Solea Reef Resort Anda

Solea Reef Resort Anda: A Reef-Facing Stay in Barangay Candabong

Solea Reef Resort Anda sits in Sitio Ipo, Barangay Candabong, on the southern stretch of Anda’s coastline — part of the Solea Hotels & Resorts group, which runs a handful of small properties around the Visayas. Anda itself occupies Bohol’s far eastern peninsula, roughly 110 kilometers and two-and-a-half to three hours by road from Tagbilaran City; there is no direct sea route in, so every guest arrives overland, either by a chartered van (around PHP 2,000–2,500 per vehicle) or by bus to the Guindulman junction followed by a habal-habal or jeepney for the final stretch.

Rooms and On-Site Facilities

The resort’s listings show three room categories: the Anda Solea Suite, which sleeps up to four adults across a king or double bed; the Anda Classic Suite, built for two to three guests; and the Premier Sea View Room, designed for two adults and two children under 12 across two queen beds. Standard inclusions across room types run to air conditioning, hot-and-cold shower, flat-screen TV, free Wi-Fi, a balcony, minibar, safe, hair dryer, electric kettle, and a hanging closet, with suite categories adding bathrobes. On site, Kuma Cafe serves from 6am to 8pm, and the resort’s infinity pool is open 8am to 8pm — the two facilities that anchor most guests’ days when they’re not out on the water.

Rates and Reviews

Booking.com carries a 7.7-out-of-10 “Good” score for the property from 21 reviews, current as of a mid-2026 check. Tripadvisor’s listing tells a thinner story — a single guest review from a March 2026 stay flagged limited privacy between rooms, a fair caution for anyone weighing a booking, though one review is too small a sample to generalize from. The PHP 3,600 nightly rate quoted on this page is an estimate built from five comparable coastal Bohol beach-town properties with a similar OTA rating, since Anda itself had too few direct matches to price against — treat it as a starting point and confirm the live rate through Stay22 or Booking.com directly before booking.

Diving and Cave Pools Within Reach

Anda’s coast holds around 30 dive sites between the town and neighboring Guindulman, most reachable by boat in under ten minutes and weighted toward wall dives, sandy slopes, and macro subjects — Anda Scuba Diving, one of the area’s established operators, sits within a few kilometers of the resort. Inland, Anda’s cluster of cave pools — Cabagnow, Cateres, Combento, Tibaw, and Banilad Spring — are each run independently by local caretakers rather than as one ticketed circuit; Cabagnow (PHP 50 entry) drops via an iron ladder into a deep jump-in pool, while Combento (PHP 20) offers a shallower, lower-entrance chamber better suited to less confident swimmers.

Punta Cruz and Anda’s Older Layer

Two of the peninsula’s clearest colonial-era landmarks — the 17th-century Punta Cruz Watchtower, built as a lookout against Moro raiders, and a working lighthouse dating to 1893 — sit at the peninsula’s tip, evidence of Anda’s history as an isolated fishing settlement before its formal establishment as a municipality in 1850 during the Spanish reorganization of Bohol. The town’s patron feast, Saint Nicholas of Tolentine, falls on 10 September and remains one of the more concrete markers of local Catholic tradition predating the tourism economy that now runs alongside it.

Lamanoc Island and Managed Access

Lamanoc Island, in Barangay Badiang, holds cave formations with pre-colonial burial-jar sites and rock petrographs; the National Museum declared it an Important Cultural Property in October 2020. Visits run by outrigger boat with a guide from the Badiang Fisherfolk Association, which caps daily visitors at 97 for the caves and 48 for the mangrove trail — a deliberate limit on foot traffic rather than an afterthought, and one of the more concrete conservation measures in the area.

Anda’s Layout

Anda covers about 133 square kilometers across 18 barangays, and its tourism infrastructure isn’t evenly spread across that area. The main resort and guesthouse row sits in Barangay Talisay, several kilometers north of Candabong, fronting Anda White Beach; the poblacion, with Quinale Beach as its free public waterfront, sits roughly in between. Solea’s position on the Candabong side puts it closer to the interior cave-pool sites and to the Lamanoc Island boat launch in Barangay Badiang than to the main Talisay cluster — worth factoring in if beachfront bar-hopping matters more to a trip than proximity to the caves.

Food and Local Economics

Grilled squid cooked over coconut-husk charcoal and kinilaw made from tanigue or bariles (rather than tuna) are the area’s characteristic dishes, sold at small carinderias rather than resort restaurants. Lodging economics in Anda run in two clear bands: budget cottages around Barangay Talisay charge PHP 600–1,500 a night, while mid-range resort rooms — the category this property sits in — run PHP 2,000–4,000. Peak season falls around Holy Week and the mid-December-to-early-January stretch, when both cave-pool caretakers and beachfront rooms see more demand than the rest of the year. There’s no ATM in the beach area; the nearest sits in Guindulman, roughly 30 kilometers back toward Tagbilaran, so guests typically arrive with enough cash on hand. Habal-habal remains the practical way to move around locally, with fares negotiated rather than metered.

Who This Suits

Solea Reef Resort Anda suits travelers building a trip around Anda’s dive sites and cave pools rather than those wanting proximity to Panglao’s more built-up beach strip — this is a destination stay in its own right, roughly three hours from the airport side of the island. Confirm the current nightly rate and recent guest feedback directly on Booking.com or Stay22 before locking in dates, given the resort’s still-modest review count.