Mayfair Garden Resort

Mayfair Garden Resort: An 11-Room Property in Danao

Mayfair Garden Resort is an 11-room, 3-star property in Barangay Danao, an 8-minute walk from Alona Beach and about 0.6 miles from Bohol–Panglao International Airport, according to its listing. Hinagdanan Cave sits roughly 7.5 miles away and Baclayon Church, one of Bohol’s oldest stone churches on the mainland side, about 13 miles — both feasible half-day trips rather than quick stops.

Rooms and Facilities

Family rooms here are air-conditioned with balconies and private bathrooms, each including a tea and coffee maker and a mini-bar, along with free WiFi. The property has a private beach area, a garden, a restaurant, and a year-round outdoor pool, plus a paid shuttle service, full-day security, express check-in and check-out, car hire, a tour desk, and luggage storage — a fuller service list than most properties of this size on the island. Contact for direct reservations runs through +63 939 916 7425 or reservation@mayfair-resorts.com, suggesting a small, owner-operated business rather than a chain listing. On Booking.com the property currently shows a 10.0 “Exceptional” score — but from only 2 reviews, which is not a meaningful sample size in either direction; a perfect score from two guests says less about consistency than a solid 8-point score from a hundred would. Stay22’s PHP 6,680 nightly estimate is drawn from five comparable properties at a similarly high rating, not a live quote.

Danao and the Walk to Alona

An 8-minute walk to Alona Beach is genuinely close by Panglao standards — most Danao-area properties sit a tricycle ride rather than a walk from the strip, so this one occupies useful middle ground between beachfront pricing and Danao’s quieter residential feel.

The Reef and Diving

Alona’s house reef, the busiest dive and snorkel zone on the island, starts 30–50 metres offshore and drops to a wall around 20–30 metres, with 8–15 metres of visibility depending on conditions and patchy recovery from the 2016 regional bleaching event. Boat dives to Balicasag Island, 20 minutes out and known for its sea turtle cleaning stations, run daily from Alona-based operators; the local government caps access at 150 divers and snorkelers a day with a roughly PHP 250 environmental fee, a direct limit on reef pressure from the island’s visitor volume.

Countryside and Heritage Day Trips

Baclayon Church, one of the two heritage stops within reach, dates largely to the 18th century and is among the oldest stone churches in the Visayas — a different kind of day trip from the Chocolate Hills and Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary circuit that most Panglao guests default to, both about 45 minutes inland and typically arranged through independent van operators rather than the resort itself.

Food and Water

The resort’s restaurant serves alongside independent options nearby; islandwide, Filipino seafood staples like shrimp adobo and grilled fish run PHP 150–300 per main, and kinilaw na tanigue — raw Spanish mackerel cured in coconut vinegar produced on Panglao itself — is worth seeking out at a local eatery. On the environmental side, Panglao draws its water from a freshwater lens rather than a river system, and dry-season over-extraction has pushed some wells’ chloride levels past WHO drinking standards — tap water isn’t potable anywhere on the island, this resort included.

Danao’s Working Waterfront

Danao’s beach economy runs alongside a working fishing community rather than existing purely for tourism. Boat-building traditions in Danao and neighboring Boljo-on go back generations, though fibreglass hulls have largely replaced wood on the motorised outriggers used today — a change driven by lower maintenance costs rather than any single regulation. A resort like this one, an 8-minute walk from the tourist strip, sits at the edge of both economies: close enough to Alona’s dive shops and restaurants to draw on that infrastructure, close enough to Danao’s fishing waterfront that the beach in front of it isn’t purely a resort amenity.

Who This Suits

Mayfair Garden suits travelers who want a short walk to Alona along with a fuller amenity list — pool, shuttle, tour desk — than most Danao guesthouses offer, and who are comfortable booking a property still building its review history rather than one with an established track record. Given the thin review count, it’s worth reaching out directly or checking recent photos before booking on the rating alone.

Both Stay22 and Booking.com carry availability for the property; confirm current nightly rates directly, and treat the current 10.0 score as provisional until more reviews accumulate. Booking ahead matters more here than at larger properties: with only 11 rooms, the resort sells out faster during Holy Week, Christmas week, and Chinese New Year, when Panglao’s established properties routinely report near-full occupancy.