P1 Club Resort

A Resort-Café-Nightclub Hybrid on the Dauis Side of Panglao Island

P1 Club Resort sits just across the municipal line from Panglao proper, in Purok 2, Barangay Lourdes, Dauis — the neighboring town that shares Panglao Island with Panglao municipality and connects to Tagbilaran City over the same causeway. The property markets itself as a combined resort, café, and dance club rather than a straightforward beach hotel, and that three-part identity shows in the facility list: an outdoor pool and hot tub sit alongside a nightclub space and a restaurant serving American, pizza, and seafood dishes, with vegetarian, dairy-free, and halal options noted on its listing. It is a newer entry on the booking platforms — the pages show pricing and amenities but not yet a meaningful volume of guest reviews, so guest-experience claims here carry less weight than at longer-running Panglao properties.

Rooms and On-Site Facilities

Rooms are air-conditioned, with flat-screen TVs on satellite channels, a writing desk, tea and coffee facilities, an in-room safe, and private bathrooms fitted with bidets. The property lists room service, à la carte breakfast, bike and car rental, and a paid airport shuttle — a useful add-on given the distance from Bohol–Panglao International Airport, which its own listing puts at roughly 5 kilometers away. The landmark most often cited in the property’s own descriptions is the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Dauis, about 450 meters off, a 17th-century Recollect parish church known locally for a well inside its sanctuary that some devotees believe carries healing properties — a belief tied to long-standing local devotion rather than anything medically verified, but one that draws a steady trickle of visitors distinct from the beach crowd.

Why Guests Choose the Dauis Side

Staying in Dauis instead of directly on Alona Beach trades beachfront immediacy for quieter surroundings and, often, a lower nightly rate. Panglao’s accommodation spread runs from backpacker huts around PHP 600–800 a night to mid-range cottages at PHP 3,000–6,000 and a handful of four-star properties above that, and P1 Club Resort’s pricing sits toward the lower-middle of that range. The tradeoff is transport: reaching Alona Beach itself requires a tricycle ride rather than a walk, typically 150–250 PHP depending on traffic and time of day.

Panglao Island’s tourism economy runs on this kind of arrangement — accommodation spread across both Panglao and Dauis, tricycles and multicabs shuttling guests to Alona’s dive shops and Danao’s boat launches, and every property on the island drawing from the same freshwater lens beneath its limestone bedrock. That aquifer is under real strain from tourism growth: published water-quality studies have measured chloride levels in island wells running well past the World Health Organization’s 250 mg/L safety threshold, which is why tap water isn’t potable anywhere on Panglao Island and bottled or filtered water is standard for residents and visitors alike.

Day Trips from a Dauis Base

Most stays here build around a countryside day trip rather than a beach-only itinerary. Chocolate Hills, roughly 45–60 minutes inland by hired van or tricycle, remains Bohol’s most recognized image: a field of more than a thousand grass-covered limestone mounds that turn brown in the dry season, which is how they got their name. Local legend attributes them to a heartbroken giant named Arogo, who wept for a lost love until his tears dried into hills — geologists attribute them instead to marine limestone weathering, but the legend still gets told on most guided stops. A visit to the Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary in Corella is usually paired with the same trip, along with a stretch of the Loboc River.

Reef Access from a Non-Beachfront Base

Divers based here still reach Panglao’s main sites without difficulty. Balicasag Island, about 8 km southwest of Alona Beach, is the area’s best-known dive destination for its sea turtle cleaning stations and the Black Forest wall, which drops past 40 meters. The local government caps access at 150 divers and snorkelers a day, two dives maximum per person, booked in advance and paid through a roughly ₱250 environmental user fee per diver — a deliberate limit on a reef system that couldn’t sustain unmanaged volume at current visitor numbers. Dive shops on Alona Beach run day boats out to Balicasag on a fairly fixed schedule, and most will arrange tricycle pickup from Dauis-side hotels like this one for an added fee.

Practical Details

Location: Purok 2, Barangay Lourdes, Dauis, on the Panglao Island side of the Tagbilaran–Dauis bridge, roughly 5 km from Bohol–Panglao International Airport.

Getting to the beach: Tricycle to Alona Beach or Danao Beach runs roughly 150–250 PHP; a paid airport transfer is available directly through the property.

Who it suits: Travelers who want pool and nightlife facilities on-site and don’t mind a short ride to reach Alona’s reef and dive shops, or anyone curious about the resort’s café-and-club format rather than a standard hotel layout.

Who should look elsewhere: Anyone prioritizing direct beach access or a long, verified guest-review history — as a newer listing, this property doesn’t yet have either.

Getting There & Booking

Book on Stay22 or Booking.com for current rates. As a newer listing, confirm room configuration and current amenities directly with the property before arrival.