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Reviews of Ocean Bay Beach Resort

3 out of 5
Ocean Bay Beach Resort
Guiwanon, Poblacion, Dalaguete, Dalaguete, Cebu

Reviews

6.8
Rating 10 - Excellent. 11 out of 98 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 38 out of 98 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 30 out of 98 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 14 out of 98 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 5 out of 98 reviews" "

6.6/10

Cleanliness

7.0/10

Staff & service

8.4/10

Amenities

6.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019
Response from Matt. on 2 Dec 2019
Hi there, Thank you for taking the time to rate our resort and for also choosing to give us a 5 star rating, that is really appreciated. Hope to see you back again one day soon, Best Regards, Matt. Ocean Bay Beach Resort.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019
Response from Matt. on 8 Sept 2019
Hi Thank you for taking the time to rate our resort, unfortunately I do not have your name to thank you personally but we do appreciate the 5 star rating and that you took time out to leave such a rating. Best Regards, Matt.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family, Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Amenities
peaceful place to be with
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2019
Response from Matt. on 23 Aug 2019
Hi, Thank you for taking the time to rate and review our resort, we do really appreciate it. Also thank you for choosing to rate us 4 out of 5, we hope though you will come back to visit us again so that we can make this 5 out 5 on your next visit. Kind Regards, Matt. Ocean Bay Beach Resort.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The room and bed are just in the fine category. The bathroom and shower are a disaster, with broken shower head and leaking/running toilet. The lighting in bathroom is horrible.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019
Response from Matt. on 1 Aug 2019
Hi, Thank you for taking the time to rate and review our resort. It states you are anonymous so I do not know what room you are talking about or when you stayed so I cannot check your remarks about the room. All I can say is that the rooms are inspected on a regular basis by the management, and things like you mentioned are dealt with accordingly as soon as they are discovered. Thanks, Matt. Ocean Bay Beach Resort.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019
Response from Matt. on 12 Jul 2019
Hi Thank you for taking the time to rate our resort, we really appreciate it. Hope to see you back again one day, Best Regards, Matt. Ocean Bay Beach Resort.

6/10 Okay

Scott

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Reasonable only
Good restaurant. Rooms ok but lacking maintenance. Swimming pool not very clean.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2019
Response from Matt. on 11 May 2019
Hi Scott, Thank you for taking the time to rate and review our resort. I am sorry to hear though that you thought the pool was not very clean. The swimming pool is cleaned from 6 AM until 7.30 AM, 7 days a week. It is chlorinated, hoovered and scrubbed in that 1.5 hour period. The pump is also on for 18 hours a day too. I am not entirely sure what room you stayed in, but if there was a problem you came across in your room, then we always ask the guest to inform us as soon as possible so that we can fix it. Thank you for the comment about the restaurant, that is much appreciated as well. Thank you once again Scott. Best Regards, Matt.

8/10 Good

GERALD

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2019
Response from Matt. on 31 Mar 2019
Hi Gerald, Thank you very much for taking the time to leave us a rating, we really appreciate that. And that you also decided to rate us 8 out of 10 is also very much appreciated. We hope that you will come back again one day to visit us. Thanks Gerald, Best Regards, Matt. Ocean Bay Beach Resort.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
It's a nice place. With good location and nice restaurant. I had booked my partner in to one of the newer rooms. She had complained to the reception about having. O TV signal for night time and the WiFi being really bad but no one came to fix her TV and she had no TV all night and WiFi might as well have been non existent. Apart from this it is generally a nice place to stay.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019
Response from Matt. on 3 Feb 2019
Hi Thank you for taking the time to rate and review our resort. Firstly let me apologies if your partner did not have TV in her room when she stayed. It is not as simple of getting a member of staff to fix the signal reception for the cable TV, we have to get the company that deals with our cable TV in to fix any problems. Reception staff would have informed the company in the morning via the phone, but they then take at least a day or two before they come out to fix any issues. As for the Wi-Fi that one is a mystery for us, as we have a very good signal throughout the resort with very fast speeds for the Philippines. Usually 10 Mb/s. We check this most days as we know how important the Internet is for our guests. Thank you though for your other kind comments. We do appreciate your time writing a review, as we take every review on board whether negative or positive, we strife to improve the resort.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
The bed, 2 twin beds pushed together. The sheet was to small for the bed. Bed side tables would be nice.
Stayed 8 nights in Dec 2018
Response from Matt. on 7 Jan 2019
Hi thank you for taking the time to leave us a review and rating our resort. We really appreciate the time it took to do. We were very busy when you stayed and were limited to the beds available, and the room you stayed in usually is a twin bed room, but we are very approachable and would have changed it should you insisted. I will talk to housekeeping to find out why the sheets were too small, this is the first time I have heard someone mentioning to us. I will also consider your suggestion about putting bedside tables in the room too. Thank you for that suggestion. Matt

8/10 Good

Aline

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Overnight Stay
Location is good. Although beach is not that clean but were so thankful of the swimming pool with a roof.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2018
Response from Matt. on 6 Nov 2018
Hi Aline, Thank you so much for taking the time to rate and write a review our resort. We really appreciate it. We do try our very best to keep the beach clean, but it takes a lot of man hours to do, and last weekend as you would have seen we were very busy with most rooms booked out and so I concentrated the housekeeping staff on the rooms for the guests. The beach has been cleaned now the weekend is over too. Thank you once again Aline and hope to see you back again one day. Ocean Bay Beach Resort. Matt.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018
Response from Matt. on 3 Nov 2018
Hi, Just wanted to thank you for taking the time to leave us a rating. We really appreciate it. Hoping one day you will come by and visit us again. Thank you, Ocean Bay Beach Resort. Matt.

8/10 Good

kevin, uk

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
vacation
Really pleasant staff, restful holiday. Good location and very helpfull
Stayed 13 nights in Sep 2018
Response from Matt on 3 Nov 2018
Hi Kevin, Thank you very much for taking the time to leave a review and rate our resort, we really do appreciate it. We are also appreciative of your kind comments and were happy that you enjoyed your stay with us. Hoping one day you will come back to visit, thanks Kevin Ocean Bay Beach Resort. Matt.

4/10 Poor

Louise, Dalaguete

Liked: Cleanliness
Not great for a family of 4!
We booked this place as a stop gap. We booked a room for 2 adults and 2 children. The best available room was a room with 3 single beds and a mattress on the floor. We took it. We checked in early, and after being shown a double room (the receptionist didn't look at our booking!), we arrived at our triple room but with no extra mattess. We asked about this and were told one would be brought up later. We went out had dinner and returned 4 hours later to put the children to bed only to find no extra mattress. I went to reception and ended up being asked by the security guard to help him carry the mattress up to the room, he also gave me a sheet to carry, with which I made my own bed! To add to this the door to the bathroom was extremely squeaky and woke everyone up every time someone used the loo in the night. And finally they tried to charge us again for the extra mattress as we checked out!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018
Response from (M) on 2 Sept 2018
Hi Louise, Thank you for taking the time to rate and review our resort. I am sorry about this mattress issue that seems to have happened during your stay here, I am not about to make any excuses for that, I have yet to interview the staff who were working that day to find out what went wrong and why there was not a mattress put in your room. It unfortunate though that you based your entire rating and review on that one issue about the mattress. It would have been nice if you had also commented on the rooms, your stay, the amenities that we offer at the resort, like the covered swimming pool, free BBQ areas and seating areas, the gardens and the private beach, free off road parking, free wi-fi throughout the resort and that we also allowed you to check in early, to name just a few things. But that all being said your one issue will be investigated by myself today to see what went wrong and to prevent it from happening again to any future guests. Again I really do appreciate you taking the time to rate and review the resort, all I have wished for though that you had not concentrated on the one negative aspect of your stay, but your overall stay including the positives too. Thank you Louise.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Room comfort
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2018
Response from (M) on 31 Aug 2018
Hi there, Just wanted to thank you for taking the time to rate our resort and giving it a 3 star rating. We appreciate it. Thank you,

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The hotel stuff is very friendly but the rooms is not clean.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018
Response from (M) on 31 Aug 2018
Hi Anonymous, Thank you for your short review and rating. I am sorry that you choose only to give our resort 1 star on this visit, stating the reason that the rooms where not clean. The rooms are cleaned each and every time a guest leaves and also daily whilst a guest is staying. This includes sweeping and mopping the floor, wiping down all the side units, cleaning the shower and CR bowl, changing the towels and beddings, and cleaning the windows. There is also a card on the back of every room door stating when and what time your room cleaned and by whom. So I am not sure what areas you are talking about it not being clean, as I know from doing random room inspections that the rooms are cleaned to a high standard. I guess though some people have a much higher unrealistic standard than others for what they paid for. We are not a 5 star hotel. I am happy that you found that our staff were good, that I will pass on to them, and they are always there to assist our guests during their stay. Thank you again though Anonymous for leaving a rating and review, we do appreciate it, even if it is a negative one.

8/10 Good

Sarah Jane

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Comfortable and accessible
The resort was easy to find as it is situated along the road and there was a signage indicating the name of the place. We felt comfortable during our stay. There were also stores selling food and necessities nearby. The shops were accessible as we have our own motorcycle. However, the flow of water coming from their shower is weak. Despite that, we enjoyed our stay and will visit again if given the chance.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2018
Response from M on 16 Aug 2018
Hi Sarah, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a review. We also appreciate the 4 star review that you gave us. We can only apologies to why the water on that day was weak coming out, as usually the storage tank is full and the pressure is great. I will be sure to find out what room you were in and do some investigation as to why that was. Hoping one day you will pass by again and pay us a visit. Even if it just for a meal in our restaurant. Thank you once again Sarah. Ocean Bay Beach Resort.

6/10 Okay

adam

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disappointed with the housekeeping service
Myself and my fiance stayed here and the location was great and the view was fantastic. Great place for diving just walk in and dive as im a deep sea diver myself so this place was great and the staff were very friendly but the bed linen was not changed only made up again I told them that we needed new bed linen bit they always just make up the beds again. I had put a towel on the bottom of the door to stop cockroaches coming in and to my shock they just came in and stepped over the towel and didn't even pick up The towels and Did not leave new ones until I asked them for some and some soap too. The bed was very dirty and both myself and my fiance were itching from the bed bugs in the bed and the linen and the pillow cover was all stained we had to put our t shirts on the pillows to cover the stains.I am very disgusted with this place.

8/10 Good

John, Placentia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Enjoyed
Very nice place.................................................................... ..............
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2017

4/10 Poor

Given, Fairfax, Virginia

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Food is terrible. Staff is horrible.
We just used the swimming pool. There were only 1-2 guests in this old but big facility. There is something wrong about this facility.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2017

4/10 Poor

visitor, Australia

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness
Disappointing
Leaking toilet, very, very noisy a/c, shower drain blocked . TV not worling
Stayed 7 nights in Sep 2017

8/10 Good

Jorge, Puerto Rico

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
BEST TO EXPECT IN SMALL RURAL SEASIDE LOCATION
BEST, FRIENDLY EAGER TO ACCOMMODATE CONFORTABILITY ... FACLITIES HUMBLE YET WHAT ARE U LOOKING FOR ... SEASIDE VILLAGE... EXCELLENT FOOD ... NOT SEEK ELEGANCE HERE ... BEST OF PEOPLE U FIND HERE ... NEAR MARKET FOR SHARING HUMILITY OF THE TOWNSHIP OF SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL VALUES ...
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2017

6/10 Okay

Miguel A.

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Come here for stinky rooms!
First room was soooo smelly we had to switch. But initially wanted to resolve with only aerosol when there was an obvious plumbing problem. I paid for a room for three but got only one bed and hotel wouldn't even give me a cot.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2017

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Cleanliness
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2017

6/10 Okay

June Rachel

The location was good since it is along the high way. The market is just a 10 minutes walk which was a good exercise. The staff were friendly. However, they can't provide hot water if you want to drink coffee early in the morning. The room was not well kept. They say Wifi is available but can't actually connect.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2017

8/10 Good

Janno Timothy

Liked: Room comfort

6/10 Okay

Arnel angelo

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities

4/10 Poor

highseas, cebu

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Worn and tired room
The only plus is that it is close to the beach and pool is clean. The rest of the hotel is run down and needs some serious attention. There is a restaurant and the food was ok. The location, except for it closeness to the beach if a bit out of the way, though a tricycle ride can take you into town. It was difficult to take a good shower, since the shower head was clogged and just a trickle of water would come out. The towels can only be described as disgusting.

6/10 Okay

Rodney Lemuel

Gateway to Osmena Peak & Kawasan Falls
The Resort is Great because it has a Covered Swimming Pool and Free Wifi. It has a restaurant. It also offers scuba diving service. It is 5 mins away from Dalaguete Market. The reason we stayed here because it is only 30 mins to Osmena Peak, where it is the highest point in Cebu. The view was amazing in the top. If you want to go to Kawasan Falls, it is 1 hour using Dalaguete - Alegria Route. If you want the jump off point for Canyoneering, it is on the same route, about 40 minutes. The resort needs updating on their rooms facilities. The pool should have more lighting at night. But over all you have value for your money.

4/10 Poor

Tamas

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
too expensive too dirty, don't recommend
The room had a smell, stain on the walls, thick dirt on the window, the bathroom wasn't clean, the towels are old thousand times washed thin and faded. The bar had no alcohol (or just communication problems with the personal) and they are closed at 9 pm. The pool was Ok, the view from the terrace is great. The security guard was a friendly guy.

10/10 Excellent

Peter

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice place to make a pit stop.
This is a nice hotel. The rooms are no frills and quite basic, but the price is excellent for hot running water, clean bathroom and air conditioning. It was freshly painted so it felt very clean. It was very good value for money.

6/10 Okay

Iris

Ok stay - rooms need to be updated
For an ocean-front resort, I had actually expected more from the rooms, but I guess that all depends on where in the resort your room is located. They were doing some renovations & construction on the rooms closer to the reception area, which is a different group of rooms. I stayed in a standard room located on the farther end of the resort, which is next to the swimming pool area. The rooms here are older, and they are not as clean as expected. You could tell especially with the bathrooms that this is the older part of the resort. The room I stayed in was very basic but at least it had an AC which made for a comfortable enough stay. Wifi did work very well in the room and all over the resort. The good thing about the resort is that it has a restaurant, making it convenient for breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack here, in case I didn’t feel like going to the center of town. The food was ok, but the girl who served me during breakfast & dinner was extremely friendly & helpful. As a matter of fact, instead of the front desk, it was her who actually found me a habal-habal driver who could take me up to Osmeña Peak. That way, the driver could pick me up from the resort so that I didn’t have to take a tricycle or pedicab to the street where the habal-habal drivers were waiting for tourists who wanted to go up to Osmeña Peak. It was her who actually made my stay here pleasant as we ended up chatting a bit.

2/10 Terrible

Max, Europe

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice looking hotel from far
room was terrible, i got a room where there was no windows and highway was behind the wall.. all night motorcycles were revving up behind wall. bathroom was dirty, very low water pressure, no towels and toiletpaper when we got the room. after asking they brought towels with holes in it and hard as a sandpaper. bedsheets had holes in it. just terrible!

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities

2/10 Terrible

hazel, manila

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
worse hotel
the room we got was very small and filthy there was no hot water the sheets has stain on it pillow cases looks like it has never been wash for a year the door does not lock so anyone can get in the room without knowing has no camera around, their wifi only last for less than 10hrs so you have to go to the front desk and ask for a voucher. we went out for a while and got to the hotel late when we get there the were no space for parking only 3 cars can accomodate their inside parking the rest has to find their own.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service

8/10 Good

alan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
excellent location, very clean
Very enjoyable, though a little difficult when disabled (on crutches)

10/10 Excellent

mark, US

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Super good time, nice
great hotel staff, great pool, nice and cool. clean place and great food. thanks to the owner.

6/10 Okay

CHARLES

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Room allocated was wrong but it only took 15 min to get right room. Shower was cold with only water dribbling from shower. It took maintenance man 4 days to fix. He came every day and changed something different until he found the cause. He never check to see if OK. . It took me getting so annoyed with no good showers to get someone who could fix it. Last 3 days were better than first 4 days. Room is now good for next guests.

4/10 Poor

Clayton

Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
Budget resort. Easy to find. Located onm highway.
For the money, it was decent value. The room was large, but had no window. There was traffic noise in the room because there is was a busy street/highway on the other side of the room wall. The food at the restaurant was fine. The front desk staff and waitress should be trained to be more friendly and welcoming. I was unable to log on to the free wifi throughout the resort.

10/10 Excellent

Shaun

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
very friendly clean resort. highly recommend
2nd time stayed here in last 9 months. rooms clean staff friendly and a great restaurant/bar with top top food. would recommend to anyone. good for couples. families or single person.

8/10 Good

Lory, Austria

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
nice!
very nice place to stay and relax. near to market, bus stop is directly at hotel.

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
Budget resort
This is the definition of budget resort. Resort was right on the water, but far from everything. Not walking distance to anything and no free wifi in the rooms as advertised. Only free wifi in the resraurant area and it did not work that well. When we checked in they gave us an upgraded Captains room because they had not received our reservation from Expedia for some reason, but we did not know it was upgraded until we were switched to the inferior standard room. We booked here because there were jetted tubs advertised on Expedia, but they told us none of the rooms have that any more. When they switched us to a standard room on the second day, it did not have a refrigerator as advertised so we had to complain to the front desk to get them to bring us a small fridge. The private beach was dirty and we did not go into the water, but the resort had a covered pool that wasn't too bad but like almost all pools in the Philippines it was not heated and the attached jacuzzi was also not heated without bubbles. The restaurant on site was pretty good, but not well stocked. The Baby back ribs and pork chop plate were really good, but no fries after the first night and no garlic rice after the second night. When checking out they were not able to get us a cab, but there is a bus that passes by just outside and took us to the Cebu terminal for only 105 pesos each instead of the 1280 peso cab ride which the cab drivers don't like to do because they have no return fare. Overall recommended.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Room comfort
okay but not again..
The first room given to us was comfortably small but bathroom smells dank. One of the staff tried to spray Lysol to cover it up. We just have to have an upgrade. The next one we got was a larger room. It was reasonably clean but it seems that you have to ask housekeeping to do your room if you want it tidy up. At least that's what happened to us. The resort was nice but the beach was dirty. Saw a lot of debris - plastic bag, baby diaper, a dinner plate... It can get very noisy too as day users are allowed to use the facilities. And they can get really loud with. The swimming pool is not clean - water looks murky. My fiance pushed me into the pool and I had the honor of swallowing a little bit of the "salty" pool water. The restaurant is good. They actually have good food. But then again, it's the only restaurant in the area that we can find. At least, the only place where we would want to eat.

8/10 Good

Peter, Australia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Arrived early afternoon, check in time advertised as 1pm, and had to wait 2 hours for the room to be ready. Had a disappointing lunch in restaurant, of burger which was raw in the middle. The rest of the stay and meals were OK. They only had a couple of local foods on the menu, most of the food is western type. Very quiet and relaxing place to stay.

8/10 Good

andrew

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, room comfort
It was ok

8/10 Good

Michael, U.K./Cebu.

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Good value, nice location and friendly.
Very enjoyable stay, originally for 2 days but extended to 4 days with kind assistance of the helpful girl on the front desk. Thank you.

10/10 Excellent

fiona, South Africa Durban

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Awsome
Thexstayxessxgrest and the staff and owner are absolutely the best friendly and a consisting at all times. Highly recommended.

2/10 Terrible

Mario, Manila

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
It was a really bad experience: No rooms ready to use because they were wrong booking. The new room provided had no windows, looks like a garage. Next day we transfer to other without tin. We washed our teeth in the kitchen! And the restaurant inside the hotel in the same line, slow service and low quality. I wouldn't recommend neither my worst enemy!

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Relaxing
Fantastic views