Tyner's Place

Tyner’s Place: A Quiet, Pool-Focused Stay East of the Alona Strip

Tyner’s Place carries one of the stronger guest scores among Panglao’s smaller properties — 9.1 out of 10, “Wonderful,” across 274 reviews on Booking.com (a separate hotels-bohol.com listing puts the same property at 275 reviews, consistent with ongoing bookings since the last snapshot). That volume of positive feedback for a modest, independently run resort is worth taking seriously as a signal.

Not on the Alona Strip

Despite how templated hotel copy for this area tends to default to “steps from Alona Beach,” Tyner’s Place is not on the Alona strip. Its coordinates place it toward the eastern side of Panglao, closer to the Tagbilaran–Dauis bridge and the Bingag area than to Barangay Tawala’s beach road. Listings disagree on the exact address — one aggregator lists it as Zone 1, Regla, Panglao, while another cites a Sitio San Pedro, Bingag, Dauis address — but both agree the location trades beachfront immediacy for a quieter, garden-set position several kilometers from the dive-shop cluster. Booking.com’s own listing puts Alona Beach roughly 4 km away and Danao Beach about 8 km, with a paid shuttle service available for guests who would rather not arrange their own tricycle.

Rooms and Pool

Rooms come with balconies or terraces, air-conditioning, sound-proofed windows, high-speed internet, a flat-screen TV, and coffee/tea-making equipment; bathrooms have a separate toilet and shower. The standout amenity is the pool area: a plunge pool with a shallow end and a dedicated children’s pool, sun loungers, a garden-facing sun terrace, and a jacuzzi — an unusual combination at this price bracket, and likely a real contributor to the review score, since guests who are not relying on beach access get a resort-style pool experience instead. Check-in runs from 1:00 PM with a late cutoff of midnight, and check-out extends to 11:00 AM — both more flexible than most Panglao properties offer.

Food Nearby

There is no full restaurant on site beyond a shared kitchen and outdoor dining area; the nearest sit-down option flagged by listings is Maya Playa, an Italian-and-Asian restaurant roughly 13 minutes on foot. Guests wanting Boholano food rather than a fusion menu are better off arranging a tricycle into Tawala or Tagbilaran, where kinilaw na tanigue — raw Spanish mackerel cured in coconut vinegar, ginger, and chilli, using vinegar made locally — and Larsian-style barbecue stalls are the more distinctly local options.

Hinagdanan Cave and a Local Belief

If the Bingag-area address is accurate, Hinagdanan Cave — a lit limestone cave with a brackish swimming pool, admission running roughly ₱50 to ₱80 — sits in the same barangay, making it one of the more convenient add-ons for guests staying here rather than on the beach strip. Inland, Chocolate Hills and the Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary are both roughly 45 minutes away, the standard countryside pairing for a day trip. Guides at the tarsier sanctuary ask visitors not to touch the animals or use flash photography, partly for animal welfare and partly because of a long-standing Boholano belief, held by some locals rather than treated as established fact, that disturbing or laughing at a tarsier brings bad luck.

Getting There

The eastern-Panglao position, if the Bingag-area address is the accurate one, puts the property closer to the Tagbilaran–Dauis bridge than to the airport road that most Alona-bound traffic uses. For travelers arriving by ferry through Tagbilaran port rather than flying into Bohol–Panglao International, that can mean a shorter transfer than a beachfront hotel on the far side of the island — worth factoring in when comparing arrival logistics rather than assuming every Panglao stay involves the same route in from the airport.

Booking Notes

The frontmatter’s ₱7,400 starting rate is an estimate drawn from comparable Panglao properties at a similar review score rather than a confirmed live rate — worth checking against Stay22 or Booking.com directly before budgeting around it. Given the pool, jacuzzi, and children’s pool combination, the property reads as family-friendly despite the modest room count, and the free Wi-Fi and sound-proofed windows suggest it is set up for longer, quieter stays rather than one-night stopovers between dive trips. Divers based here still have full access to Alona’s boat operators for reef trips and courses; the tradeoff is simply a paid shuttle or arranged tricycle to reach the dock rather than a walk from the room.

Who Should Book Here

Panglao’s accommodation range runs from ₱600–800 backpacker huts to ₱3,000–6,000 mid-range cottages to a handful of four-star resorts, and organized tourism on the island only accelerated after the international airport opened in 2018 — a small, well-reviewed property like this one sitting outside the main strip is a fairly recent development pattern rather than an old fixture. Tyner’s Place suits travelers who want a quiet, pool-centered base and do not mind arranging transport for beach days and dinners. It is a poor fit for anyone assuming a Panglao hotel means walking distance to sand. Given the conflicting street-level addresses across aggregators, treat its location as “eastern Panglao, near the Bingag/Dauis-bridge area” with confidence, and confirm the exact street address directly with the property before arranging a pickup.