Ohana Panglao Resort

Ohana Panglao Resort: A High-Volume Property in Purok Tapayan, Tawala

Ohana Panglao Resort sits in Purok Tapayan, within Barangay Tawala but roughly 1.4 miles from Alona Beach itself — technically in the same barangay as Panglao’s busiest strip, but positioned inland from it. With 563 reviews behind its 9.2 (“Wonderful”) Booking.com score, it carries one of the larger review counts among Panglao’s mid-range resorts, a track record built over enough stays to be a reasonably reliable signal.

The Accommodation

Family rooms come with air conditioning, private bathrooms, and views over the garden or pool, each fitted with a dining table, work desk, mini fridge bar, and tea and coffee facilities alongside a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. In-room WiFi runs at 50+ Mbps per the property’s own listing, a notably fast connection for Panglao’s mid-range tier where video calls during peak evening hours are often unreliable. A coffee shop, garden, dry-cleaning and laundry service, spa and massage options, a bar, and a restaurant round out the on-site facilities, alongside room service and daily housekeeping.

Location and Getting Around

Being 1.4 miles from Alona Beach means a tricycle ride rather than a walk to reach the reef, dive shops, and restaurant row that draw most visitors to Panglao in the first place. The trade-off is a quieter setting away from the beachfront’s evening bar noise, plus enough scale — judging by the review count — to run a fuller set of amenities than a small beachfront inn typically manages on the same footprint.

Panglao Context

Purok Tapayan sits inland within Tawala, the barangay the municipality’s own tourism planning identifies as the epicenter of Panglao’s visitor economy alongside Danao and Bolod — even though, as this resort’s own address shows, “Tawala” covers ground well beyond the beachfront itself. Nearby, the interior barangays of Tangnan, Binoon, and San Isidro remain committed to agriculture, still growing coconut and root crops much as they did before organized dive tourism took hold on Alona in the early 1980s.

A short trip toward Poblacion, the municipal seat, reaches the San Agustin Parish Church complex, where the 1851 Panglao Watchtower — a five-story hexagonal coral-stone tower declared a National Cultural Treasure in 2011 and restored after 2013 earthquake damage — stands beside the active St. Augustine Parish Church, its nave completed in the 1920s. Every August 28, the parish’s patronal feast becomes Hudyaka sa Panglao, a municipality-wide festival with participation from all ten barangays, mixing street dance competitions with food stalls built around Panglao’s seafood specialties.

For a meal beyond the resort’s own restaurant, kinilaw na tanigue — raw Spanish mackerel cured in coconut vinegar produced on the island, with ginger, chili, and onion — remains the dish most identified with Panglao’s own kitchens, typically found at carinderias near the town center rather than resort dining rooms built for an international clientele.

On the environmental side, Panglao’s entire freshwater supply comes from an underground lens rather than any river system, and published studies have measured chloride levels in some wells above the WHO’s 250 mg/L safety threshold, tied to dry-season over-extraction. Tap water isn’t potable anywhere on the island, so bottled or filtered water is standard practice here as at every Panglao property.

Practical Notes

A review count above 500 gives a more statistically stable picture than the 30-to-100-review properties common on Panglao’s smaller strip, which makes seasonal patterns worth checking directly in the reviews rather than assuming from the aggregate score alone. Holy Week, Christmas week, and Chinese New Year remain the tightest windows islandwide, when established resorts including this one routinely approach full occupancy — booking meaningfully ahead of those dates matters more than at quieter times of year.

Getting to Panglao means either flying directly into Bohol–Panglao International Airport, which opened in 2018, or crossing by fast ferry from Cebu City to Tagbilaran, a roughly two-hour trip, followed by a 15–20 minute tricycle or multicab ride over the Tagbilaran–Dauis bridge onto the island. Visitors arriving between July and September should factor in the southwest monsoon, which brings choppier conditions specifically to Alona Beach and can disrupt dive schedules there, even though this resort’s own inland position keeps it largely unaffected by beach-specific swell.

Who Should Book Here

Works for: travelers who want a fuller amenity set — spa, laundry, fast in-room WiFi — over walking-distance beach access, and guests comfortable with a short tricycle ride to Alona.

Skip if you: want to step directly onto the sand from your room, or are traveling on the tightest end of the budget scale given the roughly 6,680 PHP starting rate.

Current rating: 9.2 (“Wonderful”) on Booking.com from 563 reviews, as recorded 2026-07-15. Rates from roughly 6,680 PHP are estimated from comparable Panglao properties at a similar rating band — confirm the live rate on Stay22.

Getting there and booking: Alona Beach is roughly 1.4 miles away by tricycle. Rates and current availability are listed on Stay22 and Booking.com.