PEDRO'S RESORT

A Circumferential Road Resort Near Alona’s Dive Shops

Pedro’s Resort sits on the Panglao Island Circumferential Road, close enough to Alona Beach that its own listing puts the sand at about 980 meters away — not beachfront, but a short walk rather than requiring a tricycle. Nearby landmarks cited on its booking listing include Island Girl restaurant about 400 meters off and Blue Seazon Dive Shop at roughly 550 meters, both useful anchors for orienting the property relative to Alona’s main cluster. It carries a 6.9 review score on Booking.com from 20 reviews; a separate Agoda listing for the same property shows a notably higher 7.9 out of 10 from 231 reviews, a common pattern where a property’s review profile differs meaningfully by platform and audience rather than pointing to inconsistent service.

Rooms

Room categories include Family Rooms and Standard Rooms, with a general “Suite” tier also referenced in the property’s own marketing, though a verbatim suite name wasn’t confirmed. Rooms include air conditioning, a fridge, a safe box, and a balcony or terrace, and non-smoking options are available. A shared kitchen is listed as a guest amenity, along with continental breakfast, daily housekeeping, and laundry and dry-cleaning service.

Facilities

Pedro’s runs both an indoor and outdoor pool, including a kids’ pool — a detail worth noting for families, since not every mid-range Panglao property splits its pool this way. The property also lists restaurants, a bar, massage services, airport transfer, free parking, and a 24-hour front desk. Free WiFi is available in all rooms, not just common areas, which is a small but real convenience at this price tier.

What Guests Report

Sentiment analysis across reviews shows a mixed but specific pattern: service is mentioned frequently and rated positively (roughly seven in eight mentions favorable), and location comes up often with similarly strong sentiment. The pool and breakfast tell a different story — both are mentioned regularly, and both skew unfavorable in the majority of those mentions, pointing to cleanliness or maintenance concerns around the pool and a breakfast offering that hasn’t consistently satisfied guests. One representative guest comment describes “warm welcome, friendly service, comfortable room” — consistent with the strong service sentiment — while other reviews flag weak WiFi signal in some rooms and understaffing at night as specific, recurring issues.

Reading the Two Ratings Together

A 6.9 on one platform and a 7.9 on another for the same property isn’t necessarily a contradiction — different platforms draw different guest demographics and review-prompt timing, and Pedro’s larger Agoda review base (231 versus 20) may simply capture a broader, more typical guest experience than the smaller Booking.com sample. The practical takeaway for a traveler comparing listings: treat the service and location praise as reliable across both platforms, and read recent pool- and breakfast-specific comments directly before booking, since those are the two areas where guest experience seems to vary most.

The Reef and Alona’s Dive Economy

With Blue Seazon and other dive shops a short walk away, guests here can arrange boat dives to Balicasag Island, about 8 km southwest, without needing to travel into central Alona first. Balicasag’s Black Forest wall drops past 40 meters and draws divers for its sea turtle cleaning stations; access is capped by the local government at 150 divers and snorkelers a day, two dives maximum per person, funded partly by a roughly ₱250 per-diver environmental fee — a genuine conservation measure on a reef that couldn’t sustain unmanaged visitor numbers. Closer to shore, Alona’s house reef still carries a mixed recovery picture since the 2016 regional coral bleaching event, with healthy coral patches next to sections still recovering.

Local Food and Day Trips

Island Girl, just 400 meters from the resort, is one option for a meal that isn’t the resort’s own restaurant, but it’s worth trying kinilaw na tanigue somewhere during a Panglao stay regardless of where you eat — raw Spanish mackerel cured in coconut vinegar, ginger, chili, and onion, made with vinegar tapped on the island itself rather than trucked in. Many multi-night guests pair beach time here with one countryside day trip: Chocolate Hills, roughly 45–60 minutes inland, remains Bohol’s best-known sight, a field of more than a thousand grass-covered limestone mounds that turn brown each dry season. Local legend credits a grieving giant named Arogo, weeping over a lost love until his tears dried into hills — geologists point to marine limestone weathering instead. It’s usually paired with the Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary in Corella and a stretch of the Loboc River, both easily arranged through the resort’s front desk or any tricycle driver on the Circumferential Road.

As with every property on Panglao, the resort’s water ultimately comes from the freshwater lens within the island’s limestone bedrock rather than any river, since Panglao has none. Tourism-driven demand has pushed chloride levels in some wells past the World Health Organization’s 250 mg/L guideline, and tap water isn’t potable anywhere on the island as a result — bottled or filtered water is standard practice for guests and residents alike.

Practical Details

Location: Panglao Island Circumferential Road, roughly 980 m from Alona Beach; airport about 1.7 km, roughly a 5-minute tuktuk ride.

Nearby landmarks: Island Girl restaurant (~400 m), Blue Seazon Dive Shop (~550 m).

Booking note: Given the gap between platforms, check recent reviews on whichever site you’re booking through rather than relying on a single aggregate score.

Who Should Book Here

This suits travelers who want to be a short walk from Alona’s dive shops and restaurants without paying beachfront rates, and who are comfortable with a pool and breakfast that reviewers describe as inconsistent rather than uniformly strong. Families benefit from the separate kids’ pool.

Getting There & Booking

Book on Stay22, Agoda, or Booking.com for current rates; compare reviews across platforms given the meaningfully different scores each shows.