Marina Point Bay Resort

Marina Point Bay Resort: A 29-Room Property Near Dumaluan Beach

Marina Point Bay Resort is a 29-room property roughly a 10-minute drive from both Alona Beach and Dumaluan Beach, per its Booking.com listing, with Bohol–Panglao International Airport about 1.2 miles away. Dumaluan Beach, on Panglao’s southwest coast, is a longer, quieter stretch of sand than Alona’s compact, restaurant-lined strip — the resort sits closer to that calmer stretch than to the main tourist cluster.

Rooms and Facilities

Rooms have a balcony and sitting area, air conditioning, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, an in-room safe, and a private bathroom with a bidet, free toiletries, and a hairdryer; an electric tea kettle is standard, and select rooms add balcony pool views. The property runs an outdoor swimming pool, free private parking, a garden, and a shared lounge, with a restaurant serving American and Asian dishes alongside a bar. On Booking.com the resort carries an 8.4 “Very Good” score from 138 reviews — a substantial sample that makes the aggregate score more trustworthy than at many smaller Panglao properties. Stay22’s PHP 2,730 nightly estimate is drawn from five comparable properties at a similar rating rather than a live quote.

Dumaluan Beach vs. Alona

Dumaluan runs wider and less commercially developed than Alona, without the density of dive shops and beach bars that define the main strip — a trade some travelers actively seek out and others find limiting depending on whether beach quiet or restaurant variety matters more. Both beaches share the same general reef and dive infrastructure, since operators based on Alona run boats out to the same offshore sites regardless of which beach a guest is staying near.

The Reef and Diving

The house reef along this stretch of coast starts 30–50 metres offshore and drops to a wall around 20–30 metres, with 8–15 metres of visibility depending on the day; sections show only partial recovery from the 2016 regional bleaching event. Boat dives run daily to Balicasag Island, 20 minutes out by outrigger and known for its sea turtle cleaning stations — the local government caps access at 150 divers and snorkelers a day, two dives maximum, with a roughly PHP 250 environmental fee per diver, a direct limit on how much traffic the reef can absorb.

Getting Around

Reaching Alona’s main strip from here takes about 10 minutes by tricycle; standard island fares run PHP 80–120 shared and PHP 250–350 hired. The airport’s proximity — under 2 km — makes arrival and departure straightforward regardless of which beach a guest ultimately spends time on.

Countryside Day Trips

A typical day trip from this side of the island runs to the Chocolate Hills, about 45 minutes inland with a viewing deck and an optional quad-bike route, paired with the Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary at a similar distance and often a Loboc River lunch cruise — arranged through independent van operators rather than the resort directly, and usually run as half-day trips.

Food, Fishing, and Water

Dumaluan’s stretch sits within Panglao’s broader fishing economy, where communities in barangays like Danao and Boljo-on have largely moved from wooden outrigger hulls to fibreglass for cost and maintenance reasons. Coconut vinegar produced on the island underpins dishes like kinilaw na tanigue, raw Spanish mackerel cured with ginger, chilli, and onion — worth trying at a local eatery rather than only at the resort restaurant. On the environmental side, Panglao’s water supply comes entirely from a freshwater lens rather than any river system, and dry-season over-extraction has pushed chloride levels in some wells past WHO drinking standards — the reason bottled or filtered water is standard practice island-wide, this resort included.

How This Stretch of Coast Developed

Panglao’s tourism corridor grew outward from Alona’s original beach-hut cluster, which dates to the early 1980s, expanding along the coastline in both directions as land closer to the strip filled in. A 29-room resort near Dumaluan reflects that later, larger-scale phase of development rather than the original backpacker-era huts — construction driven partly by the accelerated visitor volume that followed the 2018 opening of Panglao’s own international airport, which shifted most of Bohol’s air traffic away from the older Tagbilaran City airstrip and made multi-day resort stays more common than the shorter, ferry-dependent visits of earlier decades.

Who This Suits

Marina Point Bay suits travelers who want a full-facility resort experience — pool, restaurant, bar, spacious rooms — without paying Alona strip-front premiums, and who don’t mind a short tricycle ride to reach the busier beach and its dive shops. The 138-review sample makes this one of the more reliably rated mid-range options on this side of the island.

Both Stay22 and Booking.com carry live availability for the property; confirm current rates directly before booking.