Isla Hayahay Beach Resort and Restaurant

Isla Hayahay Beach Resort and Restaurant: A Beach Stay on Pangangan Island

Isla Hayahay Beach Resort and Restaurant sits on Pangangan Island, part of Calape municipality on Bohol’s northwestern coast — not on Panglao and not near Alona Beach. Pangangan is reached from the Calape mainland by the Pangangan Causeway, a drivable coral-and-limestone road built in the 1950s, so guests arrive by land rather than by boat. The resort itself is in Barangay Lomboy, on the island’s east-facing shore, roughly 4.5 km from Calape town proper.

The Accommodation

The property runs eleven rooms across five categories, from simple to spacious. The top-tier Junior Suite, called The Loft, is a 60 m² room advertised with a 270-degree view over the resort, the pool, and the ocean. The Family Suite matches that footprint with two bedrooms, sized for up to six guests. Below that sit Superior Deluxe (Plus) rooms, Native Cottages with a double bed, private bathroom, and air-conditioning, and standard and budget rooms for guests prioritizing price over space. A two-room air-conditioned dormitory — one room sleeping three — covers group and backpacker bookings, an unusually wide spread of room types for a resort this size.

Dining

The on-site restaurant sits beachfront with pool views and runs an a-la-carte menu spanning Filipino, Asian, European, American, Indian curries, and Mexican dishes — broader than the single-cuisine approach typical of small provincial resorts — alongside monthly specials and a line of Moringa-boosted dishes, drawing on the leafy vegetable widely grown and eaten across rural Bohol for its nutritional reputation as much as its flavor.

The Beach, Pool, and Reef

Guest facilities include a private beach, an outdoor pool, and a waterslide — amenities aimed as much at families as at divers. Pangangan’s surrounding waters carry real conservation weight: the island is designated a marine conservation area, and the waters off Barangay Lomboy specifically — the same barangay the resort sits in — hold a formally documented fish sanctuary. That gives the resort’s snorkeling and diving offerings a genuine ecological backing: guests swimming or snorkeling directly off the property are doing so in protected water, not an unregulated stretch of coast.

Activities

Beyond time on the beach, the resort arranges countryside tours, island hopping, snorkeling, guided kayaking, dolphin watching, a day trip to Panglao, visits to Mag-Aso Falls, and broader Bohol adventure-tour packages, plus massage, motorbike rental, and transfers. It also hosts events and offers senior citizen discounts — signs of a resort built to serve a mixed local and international guest base rather than a single traveler segment.

Reviews and Standing

Isla Hayahay ranks 7th of 46 listed hotels in the Bohol Province/Calape category on Tripadvisor, rated 4 out of 5. On Booking.com it carries a Good score of 7.5 from 52 reviews, with rooms starting from roughly ₱651 a night — pricing that puts it well inside budget-to-mid-range territory for a beach property with a pool and a private shoreline, a value proposition the Booking.com guest score reflects reasonably closely.

Economic Context

Isla Hayahay is a genuine outlier in Calape’s accommodation landscape. The municipality’s economy runs on fishing, coconut farming, and highway commerce passing through toward Tubigon’s ferry terminal, with almost no beach-resort infrastructure comparable to Panglao’s dive-and-beach industry. A full-facility resort — pool, waterslide, multi-cuisine restaurant, eleven rooms across five categories — sits at a genuinely different scale from Calape’s household craft industries and small port trade, and its guest base likely draws more heavily on travelers specifically seeking out Pangangan Island’s reef and mangrove setting than on Calape’s town-centre visitor traffic.

Booking Direct vs. Through a Platform

The resort’s own website advertises a 10% discount for direct bookings against third-party platform rates — worth checking against Stay22 or Booking.com pricing before booking either way, since the better deal depends on which promotion is running at the time.

Who This Suits

Isla Hayahay works well for travelers who want beach and pool time with real amenities — a waterslide, a broad restaurant menu, organized tours — without paying Panglao’s more developed dive-resort prices, and for families who want a private beach and a pool on-site rather than a walk to a public one. It also suits snorkelers and divers who would rather base on quieter, marine-conservation-designated water than on Panglao’s busier reef edge, accepting a longer drive from the airport in exchange. It’s a weaker fit for anyone who specifically wants Panglao’s dive-shop density, Alona Beach’s restaurant and nightlife strip, or a short transfer straight from the airport — for that itinerary, a Panglao-based property remains the more direct choice.

Nearby on Pangangan Island

Isla Hayahay is not the only accommodation on this stretch of coast — Rene’s Resort, a smaller, family-run property, sits nearby in the same Barangay Lomboy, giving Pangangan Island more overnight options than its size might suggest. Both properties draw on the same protected waters and the same causeway access, which makes the island a workable small cluster for travelers who want a beach base away from Panglao without sacrificing a paved road in.

Getting There & Booking

From Tagbilaran City, Calape is roughly 30–40 minutes by bus or van via the coastal highway northwest; buses from Dao Terminal bound for Tubigon or Clarin pass through Calape. From Calape town proper, Pangangan Island and Barangay Lomboy are reached by road across the Pangangan Causeway — no boat crossing required — with habal-habal covering the final stretch to the resort. Book through Stay22 or Booking.com for live availability, or contact the resort directly to compare against its own discounted direct rate.