Name: Parklane Bohol Resort and Spa Review: Eleven Rooms and Three Pools on the Anda Coast (2026)
Address: Anda, Bohol, PH
Price range: mid
Rating: 8

Eleven rooms and three pools is an unusual ratio, and it is the whole argument for Parklane Bohol Resort and Spa. The property sits at Sitio Banilad in Barangay Candabong, on the white sand of Bohol’s eastern coast, roughly two hours by road from Tagbilaran through the interior and down through Candijay. At full occupancy the resort holds around twenty-two guests across an infinity pool, a second pool and a jacuzzi.

It rates Very Good, 8.0 out of 10 on Booking.com from 75 reviews — a solid, unspectacular score, and a more honest one than the small-property scores that sit above 9 on a dozen reviews. Guest accounts converge on two things: the beach, and the room size.

Rates start from an estimated ₱3,600 a night. That figure is not a live-fetched rate — it is estimated from five comparable coastal Bohol properties at a similar review score, because Anda has too few direct matches to price against, so treat it as a rough position rather than a quote and confirm the real number before booking.

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At a Glance — The Vibe Score

Architecture & Sense of Place: 7/10 — a facility-led resort rather than a designed one, but the low eleven-room footprint and the terrace-per-room commitment keep it in proportion to its coast.

Quietness: 9/10 — Anda has no resort strip and no nightlife; the road past the property carries almost nothing after dark.

Value: 8/10 — three pools, a private beach frontage and a spa at a mid-market position is a genuinely favourable amenity-to-rate ratio, with the caveat that the rate itself is an estimate.

Service: 8/10 — at eleven rooms the staffing ratio does most of the work, and reviewer accounts describe attention closer to a villa operation than a resort desk.

Location & Transit: 5/10 — two hours from Tagbilaran, longer from the Panglao airport. Anda is a destination, not a side trip, and the drive is the price of admission.

Beach Access: 9.5/10 — direct frontage on Anda’s white sand, with reef close enough that snorkelling starts by wading in rather than by booking a boat.

Room Comfort: 8/10 — all eleven rooms have sea-view terraces, fridge and kettle; reviewers describe them as spacious, clean and recently finished.

Best for: Families and couples who want the east coast — the sand, the shore snorkelling and the inland circuit — with real facilities attached, and who have the schedule to sit still for several nights.

The Architect’s Note

Architect's note

Three pools for eleven rooms is not an amenity decision, it is a planning one, and it produces a different building from the same budget spent on a larger property. Twenty-two guests at maximum occupancy cannot fill three bodies of water at once, which means the infinity pool functions as a semi-private amenity for most of any given day rather than as a shared resort facility that has to be scheduled around. Water is the most expensive thing per square metre a small resort can build and maintain; committing this much of it to this few rooms sets the property’s operating economics before a single guest arrives.

The sea-view terrace on every room is the second commitment, and it is the one that constrains the plan hardest. Maintaining a water sightline from all eleven rooms rules out the stacking and the inward-facing wings that a larger property uses to lift revenue per square metre of land. It is a trade that only works at small scale — the same discipline applied to sixty rooms would either fail or force the buildings up the slope and away from the beach. Here, the site can absorb it, and the result is that room category becomes close to irrelevant: the view is the same from all of them.

What the public record does not establish is how the pool plant and the terrace finishes are holding up. Three pools on a salt-exposed beachfront parcel is a heavy maintenance load for an eleven-room operation to carry, and filtration, tiling and deck timber are exactly where a property of this size either sustains its standard or quietly slips. Reviewer descriptions of rooms as new-feeling are encouraging but not the same as evidence of a maintenance regime; the pool decks and the seaward railings are the things to look at on arrival.

Sense of Place & Design

Anda occupies the eastern peninsula, curving away from the corridor that carries almost all of Bohol’s tourist traffic. The beachfront here has not been reorganised by resort construction the way Panglao’s has: the white sand runs in coves between limestone headlands, the water is clear of wave break and boat traffic, and the local economy still rests on fishing and farming rather than on visitors.

That economic base is worth registering before booking, because it explains the coast. An estimated ₱3,600 room night in Anda is a mid-market rate by national standards and a significant sum in a barangay where most household income comes off a boat or a field. The resorts here are small and few, which is why the sand is empty; it also means guest spending concentrates in a handful of places rather than spreading through a strip economy.

The two-hour drive is the filter. Guests who make it have chosen it against the one-hour Panglao alternative, and the beach stays uncrowded as a direct result. Anda Beach is the public reference for this stretch, and Parklane’s frontage sits on the same sand.

The inland circuit is the second half of the case. The Cadapdapan rice terraces — hillside paddies cut into the Candijay uplands — and the caves and pools of the interior sit within a half-hour to forty-five minutes of the resort. From Panglao those are not day trips; the drive is too long to make them work. From Anda they are ordinary morning outings.

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The Rooms

Sea-view rooms (all eleven)

Every room at Parklane has a sea-view terrace. They are air-conditioned, with a flat-screen television, private bathroom, fridge, electric kettle and a sitting area. Reviewer accounts describe the beds as comfortable and the rooms as clean, spacious and recently finished.

The terrace-on-every-room decision makes the room category largely academic — whichever tier is booked, the view out of it is the same water. That is a genuine simplification for a traveller comparing options: at most resorts the room grade determines what you look at, and here it does not.

The fridge and kettle matter more than they usually would. On this coast there is no convenience store within a casual walk, so the ability to keep water, fruit and breakfast leftovers in the room is a practical provision rather than a box ticked, particularly on a multi-night stay that starts in the water before the kitchen opens.

Room dimensions are not published in a form we can verify, so no square-metre figures appear here. Confirm the specific room with the property if size is a deciding factor.

Location & Connectivity

The road from Tagbilaran runs inland through Bilar, past the approaches to the Chocolate Hills, then down to the east coast through Candijay. Two hours is the realistic figure in normal conditions. From Bohol–Panglao International Airport, which sits at the opposite end of the island, add the cross-island leg and plan on the better part of three hours door to door.

That transit time is the single most important fact about booking here. Anda works as a destination in its own right — arrive, stay several nights, leave — and works badly as a base for touring the whole island. A guest planning to see the Chocolate Hills, Loboc and Panglao from this address will spend the holiday in a van.

What the position does buy is the eastern inland circuit. Can-umantad Falls, among the widest falls in the country, sits on the same half-day loop as the Cadapdapan terraces and the cave systems inland of Anda. The resort can help arrange transport and a local guide for that circuit, which is worth using: these are not signposted attractions with ticket booths and shuttle buses.

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Dining & Service

Breakfast is cooked to order rather than laid out as a buffet, which is the format that makes sense at this scale — a kitchen serving twenty-two guests can cook individually in a way that a kitchen serving two hundred cannot. Reviewer feedback on breakfast is positive, and the dining area shares the property’s sea orientation.

The spa offers Thai massage on site. At eleven rooms this reads as a real service rather than an underused facility: a single therapist working for a maximum of twenty-two guests is a different proposition from a spa built for a resort of two hundred and staffed accordingly. For a stay built around shore snorkelling and kayaking, it is also the right amenity — the recovery end of an active day.

Staff feedback is consistently positive and consistently specific: names and preferences remembered, requests handled directly rather than through a desk. That is a function of the room count more than of training, and it is the same structural advantage that every small property on this coast enjoys.

A Day at Parklane

The reef is the morning. Snorkelling here starts by walking into the water rather than by boarding a boat, which changes the shape of the day — there is no departure time to meet and no group to wait for. Low tide gives the clearest water; the resort’s kayaks and paddleboards cover the stretch of coast either side of the frontage.

Midday belongs to the pools, and with three of them and eleven rooms there is rarely a question of finding space. The inland circuit — terraces, falls, caves — is the natural second-day activity, out and back inside a half day.

Evenings are quiet in the way this whole coast is quiet. Dinner at the resort, then the terrace. There is nowhere to walk to, and that is the product.

Parklane Bohol vs Amun Ini Resort and Spa

These are the two ends of the Anda market. Amun Ini rates 9.4 from 41 reviews at a live-fetched ₱18,048, on three hectares with sixteen rooms, stone architecture and an on-site dive operation. Parklane rates 8.0 from 75 reviews at an estimated ₱3,600.

The split is clean. Amun Ini is a designed property where the building is part of what you are paying for, and it prices accordingly. Parklane is a facilities property on the same coastline at roughly a fifth of the rate, with more pools, a comparable beach, and none of the architectural ambition. A traveller who wants Anda’s sand and quiet and intends to spend the days in the water will find the cheaper property delivers most of the same holiday. A traveller who wants the stay itself to be the experience will not.

Parklane Bohol vs Three Little Birds Resort

Three Little Birds Resort is the budget position on this coast: 8.5 from 529 reviews at an estimated ₱2,250, in scattered garden bungalows rather than a pool-centred compound.

The review base is the notable difference — 529 against 75 — and the score is higher. What Three Little Birds does not have is the pool stack or the direct beachfront terrace arrangement. For couples travelling light and spending the day out, the bungalows are the better value and the better-evidenced choice. For families, the pool count and the in-room fridge-and-kettle provision at Parklane do real work that a garden bungalow does not, and the extra ₱1,350 or so a night is buying something specific rather than status.

Best For — Be Honest

Book here if you are:

A couple or family willing to drive two hours for empty white sand and snorkelling that needs no boat
Interested in the eastern inland circuit — the Candijay terraces, the falls, the caves — as a real part of the trip
Travelling with children, where three pools and eleven rooms is a materially easier proposition than a large resort
Staying multiple nights; this coast does not reward a single night against the drive

Look elsewhere if you are:

After Panglao’s dive operators, island-hopping infrastructure or a beach strip with restaurant choice
On a short trip trying to cover the whole island — the transit maths does not work from here
Expecting hotel-grade services and shops within reach; Anda town is a tricycle ride and modest when you get there
Booking on the ₱3,600 figure as if it were a quote — it is an estimate, and the live rate may differ

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Is Parklane Bohol Resort and Spa Right For You?

Parklane is the facilities answer to Anda. It does not make an architectural argument the way the coast’s luxury property does, and it does not try to — what it offers is three pools, a spa, a sea-view terrace on all eleven rooms and direct frontage on some of the least crowded sand in Bohol, at a mid-market position. The 8.0 score from 75 reviews reads as an accurate description of that: consistently good, not exceptional, with the beach doing much of the work.

For a family that wants the east coast without giving up pools and breakfast service, this is the most practical property on it. For anyone unwilling to spend two hours each way on the road, no amount of amenity fixes the geography.

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Photos

the infinity pool on the beachfront terrace, one of three bodies of water serving eleven rooms.
the white sand frontage at Sitio Banilad, with the reef close enough to reach from shore.
a sea-view terrace, the arrangement shared by every room in the property.

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Parklane Bohol Resort and Spa Review: Eleven Rooms and Three Pools on the Anda Coast (2026)

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