Quinale Beach in the poblacion — the municipality’s free public beach, with showers, changing rooms, and a lifeguard on duty — is close by, as is Punta Cruz Watchtower, the 17th-century Spanish-era tower built to watch for Moro raiders, a short habal-habal ride away.

Getting There

Access is overland only: a bus to the Guindulman junction followed by habal-habal or jeepney, or a direct chartered van from Tagbilaran running about two hours and PHP 2,000–2,500 per vehicle. There’s no ATM in Anda’s beach area — Guindulman, roughly 30 kilometers back toward the capital, has the nearest one — so plan for cash covering the full stay, including spa treatments or restaurant charges beyond what a room rate includes.

Peak Season and Booking Timing

Anda’s high season tracks Holy Week and the mid-December-through-early-January stretch, when Cebu-based domestic travelers fill up the coast’s limited room stock. A resort with a pool, spa, and dedicated restaurant is likely to book out faster in those windows than the area’s bare-bones cottages, which mostly rent by the night with no separate amenity draw. Outside peak dates, the 28-review count on file suggests turnover here is modest enough that last-minute availability is realistic most of the year.

History and Why a Resort Like This Sits Here

Anda was organized as a municipality in 1850, during the Spanish colonial reorganization of Bohol, after functioning for generations as an isolated fishing settlement rather than an administrative center. That backdrop is part of why a resort with a spa, pool, and dedicated restaurant represents a heavier tourism investment than what’s typical on this coast, where most lodging is still simple, family-built cottages rather than resort-grade construction. Anda remains the quieter, cheaper alternative to Panglao for travelers who want a similar white-sand-and-clear-water setting without Panglao’s crowds, price tags, or airport proximity — the tradeoff being exactly the road distance and thinner infrastructure described above.