Paseo Del Mar Seaside Inn

Paseo Del Mar Seaside Inn sits in Barangay Pangdan, about 1.8 kilometres from Jagna’s town centre on Bohol’s southeastern coast — an older, rustic property that guest reviews describe as a simple compound of cottages set among trees right at the sea’s edge, with cats and dogs around the grounds rather than the manicured landscaping of a Panglao beach resort. It has long served as a stopover for travelers routing between Jagna and Anda, or connecting onward toward Camiguin, rather than functioning as a destination resort in its own right. Air-conditioned rooms come with private baths and a viewing deck over the water, with Wi-Fi available in designated common areas; rates have historically run from roughly ₱850–1,200 for a standard room, with shared backpacker-style accommodation as low as ₱300 a night, though current live rates should always be checked at booking. The on-site restaurant covers breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

What sets Paseo Del Mar apart from Jagna’s other small hotels is its dive center, run in partnership with Drift Divers — a shop confirmed via Tripadvisor’s own Jagna listings and cross-referenced in the municipality’s dive-site documentation as being based right at the resort. Guests can rent scuba and snorkeling gear on-site rather than bringing equipment from Tagbilaran or Panglao: a guided fun dive runs about ₱1,400 (₱1,000 if divers supply their own gear), snorkeling equipment — mask, snorkel, booties, fins — rents for around ₱300, and certification courses range from Open Water at roughly ₱18,000 through Advanced at ₱16,500 to Rescue at ₱15,000. Booking.com rates the property 8.1 (“Very Good”) from 109 reviews, a solid base for a small inn that trades resort polish for direct water access and lower prices.

Jagna’s dive sites sit along a coastline facing the Mindanao Sea, where South China Sea and Pacific currents converge to carry a high nutrient load that supports dense coral growth — the same hydrography behind the health of the Danajon Bank, one of only two double-barrier reef systems in the Indo-Pacific, a stretch of which runs through Jagna’s waters as a buoyed no-anchor, no-fishing zone. Pangdan’s own reef, right off the resort, is a legally designated marine sanctuary — 15.2 hectares protected by municipal ordinance since 2001, assessed in “fair condition” with 48.50% live hard coral cover recorded in its deeper 6–8 metre zone, and managed by a joint council of the local government, private sector, and NGO partners. Nausok Point, Canupao Point, and Cantagay Point round out the other named beach-entry sites along the same coast, offering hard and soft corals with dense reef-fish populations; local fishermen report hammerhead shark activity along the drop-off where the reef gives way to deeper water, though this remains an area of local knowledge rather than a documented dive attraction. Sea snakes are also present around Nausok Point specifically. Because these reefs sit largely outside international dive guides, pressure on the coral is lower than at more heavily dived sites elsewhere in Bohol, though infrastructure is correspondingly minimal — Paseo Del Mar and Drift Divers are effectively the area’s dive infrastructure.

Sting ray, locally called sanga, is both Jagna’s designated municipal fish and a genuine local food item, most commonly encountered — and eaten, raw, dried, or cooked in coconut milk and spices — during the summer months of roughly March to May. Combining a dive day at Paseo Del Mar with a stop at Ching’s Calamay in Barangay Can-upao, where Jagna’s signature sticky rice-and-coconut sweet is sold in coconut-shell halves sealed with colored crepe paper, makes for an efficient day that pairs the coast with the town’s culinary specialty; the recipe is locally credited to an Augustinian Recollect friar, Fr. Mariano Gutierrez, around 1825, and Jagna now marks it with an annual Calamay Festival each April.

Jagna’s port also runs ferries to Mindanao — 2Go Travel and other operators connect to Cagayan de Oro (8–10 hours overnight) and Nasipit (4–5 hours) — which shapes the town’s economy toward transit and fishing rather than tourism alone, even as the paragliding investment near Motu de Lorenzo Nature Park and the ongoing baywalk and mangrove-belt development under Mayor Joseph Rañola point to a slower shift toward adventure and coastal tourism in the surrounding area. The resort’s own long-running, somewhat weathered character — repeat guests describe it as old and rustic rather than freshly renovated — fits a business that has served backpackers, divers, and ferry-adjacent travelers over many years rather than one built recently for a tourism boom; the animals around the grounds and the shared, informal common areas are part of that same long-running character rather than a design choice. For divers and snorkelers who want direct water access without Panglao’s crowds or prices, Paseo Del Mar remains the most dive-oriented option in Jagna, at the cost of the rustic, no-frills condition its longtime guests describe.

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