Southside Tourist Inn

Southside Tourist Inn sits in Barangay Valladolid, Loboc, set back from the river with a garden setting and mountain-facing outlook rather than a waterfront position. It’s a roadside, budget-oriented inn built as a set of cottage-style rooms — about seven in total — roughly a 15-minute walk from the Loboc River Cruise dock. It carries a 6.9/10 score on Booking.com from 92 reviews, current as of 2026-08-26. The listed rate is an estimate based on comparable Loboc properties at a similar review score rather than a live-fetched figure, so it’s worth confirming the current price directly on the booking platform before finalizing plans.

The rooms. The inn’s room types include a Double Room with Private Bathroom (one twin bed), a Quadruple Room with Private Bathroom (two bunk beds), and a Family Room with Private Bathroom (two twin beds) — configurations aimed squarely at groups and budget-minded travelers rather than couples seeking a boutique stay. Rooms come with air conditioning, a desk, a terrace with a mountain view, a private bathroom, and a flat-screen TV. Category scores on Booking.com put staff friendliness highest at 8.7, with location at 7.5, comfort at 7.7, cleanliness at 7.2, and facilities lowest at 6.7 — consistent with a simple, well-run budget property that doesn’t try to be more than that.

Amenities. The inn has a garden, free WiFi, free private parking, a paid airport shuttle, a small minimarket, room service, car-hire arrangement, and luggage storage. There is no swimming pool and no restaurant on site, which puts more weight on the minimarket and nearby eateries for meals — a meaningfully different profile from the riverside inns and cabin-resorts elsewhere in Loboc that build dining into the stay.

The Quadruple and Family room configurations — bunk beds and twin beds respectively — make the inn a practical option for groups traveling together on a fixed budget: student trips, church groups, and multi-generation family visits, all of which are common enough in a town whose two annual fiestas (24 May for Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, and 29 June for Saint Peter) regularly bring extended families back to Loboc for the weekend. Free private parking is also a genuine convenience here, since several of Loboc’s riverside inns operate on tighter footprints with little to no on-site parking of their own.

Local taste. With no kitchen or restaurant of its own, a stay here means eating in town: riverside carinderias near the poblacion serve fresh tilapia grilled or in sinigang, and kalamay is sold near the church plaza. It’s a more self-directed food experience than a resort stay, closer to how a Loboc resident would actually eat day to day than the fixed buffet served to river-cruise passengers, and generally cheaper too, since carinderia meals run well under the roughly ₱450–600 per-person price of the cruise’s set menu.

Economic context. Budget cottage inns like this one fill a specific gap in Loboc’s accommodation mix: overnight travelers, student groups, and families who want private rooms and parking without paying for a pool, restaurant, or riverside premium. Loboc’s daytime economy is dominated by the tour-van cycle around the river cruise, and a simple roadside inn like this one captures a different kind of visitor — one staying a night or two, using the property as a base rather than a destination in itself, and spending the bulk of their money in town on food, guides, and cruise tickets rather than at the hotel.

Practical details. From Tagbilaran, Loboc is about 24 kilometres via the Tagbilaran–Carmen road, roughly 40–50 minutes by jeepney from the Dao terminal or about 30 minutes by private vehicle. From the inn, it’s a 15-minute walk to the river cruise dock and the Church of Saint Peter the Apostle — manageable on foot, though a habal-habal or tricycle is the more common way to cover it with luggage. Cash is worth carrying, as ATM access in Loboc is limited. The 1602 church itself, one of Bohol’s oldest, is a worthwhile short trip even outside cruise hours: it’s a National Cultural Treasure whose bell tower still shows the damage from the 2013 earthquake, preserved beside the reconstructed nave rather than cleared away.

Who it suits. Groups and families on a budget who want private rooms with air conditioning and parking, and who don’t mind covering the short distance into town for meals and the river cruise itself. The 8.7 staff score alongside the lower 6.7 facilities score suggests a property where the people running it outperform the physical amenities on offer — a reasonable trade for travelers prioritizing price and a private room over resort-style extras. Less suited to travelers who want a pool, on-site dining, or a riverside outlook as part of the stay.

Getting There & Booking

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