Cherrys@ Home Too Inland Resort

Cherrys@ Home Too Inland Resort sits inland in Barangay Tawala, a short tricycle ride back from the Alona Beach strip rather than directly on the sand — a deliberate trade the “Inland” in its name signals. The property is a three-storey building built around a shallow pool (roughly 0.5 to 1.45 metres deep, so it works for both kids and adults who just want to cool off) plus a small jacuzzi, and a rooftop deck that doubles as a sightseeing spot and a spot for small gatherings. It holds 17 air-conditioned rooms, each with an in-room safe and complimentary toiletries, and the property gives free breakfast, WiFi, and parking rather than charging for them piecemeal. On Booking.com it carries a Very Good 8.3-out-of-10 score from 36 reviews, a smaller review base than the Alona Beach megaresorts but consistent enough to read as reliable.

Location and getting around

Being inland trims the premium that beachfront listings charge, at the cost of a walk or a short tricycle hop to the water — reports put it at around 150 metres to five minutes on foot from Alona Beach itself, and the resort is roughly a five-minute drive from Panglao International Airport, which opened on the island in 2018 and now carries most of Bohol’s air traffic. Dumaluan Beach, the quieter, wider stretch of sand south of Alona popular with families, is within the same ten-minute drive radius. For anyone renting a scooter or hiring a tricycle, that inland position also means less of the after-dark foot traffic and restaurant noise that beachfront blocks carry, since Tawala’s back streets go quiet well before the Alona strip bars close.

What guests are booking it for

At its estimated PHP 2,730-a-night starting rate — benchmarked against comparably rated Panglao properties, since Stay22 carries the live figure — this reads as a pool-and-base property rather than a reef-front one: guests who want a private pool to return to after diving or a countryside tour, and who don’t mind arranging transport to the water each time. The rooftop gives Panglao’s most reliable free view: on a clear evening you can pick out the tree line toward Doljo Point to the west and the boat traffic heading out toward Balicasag Island for the early dive runs.

Local context worth knowing

Panglao’s entire water supply, this resort included, comes from a freshwater lens — a layer of fresh groundwater floating over denser saltwater within the island’s limestone bedrock, not from any river, since the island has none. Studies of the aquifer have measured chloride levels running well past the World Health Organization’s 250 mg/L safety threshold in some wells during dry-season demand peaks, which is why tap water isn’t potable anywhere on Panglao and bottled or filtered water is standard at every property, inland or beachfront. It’s a genuine long-term constraint on how much further the island’s resort corridor can expand.

On the livelihood side, a short drive north in Barangay Tangnan, a producers’ cooperative called KASOTAPA runs a small sorbetes facility built under the national One Town One Product program — visitors can watch the traditional Filipino ice-cream mixing and freezing process before buying a cone at the counter, one of the more tangible examples of how Panglao’s tourism income gets channelled back into small local manufacturing rather than only hotel payrolls. Most Cherrys@ Home Too guests pair their stay with a countryside run to the Chocolate Hills and a stop at a Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary — both roughly 45 minutes to an hour inland — bookended by beach mornings and evenings back at the inland pool.

Fiesta season and when to avoid it

Late August is worth planning around either way: Panglao’s patron-saint fiesta, Hudyaka sa Panglao, falls around 28 August and pulls all ten of the island’s barangays into a single day of street parades and dance competitions centred on Poblacion, with food stalls doing a brisk trade in the island’s seafood specialties. Tawala itself empties out toward the parade route that week, and an inland property like this one, a few minutes’ tricycle ride from the main event, can be a quieter base than staying directly on the Alona strip while the celebration runs. Outside fiesta season, the tricycle stand a short walk from the resort runs fares to Alona Beach and Tagbilaran on the same fixed local scale as everywhere else on the island — worth confirming with the front desk on arrival rather than negotiating fresh each ride.

Who this suits

The pool-and-rooftop setup favors travelers who want a private, quieter base to return to between reef trips rather than round-the-clock beachfront noise — families with younger kids benefit from the shallower end of the pool, and anyone renting a scooter for the week won’t mind the short ride each way to Alona’s dive shops and restaurants. It suits guests less interested in falling out of bed onto sand and more interested in a fixed, quiet base with its own pool, at a price point below what comparable beachfront rooms in Tawala command.

Getting There & Booking

Book on Stay22 or Booking.com for real-time availability and confirmed rates; given the smaller review count relative to Alona Beach’s larger resorts, it’s worth cross-checking current photos before booking to confirm room type and pool access match what’s listed, and confirming the walking distance to Alona Beach directly with the property since third-party listings vary between roughly 150 metres and a five-minute walk.