Wellbeach Dive Resort

Philippines , Dumaguete
DUMAGUETE, Maluay,Zamboanguita,Negros Oriental
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6/10

Pleasant

10 Mar 2026

Paula

Right on the beach very near wonderful Caticugan Marine Sanctuary right down the road. 3 pools, well maintained.
Restaurant food could have used some improvement. On a main road easy to catch a trike for transportation. My room window was also on the main road and was a bit noisy, they do have rooms away from the street if you're sensitive to that sort if thing. Nice large porch. Hot water and coffee in the room. Friendly, helpful staff. Overall a very nice stay, I would stay there again. I love the island of Siquijor!!

Self

10/10

Exceptional

23 Jan 2026

johannes

6th time visit love the place

Partner

8/10

Excellent

22 Sep 2025

Alain

Nice beach access

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

17 Sep 2025

Maria

The most kind and attencious workers. They made our meals fresh and delicious!
Even though I didn't scuba dive, all instructors said good morning morning with a smile.i would definitely return. Thanks to all of them

Business_and_leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

07 Sep 2025

Ricardo

Awesome place!

WellBeach awesome place. Awesome people

Self

8/10

Excellent

25 Jun 2025

Mehrdad

Nice Hotel, But Needs Better Maintenance and Safet

We stayed at this hotel recently and while it has a lot of potential, there are several areas that need improvement. The property itself is nice and has a good layout, but it’s clear that it hasn’t been well-maintained. The TV in our room was outdated and the air conditioning unit was quite loud, which affected our comfort during the night.

One major concern was the pool. Upon check-in, we were asked to sign a waiver to use it, which raised some red flags. Unfortunately, I learned why the hard way. While swimming, I accidentally hit a hidden wall divider in the pool and injured myself. This kind of hazard should either be clearly marked or removed entirely. Guests should at the very least be warned about it beforehand.

I hope the management takes this feedback seriously—fixing these issues could really improve the guest experience. Until then, I’d advise future visitors to exercise caution, especially around the pool area.

10/10

Exceptional

11 Apr 2025

ricardo

😊🌞

A very clean and friendly place. Staff is extremely kind and helpful. This is was my second stay there and we'll stay there again

Partner

8/10

Excellent

27 Mar 2025

Michael

Hard to find at night very narrow road had to stop and ask for directions

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

19 Feb 2025

Gary

Outstanding property, owned and operated by a Swiss couple. The property grounds are truly a garden and the staff are excellent. Room was spotless
Dive staff excellent and very helpful.

Leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

31 Dec 2024

Sheila

This resort is a gem!! Hubby and I love the beachfront property, we walk around the beach every morning. It was not crowded so we were able to relax, enjoy our privacy and as if we have our own private beach resort. The staff were very friendly, they cater to our needs. Food was amazing too. I highly recommend this resort!!

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

18 Nov 2024

Ricardo

😎🌞🌴

Nice and relaxing

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

15 Aug 2024

johannes

Quiet

5th time like the place but very quiet friendly staff

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

24 Jul 2024

johannes

Recommend this resort

Super place 5th time we visit
Very clean and super staff
Love to go to opa island to see turtles

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

16 Feb 2024

Brian

Wonderful quiet place to watch the world go by

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

18 Jan 2024

Ma.

All the staff from the from the restaurant to the dive boat are wonderful.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

27 Jun 2023

William

I really enjoyed my stay. They went out of their way to make my stay very comfortable. Jen arranged for a great diving experience. I’ll be back.

Leisure Self

6/10

Pleasant

31 Mar 2023

Eric

Nice setting, nice accomodating diving staff, food price ok. Room was good but matress thin. No sandwich for early departure in the morning, most other resorts in the Philippines offer it. Even refused a banana.... Wifi undetectable for 4 days there. No problem at the 3 other resorts I stayed at in Malapascua, Moal Boal and Siquijor.

Leisure

8/10

Excellent

09 Jan 2023

scott

Great little hotel, really friendly staff & good facilities, food a little bit slow (freshly cooked), but good quality & a good choice of dishes including 8 or so options for breakfast.

Friends_and_family Family

8/10

Excellent

17 Nov 2022

Stacey

The property is small, quiet, clean and pretty. The owners got quite into gardening during the pandemic and it shows around the property. Plus Marevic, the wife, is really into macro diving which was fun to talk about with her. Just beware they charge for every water refill and other little food item. So while the room and food rates may be low, it does add up. The staff are accommodating and the rooms have nice balconies and views which you can’t see in the pictures.

Rugí and Kokoy were our dive guides and they were both quite lovely and knowledgeable. Rugí got very excited over turtles which was fun! Kokoy also had an amazing eye for macro critters.

However, the boat crew were something. I don’t think safety is a big concern in the Philippines but they were relatively ok. I did catch them fishing off the boat while we were in Apo Island, a sanctuary with supposedly no fishing. But that may be part of a larger illegal fishing issue in the Philippines, still frustrating to see. Apo is absolutely amazing tho & the coral cover is insane. As someone who mostly dives in the Florida Keys/Caribbean it was unreal to see so much coral. I felt like I was in Finding Nemo. Just don’t expect to see any big fish - I also saw someone else spear fishing while we were in Apo.

The muck diving was also amazing and I saw TWO flamboyant cuttlefish! I get to check that off my Overall, it list. Overall I had a nice 4 day dive stay at a comfortable, family owned resort for a great value.

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

27 Jun 2021

Verified traveler

Everyone is friendly. We had a wonderful stay. Thank you all.

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

24 Dec 2019

Verified traveler

We booked a dive and snorkeling trip with this hotel and it was one of our best trips in the Philippines. We had the boat to ourselves. The staff goes above and beyond to accommodate all of your needs. They arranged a motorbike to be picked up and dropped off at the hotel, completed our laundry in a timely manner and served us great food at their restaurant. The view of the beach was beautiful and the pool was clean.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

03 Dec 2019

Verified traveler

The room was spacious, clean and quiet. The AC and hot water always worked and the pool was very clean. However, the best part of the stay was the courtesy of the staff

8/10

Excellent

28 May 2019

Bruce

Blissful

Little gem in the middle of nowhere.

Family

6/10

Pleasant

22 Apr 2019

Verified traveler

Checked into a room located to the side of Dive Shop eqipment and not at all as part of the hotel main therefore the view was none, nothing nice, just the side of the main building. The menu was ok ample to choose from however most of the meals included the main item only for example if you ordered a scnitzel or steak you would get just that and nothing else unless you ordered rice, potatoes, bread etc. This made for meals becoming pricey.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

21 Apr 2019

abdulaziz

Close to Apo, great diving team. The food is splendid.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

18 Feb 2019

Verified traveler

Staff are great, plenty of food options, and right on the water.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

18 Mar 2018

Martin

Perfect place to stay for diving in Apo Island!

Lovely place in front of the beach. The staff was lovely and serviceminded, proffesional dive instructor and a nice boat. The acommodation was clean, Good AC but the bed was a bit small in my opinion (queensize) for a couple.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

14 Jun 2017

Verified traveler

Excellent dive resort at Dauin

Lovely relaxing get away

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

04 Mar 2017

Merv

Look no further

Read the reviews on this place and was a bit skeptical due to the overlong and gushy reports. As it turned out they were right on rhe money. Not only was the price affordable and a bargain for this island it was such a pleasant experience. Guido was a pleasure to dive with, profesional and knowledgeable. His wife Marevic is a National Geographic class type of photographer. She literaly would find the proverbal needle in a haystack if it was underwater. All my facebook friends are amazed at her colorful and beautiful photos of everything from sea horses to nudibranches. Their boat boys deserve special mention. We were diving in some heavy swells and they made entering and exiting the water a breeze. The food was top notch and the kitchen and restaurant staff bright and cheery. It was my first stay of more to come in the future. I highly recommend this resort.

6/10

Pleasant

14 Feb 2017

Wanderlust

Clean hotel, good for divers

Nice property right on the beach. Good view of Apo Island. Very far from the city but close to place from where you can take boat to Apo Island. The side road to the hotel is horrendeos; we didnt think our tricycle would make it. The food at the restaurant is quite expensive and is passable. Staff are nice but do not have a lot of information. We wanted to book a snorkelling trip right from the hotel but couldn't since they didn't have a lot of people. You are better off staying in dumaguete if you want to go snorkelling. Good for divers though.

8/10

Excellent

04 Feb 2025

Adrian

Essen war toll!

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

22 Jun 2024

simon

Bien sous tout points

3 semaines au Wellbeach pour la plongée sous marine, nous étions quasi les seul dans le resort tant comme résident que plongeurs, tout le personnel a été d'une gentillesse extrême. Malgré le fait l'impression d'avoir privatisé le complexe, aucun manquement dans les prestations. Bravo.

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

02 Mar 2024

Alain

Les chambres vue mer sont tres bien. Il est dommage que pendant notre séjour nous n’ayions pas eu une seule fois des fruits alors qu’on en trouve partout.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

22 Jul 2023

Helmut

Wir lieben diesen Resort seit Jahren und wir hoffen das zukünftige Eigentümer nicht so viele Veränderungen vorgenommen. Klein aber oho.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

27 Jan 2020

johannes

Great place to be clean organized friendly people super beach nice pool and the food is super thanks girls for being so kind to us 👍👍

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

05 Oct 2019

Verified traveler

Kleiner aber feiner und ruhiger Resort. Sehr zu empfehlen. Wir jedenfalls werden bald wieder hier einchecken.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

16 Aug 2019

frédéric

Très bien

Charmant petit resort qui donne directement sur une plage sympa. Idéal pour plongeurs car le resort possède son propre club de plongée. Nous avons particulièrement apprécié la nourriture très variée, certainement la meilleure de notre séjour aux Philippines. Indispensable par contre de louer des scooters pour se déplacer et voir les multiples attractions autour de Dumaguete. L'hôtel en propose mais beaucoup plus intéressant de les louer à Dumaguete. La nationale qui relie le resort à Dumaguete est assez dangereuse, compter 15, 20 mn de route. Connexion wifi excellente, chambres spacieuses mais basiques côté déco.

Family

8/10

Excellent

25 Apr 2019

Philippe

bon petit hôtel pour une étape

bon petit hôtel sur la plage. suffisant pour une étape. belle plage et la nourriture est correcte

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

07 Mar 2019

Kent

Fantastiskt ställe!personalen, dykningen och maten. Allt var bra,familjärt.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

18 Feb 2019

yuichi

アポ島ダイビングにとても便利です。ダイビング人数も少なくプライベート的でリラックスしてダイビングができる。又サンセット後波の音を聞きながら飲むビールは最高の至福のひとときです。

Family

10/10

Exceptional

12 Aug 2018

YIBIN

就在海边，可以直接酒店海滩上船半日游APO。餐饮很棒也不贵，房间又大又干净，这次菲律宾之行最佳的住宿点。公路进去酒店有一段坑洼路。

Partner

8/10

Excellent

06 Aug 2018

Roger

Nice place

Det var en bra resort liten men mysig, bra dykning och snorkling på Apo island
Vägen ner till resorten är dålig och internet fungerade men inte bra.

Family

10/10

Exceptional

08 Jan 2018

CLAUDE

bon séjour de 4 nuits

Hotel sympa, piscine agréable, chambre confortable et propre. Restaurant correct. Personnel bienveillant et sympa. Patron et patronne ont leur club de plongée et vous amèneront sur les spots.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

04 May 2017

Verified traveler

The best food in Philippine

Very nice staff. All staff are very helpful and considerate. Food's is so fantastic. A lot of choice. The best food in phillipine I tried yet.
Pool is clean, bed is clean.

10/10

Exceptional

14 Mar 2017

SVETLANA

Отель не только для дайверов.

Отдыхали в отеле 4 дня в мате 2017г. Небольшой семейный отель расположен в тихом спокойном месте, недалеко от пос. Дауин. Приехали из Думагетте на автобусе, он остановился прямо у подъездной дороги к отелю. Отель ориентирован на дайверов, имеет свою лодку и необходимое обороудование для погружений. На этой лодке мы (снорклеры) вместе с дайверами плавали на о.Апо, любовались кораллами, рыбками и конечно черепахами. Сноркать так же ездили в пос. Дауин в \"санктури марина резервд\" там немного кораллов и большое разнообразие рыбок. Для прогулок есть отличный \"черный\" пляж. В отеле прекрасный ресторан с приемлимыми ценами. Номера удобные, со всем необходимым. Персонал внимательный и отзывчивый.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

22 Jan 2017

undine

Schönes Hotel in Strandnähe, auch gut für allein .

Super tauchunterricht, sogar einzelbetreuung. Unmittelbar am Strand.

8/10

Excellent

11 Jan 2017

Batman

アポ島ダイビングに最適

アポ島ダイビングの為に宿泊しました。船で直ぐなので便利。小さなリゾートで、オーナーご夫妻（スイス人＋フィリピン人）はじめ、スタッフ皆感じが良く、気に入りました。設備は最小限、コスト相応、過剰な期待は出来ません。周囲に何も無く食事は毎回ホテルのレストランでしたが、亜・欧州料理中心に色々有り飽きませんでした。カード支払に5％手数料、周囲にATM無いので現金があった方が良いです。行きはドマゲテからトライシクルで400ペソ、帰りは時間があったのでホテルからバス通りまで出て、のんびりジプニーで20ペソ未満。バスもガンガン通りますが満員で乗せてもらえず。ホテルでも足の手配可能で、空港からタクシー900、トライシクル500と言っていました。日本人は皆無、中国・ロシア・欧州人が多かったです。

10/10

Exceptional

07 Jan 2017

THOMAS

Ausgezeichnetes Dive Resort. Perfekt zum Tauchen

Haben unseren Aufenthalt verlängert weil es so super war.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

31 Dec 2016

THOMAS

Super Dive Resort

Sehr gutes Preis /Leistungsverhältnis,
Super Tauchbasis, sehr entspanntes Tauchen, da nur wenig Leute auf dem Tauchboot, alles perfekt durchorganisiert, reichhaltiges Angebot an gutem Essen, für jeden Geschmack etwas dabei.

Partner