Tepanee Beach Resort

Location convenient close to pier, and with beaches both sides. Value for money. Breakfast may be improved but generally all good. Would stay in cottage house next time (closer to sea, and more unique)

Nice place, the shark sanctuary was great!

Beautiful location overlooking the little bay with juvenile black tip sharks. Our room had a balcony with stunning view of the sunset. Room spacious enough, aircon wasn't working but was fixed. Breakfast from the restaurant also had amazing view over port, decent variety although all cold (eggs, bacon etc). No milk for coffee, tea, just milkpowder. I tried to book diving in advance through their recommended dive centre (MTD) by sending emails and whatsapps which remained unanswered. Dived with TSD which was 3 min walk and can highly recommend them. My wife enjoyed the snorkeling at resort and relaxing on the loungers underneath big trees while I was diving. Please note that you are not allowed to just go for a swim at the beach in front of the resort as you need to be "snorkeling" in the sanctuary. And they police this very strictly. For swimming you need to use the beach in front of the next resort which was not really a problem for us. One big plus point is that the resort always responded promptly via email before the visit, they also arranged our taxi from Cebu City. Our biggest disappointment was that our trip to Kalagaman island book through the resort were cancelled twice the mornings we were supposed to go, which was very inconvenient. Only explanation offered was that the captain was drunk because of the fiesta and the other time because of the election. I got the impression they wanted us to take a private tour instead. No alternatives offered or trying to rebook us with another operator. I requeated to speak to the manager who was apperenrly not available. The second time it was cancelled we spoke to a few places outside the resort who immediately recommend visting Carnaza and Lamanoc islands which were a bit closer, cheaper and stunningly beautiful. See pics. Make sure to visit the port area at the back of the resort for unbeatable sunsets from the beach while enjoying a cocktail. We also did a snorkeling trip around the island booked through resort which is highly recommend not for the snorkeling as much but for visiting North beach which is stunningly beautiful. So all in all a good place to stay although the staff were not that helpfull or friendly as in other resorts we stayed in Phillipines before.

A really lovely destination and a great way to finish off our three weeks in The Philippines. We stayed in the Seaview rooms and the view and ambiance is exceptional. The snorkling in the Marine protected area is such fun and the kids loved it. They played on the beach in front of Blanco and this worked well as you could see them from the loungers in Tepanee. I had worried about that. The staff in Chiringuito and around the resort are lovely and I really enjoyed the straight forward nature of the breakfast. Eggs and nice coffee ordered and a buffet of some cakes/granola/ fruit/ yoghurt. It also had a few Filipino dishes and bacon or sausage rotated.