U And Me

U And Me: A Small Inland Hotel Near Dauis

U And Me holds a 9.4 “Wonderful” score on Booking.com from 12 reviews — a strong number, though the review count is small enough to reflect a handful of recent stays rather than a long track record. The frontmatter price estimate (₱6,680) is drawn from comparable Panglao properties at a similar rating rather than a live rate, so it is worth confirming on Stay22 before planning around it.

Where It Actually Is

U And Me sits on Purok 2, Tawala Highway, inland and toward the Dauis side of Panglao rather than on the Alona Beach strip itself — one listing puts it roughly a 25-minute walk from the nearest Alona-area landmark and about 10 minutes by car from White Beach. That is a meaningfully different location than “on Alona Beach,” and the coordinates back it up: the property sits north and west of the beach cluster, closer to Dauis than to Tawala’s shoreline. St. Augustine’s Church is listed about 4.2 km away and Hinagdanan Cave roughly 7 km — both workable half-day stops rather than a walk.

Listed as a 3-star property, U And Me does not carry pet allowances, and the listing does not mention a bar or evening entertainment — this reads as a straightforward, well-kept small hotel rather than a resort built around a social scene.

Rooms and Facilities

Rooms have an attached terrace and seating area, climate control, an electric kettle, and a fridge for guests who want to self-cater rather than eat out every meal — a genuinely useful detail for a longer stay. Bathrooms include a walk-in shower with a separate toilet, hairdryer, and standard toiletries. Some rooms overlook the property’s outdoor pool, which runs year-round. Breakfast includes cheese and fresh fruit alongside a broader international spread served in the on-site restaurant. For dinner, Kun’s Stick and Bowl — a Korean restaurant about five minutes on foot — is the nearest sit-down option the listing points to; guests wanting Filipino food will need to go into Tawala or Dauis proper.

A Church Older Than the Hotel Business Here

St. Augustine’s Church, a few kilometers from the property, sits within a cluster of colonial-era structures in Panglao’s Poblacion. Beside it stands a five-storey hexagonal watchtower built from coral stone in 1851, the tallest surviving Spanish-era military watchtower in the Philippines, declared a National Cultural Treasure in 2011 and reopened to visitors in 2017 after earthquake repairs. St. Augustine Parish Church itself was largely built between 1894 and the 1920s, with its portico added in 1925 and a nave ceiling painted with murals of the Seven Sacraments — details easy to miss when nearly every nearby listing on aggregator sites is a resort or pool villa rather than a heritage site.

Panglao’s calendar also runs on more than tide charts: the municipal fiesta, Hudyaka sa Panglao, falls on August 28 each year in honor of St. Augustine of Hippo, with parades, dance competitions, and food stalls across all ten barangays — “hudyaka” being Cebuano for communal revelry. Guests staying inland near Dauis rather than on the tourist strip are, if anything, closer to where the barangay-level festivities actually happen.

Water on the Island

Like every property on Panglao, U And Me draws its water from the island’s freshwater lens — rainwater sitting over saltwater within porous limestone, with no river system to top it up. Years of tourism-driven pumping have pushed the chloride level in some wells beyond what is considered safe for drinking, which is why bottled or filtered water is the norm here rather than tap water, regardless of how modern the plumbing looks.

Booking Notes

Services on site include a concierge desk, safe deposit box, and daily housekeeping — standard for a 3-star property but not always present at Panglao’s smaller inland lodgings. The frontmatter’s ₱6,680 starting rate is, again, an estimate rather than a confirmed live figure, so it is worth checking against Stay22 directly, particularly given how thin the 12-review sample is; a handful of exceptional stays can move a small-sample score more than it would at a property with hundreds of reviews.

Getting Around and Who Should Book

From this inland position, Chocolate Hills and the Philippine Tarsier Sanctuary are both around 45 minutes by tricycle or arranged transport, typically paired with a stop along the Loboc River — a similar day-trip distance to what a beachfront property would offer, since the attractions sit centrally on the island regardless of which coast a guest is staying near. U And Me works well for travelers who want a quiet, self-catering-friendly base and do not need to walk to the sand; it is a weaker fit for anyone whose priority is beach access on foot, given the real distance to White Beach and Alona.