Ramede Resort Bohol

Overview

Ramede Resort Bohol sits in Danao, roughly 870 meters to 1.4 kilometers from Alona Beach depending on which point of the strip is measured, close enough for an easy tricycle hop but not the walk-out-the-door proximity some Tawala addresses offer. It’s a larger operation than most properties in this Panglao price bracket — aggregator listings put it at over 100 rooms, built around six outdoor pools (including a dedicated children’s pool), two poolside bars, a spa offering body scrubs and beauty treatments, and a 24-hour front desk staffed in English, Korean, and Filipino. Booking.com’s own listing for the property shows an 8.0 “Very Good” score from 17 reviews as of mid-2026, a newer or smaller-sampled listing than the resort’s footprint might suggest, worth weighing against the fuller review histories visible on other platforms rather than taken as the only data point.

The Accommodation

Room categories run from a Deluxe Single Room and Deluxe Queen Room up to a Premier Family Room and a 27-square-meter Premier Pool View Twin Room, with air conditioning, in-room safes, and laptop-friendly workspaces standard across categories. Several room types open directly onto pool views rather than garden or street outlooks, and a complimentary local breakfast plus in-room WiFi rated above 500 Mbps are included at the property level rather than sold as add-ons — a genuinely fast connection by Panglao standards, where most mid-range resorts struggle during the evening peak.

A Real Restaurant Cluster Nearby

Danao’s stretch of Panglao has developed a more international dining scene than the general Alona strip, and several named restaurants sit within easy reach of Ramede specifically: Bohol Bee Farm, an organic farm-to-table operation with sea views; Toto e Peppino for wood-fired Italian; Bougainvillea for Spanish tapas and wine; and Kun’s Stick and Bowl and a Thai kitchen for Southeast Asian alternatives to the standard resort menu. It’s a denser, more varied food economy than most Panglao neighborhoods support, largely because Danao’s slightly more residential, less backpacker-dense character has attracted longer-established, higher-investment restaurant operators rather than the fast-turnover beach-shack model common along Alona itself.

Seasonality and What It Costs

Room rates here swing more than the headline OTA price suggests: aggregator data puts the cheapest month around May at roughly $29 a night, against a December peak near $61 — more than double, tracking the same holiday demand spike that pushes established Panglao properties toward 90–100% occupancy over Christmas week, New Year, and Holy Week specifically. Outside those windows, a hundred-room-plus resort with six pools has real capacity to discount, which shows up in the wider May–June rate spread more than at smaller Panglao guesthouses running closer to full most of the year regardless of season.

The Reef, the Cap, and Local Taste

Alona’s house reef, the default snorkel spot for most Danao- and Tawala-based guests, sits 30–50 meters offshore with 8–15 meter visibility depending on conditions, carrying a partial recovery from a 2016 bleaching event. Boat trips out to Balicasag Island — about 20 minutes by outrigger — reach a wall dive locally called the Black Forest, dropping past 40 meters with resident turtle cleaning stations, though access is now capped at 150 divers and snorkelers a day with a roughly ₱250 environmental fee, a deliberate limit against reef pressure that had become unsustainable. Closer to the resort, kinilaw na tanigue — raw Spanish mackerel cured in coconut vinegar, ginger, chili, and onion using vinegar produced on Panglao itself — remains a more locally rooted dish than most of Danao’s imported-cuisine restaurants serve, worth a stop at a Tawala-road stall specifically for that reason.

Practical Details

A tricycle to Tagbilaran City or the ferry terminal runs PHP 150–200; fast boats to Cebu depart roughly hourly and take about 30 minutes for around PHP 200. Inland, the Chocolate Hills and the Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary in Corella are both roughly 45 minutes to an hour by road, typically arranged through Tagbilaran or Alona-based tour operators. Guides on those tours often repeat a well-known regional legend that the Chocolate Hills formed from the dried tears of a giant named Arogo, mourning his lost love Aloya — a story worth treating as local folklore rather than the geological explanation, since the mounds are eroded marine limestone formed over a much longer and less romantic timescale. Panglao’s water supply comes entirely from a freshwater lens in the island’s limestone bedrock, with dry-season over-extraction pushing chloride levels in some wells past recommended drinking thresholds — tap water isn’t potable anywhere on the island, a hundred-room resort included, so bottled or filtered water remains the standard regardless of a property’s size or star rating.

Who This Suits

A resort built around six pools and a spa fits families and groups better than solo divers looking for a bare-bones base near the boats — the pool infrastructure alone signals a property designed for guests spending unstructured daytime hours on-site rather than out on the water from morning to evening. The Korean-language front desk service is also a genuine, verifiable detail rather than a generic amenity claim, reflecting the real concentration of Korean tour groups that book Panglao’s larger resorts specifically. Anyone drawn by the six-pool figure should also read it as a signal of scale rather than intimacy; a hundred-plus-room property with this much shared infrastructure won’t offer the same recognize-you-by-name service that a 10- or 12-room Alona guesthouse can.