Buceo Anilao Beach & Dive Resort

Such a fantastic stay at Buceo! Great staff, from the DM's to the restaurant staff. We felt right at home; diving, eating, chilling at the pool and diving some more. The pool view and set up is amazing. We would happily return.

Where to begin! Right from the very start from our airport transfer to our last breakfast the whole experience with Buceo was exceptional. The resort is absolutely beautiful with plenty of areas for relaxation between dives as well as a lovely restaurant with delicious and reasonably priced food. We especially recommend the local food section of the menu with pork ribs, BBQ skewers, soups and vegetable dishes. Our room was perfect too with big comfortable beds and hot water shower, cold air-conditioning and an incredible sea view balcony. And now the diving... Our instructor Joy is a brilliant guide, one of the best we have ever had. We told him we want to photograph macro and he worked so hard to search and find us all the hard to see critters and he was still able to communicate seamlessly with the other instructors underwater so that we saw everything on the dive. The conditions and health of the reef were very good and as you can see from my photos the underwater life was world class. If you want exceptional value for money and world class macro diving then Buceo is the one!

Legendary setup. So friendly, making it easy to dive 4 times a day. Great food, great staff. Diving is superb if you ate into macro photography, and if not, you will be after a few days :)

We had a wonderful stay at Buceo Anilao. We stayed there in July -the weather was very good, only one day with some rain. Lots on sun. A family with one kid - 9 years old. We stayed there for a week. While we were diving every day, our son stayed at resort, reading books, playing at the swimming pool or just relaxing. We stay at an apartament with direct sea view. Wonderful sunrises in the morning from our balcony with a book and a cup of coffee. We had fullboard option: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Food was just great: every day something different, soups, sea food, meat, nice desserts. Food portions were too big for us :) Usually we had 3 dives a day: two moring and one afternoon. Night dive can also be done but we rather stayed at the bar. Rooms were well equipped, tidy, as well as bathroom. The staff was very helpful and friendly. Diving was MARVELLOUS: we only regreted that time passed underwater so fast. Not only is Anilao famous for small critters but there is also a wonderful coral reef. This is what we missed in Lembeh, for comparison. Resort is well equipped and very well managed. Camera room: every station has it's own air gun - VERY NICE. Towels and good lightning. Swimming pool was wonderful - much bigger than in other resorts in Anilao. For partents with kids it is important, so between dives we could relax in the swimming pool with our son. Diving guides: wow, that was fantastic - ratio was 1 dive guide for 2 divers - our dive guide Enzo was increadibly helpful. Especially with underwater photography - he was non stop finding something interesting and assisting with snoot - very nice to have such a person underwater to help you in your photography. All dive guides are well educated - professionals. Dives were long, 60 min and more, there was no hurry underwater. Also, our big thank you goes to Erik: we have never ever met such a helpful man. Erik is also an underwater photo master, sharing his experience to all guests. His knowledge was incredible. He even took as for a village tour. What we also liked about Anilao- no mosquitoes! We are from Europe, and flight connection was very good, only one fly transfer in Dubai. From Manila airport there is about 2 hours to get to resort. If you are looking for amazing dive trip, Buceao in Anilao is your choice ! For sure, we will come back next year.

Great dive resort, second trip here, this time for 15 nights. Fantastic diving and great dive operation. Only minus is that the land is steep and you may have a climb to your room, but you will get fit!