Villa Juan y Exequiela

Villa Juan y Exequiela: A Family-Run Guesthouse Near Anda’s Poblacion

Villa Juan y Exequiela sits on National Road in Anda, within roughly a ten-minute walk of the municipal parish church and close enough to Quinale Beach — the free public beach in Anda’s poblacion, with showers, changing rooms, and a lifeguard — to reach it in about six minutes on foot. That puts the property closer to Anda’s town center than to the Barangay Talisay resort cluster where Anda White Beach runs, a distinction worth knowing since both areas get called “Anda beach” loosely in casual conversation.

Rooms

The property offers double, triple, family, and studio-style rooms, several with kitchenettes, a dining area, and a sofa bed, with views described variously as mountain or city depending on the room. Guest reviews mention consistent in-room details across categories: electric kettles, tinted windows, blackout curtains, and a choice of pillow types — small touches that come up often enough in reviews to read as a deliberate house standard rather than one-off amenities.

What Guests Say

Villa Juan y Exequiela carries an 8.7-out-of-10 “Excellent” score on Booking.com from 105 reviews, current as of a mid-2026 check — a substantial review count for a small Anda guesthouse, and one of the stronger showings among properties in the municipality. Recurring themes in guest feedback include a quiet, peaceful setting; a friendly, hands-on owner; free drinking water and coffee available to guests; and rooms described as clean and cozy with reliable air conditioning and hot showers. Several reviewers also noted staff accommodating late or last-minute bookings, a detail consistent with a smaller, owner-operated property rather than a chain-run resort.

Amenities and Services

Beyond the rooms, the property has a shared lounge, sun terrace, and outdoor seating area, plus free private parking and free Wi-Fi throughout. A 24-hour front desk and full-day security are staffed, and guests can arrange bicycle hire on site — useful given Anda’s spread-out layout and the habal-habal-dependent local transport. A paid shuttle service is also available for guests who’d rather not negotiate transport themselves.

Rates

The PHP 2,250 nightly rate on this listing 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 directly — confirm the live rate through Stay22 or Booking.com before booking, particularly given how strong this property’s actual review record is relative to the estimate.

Cave Pools and the Poblacion Beach

Cabagnow Cave Pool, about a kilometer from the property, is one of Anda’s five interior cave-pool sites, each run independently by local caretakers rather than as a single ticketed circuit; Cabagnow charges PHP 50 entry and drops via an iron ladder into a genuinely deep jump-in pool, distinct from the shallower Combento pool elsewhere in the municipality. Quinale Beach, within easy walking distance of the villa, is the town’s free public beach — no entry fee, basic facilities, and a lifeguard on duty, in contrast to the resort-fronted stretch of Anda White Beach out in Barangay Talisay.

Anda’s Layout

Anda covers about 133 square kilometers across 18 barangays, and its tourism infrastructure isn’t evenly distributed across that stretch. The poblacion, where this villa sits, functions as the municipality’s administrative and everyday-services center, distinct from the resort-and-guesthouse row several kilometers north in Barangay Talisay. Anda’s roughly 30 dive sites, mostly clustered between the town and neighboring Guindulman and reachable by boat in under ten minutes, are a draw regardless of which side of the municipality a traveler bases in, since day boats typically pick up from whichever stretch of coast is closest to the operator.

Getting There

Anda occupies Bohol’s far eastern peninsula, about 110 kilometers and two-and-a-half to three hours by road from Tagbilaran City, with no direct sea route to the municipality — travelers come by chartered van (PHP 2,000–2,500 per vehicle) or by bus to the Guindulman junction, switching to habal-habal or jeepney for the final stretch. There’s no ATM in the beach area; the nearest is in Guindulman, roughly 30 kilometers back along the Tagbilaran road, so most visitors budget cash in advance. Peak season in Anda runs around Holy Week and the mid-December-to-early-January stretch, when accommodation across both the poblacion and Talisay fills up faster than the rest of the year.

Local Food

Grilled squid cooked over coconut-husk charcoal and kinilaw made from tanigue or bariles are the dishes most associated with Anda’s coastal communities, generally found at small local eateries around the poblacion rather than at guesthouses without a dedicated restaurant.

Who This Suits

Villa Juan y Exequiela suits travelers who want walking-distance access to Anda’s town center — the parish church, the public beach, and the everyday services of the poblacion — over the more resort-dense Barangay Talisay cluster a short ride away, backed by a review record that’s genuinely strong for a property this size. Confirm current availability and rates on Stay22 or Booking.com directly, since the estimate quoted here is a comparable-based figure rather than a live rate.