Waterfront Hotel, Airport and Casino

The Waterfront Hotel is located at Lahug, Cebu City with its modern architectural design that surely is remarkable to local and foreign tourists. With a world class accommodation services and amenities, Waterfront surely is highly recommended to you.

Alegre Beach Resort
Alegre Beach Resort is located in Sogod City. It is a five star hotel ideal for the first class business travellers and tourists for such luxurious hotel and resort services. Their customers are mostly foreigners and the balikbayans. Experience wonderful International cuisines served.

Alegre Beach Resort, Cebu

Cebu Beach Club
Cebu Beach Club is located in Lapu-Lapu City. This beach resort is usually chosen for spacious conference halls, water sport activities, cosy accommodation and a number of recreational activities.

Shangri-La’s Mactan Resort and Spa
The Shangri-la hotel and resorts is another world class hotel of Cebu, offering you an impressive level of hotel service. Inside, there are a number of restaurants and boutiques. A large number of staffs, lifeguards, and security guards are mostly seen around for safety measures and assistance.

Shangri-la’s Mactan Resort and Spa

Maribago Blue Waters
Maribago Blue Waters is also located in Lapu-Lapu City, offering exceptional services to both local and foreign tourists visiting the city. There are fun filled water activities in the area too with water equipment widely accessible. Have a tan under the sun and relax.

Badian Island Resort
Badian Island Resort is located in Badian, southern part of Cebu with exclusive suites and room accommodation available at great price rates. This is also considered as a romantic getaway for newly wed couples and other romantic events,

Badian Island Resort and Spa, Cebu

Cordova Reef Resort
Cordova Reef Resort offers affordable rates on their services and accommodation, promising you clean and contemporary interiors on their rooms. Pools are present in the area of wide dimensions. This resort is situated in Cordova, Cebu, giving you convenient access to great water spots in Mactan Island.

Kawasan Falls, Badian

The most renowned Kawasan Falls in Badian located south bound in Cebu has always been fascinating both local and foreign tourists. How to get to Kawasan is just an appetizer. Wait until you get to see the falls. It is very nice and natural, giving your nature lover side well deserving scenery and ambiance.

The most renowned Kawasan Falls in Badian located south bound in Cebu has always been fascinating both local and foreign tourists. How to get to Kawasan is just an appetizer. Wait until you get to see the falls. It is very nice and natural, giving your nature lover side well deserving scenery and ambiance.

Kawasan Falls, Badian

Obong Spring, Dalaguete

The Obong Spring in Dalaguete is another attraction for those who does not want sea adventure anymore. For a change, Obod Spring gives you fresh waters and cold mountain ambiance. Although, this place can be crowded during pick seasons. You should get to visit this spring if you are visiting Cebu.

Bugasok Falls, Argao

Located in the mountainous areas of Argao, Bugasok Falls is one of the famous and favourites of Cebuano backpackers and tourists. The travel to this falls is what makes it a personal favourite destination of campers and backpacker. With all the hills and challenging cliffs, there is more to this other than the falls.

The Bugasok Falls in Argao, Cebu.

Malabuyoc hot Springs

The springs found in Malabuyoc can be summed up to seven. Once you start your hike towards Mainit Hot spring, you can see other 6 small springs and falls to spice up the hike. Take pictures along the way. There is no other view than these springs from Malabuyoc. If you are into climbing, this place is also highly recommended. The heights and cliffs are just awesome and challenging.

This people are seated on the hot spring. Its really hot that you can boil an egg.

Other highlights in Cebu can include a visit in various historical spots like that of Magellan’s cross, Sto. Nino and travel the oldest strret of the Philippines, Colon, Mactan Bridges. You can visit malls like Ayala and SM. You can also experience the night life in Cebu especially in Mango Avenue area, IT Parks, and in Crossroads. Shop for Cebuano delicacies and other Cebu novelty items in souvenir and novelty shops in the city.

Alcoy is another provincial municipality of Cebu in the South provinces line-up. It is located after the Municipality of Dalaguete and before the Municipality of Boljoon. Alcoy is a just a small town of white sand coastline.

Did you know that the largest Dolomite quarry mining in the country is found in Alcoy? This town produces mostly crops and partly rely on fishing and other livelihood program. The town can capture your hearts with its wonderful mountain scenery along the highway for limestone cliffs are very evident in the area.

Alcoy Beach Line

The best beach in Alcoy is the Tingko beach because of the wonderful rock formation lying in the long white coastal line. Tingko beach is a lagoon across Mabad-on Reef, located down below a cliff if you are on a road trip. You surely will fall in love with the aqualine waters as you bathe and dive in it. This beach resort is available to the public at a very cheap price. In fact, the natives much favoured this beach than those luxurious resorts for it is a nice experience to have enjoyed water adventure with others. You can meet new friends and the townfolk of Alcoy selling their kakanins or delicacies to you. A couple of large houses is built in the area owned by foreigners and rich locals who have fallen deeply in love with the Tingko beach scenery especially during sunsets and sunrises.

Other beach resorts include Bodo’s Bamboo Bar Resorts. The resort is situated high in a plateau over viewing the sea. This resort is very spacious, amazing number of pools and jacizzi, cozy cottages, and wireless fidelity zone. It can serve you International cuisines of Asian and German cuisines.

Reflection pool of Bodo’s Bamboo Bar Resort

There are other small time beaches spotted here in Alcoy, usually filled with people during the weekends and summer seasons.

Gibitngil Island is part of the Municipality of Medellin located at the Northern-most part of Cebu. This island is usually visited by tourists on island hopping. This paradise island has white powder sands and aqualine waters ideal for snorkelling and scuba diving. Gibitngil Island is not that famous like that of Malapascua and in Bantayan Island. If you are in Bogo or San Remigio, you can already see this small island silently calling tourists’ attention. It is known to be the centre of the world’s richest marine biodiversity having various kinds of underwater corals and species.

Here we come at Gibitngil Island

Gibitngil is proud of its waves from the open sea in the west coastline and rich agriculture in the mainland in the east. Gibitngil is rich in shrubs, coconuts, cassava and a very simple lifestyle. No transportation, you just have to use your feet to navigate yourself around the place. It is a small place anyway. People in the area maintain a very peaceful community having a very low crime rate. You can reach the island by sea or air. Approximately, the travel is about two to three hours by road trip to Medellin and then you have to travel another forty five minutes to the very island. In Gibitngil Island, there are no accommodations available but its neighbouring town has lots of it like that in Bogo and Bantayan.

As mentioned earlier, the island has wonderful water scenery under and above that is why water activities are highly recommended in the area, such as snorkelling, scuba diving, kayaking, Jet Ski, and others. There are Pump boats in the area available in the area at affordable rental fees, driven by the natives themselves who in an instant, serves as your tourist guide in the Island.

Paypay, Daan Bantayan Sunset

Discover this island now before anybody else does. Besides, with a small amount of cash, your swimwear ready, water activities equipment handy, you surely cannot forget your Gibitngil water adventure experience.

The Municipality of Lilo-an is located in the Northern part of Cebu after the Municipality of Concolacion and before the Municipality of Compostela. Lilo-an as the thrid municipality of the North showcases a number of tourist destinations, causing their tourism to fly off the roofs.

Lilo-an’s real estate industry is also at its bloom since the year of 2006. In fact, numerous land area properties are offered to foreign migrants or those local and foreign retirees. Lilo-an serves as the home of sub-urban class subdivision promoting contemporary living near the sea.

Like a hawk, a child in Liloan Beach dives into the water.

Lilo-an beaches are not of white sand but the waves are the main attraction of skim boarders. Many locals from Cebu City travel their way up to the north just to feel the adrenaline of skim boarding. Skim boarding competitions, small and big time, are held annually in Lilo-an mostly during the summer seasons. Seafront Beach Resorts is the usual place where you can spot these skim boarders ride and play with the waves.

Other highlights of Lilo-an include the old Spanish built 72 feet tall lighthouse or the Parola in Bagacay Point. This lighthouse is the very reason why the said province is popularly known to be the “Light of the North”.

Touch The Sun

You can also visit the Lilo-an Church, the San Fernando Church situated along the road where the folks of Lilo-an believed to face the mountains in the West unlike other Catholic churches that is facing the sea in the East. Lilo-an is also known of quality works in Ceramics. Residents in the area are sell pots, bricks, and jars of different sizes in the streets at affordable prices.

Other place of interest includes the Titay’s Lilo-an Rosquillos that sells the Cebuano’s favourite delicacy, Rosquillos, Second is the the Sitoy Bay which has whirling waters visible that is called in vernacular as Lilo.

Cordova Island is a small province just beside the Mactan across Cebu. It got its name from a city in Spain also named Cordova. This place is always mistaken to be a part of the Mactan Island but the Cebu City government publicised once again that Cordova is another province of Metro Cebu.

People in the island live majorly in the fishing industry. That is also why the island Cordova is known for the famous Bakasi Festival. Bakasi is under the family of sea snakes, very safe to eat and Cordova is the abundant Bakasi supplier in Central Visayas. With it, Cordova takes good care of her marine reefs and sanctuaries, establishing a Marine Habitat Village in Barangay Day-As.

Cordova Bay

Cordova is very abundant in Mangroves in most of its coastlines, serving as their boarders too, avoiding strong waves and other bad water activities to cause any damage. More and more volunteers from different places mostly schools’ organizations, planting more mangroves in the Island and even in the Mactan Island.

The most awaited time in Cordova Island is when long-legged birds of white and light brown colours coming from Australia fill the island since it is winter season there. Other than that, there are other bird species discovered in the area like the Chinese Egret and native Sea Gulls.

Hilutungan Island, Cordova

Mostly, Cordova highlights reputable and luxurious beach resorts with outstanding pool and hotel designs, not to mention the white sand beaches. There are two resorts popular in the Island: the Island and Sun Beach Resort and the Cordova Reef Village Resort. The two offers cosy and relaxing ambiance in their accommodations and great water adventure activities in the beach or in the pool. Visit them online and get a peek of their amenities, recreation, and promo packages that suits you and your family or friends.

Boljoon is considered by many as the undiscovered paradise of Cebu, which is very unlikely because more and more people are talking about this place hundred three kilometres away from the city, being one of the oldest town of Cebu situated before the Municipality of Oslob and after the Municipality of Alcoy. The long drive to Boljoon gives you excitement, given the fact that there are numerous historical spots, wonderful coastlines of the Bohol strait, mountainous cliffs and ranges, and wonderful walks of life’s, making the province picturesque for postcards and Cebu promotional brochures.

The province being Internet savvy with it WiFi Town Plaza, consistent increase in the population of local and foreign tourists in the area proved that this place is worth a visit.

Club Fort Med beach resort

Tourists’ travel check lists always include the Boljoon church, Patrocinio de Santa Maria. As the oldest church with its original construction materials well preserved and maintained, speaks greatly of the townsfolk religiosity and faithfulness to their parish saint.

Like any other best destination in Cebu, Boljoon has its own famed beaches and resorts to share. Regardless if the visitors’ primary purpose is to visit the church, they surely like to get a sneak peek and a dip in those clear blue waters. In Boljoon, you can stay at Club Fort Med. Very popular in the area, it has affordable amenities and accommodation packages to a number of people. Along the road, you can see small time beach resorts asking you to pay the cottage fee alone, never mind the entrance.

smell the sea & feel the breeze

If beach does not suit you and the group, you can try nature trekking up in the mountainous cliffs and ranges and pass reach the Boljoon river. Camp and climb mountains of rocks found in the upper barangays of Boljoon. Visit the past as you drop by different historical remnants like those bells made way back in the Spanish era.

Surely, a 24 hour tour in Boljoon is worth the time and experience! Visit now.

Santander is another province of Cebu situated at the southern part of the island just after the Municipality of Oslob. Popularly known to be the port to neighbouring islands, Santander, 135 kilometres far from the city, is also popular for a number of reasons. Other than the beaches, the Torta, a delicacy from Santander is well loved by the Filipinos. Most people here do fishing activities and shipping business, because as mentioned earlier, you are to board here if heading towards Negros from Cebu. Making it somehow industrialised and commercialised, different shipping establishments sell tickets here in Santander,

under the shade

Santander is known to be peaceful and quiet, best for recollection at the seafront of white, clear different shades of blue waters, and lots of trees around you– a very typical province of Cebuanos. As you travel all the way down south at day light, Santander caters the best shoreline, sunsets and sunrises along the road. And in the evening, it gives you an amazing night skyline.

In Santander, Scuba diving has become known to both local and the foreign tourists like in Moalboal. With its affordable diving packages and hostels accommodations, you just cannot help but fall in love. Different undersea creatures are to be found like toothed whales, clown fishes, seahorses and even dolphins in some seasons. Some hostels in Santander that offer cheap rates on their luxurious and classy accommodation packages are as follows: Marine Village Dive House, Villa Lilo-an Beach Resorts, Ocean Terrance Resort.

Tanon Strait from Pebbles Beach – Liloan, Santander, Cebu, Philippines

The Tanon Strait is usually misinterpreted as the Pacific Ocean by the natives there but actually, it is the Bohol strait seen along the National Highway. The Tanon Strait is another highlight of Santander. At this point, you can even the neighbouring island, Dumaguete in clear sky. Santander is such a wonderful place.

San Remigio, is found in every beach lover’s heart but geographically is located at the northern part of Cebu after the Municipality of Bogo. Although some people consider San Remigio as San Remedio, this popular getaway from the busy life in the city always satisfy and touch every tourists or visitors’ heart because of its hospitable and friendly townsfolk. Also, San Remigio is known for great fisheries and livestock.

San Remigio owns the longest shoreline in Cebu, which by the way makes it a favourite beach spot of both, local and foreign tourists. Gone are the days when tourists just drop by San Remigio before heading to Bantayan Island. It creates its own list of amazing destinations, hotels and resorts, and sea water activities.

white sands

Hagnaya Wharf is another highlight of San Remigio, frequently visited not only during Holy Week days and Fiestas but even in ordinary days because the Hagnaya Wharf is the terminal port towards the famed Bantayan Island of Cebu.

First and second class beach resorts are to be found in San Remigio. The list includes San Remigio Beach Club, Verdimar Resort, and Warren’s Beach Resort. If you want peaceful vacation in the beach, the mostly preferred place is at Warren’s. However, if you want more of wild water adventure activities, San Remigio Beach Club is the name to consider,

San Remigio Beach

Water sports, activities and adventure in San Remigio include skim boarding, scuba diving and snorkelling. There are already protected marine sanctuaries and reefs in the area for these activities. The skim boarding is popular to young natives and skim professionals that went all the way north for this activity. Small time skim tournaments are held here especially during the summer season.

Although this town is small in population, San Remigio surely proved to all tourists that they have their own beaches to be proud of and not just merely a stop over zone for people headed to Bantayan Island.

It’s summer once again!! Surely many people are looking forward to spend this time of the year in beaches. As the sun intensifies, it is more important than ever to prepare your skin, lips and hair to endure these dangerous sunrays. Yeah it’s good to be tan for this season but still you need some extra precautions since Cebu beaches would surely give you a far-fetched experience you never had before.

Must-have items for your beach bag

1. Water resistant sunscreen
A water resistant sunscreen with SPF 15 or higher will help protect your skin from harmful UV rays. Sunscreens should be applied to dry skin at least 15 minutes before going outdoors and should be reapplied after swimming.

be sure to bring this when going to beach

2. Medicated lip balm with SPF
For lips, the best protection against sun damage is a water resistant lip balm that keeps the lips moist and has an SPF of 15 percent or higher.

3. Wide-brimmed hat
Choose a comfortable-fitting hat with extra covering that drapes down the back of your neck, and sit in the shade whenever possible.

4. Spray-on sunscreen for hair
Leave-on conditioners and sun sprays created for hair offer sun protection before, during and after outdoor exposure.

Large sand-coloured stiff sun-hat with a very wide brim and decorated with all kinds of brown and beige toned vintage buttons on a string

5. Cold sore/fever blister treatment
Since cold sores/fever blisters can be triggered by overexposure to the sun, it is important to keep topical medications on hand for unexpected breakouts.