Bohol
There's a wide selection of rooms at this hotel with a hostel vibe – welcoming and traveller-friendly, with 24-hour checkout. The cheapest rooms have…
Bohol
There's a wide selection of rooms at this hotel with a hostel vibe – welcoming and traveller-friendly, with 24-hour checkout. The cheapest rooms have…
Eastern Visayas
This is just a very simple place with a couple of bamboo beachfront cottages on the Camotes' most stunning beach. Food is problematic as there's no…
Leyte
This decent budget option has spacious rooms, most with air-con and some with hot water, set around a small courtyard, so it's relatively quiet. Wi-fi is…
Bantayan Island
An established place on Sugar Beach, just south of Santa Fe's centre, with spacious rooms near the water and one of the most laid-back beach bars on the…
Panglao Island
This place has some of the cheapest beds near the beach, with 10 nipa huts scattered among its pleasant garden with manicured grass. It's located up a…
Malapascua Island
Run by a jovial German, this backpackers' stronghold has small rooms grouped around a grassy compound, each with bright bedspreads and en-suite bathrooms…
Malapascua Island
Near the boat landing on Logon Beach, the White Sand has comfortable and reasonably priced nipa huts with lofts and roomy balconies. There are dreamy…
Cebu City
The lime-green colour scheme is a tad garish but rooms (there are four price categories) are well presented and kitted out with desks and flat-screen TVs…
Bohol
Tr3ats is a fine-value hostel with small but tastefully adorned and blissfully air-conditioned five-bed dorm rooms (one female-only) and a few snazzy…
Bohol
It's nothing fancy but this is probably the best accommodation in Talibon. Tiled rooms have cable TV and are kept clean and tidy. It's located on the main…
Eastern Visayas
In Poro Town, this somewhat uninviting family-run place in a rustic wooden house is a possible shoestringer base with simple fan rooms or air-con options.
Leyte
The garishly painted new place has a selection of rooms, including family-sized units, all with cable TV and air-con. It's 1km west of the port.
Eastern Visayas
A delightfully friendly if basic place on Kawit Town's white-sand beach. Rooms are kept tidy though electricity cuts out at midnight.
Bohol
Simple, pretty clean hotel with air-con rooms and affordable rates. It's around 600m from the port.
Bohol
If you're marooned, this basic place in Ubay is worth a try and about 400m from the pier.
Malapascua Island
For budget digs in the village this long-running place is worth considering (though it is looking weary these days and street noise is an issue). On the…
Archery Asia Camping & Nipa Huts Moalboal
Moalboal
Worth considering for its sociable atmosphere (campfires and beers at night), this campground has preerected tents and little nipa huts. Frank, the owner,…
Moalboal
This sprawling property 10km south of Moalboal offers tents and huts on a grassy field in view of the water – however rates are high for sleeping under…
Cebu City
The Diplomat offers decent value for the location, well-placed between uptown and downtown and with a wide choice of rooms – all are dated but most are…
Leyte
This huge concrete hotel looms over the pier and is very close to the bus station. You'll find an incongruous mix of newer rooms (with port views) and…
Panglao Island
True shoestring accommodation survives in Alona thanks to this old timer. It's cheap, but poorly maintained and a bit out of the way. Turn off the main…
Eastern Visayas
Marvin's is a mustard-yellow, three-storey modern building 2km north of town with 23 rooms. It's on the water but lacks any sort of beach. There's a nice…
Cebu City
This pension enjoys a quiet and central location but rates have increased recently and it's not great value. Doubles have hot water and all rooms have…
Estreller's Sunset View Spring Pool
Eastern Visayas
This place has its own natural spring-fed pool. The rooms are some of the cosiest on the island but bathrooms are shared and the place fills with day…
Bohol
Just off the busy town beach, this simple place is a nice alternative to the pricier resorts west of town. Rooms are sparsely decorated and wi-fi is…
Cebu
A South Korean dive resort at the bottom of the hill on the beach at Lilo-an, with spacious but somewhat dated rooms looking out to Negros.
OCCCI Hostel & Training Center
Leyte
An ageing but fairly decent old-school hostel that even has functioning wi-fi in the air-con dorm rooms. No lockers are provided however.
Cebu
Owner Wilson has a basic overwater nipa hut. He can also arrange homestays.
Cebu City
This is about as cheap as it gets in Cebu without venturing into 'disgusting' territory. Rooms are predictably basic but at least they have windows and…
Leyte
Slap bang on the water and overlooking the pier, this smart hotel was being totally renovated at the time of research. It's scheduled to reopen in 2018…