Mayfair Resort

Mayfair Resort: A Danao Property With Real Room-Rate Data

Mayfair Resort sits in Barangay Danao, about a 10-minute walk to the strip’s restaurant district, with indirect beach access arranged through the neighboring Best Western Plus The Ivywall Resort–Panglao rather than a private beachfront. As of a recent rate snapshot, room categories and prices ran: a Premier Room for two on the ground floor at PHP 4,600, a Deluxe Room for two at PHP 3,200, and a Superior Family Room for four at PHP 6,400 — real published figures rather than an estimate, and useful as a benchmark even if current rates have shifted since. On TripAdvisor the resort ranks #91 of 168 B&Bs and inns in Danao at 4 out of 5, and on Booking.com it carries an 8.3 “Very Good” score from 93 reviews — a solid sample for a property this size.

Rooms and the Ivywall Arrangement

The tiered room structure — Premier, Deluxe, and Superior Family — suggests a property built to handle both couples and larger groups, with the family suite priced to accommodate four without needing two separate rooms. The indirect beach access through the neighboring Ivywall Resort is worth understanding before booking: it typically means a shared walkway or arrangement rather than a private strip of sand, common among Danao properties that aren’t directly beachfront.

Danao and the Walk to Alona

A 10-minute walk to the restaurant district puts Mayfair within easy reach of Alona’s dining scene without paying strip-front rates, a reasonable middle position many Danao properties occupy. Danao Beach itself, quieter than Alona and still home to an active small-boat fishing community, sits closer to the resort than Alona does.

The Reef and Diving

Alona’s house reef, a short walk or ride away, 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 how much traffic an unmanaged reef could sustain.

Countryside Day Trips

A typical circuit from Danao runs to the Chocolate Hills, about 45 minutes inland with a viewing deck and 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 itself.

Food, Fishing, and Water

Danao’s fishing community, along with Boljo-on next door, has largely moved from wooden outriggers to fibreglass hulls for motorised boats — a cost and maintenance decision rather than a stylistic one. Coconut vinegar produced on Panglao itself is central to dishes like kinilaw na tanigue, raw Spanish mackerel cured with ginger, chilli, and onion, worth seeking out at a local eatery rather than only at resort restaurants. On the environmental side, Panglao draws all 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 — the reason bottled or filtered water is standard practice everywhere on the island, this resort included.

Danao’s Growth Behind Alona’s Front Row

Properties like Mayfair, set back from the beach itself in Danao, are part of the second wave of Panglao development that filled in once the original Alona beachfront cluster — dating to the early 1980s — ran out of direct-beach land. Growth accelerated further after Bohol–Panglao International Airport opened in 2018, pulling more of the province’s air traffic away from the older Tagbilaran City airstrip and pushing enough visitor volume through the island to make set-back, arrangement-based beach access properties commercially viable rather than a compromise. Panglao’s tourism infrastructure overall spans backpacker beach huts around PHP 600–800 a night through mid-range cottages at PHP 3,000–6,000, which is roughly where Mayfair’s published Deluxe and Premier rates land.

Who This Suits

Mayfair Resort suits travelers who want published, comparison-friendly room rates and a family-sized option, along with a short walk to Alona’s restaurants, without paying beachfront prices for indirect beach access. The 93-review sample behind its 8.3 score makes it a reasonably dependable mid-range choice on the Danao side of the island.

Both Stay22 and Booking.com carry live availability for Mayfair Resort; confirm current nightly rates against the room-rate figures above, since they reflect a past snapshot rather than today’s pricing. As with most Danao and Alona properties, expect tighter availability and higher rates during Holy Week, Christmas week, and Chinese New Year, when occupancy across Panglao’s established resorts routinely runs close to full.