Buceo Anilao Beach and Dive Resort

The dive operation is darn near perfect. Great team care before the dive, rooms dedicated to gear, careful care on the boat, incredible dive masters who can find pretty much anything. Management seems only interested in your success. Most of our 22 dives were with DM Edwin, who could make every dive fascinating and safe. Regarding the area: The resorts in Anilao are little self-sufficient villages that jackhammers carved into a hillside. They are distant from each other and anything remotely retail (which is why you'll see references to stairs in almost all Anilao resort reviews). Pack what you need and what you might need. We needed two things from the outside world during our two-week stay, and the resort staff made both happen quickly. If you are looking at the Anilao area as a dive location, hopefully you already know why. Anilao is for a certain kind of diving, and it's a world-class site for that. I recommend reading up on Anilao resorts on Scubaboard or other crowdsourced sources. If you don't know about the stairs in advance, or the food options, that's because you have not done enough research. Do the research. |As someone who was obsessive about research, nothing at the resort caught me by surprise. One thing I never saw mentioned is that they get a lot of business from Europe; it was cool to meet many divers from there. You will see Buceo Anilao's name come up often, and there's a reason for that. The dive operation and the dive sites are fantastic. They get a lot of repeat business. They should.

We were recommended by a couple of friends and we thank them very much. Buceo Anilao is a place where people come back to because they love it so much. All the Staff are amazing and it does not take long for you to be surrounded by friends. We met several guests that have been going there for several years. It does not take much to realize why. We hope to be back soon. This is a secluded place with not much around. Ideal for relaxation and disconnection from the rest of the world. The hotel has wi-fi in the main areas and even worked in our room is case you need to be connected. You get greeted by Dave with his great smile and the girls with fresh drinks and an aluminum bottle for your water (thank you for not using single use plastic). Your bags will be taken upstairs for you and your dive gear back downstairs if they were not on a separate bag. If you sign up for the full board be prepared to eat for 2. We changed to a la carte after our first meal. It is all very delicious, but we could not finish our meal and do not like wasting food. You set up your gear the first time and then you just need to analyze your tanks before each dive. Everything is done for you. The gear is set up and taken to the boat. All you have to do is to have a great time. Dive guides are AMAZING! We found m ore than 26 species of nudibranchs in a single dive!!! There is even an infinity pool so you can enjoy the sunset when you are not diving.

Pretty, quiet resort. The rooms are nice and clean. Very friendly staff. The bar has some good cocktails. The food is amazing. We had amazing dives thanks to our dive guide. The diving is well organised. Black water diving is a must! The camera room is a dream for underwater photographers. Highly recommended! We'll be back in the future.

+ The rooms are basic but nicely decorated and the bathroom looked new. The resort itself looks very nice with traditional type buildings. The Christmas decorations were lovely. The dive setup facilities are well laid out with a large camera room. All your dive gear is carried by the staff to and from the boat. The dive guide had a good knowledge of each site and helped find all the critters. The diving is very good for macro plus there are some great coral reef dive sites. - Not a single dive brief was given on any of my dives we were just told to jump in and follow the guide. You have to order your lunch at breakfast and your dinner at lunch so there is no choice at the time of sitting down to eat. The food I thought was bland with small portions. Everything is in $US so I found it quite expensive when converting to Aussie dollars. The transfers to Manila are ridiculously expensive if travelling alone. Plastic all over the beach with no effort by the resort staff to do a beach clean up. Overall the diving was very good but I'm not sure I would stay here again.

I was recommended Buceo anilao by fellow divers. The diving was good, the dive guides were great, very helpful and great at spotting the smallest marine life. Elmar was very friendly. Diving set up very professional. My wife doesn't dive and she stayed around the nice pool but didn't feel comfortable using the beach. The staff in the resort were very friendly and helpful, and the food was good. Abundante tea, coffee and water. The room was clean and the AC worked well, a nice balcony looking out to sea. A lot of steps to our room. We arranged our own transfer from Manila airport which is approximately 2.5hrs. Thanks to the team there for a great stay.

Our second visit to this wonderful resort did not disappoint. Everything was just perfect. Our room was clean, well air conditioned, comfortable and the facilities were excellent. We had a balcony and there we found the comfiest chairs to sit out and enjoy the sunshine. Food was lovely, great variety on the menu and also innovative specials each day. Over two weeks we ate a great variety and were spoilt for choice. The resort has a well stocked bar and a great cocktail menu and is a lovely place for a sundowner before dinner. Diving was superb and the guides, dive team members and boat crews were first class. We had many excellent dives and saw some amazing critters and so many fish. We met lovely friendly people and had alot of laughter each day. Highly recommend the Black Water dive- take a good underwater torch, it really is an incredible experience you shouldn't miss. I cannot recommend this resort enough, the team are superb and nothing is too much trouble. Go, you will not regret it!

Very warm greetings, cars & boats arrangements are excellent. Relaxing stay at hotel with nice swimming pool. Diving arrangements are perfect. We had 4 dives a day but still feel energetic. Romick, our DM was experienced and always able to find us macro creatures. Every dive is amazing and plenty of different kinds of nudibranches can be found. Crews and hiatal staff are really nice and this is a great place if you are looking for a place to spend for a relaxing vacation and dive with surprise.

Stayed there for seven nights and had done 22 dives in total (4 dives per day, 3 day dives and 1 evening dive) instead of our original plan, 2 or 3 dives per day plus 1 to 2 evening dive in our stay, we were enjoying every minute during our stay. Room was clean and tidy with reasonable settings, huge bathroom, hot water for shower available all day. Wonderful house colour tone, love it. Anilno is a famous scuba diving area in the world but a DM also major factor for any dive, many thanks our DM Romnick 👍 he has a super eyesight and experience, he showed many rare critters that i never expected. Dood is the another person need to say thanks, Dood patiently replied my dozens question about our trip. Smooth transfer services between airport and the resort Food are yummy in most of time😋

What an amazing place. I came for diving and it is indeed a very good spot for critters and macro photography. The diving crew is a perfectly organised team and the guides are exellent. The standard room that I'm in is clean and has everything I need. I've been around the philippines so I can compare. This is a great place. The resort staff is friendly, helpfull and everything runs smoothly. Definitely a top destination