Bohol Bee Farm Review: The Working Farm on the Dauis Cliff (2026)

Bohol Bee Farm is the one property in our Bohol coverage where the restaurant is the reason to come and the room is what lets you eat breakfast before the day-trippers arrive. It sits on a low sea cliff at Barangay Dao in Dauis, on the eastern half of Panglao Island, and it began in 1998 as a beekeeping operation rather than as a hotel. The farm still works: organic vegetables, herbs and honey production, harvested in the morning and on a plate by the afternoon.

Fifty-six rooms are built above and around it, running from The Barn and the vegetable- and fruit-themed Garden Bungalows through the Beehive and Honeycomb Suites to the two-bedroom Colony villas. The naming is not decoration — it tracks the farm’s own vocabulary, which is the clearest signal of how this property understands itself.

It rates Excellent, 8.7 out of 10 on Agoda from 215 reviews. Agoda is worth naming as the source here, since this property’s visibility sits on that platform rather than on Booking.com. The rate on file is an estimated ₱3,110 drawn from four comparable Dauis properties, not a live figure.

One thing to settle before booking: there is no swimming beach here. The cliff is the setting, the water is the view, and the sand is somewhere else.

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At a Glance — The Vibe Score

Architecture & Sense of Place: 9/10 — the plan is agricultural rather than hospitable in origin, and the result is a sense of place that resort landscaping cannot manufacture.

Quietness: 8/10 — no strip and no nightlife, though a restaurant that draws day tour groups means the middle of the day is not quiet.

Value: 8.5/10 — breakfast from the farm’s own produce, at a mid-market estimated rate; the kitchen alone carries the cost for most guests.

Service: 8/10 — consistently well reviewed, with the caveat that 56 rooms plus a day-visitor restaurant is a busier operation than the farm framing suggests.

Location & Transit: 7/10 — Dauis sits on the Tagbilaran side of the causeway, convenient to both the pier and the airport, and nowhere near Alona.

Beach Access: 2/10 — the lowest score in this batch, and an honest one. There is no swimming beach on site.

Room Comfort: 8/10 — cottage and villa formats rather than hotel room blocks, described consistently as large; wi-fi weakens badly away from reception.

Best for: Travellers who plan their days around food, and eco-minded couples and families who want a working farm rather than a resort — and who are comfortable sharing it with the insects and lizards a real farm contains.

The Architect’s Note

Sense of Place & Design

The farm reads as a permaculture layout rather than a landscaped one, and the distinction is physical rather than philosophical. In a landscaped garden, plants are chosen for how they look. In a productive system, they are chosen for what they do, and appearance is a by-product. At Bohol Bee Farm the functional plants — malunggay, squash vines, herbs, bananas — happen to be handsome, but their reason for being there is the kitchen.

That circularity is the property’s actual argument: the farm produces the food, the food produces the reason to visit, the visit funds the farm. It is a closed enough loop to count as a genuine environmental position rather than a marketing one — though the honest version of that claim scales with room count, and at 56 rooms plus day visitors it is a partial supply rather than a total one.

The clifftop position in Dauis puts the property in view of Tagbilaran and the mainland across the channel, which gives the retreat an unusual quality: it is quiet, but not remote, and the city it is escaping is visible from the deck. The cliff does the work a wall would otherwise do.

For a first-time visitor to Panglao, the useful framing is that this is the island’s inland-and-upland alternative to the beach strip. Hinagdanan Cave is on the same side of the island, and the countryside circuit runs from here as easily as from anywhere else on Panglao.

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The Rooms

The Barn

The entry format, and the plainest. It does what the farm framing implies — simple accommodation on a working property, for guests whose stay is organised around the restaurant and the grounds rather than the room.

Garden Bungalows

Named for vegetables and fruit, which tells you where they sit: in among the beds rather than looking at them from a distance. For a stay of two or three nights this is the category that puts a guest inside the farm rather than beside it.

Beehive and Honeycomb Suites

The mid-to-upper categories, and the ones most likely to carry a balcony over the cliff side. Reviewers consistently describe the rooms here as large, and the balcony outlook across the channel as the property’s best.

Colony villas (two bedrooms)

The family and group format at two bedrooms. For a family that wants the farm without sharing a single room, this is the configuration, and the two-bedroom split makes a multi-night stay workable with children.

Two practical notes that recur in guest feedback. Rooms include a fridge and minibar stocked around the farm’s own products, which is consistent rather than incidental. And the wi-fi, while free throughout, weakens sharply away from reception — anyone planning to work from here should confirm the current coverage before booking rather than discovering it on the first morning.

Location & Connectivity

Dauis occupies the eastern half of Panglao Island, on the Tagbilaran side of the causeway. That position makes both arrival routes short: the Tagbilaran pier, where the Cebu fast craft dock, and Bohol–Panglao International Airport are each an easy drive.

What it is not is walkable to anything. Alona and the island’s beach strip are on the far side of Panglao, and reaching sand from here means a vehicle every time. For a guest whose plan is beach-first, this is the wrong address; for a guest touring the island, it is one of the better-placed ones.

The countryside circuit — the Chocolate Hills, the tarsier sanctuary, the Loboc River — runs comfortably from Dauis, and the property sits closer to the causeway than the Alona properties do, which shaves the first twenty minutes off that day.

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Dining & Service

This is the section that matters. The kitchen cooks from the farm: flower salads built from the beds outside, honey from the property’s own hives, and ice cream in flavours that do not appear on ordinary menus — malunggay among them — served in cones made from cassava flour. The cones are the detail worth registering, because they are the point in miniature: a kitchen that makes its own cone from a root crop grown locally is operating differently from one buying wafers by the case.

The restaurant has become a destination in its own right, with organised Panglao land tours routing through it for lunch. That has two consequences for a guest. The first is good: a kitchen running at restaurant throughput rather than room-service volume is a kitchen with operational discipline, and the consistency of the food across review sources reflects it. The second is less good: the middle of the day belongs to tour groups, and a guest wanting the deck quiet should take breakfast early and dinner late.

Service is consistently well reviewed. At 56 rooms this is no longer a small operation, and the attentiveness reported is a function of management rather than of scale.

A Day at Bohol Bee Farm

Breakfast first, and early — before the tour vans arrive, when the deck is empty and the light is still low across the channel. This is the single best hour on the property and the strongest argument for staying rather than visiting.

Middle of the day is either off-property — the caves, the countryside, the beach on the far side of the island — or spent in the beds and the gallery while the restaurant runs at capacity. There is no pool to fall back on, which is worth knowing before a hot afternoon.

Evenings return to the kitchen. The deck faces the sunset across the channel, and dinner there is what most guests remember. After that the property is quiet: no strip, no bar scene, and a working farm that starts early the next morning.

Bohol Bee Farm vs The Mayana Resort

The Mayana Resort is the closer conventional option in Dauis: 9.2 on Booking.com from 694 reviews at a live-fetched ₱3,486, a quiet family-run stay a few streets back from the beach road.

Mayana is the better-evidenced property by a wide margin — 694 reviews against 215, at a higher score, with a rate that has actually been fetched rather than estimated. What it does not have is the farm or the kitchen. This comparison is really a question about why the trip is happening: for a straightforward comfortable Dauis base, Mayana is the safer booking; for a stay built around food and a working agricultural property, nothing in Dauis substitutes for the Bee Farm.

Bohol Bee Farm vs Epic Suites Bohol ADULTS ONLY

Epic Suites rates 9.5 from 484 reviews at an estimated ₱3,110 — the same estimate as the Bee Farm — on the Dauis side of Panglao.

At identical estimated rates this is a straight choice of experience. Epic Suites is adults-only, higher-scoring, and a conventional suites product. The Bee Farm is a family-viable working farm with a restaurant that people drive across the island to eat at. Couples wanting calm and a high score should book Epic Suites; anyone bringing children, or coming for the food, should book here.

Best For — Be Honest

Book here if you are:

• Planning the trip around food, and want breakfast on the deck before the tour groups arrive
• Interested in a working farm as the setting rather than as a theme
• Travelling as a family — the two-bedroom Colony villas make that straightforward
• Comfortable with insects, lizards and the ordinary facts of an agricultural property

Look elsewhere if you are:

• Expecting a beach, or a pool to fall back on in the afternoon heat
• Wanting quiet at midday, when the restaurant carries day visitors
• Planning to work remotely — wi-fi coverage away from reception is a documented weak point
• Treating the ₱3,110 as a quote; it is an estimate from four comparable Dauis properties

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Is Bohol Bee Farm Right For You?

Bohol Bee Farm started as a beekeeping operation in 1998 and grew a hotel around a kitchen, which is the reverse of how almost every other property on this island came to exist. That history is still visible in the plan: productive beds as circulation, room categories named after the farm’s own parts, and a restaurant that has become a destination independent of the accommodation.

Book it for the food, the cliff and the working-farm setting. Do not book it for a beach, a pool or a quiet lunch — it has none of the three, and it is honest enough about that in its own materials that a guest arriving disappointed has usually not read them.

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Photos

• the restaurant deck at the cliff edge above the channel.

• the organic beds running between the garden bungalows.

• a flower salad and a cassava-flour cone, the two dishes the kitchen is known for.

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