The Blue Orchid Resort

Big standout where the management/dive instructors Matt,Emily and Julie made my stay so welcome and fun all at once I truly want to the blue orchid for hiring Such amazing staff 10 out of 10.

Very friendly and helpful staff - Excellent food with a lot of choice and reasonable price - Beautiful and quiet location - Lots of animals for the kids in the garden - Large range of activities available even for non divers.

Stayed there 1 night March 2018. it's somewhat distant from rest of the places in Moalboal, it being on the north of white beach. Staff is great and very helpful. Room was very spacious and clean. Shower had hot water. Restaurant is very good, but rather expensive. Has access to great snorkeling, but that's not rare in Moalboal...

Really enjoyed our five days here. Location: getting to Moalboal and the resort took us 3 hours both directions to/from Cebu City. The resort itself is located very near to white beach (although white beach isn’t that great in my opinion); 20 minutes to a lively little beach side town (with some nice eating drinking options); and the main attraction for snorkellers and divers is the lovely house reef that you walk/swim to from the resort plus easy boat trips to some wonderful diving/snorkelling in under 20 minutes. The resort: well kept and managed. A pool. Restaurant and bar serving perfectly good food and drink. Tropical plants and trees throughout the resort, Chairs to lounge around pool and beach (resort has a small “beach” area overlooking the water which is great for relaxing). Room: we stayed in delux sea view and it was a large, clean no frills room, with a balcony and nice view. Absolutely no complaints. Activities: the main attraction is diving. I tried two dives - both excellent. Professional and enthusiastic staff add to the experience - felt in safe hands Staff: have to say all the staff were excellent, friendly and gave the guests attention. Gave the resort a very family friendly feel and added to the overall enjoyment of the resort. Tips to improve: would have loved a fresh flat white coffee!! A coffee machine could be a good investment. Maybe a few more hammocks around the place. Overall: highly recommend, thanks to the blue orchid team

The place was clean, basic and comfortable good for backpackers. The main focus of the place was organised tours and diving. The location is remote but easy acces to the white beach.

Super convenient for diving and snorkeling since the property facing the sea so guests can do snorkeling/diving right in front of the resort. The coral reef is beautiful. It takes only 15 mins by tricycle to see the sardine run. The management team of the property, Steve, Michelle, Matt, and Emily are super professional and helpful, and the staffs are super friendly! Thanks for taking care of us during our stay. The resort also helped us to arrange all transportation and canyoneering. The room is big and cozy. Food is good. Try the rum from the Phillippines!! Would definitely love to go back and recommend the resort to friends.

Staff was very friendly and helpful, they organised tours for us which was very good.

Only inconvenient is the wiifii quite slow.

Stayed 4 days and did a no of tours ie whale shark, canyoneering, sardines, diving. The resort is an excellent place in the south part of Cebu but expect plenty of travelling time. Took more than 5 hours to reach from Mactan airport due to traffic ! Resort is great and the staff are very friendly - first time my kids dived in the open sea and Emily, the divemaster, really took great care of them and even took wonderful pictures of all of us and the beautiful creatures we saw. The family room we took is really spacious with 5 beds and mosquito nets (though I did not really see many). Food is alright though wish there are more selection. Water is always available at all times. Dive prices are very reasonable and superb for the corals and turtles. Many tiny creatures can be found around the resort - hermit crabs, crabs, starfish, frog and others, so kids had a fun time doing hunting at night. All in all, a great place to unwind from the crowd.

The staff The location The views The rooms The facilities The excursions The animals on site The atmosphere The list goes on with all the amazing things they offer here. This place is incredible, we went only planning on staying for two nights but ended up deciding to stay for two more within the first night and we wish we could of stayed for longer, the staff were so helpful with whatever we needed or wanted to do and always happy to help, always getting everyone to talk to each other which is lovely, the food there is so good! Found my favourite pork belly dish there and the bar is 24hours! Who could ask for much more! If we ever go back to the Philippines the blue orchid would be a definite place to stay! Thank you to all of the staff for making our stay all the better!

We absolutely loved our stay here, Steve and Michelle were fantastic hosts and really looked after us and booked all our activities, tricycles and transfers no problem at a competitive price. The food was so good, definitely better anything else nearby in the town/Pangasan Beach. The location is a bit out the way from the above but it's right next to white beach which is way better and you have everything you need here at the hotel with a tricycle only 15 mins and 150 pesos. The WiFi was temperamental but that's Philippines for you. But when it worked it was super quick! Hot showers, spacious room and even an upgrade to a beach front suite on arrival which was awesome!

nice spot, very good for the divers

quite place, a little pricey, too far but GREAT AND FRIENDLY STAFF!

Great staff, good food, quiet, right next to the ocean. Pool was very clean.

This place is just for scuba divers I would say. When you are just a tourist then nobody of the management pay attention to you. The staff is very nice, food is OK. Price is way to high for place like this, NO TV, NO refrigerator in the room, NO internet in the room,NO Phone , so also NO room service and need to pay cash. This is all not so big deal, but for the money we paid we expected something totally different. We have quite some experience with Hotels in Cebu, but this is just not OK.

Best place to be.

We had a great time with my girlfriend in Blue Ochid Resort. It's a hidden paradise just 10 minutes walk and you can reach the white beach. The ambience was great and we enjoy the nature. We enjoy tropical flavored cocktails and had opportunity to make new friends. Overall, our stay was great and remarkable. We will surely be back for more.

Private and Peaceful. Beautiful snorkeling right out front. Good foods. Local staff engage in a lot of boisterous talking and we had to wait to be noticed several times. Michael was great and Checked with us many times to make sure we were koo. Had some trouble w Our Booking with Agoda, The Hotel upgraded us for free for the hassles. Hotel takes cash payments only. 🏄🏼Sweet pool, nice Gardens, Fantasic views from room decks..... This area is pricey, but the Serenity was worth it. Close beaches( white Beach) needs a ckean up... This Hotel is working on that and Protecting the Area. Our Stay was really Peaceful.... Felt revived!!!!! Thanks for a nice stat and for Checking Your Emails!!!!!! Surfboy

This is, from our experience, NOT A KID-FRIENDLY and NOT A FILIPINO-FRIENDLY place. The check-in and check-out experience was very derogatory, discriminating, and rude. I came with my Filipino family and I spent US$1,000 for our stay but felt like I got the worst treatment that was highly undeserved by Caucasian women who shouldn't be in the hospitality industry. I came here with my entire family and this was meant to be a memorable vacation before I leave the country with my American husband. But my family felt worse than I did, having been given rude treatment most especially at the last hour of our stay during that worst check-out process ever. The management needs to learn how to be indiscriminately welcoming--to have a standard of service REGARDLESS OF RACE. Rudeness is unacceptable for a place where I paid good money for. And this is the Philippines, our own country where tourists treat locals like us like crap. The women managing the place shouldn't be customer-facing.

Stayed 1 night over a weekend. The resort is nice, very quiet and peaceful. Staff are friendly and helpful, too. Good choices for food, too. During low tide, you can just walk by the beach to the camping grounds and the stretch of the white sand beach.