Alona de Tropicana — Hotel in Panglao

My husband and I booked this hotel because it looked good in the photos. The rooms were comfortable because its new. ||1)There was a dead gecko in the bathroom under the towels. ||2)You can choose to stay here if you dont mind dogs barking and chasing after you. We reached in the evening and I there were so many dogs belonging to the resort roaming around without a leash! I was told that the dogs dont bite. It doesnt matters if the dogs bite or not, but I wasnt comfortable with the dogs roaming about. I have lived in Europe and dogs are everywhere but well trained (always on a leash).||3)The lady who checked us in the night wasnt very pleasant when I told her to tie the dogs. The receptionists in the morning were courteous.||4)When we came for breakfast, we were served with a slice of bread! The kitchen ran out of bread. They sent the housekeeper to get some bread for us but we were almost done with the eggs and sausages by then.||||We were going to stay longer for a week but we decided to check out after a night. Try and make your guests comfortable. By all means, keep dogs but have them on a leash far away from...

We stayed in the monthly 1 Br units in the driveway. Compared to 3 other comparable units, I have lived in the Tawala and Danao area, this was by far the most expensive and least comfortable to live. Rent 40 % more than others. They also charge 20 p per kw for electricity when they pay 14. The unit was extremely hot so that the living room was unbearable and the AC barely able cool the bedroom. Our electricity bill at over 8000 p a month was double anywhere else where the AC cooled the whole unit. It was semi furnished, good furniture but little kitchen stuff, no fans, no water stand etc all if which we had to provide. The two junior staff are nice but we were unlucky enough to meet the owner who was simply horrible and actively prevented staff from helping us on the first day. She has cheap petty tricks and added charges not in the original agreement, and when my Filipina chatted with her, all she did was brag about how rich she is. No matter how rich, you can't take it with you and you can't buy class. We were relieved to leave and I definitely...

Just a WARNING to fellow travelers. Alona de Tropicana in Talawa, Panglao, Bohol will nickle-and-dime you EVERY chance they get, and generally treat you like garbage. My wife was yelled at by the owner for sitting on a plastic lawn chair, near the algae, frog and mosquito-infested 'pool', while our baby played in the grass. They shouted, 'This is not your property!' I was yelled at for sitting on a plastic chair in the dining area to use the internet while the internet in our room was down. After they fixed our internet, they CHARGED us for fixing their modem cables! We quickly learned NEVER to go anywhere outside of our residence for fear of being charged for something. When we told them we were moving out, they said they would charge 500pesos cleaning. On the day of moving, they wanted 1,000 pesos, plus charged 500p per day until this was PAID. Absolute...