Apo Island Beach Resort

Apo Island Beach Resort is nested in a private cove within unique rock formations on a beautiful white beach. The resort has a beachside restaurant and bar with home style cooked cuisine from Filipino specials to fresh seafood of the day. Dinner can be arrange for you right under the stars on the beach or at our beach restaurant

Activities during the day may include:

• taking a boat around the island
• visiting our special dive spots for diving and snorkeling. The resort provides a dive shop and instructors to assist you on your trip
• hike up to the lighthouse
• walk through the local village
• visit to the Marine Sanctuary

Interested in diving? Our fully operational dive shop includes:

• Full time diving instructor with over 15 years of experience
• 2 certified NAUI Dive masters
• Brand New Scubapro Rental equipment
• New dedicated dive boat (Apo Adventurer)
• Beautiful new shop with an indoor and an outdoor classroom

Accommodation Types
With blue skies, warm coastal breezes and the endless sound of the waves gently rolling on the white beach topped with quality service, Apo Island Beach Resort is the perfect place for relaxation.

All nine beautiful cottages are located on the hillside of the private cove overlooking the ocean. Each cottage contains a private marbled bathroom, fan and balcony. Visitors may experience the ultimate natural surroundings without running water and during the day time, electricity. Natural spring water is provided to each cottage in a large container for our guests needs and electricity is available from 6pm in the evening until 11pm.

Getting to Apo Island...
Daily flights are available in the Philippines from Manila to Dumaguete City.
Daily ferries direct to Dumaguete City are also available for guests travelling from Cebu.

Transfers can be arranged from Dumaguete City to Apo Island.
From Dumaguete City, a chauffeur will drive you 30 minutes to Malatapay, Dauin. From Malatapay, a boat will take you directly to Apo Island where you will be greeted by the friendly staff of Apo Island Beach Resort.

If you wish to stay a night in Dumaguete before you transfer to Apo Island, try Coco Grande Hotel. Located 1 minute away from the pier, Coco Grande Hotel is your home away from home and is only walking distance away from downtown shops and restaurants

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Apo Island Liberty Lodge

One of the two beach resorts in the island, Liberty Lodge is a unique structure whose central portion is built into a rock wall, giving you the impression of being actually carved into it.

The lodge has nine rooms, all with electric fans and decorated in typical Filipino fashion. Large windows abound in the whole building to address ventilation issues as air conditioning is virtually unheard of in the island. Bamboo and wood make up for much of the materials used, the furniture is also made of comfortable bamboo designs made by local craftsmen.

Recent expansion has brought about bigger rooms, each having its own private little balcony facing west of the island. Room rates begin from 20 USD to 40 USD depending on the type of accommodation.

Also in Liberty Lodge is Paul’s Diving, a specialty dive shop who offer diving services as well as rent out equipment and gear. There is also Liberty’s Restaurant, a well situated dining space that has a complete view of the beach. Some of its specialties are Filipino dishes mixed with selected international cuisine. Fish, being abundant and fresh all year round, is the highlight of the menu. The restaurant chef will cook it any way you want to have it.

The ambiance of Liberty’s Lodge is just hard to resist as it allows every guest to capture and truly enjoy the magic of island living, relying only on the barest of essentials. The island itself is devoid of electricity from 10pm - 6pm, so a stand by generator is always at hand to supply power to the hotel and restaurant. Six refrigerators are filled up to ensure cold beverages even ice cream at any time of the day. Being a remote island has presented difficulties but measures have been implemented to overcome such difficulties.

A stay at the Liberty Lodge is just a complement to the great diving at the Apo Island Marine Sanctuary where every diver claims witness to the fantastic underwater world. The main activity is always scuba diving and snorkeling in the nearby shallow reefs. A walk on the beach, a nap on a swaying hammock, and a meal taken under the island sunset are some of the many ways of savoring the total sense of the vacation. Here in this tiny island, one can only be at peace with himself.

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Apo Island - Fascinate every Divers Imagination

Apo Island is considered as one of the top diving sites in the world. Apo Island pride is its fantastic rock formations scattered over the terrain, a protected marine reserve, magnificent white sands and a relatively untouched endowment of natural marine resources – 650 documented fish species and 400 kinds of corals.

Apo Island Package tours can be found in Dumaguete City dive shops and beach resorts. You can opt for a one-day adventure or stay nights at nearby hotels and beach resorts, some of which are the Liberty’s Lodge or Apo Island Beach Resort on the island itself or Coco Grove, Kan-Upi Beach Resort or the Wellness Beach Resort in nearby Zamboangita.


Life in this island is said to have its own pace. Perhaps this is where time has stood still -- in the primitive and wild beauty that it is most famous for.

The underwater scene is even more fantastic! You can snorkel, scuba or deep sea dive in as much as 15 pre identified points around the island. Other activities include island boat rides, treks and bike rides.

Apo Island is sure to fascinate every diver’s and traveler’s imagination – from the unique aquatic habitat and its dwellers, the rustic view of an old lighthouse, the image of a sunset tinting the sky with pink to the magical feel of white sand on your toes while having a cool drink on a night of the full moon.

Explore the Apo Island today and experienced its white sand beaches, clear aquamarine waters, its lush coral reefs and diverse marine life, and surely you will treasure this.

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Dumaguete City - One of the Top Tourist Destination and Dive Sites

Dumaguete City also known as “The City of Gentle People” is the main seaport and capital of Negros Oriental, a province located at the southwestern part of the Visayas Group of Islands in the Philippines.

Dumaguete City is becoming more of a mainstream tourist destination these days and it's easy to understand why: it has exquisite architecture, a laid-back university town ambience, and a lovely concrete path along the seafront promenade shaded by acacia trees and coconut palms,. The seafront is lined with cafes, restaurants, bars and hotels, and is especially lively at dusk with the after-work crowd and then again towards midnight, when the serious nightlife begins. Dumaguete is also close to some of the country's best scuba diving and has opportunities for whale- and dolphin-watching, while the coast to the south boasts good beaches and some restful little native resorts.

One of the top destinations in the country especially for divers and nature lovers is Dumaguete City.

It is not only a place to reminisce the old Spanish times, rather it’s also a perfect summer getaway to relax and be in one with the wonders of the nature. This is a quaint and charming place, rich in history and culture, as well as in natural resources. Once you have visited this place your heart will always be here.

Diving and Dive Sites

Divers travel far and wide to see the beautiful dive sites of their marine paradise that we rightfully are very proud of.

Apo Island is constantly rated among the top 10 dive destinations in the world, so that alone is worth a visit to Dumaguete.

There are also a number of attravtive marine sanctuaries up and down the coastline from Dumaguete, Some of them you will have to pay a fee to use, especially the ones in the Dauin area.

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