Name: Marlins Beach Resort
Address: Roska Street 4, Santa Fe, Cebu, 6047, PH

10/10

Exceptional

27 Jun 2026

Jaehoon

Very good

10/10

Exceptional

27 Apr 2026

Katherine

Great experience! Clean room, wonderful staff! Delicious breakfast and cold room! Would recommend 👍👍🌟🌟🌟

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

19 Feb 2026

Neal

Room was good staff was really nice

10/10

Exceptional

31 Jan 2026

Jesse

Awesome thanks

10/10

Exceptional

21 Sep 2025

James Marc

The location is great white sand beach and nearby kota beach.great for swimming. The property is extremely well maintained and staff are great

Business_and_leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

20 Aug 2025

David

The staff was amazing, they were attentive. Peaceful, beautiful view.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

13 Jul 2025

Jason

Wonderful staff… the location is awesome… food is just okay, could do better on the drinks… but over all great

Leisure Family

6/10

Pleasant

11 Mar 2025

john

Good beach and close to Kota Beach sandbar. However, facility needs renovation with no hot water and toilet was leaking in the bathroom. Breakfast is just ok.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

07 Mar 2025

christopher

The staff is so incredibly friendly and helpful. Location is amazing and the beaches are the best around the corner! Security is amazing too. Love it here

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

01 Mar 2025

DEXTER

Clean and bk was great

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

07 Feb 2025

Michelle

We had a beachfront room with balcony. Room is clean although the bathroom has sewer smell once in a while and some fixtures needs replacement as getting old and rusty. Staff is very friendly. Buffet breakfast is just ok. The location is close to many restaurants but still the area feels private and quiet. The beach is very nice and feels private.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

27 Jan 2025

Aletheia

I honestly wasn't expecting much from the property since it was still available while the other lodging places in the area were sold out. All I can say is that I am very impressed with everything, from service, to how everything looked, food was also great. They also offer pick up and drop off service which was a huge plus. I will come back and I highly recommend this place! 5/5!

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

31 Dec 2024

Alexandra

Simply Wonderful

My husband and I came here for our honeymoon, and it was all around wonderful. The workers were attentive, helpful, and nice. It is right on Kota Beach and MJ square. The cocktails were amazing. I would absolutely stay here again. Thank you Marlins Resort!!

Partner

8/10

Excellent

31 Oct 2024

Alan

Breakfast choices are very good.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

02 Oct 2024

sheryl

The staff are very friendly & accommodating. The beach is awesome!

8/10

Excellent

30 Sep 2024

Neil

Didn’t exactly stay but viewed my room & property & it was lovely

Friends_and_family Friends

8/10

Excellent

14 Jun 2024

Madel

It’s an ok place to stay for 1 night

It was ok. It’s closed to small restaurants. It’s a little bit pricey .

Partner

8/10

Excellent

04 Jun 2024

Jennifer

The menu is limited- I stayed for 7nts, the breakfast menu did not change. I recommend variety on the menu.
The ramp railing to go down the beach gets very hot, I slipped and fell because the railing was extremely hot.
I recommend wrapping the railing with something to prevent it from getting very hot.,

Friends_and_family Friends

8/10

Excellent

22 May 2024

Paul

Nice place

Self

8/10

Excellent

30 Apr 2024

john

Beachfront location

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

26 Apr 2024

Tyler

It's a wonderful resort! The only complaint we have is that the AC wasn't working on the last night of our stay.

Leisure Friends

6/10

Pleasant

02 Jul 2023

Veronica

My room was on the street side. The construction and vehicle noise started at 6:30 am.

Business_and_leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

09 May 2022

Kayla

Right on the beach! The staff was great and the location is perfect, within easy walking distance of Santa Fe's restaurants and tourism scene.

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

30 Apr 2022

may

Fast to the port, perfect water. Both beach and walk in to the medium part. Water is very warm in this area which is perfect. Things i didn't like are the plastics in the water. But that is for the whole island. I think they need to get together and get all the plastics off the beach and out of the water throughout the island.

Leisure Family

6/10

Pleasant

23 Jul 2021

Daniel

Meh.

The rooms are okay. The restaurant is slow and below average. The beach has good views.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

26 Apr 2021

Arnold

Solo cation in Paradise

Beachfront resort in Beautiful Bantayan stone throws away from the nearby restaurants. Although room is a little outdated it's still clean and cozy. Big enough for 3 people. Will comeback soon with Friends.

Self

8/10

Excellent

22 Dec 2020

Verified traveler

Great location
Great people
No TV
No internet
No room service
No spa
Restaurant and food so-so

Leisure

8/10

Excellent

24 Jan 2020

Verified traveler

We are an older couple and had stayed at a more rustic resort a little nearer the port before moving to Marlins. Had a beach front room 32 ground floor , the nearest the sea.. almost new inside! Had things the 1st resort didn't. Quiet spot AC, hot water in sink, shower a lot more powerful, better lights, mirrors, tea/coffee making . Good buffet breakfast, better beach. Beach gets better further from the port and for swimming is best nearer the sandbar 4 mins away. Has ferry shuttle and only couple minutes walk to restaurants. Staff helpful and can arrange Island hopping from beach in front. Would definitely recommend!
Only downside was the transport arranged to get back to airport. Driver was in his old maroon van and did not look for us after we got of ferry. Found him by accident! Within a few minutes driving he was texting on phone and answering calls ...no hands free. Wife asked him to stop whilst he was talking on phone. He did not like that and continued to drive in a very jerky manner for the rest of the 3 hour trip. He pulled into a petrol station and demanded his 3500 fare. We thought for buying petrol but he just pulled out and continued. When at the airport he just stopped and sat in his seat with engine running, whilst we struggled with our bags. So rude and not a good end to a great holiday. Fellow traveler at marlins only paid 2500 after haggling with taxi driver at airport. Beware! But Marlins was a great experience!

8/10

Excellent

21 Nov 2019

James

The new and remodeled rooms are much nicer than the economy rooms. New dining area is very nice. Great location in town.

Friends_and_family Partner

8/10

Excellent

28 Oct 2019

Paul

Great location helpful and friendly staff

Friendly helpful staff. Wonderful location right on the beach.Only issue was on checking in the room did not have a fridge so they moved us to a room with a fridge however Air Con not good in that room so they moved us to a third room also with Broken Air Con. However after this they moved us to a beach front room which was more expensive for the same price so in the end we were extremely happy.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

12 Jan 2019

Chad

Great resort on remote island

Right in the beautiful beach with very friendly staff (especially at the restaurant)! Fantastic price for room and at the restaurant for dinner/drinks! Breakfast was very nice too! Jerry was able to coordinate our transportation too which was A+++. Couple of areas for improvement...AC couldn’t keep room cool enough and would only work when you were in the room (electric key card inserted)...personally I would rather be charged more $ and always have a cool room! Like many other reviews, we were accused of taking a $1 plastic coffee cup from the room at checkout. That is just absurd...stop accusing guests of theft as it leaves a bad taste after an otherwise wonderful experience and price in occasionally missing items to your nightly costs.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

25 Nov 2018

John

This is a great family/couple friendly resort, the surroundings are beautiful, location is the best on the island and the staff are wonderful. Highly recommend this resort, I will return for sure.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

12 Oct 2018

tanaka

The hotel staff can only speak English, so I was a little troubled.

6/10

Pleasant

20 Jun 2018

Jeffrey

Pls provide basic room amenities such as instant coffee / tea and kettle.

Friends

8/10

Excellent

19 Oct 2017

Verified traveler

Our 2nd visit

This was our 2nd visit to Bantayan and decided to go back to Marlin, it was different from the first visit last March as it was on their high season. Didn't know that we were in low season and thing were different....NO Breakfast Buffet, the Hotel was being renovated, Not as much employees around abit quiter. They do have a free pick up and dropped off shuttle from Santa Fe pier.

6/10

Pleasant

02 Sep 2017

Jamie

Great Service and Friendly Staff

The hotel offered free transfers to and from the port. When we got to the port there was a nice van waiting for us to take us to the resort.

The resort is conveniently located 1 min away from the street where the restaurants are.

They have beach chairs that are guests are free to use anytime. You can order food and drinks while you lounge.

The only thing I didn't like is that it's quite a walk from the nice shore. The beachfront near the resort is quite dirty so you'd have to walk towards Kota beach which is around 5 mins away.

6/10

Pleasant

31 Jul 2017

r

No tv or wifi

The motel is nice ,clean and located near small market and restaurants. You can get scoot for 350. Island tour thry asked 1500 for boat ride but you can walk 2 blocks down on right and get ride for 800 from jay diamante. The room we booked was being renovated so they gave a bigger room which was nice. The breakfast at motel was good. Only bad things was no tv in room but was told they plan to put in later. Wifi is very bad, cant connect inside room have to go out to balcony.

8/10

Excellent

04 Jun 2017

Ernest

Quite the view

Hot , no tv , but great Ac , and believe that's important , nice location really close the restaurants , bars , town goodies white beaches ,

8/10

Excellent

18 May 2017

Deon

Staying in Paradise

Good Buffett breakfast , comfortable room , clean and fresh linen . beautiful view ,nice white swimmable sand beach , cold beer and close to the all the eating places in Santa Fe . Although the food served in town not up to good standards. Still a beautiful peace full town and hotel to rest and clean the head.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

19 Mar 2017

Verified traveler

Restaurant staff was friendly & Marlin's have nice beach front. Although, shower in the rooms are my only complain but would definitely recommend this to friends.

8/10

Excellent

01 Jul 2016

Elson

Hotel in bantayan

Overall, it was a pleasant hotel.
No TV in the room and wifi is slow a bit.

8/10

Excellent

10 Jun 2016

Verified traveler

Great resort

Overall it was great! I love the buffet breakfast and the kitchen/restaurant staff was amazing. The beach is pristine. This resort is a good choice when visiting sta fe.

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

05 Apr 2016

Don

Nothing special except LOCATION

The place wss decent and the staff was polite. Extremely dated, don't expect a tv, Wi-Fi to work in the room or even 50 percent. They did stand adv island hopping with snorkeling equipment, No fins. The resto was decent, The only and there was a big dog tied tho a post right in front of our beachfront room that barked all day. No-one seemed tho care and the dog got no attention.

The only reason tho stay here I'd the great location. On the beach, 2 minute walls tho bars,restaurants, shops.

6/10

Pleasant

05 Feb 2016

John

Just an overnighter in Bantayan

My stay was just for one night. It seems the island and hotel are still recovering from the devastating typhoon a couple years ago. The room was big enough however I had no hot water though I was assured at the front desk that there was. However I still did not have any the following AM. The food at dinner was very good but the breakfast buffet was minimal for the cost of the room.

Family

8/10

Excellent

18 Aug 2015

Roland

Good hotel at the beach

The rooms are very large - but with little atmosphere. Every room has a veranda or a balcony with see-view. The hotel is directly on the beach. The staff is very friendly and the cook knows how to cook.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

01 Jun 2015

Verified traveler

A very good hote.,good accomodation,service is very good,staff memebers are very courteous.It's a good place to relax and unwind.

10/10

Exceptional

17 Feb 2015

Mike

very nice

its just picture perfect there hotel staff are great and friendly

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

17 Feb 2015

Marlou

Courteous and friendly staff

The room (deluxe garden view) was spacious and still had a good view of the water from the balcony. However, the water pressure in the shower is very low and the water temperature cannot be regulated. The food in their restaurant is okay. Continental breakfast is included and there's a sign that it is served between 6:00-10:00am. But on our first morning, the cook was very late (came 8:30!), the kitchen was closed and we had to wait. We were given coffee while waiting but when the continental breakfast was served, we were told we have to pay for the coffee because we were given coffee already. Talk about customer service!

The beach area is nice, there are many lounging chairs and umbrellas, and the staff are courteous and friendly.

6/10

Pleasant

09 Jan 2015

Verified traveler

Rooms need a facelift

Good location on the beach with new sunbeds and with walking distance to restaurants. Our beach front room didn't have fly screens fitted to the sliding window and so you get a lot of mosquitoes if you want sea breeze.
The air-con was TOO NOISY and the TV didn't work (apparently due to the last typhoon - but TV worked at a nearby Cafe). Poor internet connection in the room, shower door did not close properly, wardrobe had awful smell, fridge was too noisy and had to be switched off at night.
The food was below average in Marlins restaurant and they did not notify us about an extra charge for more coffee and bread for breakfast which should have been included in the \"Room with breakfast\" rate.

2/10

Poor

29 Apr 2014

ste

Disgraceful

It is nothing like the place advertised give it a wide birth...