Molave Cove Resort — Hotel in Panglao

SCAM!!! A really awful experience with MOLAVE COVE RESORT. It cost us around 900pcs for two people to enter the site and hire snorkelling gear with a guide. The first cost is at a makeshift “govt checkpoint”, where you pay an environmental fee and guide fee which was compulsory, 400pcs. We were then taken to Molave Cove Resort by our guide and then had to pay their resort fee and snorkel hire which was 500pcs, total 900pcs. We’ve since seen online, other people pay different amounts. Seems like they’re just total chancers. We were snorkelling for around 15 mins before a storm hit and it became completely unsafe to swim. Our guide still tried to continue the tour and we had to tell him to stop because of how dangerous the conditions had become. We’re strong swimmers but the lack of concern for our safety was the worst we’ve experienced in our last 3 months travelling. After we’d got back to the resort our guide left on his motorbike. So we asked the lady we’d paid our entrance/snorkel fee to for a refund or to come back tomorrow as our tour had been cut short. She flat out refused that we had even had a tour and didn’t know who we were our who our guide was. She started looking through cctv to see who are guide was and check that we’d even been on a tour! She then said if we want money back we will need to go back to the govt stop point up the road which unsurprisingly was empty by the time we drove back past. Please do not waste...

This place is so dangerous. Safety is not their priority. I have just returned from a holiday in Philippines and this place tickled my fancy as your able to witness the sardinnes. Lots of people were diving during low tide but as high tide came in the current became dangerous yet they still allowed people to dive. I witnessed three people at separate times almost drown with the lifeguard not even prepared and unable to even throw the ring buoy! The ring buoy was even double tied up as every second was excruciating watching the local try and undo it! A visitor had to interrupt and throw the buoy.. thank god he was there. Please take care if you planning on...

This place is usually the greatest for snorkeling and diving. On March 3rd 2020 there were so many jellyfish that they were impossible to avoid. You do NOT want to get jellyfish stings. ||||The price of admission is up to P200 (P100 "environmental fee" for snorkelers and divers) plus P100 entrance fee, That's up from P30 the past several years. There is more trash laying around than in past years. When there are no jellyfish it's the best place to snorkel in the province of Bohol, but don't try it when there are jellyfish. You will not be able to avoid them. The shower was...