Buceo Anilao Beach and Dive Resort

We have have had the best stay you could image at Buceo Anilao. The resort is everything a diver / photographer could want. Located at a nice hill the views from the balcony where stunning looking over the ocean. The staff working there are friendly and a real part of the excellent experience. For the divers, there is a camera room for all your camera equipment, nice storage room for the diving gear and the dive masters are very experienced finding the smallest and rarest creatures for you. Special shout-out to Benji who made all of our dives the best!

Overall the diving was good the set up was great and made for divers with good boats and effecient staff and well maintained area for tank fills, washing and drying areas and huge camera room and storage. Our guide Joy was very good and eyes like a hawk, I did notice there were never any guide briefings fron any guides and a case of drop in water and dive. They do have made up plans for each dive but never used. Just concentrating on the dive operation it ticks the boxes. Yes, there are lots of steps so you have been warned.. Beach is also an extra point for boats and often a collection point for rubbish with wind direction. Rooms are spacious and clean with open views and a huge shower. Staff are all friendly if you take time to interact with them. Transfers to airport were a breeze. A good pool to swim and relax around. Breakfast is pretty basic though and it could be improved and a cleaning of the dining area and regular washing of table mats might help with the hassle of flies. Ordering food when you have just eaten was always difficult but guess it needs to be defrosted and prepped.. it was ok most the time. Beware of weekends with locals from Manila flock and all standards slip. We were pretty disgusted one night when after a dive a group descended to the dining area in wet swim gear and only a towel and sat down to eat with managent saying nothing.. I guess they pay the bills when overseas guest are not there. We and other couples were not impressed as other resorts would have ensured a certain standard was maintained for all. Our plans changed a few days prior and we stopped diving, we noticed a distinct change from management after that as I guess we were not paying the $$$ Saying that we felt we were under constant observation at the bar with our drinks by management and dive staff who frequent one side of the bar at night. After that we were glad we departed a day early. But these were our views and highlights