La Pernela Resort

La Pernela Resort — listed on some platforms as La Pernela Beachfront Resort — sits in Dauis roughly 1.1 miles (about 1.8 kilometres) from Hinagdanan Cave and around 30 minutes by road from Tagbilaran. It carries an 8.7 out of 10, “Excellent,” score on Booking.com, though from only three reviews, a sample too small to treat as a settled verdict even at that high average — worth reading the individual comments rather than relying on the number alone. On TripAdvisor, the property is ranked #11 of 166 B&Bs and inns across Bohol Province’s Dauis listings and rated 4 out of 5, a more established track record than the Booking.com sample alone suggests.

Rooms are family-oriented, with sea views, air conditioning, private bathrooms, a dining area, a wardrobe, and free toiletries — a fuller room specification than the area’s more basic budget huts. A restaurant on-site serves continental, American, and Asian breakfast options, free Wi-Fi covers the property, and an outdoor pool sits alongside a terrace and garden. Reviewers describe the location as remote and quiet, which tracks with its position somewhat apart from the busier Bikini Beach corridor — a fit for travelers who specifically want distance from foot traffic and social noise rather than a walkable strip of restaurants and dive shops.

That remoteness is worth weighing honestly against the resort’s other selling points. La Pernela sits roughly 3.6 miles (5.8 kilometres) from Dumaluan Beach and about 4.1 miles (6.6 kilometres) from Panglao Beach — both requiring a genuine transfer rather than a short walk — and about 15 minutes by road from White Beach and the Bohol National Museum. For travelers who want a self-contained resort stay with a pool, sea views from the room, and quiet as the point, that distance is a feature; for anyone hoping to walk to a beach bar in the evening, it’s a real limitation to plan around.

Dauis’s smaller resorts operating away from the main tourist strip, like La Pernela, illustrate a specific piece of the municipality’s tourism economy: not every Dauis property is competing for the same walk-to-the-beach traveler that fills Bikini Beach’s inns. Some, like this one, are built for a quieter, more self-contained holiday, pricing the pool, the sea view, and the distance from crowds as the primary product rather than beach proximity. That segmentation lets a single small municipality serve both the backpacker crossing the causeway for Alona’s dive shops and the couple who specifically wants to avoid exactly that scene, often within a few kilometres of each other.

The resort’s position also keeps it within a reasonable drive of Dauis’s cultural landmarks. Hinagdanan Cave, its nearest headline site, holds a brackish underground lagoon 10 to 20 metres deep inside a roughly 100-metre limestone chamber, lit through natural ceiling openings and recognized as a geosite of the Bohol Island UNESCO Global Geopark — local guides tell visitors the cave takes its name from the Cebuano word for ladder, tied to an oral account of a farmer who found the cave by dropping a stone into a hole and hearing it splash below. Dauis Church, across the peninsula in Barangay Mayacabac, is a further but worthwhile stop: the parish dates to 1697, among Bohol’s oldest, and its compound well is reputed locally for curative properties, drawing pilgrims heaviest during the August 15 Assumption fiesta.

At an estimated rate of roughly ₱3,110 and up per night, drawn from four comparable Dauis properties carrying a similar 8.7 rating, La Pernela sits at a reasonable mid-range price for the amenities on offer — sea-view rooms, a pool, and an included breakfast are a fuller package than many similarly priced Dauis budget inns provide. Getting there from Tagbilaran means the standard Panglao-route jeepney or multicab, with a longer tricycle ride into the resort’s own quieter pocket of the municipality given its distance from the main coastal strip. Given the small review count on Booking.com, cross-check the more established TripAdvisor listing before booking, and confirm current rates and room photos through Stay22 or Booking.com directly.

Who this suits: couples and small families looking for a self-contained, pool-centered stay with sea views and genuine distance from the causeway’s foot traffic, particularly travelers planning to rent a scooter or arrange transport for beach days rather than relying on walking or short tricycle hops. Who it doesn’t suit: solo travelers or groups who want to stumble out of their room into a strip of restaurants and dive shops, or anyone without their own transport plan, since the nearest beaches and the Bohol National Museum all require a genuine ride rather than a stroll. For the right traveler, though, the combination of a strong TripAdvisor track record, an included breakfast, and a genuinely quiet setting makes La Pernela a reasonable choice within Dauis’s mid-range tier, and one worth weighing against the busier, more social properties clustered closer to the causeway before deciding which trade-off fits the trip.