The Bellevue Resort

You must select the 'Ocean view ' room. It is more costly and with that price there might be better choices around, but if you don't select it, they will make sure you will be overlooking some kind of dump or you face will be just against some big wall once you step onto the patio. They have different architectural understandings than in Caribbean or Hawaii or New Zealand or Mexico. Even Ocean facing rooms means that you look only to the right, left sided view is blocked by the wall. Other tropical places have same step-out designs for the rooms, but that wall is behind you instead, so you view is on both directions onto the ocean. And still have all the privacy. Great and convenient for diving on the Island nearby. Good food, fantastic open-air Restaurant. Deep and large pool. Excellent shuttle service anywhere you might want to go for sightseeing. You could even go straight from Panglao Island to the Oslob/Cebu by boat and dive and swim with the whale sharks. Still be back by night. EZ to visit other islands.

Pros: Staff is great, so is the restaurant. Rooms are humongous! Larger than usual hotel rooms. Very well fitted with everything you might need, free wi-fi everywhere on the territory. Enjoyed skyping to our friends from the bar and making them jealous.

Cons: Even with less than 1/3rd of the rooms occupied (after the hurricane), they still managed to put me in a room facing nothing but a wall. I travel a lot but never seen a hotel rooms designed with same views as a prison cell.