Flushing Meadows Resort and Playground Review: 18,000 Square Metres at Dao (2026)

Flushing Meadows Resort and Playground occupies 18,000 square metres at Barangay Dao in Dauis, on a white-sand frontage that sits within a marine sanctuary. Ninety-nine rooms, an infinity pool, a tennis court, a children’s playground and club, a spa, and a wooden pier running out over the coral. The property also runs complimentary two-way transfers from the Panglao airport or the Tagbilaran pier, both around twenty minutes away.

Then there is the score: 6.9 out of 10 on Booking.com from 72 reviews — the lowest in our Bohol whitepage set, and the number this page has to deal with honestly rather than average away. The rate is ₱2,740, live-fetched rather than estimated.

A 6.9 at a property with this much ground and this many facilities usually means one thing, and guest accounts bear it out: the space and the family provision are genuinely good, and the finish and the value at higher rates are where complaints land. That is a specific profile, not a bad hotel, and it suits a specific booking.

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At a Glance — The Vibe Score

Architecture & Sense of Place: 6.5/10 — a large-footprint compound with genuinely well-distributed activity zones, let down by buildings and finishes that are showing their age.

Quietness: 8/10 — Dao is a considerably calmer stretch than the Alona corridor, and the site is large enough to absorb its own noise.

Value: 5.5/10 — the honest weak line, and the one the reviews keep returning to. At the entry rate it holds up; at higher seasonal rates guests say plainly that it does not.

Service: 7/10 — staff friendliness and cleanliness are the most consistent positives in guest accounts, which is notable at a 6.9 overall.

Location & Transit: 8.5/10 — twenty minutes from both the airport and the pier, with free two-way transfers included. Among the easiest arrivals in Bohol.

Beach Access: 7.5/10 — private white sand within a marine sanctuary, with snorkelling straight off the shore. Sanctuary protection means some stretches suit swimming better than others.

Room Comfort: 6/10 — 99 rooms in the mid-range bracket; comfortable and functional, with several facilities due for renewal.

Best for: Families with young children who need space, a playground, a pool and safe snorkelling more than they need a polished room — and who book at the lower end of the rate range.

The Architect’s Note

Sense of Place & Design

Barangay Dao sits on the Dauis side, on the stretch of coast between Tagbilaran and Panglao proper. The frontage here is white sand inside a marine sanctuary, which changes what the beach is for: the coral and fish counts close to shore are the reason to be in the water, and the sanctuary’s protection measures mean some sections are better suited to snorkelling than to open swimming.

From the property’s elevated ground the outlook runs to the Mindanao Sea and toward Pamilacan Island, where the dolphin and whale-watching boats operate. That is a genuinely different horizon from the Alona-facing resorts and part of what the Dao position offers.

The sanctuary designation is also the honest environmental point here, and it cuts both ways. Living coral close to shore is the reason the snorkelling is good, and it is also the reason guests cannot treat the whole frontage as a swimming pool — fin damage and trampling on shallow reef is precisely how a sanctuary stops being one. Snorkel over it, do not stand on it, and use the pier and the pool for the rest.

For a family, the practical geography is what matters: Hinagdanan Cave and the Dauis attractions are close, the Panglao beaches are a short drive, and the airport and pier are twenty minutes away with the resort’s own transfer laid on.

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The Rooms

Ninety-nine rooms across a mid-range inventory, including family configurations. The published category detail is thin and room counts have varied between listings over time, so confirm the specific room type and its current condition with the property before booking rather than relying on a category name.

What guest accounts agree on: the rooms are clean and adequately sized, and several are due for refurbishment. Reviewers describing the property positively tend to be those who booked at the lower end of the rate range and treated the room as a base for a day spent outdoors. Reviewers describing it negatively are almost always those who paid a peak rate and expected the room to match the setting.

That pattern is the single most useful thing to know before booking here. The rate you pay determines whether this property reads as good value or poor value, more than at any other row in this batch.

Tea and coffee making is provided across rooms, and some rates include breakfast and water activities — worth checking, since the inclusive rates change the value calculation substantially.

Location & Connectivity

Both the Panglao airport and the Tagbilaran pier are around twenty minutes away, and the resort offers complimentary two-way transfers from either. For a family arriving with children, luggage and no appetite for negotiating a van at the terminal, that inclusion is worth more than its cash value.

The Panglao beach corridor is a short drive west when it is wanted, and Tagbilaran’s shops and services are a similar distance in the other direction. The countryside loop — the Chocolate Hills, the tarsier sanctuary, the Loboc River — runs comfortably from here as a full day.

Nothing is within walking distance. This is a stay-on-site property with excursions by vehicle, which for a family with small children is usually the intended pattern anyway.

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Dining & Service

The resort runs its own restaurant and bar, with cooked-to-order breakfast, and there is a spa on site offering massages and body treatments. With no walkable alternative, the kitchen carries the whole stay, and menu variety matters more here than at a property near a strip.

Staff are the most consistently praised part of the operation in guest accounts — friendly, helpful, and singled out even in reviews that are critical elsewhere. At a 6.9 property that is a meaningful signal: the people are not the problem.

The children’s club and the playground are real, staffed provision rather than a swing set in a corner, and for the family market that is the property’s strongest card after the ground itself.

A Day at Flushing Meadows

Mornings are the sanctuary. The snorkelling is best before the wind picks up, and the pier gives non-swimmers somewhere to sit above the coral and watch the same fish.

The middle of the day belongs to the pool, the lawns and the playground — the part of the site the design gets right. With 18,000 square metres, children can be loud somewhere that is not next to the pool loungers.

Late afternoon is either the tennis court, the spa, or the drive out to the Dauis attractions. Evenings are quiet: dinner on site, and no strip to walk to.

Flushing Meadows vs Nickles Park Resort

Nickles Park Resort rates 8.5 on Booking.com from 757 reviews at an estimated ₱2,730 — effectively the same money, a far better score, on ten times the review base.

On numbers alone Nickles Park wins comfortably, and for a couple it probably is the better booking. What it cannot offer is ground. It is a thirteen-room aparthotel inland from the Alona strip: no private beach, no playground, no tennis court, no pier, and nowhere for children to run. This comparison is really a question of who is travelling. Two adults should look hard at Nickles Park. A family of four with young children will get more out of the 18,000 square metres, even at the lower score.

Flushing Meadows vs MGH Alona Resort

MGH Alona Resort sits at 8.1 from 890 reviews at an estimated ₱3,090, two minutes’ walk from Alona Beach.

MGH is the choice for guests who want to be in the Alona corridor — restaurants, dive shops and boats on the doorstep — in a compact walk-up property. Flushing Meadows is the opposite proposition: no walkable anything, but a private sanctuary beach, a pool, a playground and space. Score and review volume favour MGH clearly. Family suitability favours Flushing Meadows just as clearly. Neither is a better hotel in the abstract; they serve different trips.

Best For — Be Honest

Book here if you are:

• A family with young children who need room to move, a playground, a pool and a safe beach
• Booking at the lower end of the rate range, where the value complaints do not apply
• Arriving with luggage and children and glad of the free two-way airport transfer
• Interested in snorkelling straight off the beach rather than from a boat

Look elsewhere if you are:

• Two adults with no children — better-rated properties at this price are easy to find
• Booking at a peak rate and expecting the room to match the grounds; that mismatch is the property’s most common complaint
• Sensitive to dated fittings; several facilities are due for renewal and the reviews say so
• Wanting restaurants, bars or dive shops within walking distance

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Is Flushing Meadows Resort and Playground Right For You?

Flushing Meadows is a family property with an unusual amount of ground and a 6.9 score, and both facts are true at once. The 18,000 square metres, the sanctuary beach, the pier and the playground are real advantages that no compact Panglao resort can match. The ageing rooms and the value complaints at higher rates are equally real, and they are why the score sits where it does.

Booked as what it is — a spacious, slightly worn family resort at the lower end of its rate range, twenty minutes from the airport with transfers included — it does its job well. Booked as a polished resort at a peak rate, it will disappoint, and the reviews of guests who did exactly that are on the record to prove it.

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Photos

• the wooden pier running out over the marine sanctuary.

• the lawns and playground, the reason families choose this property.

• the white-sand frontage at Dao, with the sanctuary water beyond it.

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