MS Mountain Cabin

MS Mountain Cabin sits on a hillside in Calunasan Norte, Loboc, a few minutes by vehicle or scooter from the town center and the Loboc River cruise dock. Unlike most of Loboc’s accommodation, which clusters at the water’s edge, this property trades a riverside location for elevation and a wide outlook — guests consistently describe a sweeping view from the hilltop, in some accounts reaching toward the coastline in the distance. It carries a Very Good 8.5/10 score on Booking.com from 87 reviews, current as of 2026-08-26, with a live-fetched nightly rate from 2,689 PHP.

The accommodation. True to the name, the property is built as a set of individual cabin-style units rather than a single hotel block — one guest review described the rooms simply as “tiny houses.” The room lineup spans Double Room with Balcony, Double Room with Mountain View, Family Room, Triple Room, Triple Room with Mountain View, and a Junior Suite with Sea View for the higher end of the property’s outlook. Reviewers have repeatedly flagged the view itself as the standout feature, alongside quiet surroundings and well-kept grounds, and staff attentiveness comes up often enough across reviews to read as a consistent trait of the property rather than a one-off compliment.

This mix of cabin sizes gives the property more flexibility than a typical small Loboc inn: a couple can book the compact Double, while a family or small group traveling together has the option of the Family or Triple rooms without needing to split across separate bookings — useful in a town where accommodation inventory is generally thin outside peak season.

Amenities. The cabin sits around an outdoor swimming pool positioned to take in the same hillside view as the rooms, along with a sun terrace, garden, and a small fitness area. MS Restaurant, the on-site dining room, serves local and Asian dishes with vegetarian options available — guests have called breakfast basic but tasty rather than elaborate, a fair description for a small countryside property of this scale. Free WiFi and an airport shuttle are also offered.

Local taste. The wider menu at MS Restaurant sits alongside, rather than in place of, Loboc’s more traditional food scene: riverside carinderias in town serve fresh tilapia grilled or in sinigang, and kalamay is sold near the church plaza during fiesta season. For guests staying up on the hillside, the on-site restaurant with its Asian-leaning menu functions as the convenient default, with a trip down into town as the option for a more traditional Cebuano meal.

Economic context. Loboc’s tourism economy is built almost entirely around the day trip — tour vans arrive for the river cruise, the zipline, and the tarsier stop, then leave by mid-afternoon. A hillside property like this one, positioned away from the river and requiring its own short trip in, works against that pattern: it gives Loboc an overnight anchor point that doesn’t depend on riverside real estate, spreading accommodation demand — and the income that comes with it — beyond the handful of guesthouses clustered near the dock and the church.

ESG note. Building on a hillside above a working river gorge carries its own environmental considerations — erosion control and drainage matter more here than on flat ground near the water — and the well-maintained garden and pool area that reviewers describe suggest ongoing upkeep rather than a one-time build left to weather. The elevated, garden-set layout also means less direct pressure on the riverbank itself, where most of Loboc’s tourism infrastructure is concentrated.

Practical details. From Tagbilaran, Loboc is about 24 kilometres via the Tagbilaran–Carmen road, roughly 30–50 minutes depending on transport. From the cabin, reaching the river cruise dock, the zipline and cable car at Loboc Ecotourism Adventure Park, and the Corella tarsier sanctuaries all take a short additional ride rather than a walk — plan for a vehicle or habal-habal for each leg of a day out. Cash is advisable, as ATM access around Loboc is limited. The Bilar Man-made Forest, a roughly 3-kilometre corridor of planted mahogany on the Loboc–Bilar road, is also within easy reach for travelers who want to pair the hilltop stay with the canopy-tunnel drive it’s known for.

Who it suits. Travelers prioritizing a quiet outlook and a pool over walking distance to the river cruise dock — couples and families who don’t mind a short ride into town for meals or activities, and who value the hilltop setting over being in the middle of the tour-van traffic at the poblacion. It’s a reasonable fit as well for travelers combining Loboc with the Bilar forest and the Corella tarsier area on the same loop, since the cabin sits roughly between those two stops and the river town itself rather than squarely in the middle of any one of them.

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