This a a very peacful and quiet resort for those travellers enjoy a relaxing holiday. Room is clean and tidy with balcony, however you need to prepare your toiletries as they provide soap only. It can be understandable for environmental protection and I support this. Food is nice and they can arrange airport pick up for you, cost around 5000 peso including car and boat. It took around 3 hours from Cebu airport to the pier and around 1 hour boat trip to the resort. So be prepared for this. Everything will be well organized for you if you make prior arrangement with the resort.
A group of 7 of us stayed here for 4 nights on a short scuba diving trip. We booked through Devocean Divers. The rooms are basic and clean. The air-conditioning and fan are a bit noisy, but you'll probably need these to sleep. The bathroom was clean and functional (the electric shower worked well enough). Staff were very friendly and service level was great. On Saturday night they had excellent live music. Prices for the food and beverages were extremely reasonable. The pork chop was especially good. I'd be happy to stay at this place again given the same price point. Don't expect luxury, but for a dive this this was great. The staff were all very nice too.
Great place to enjoy Malapascua! Rooms are spacious and clean, upstairs you get also a big balcony! AC is good and quiet. Shower with enough space to shower (if you have been to Philippines you know what I mean). Staff is friendly and available. You get a Welcome drink when you arrive. If you ask they will place beach chairs for you. The in-house dive shop (Devocean) is competent, efficient and friendly! However be careful to the slight higher prices compared to the neighbours (they price matched when I asked!). The restaurant is also very good with nice food and cocktails: at the happy hour (4pm to 7pm) you get 2 for 1. They are somewhat overpriced, so only at the happy hour you get a fair price. Do check also for neighbours bars and compare. Location of the restaurant is…
The name and the logo they use to represent their resort definitely does not match. However, I have to tell that I had the best time in that resort and no trivial things like this bothered me. This resort is right in front of the bounty beach and one can just relax on the hammocks and have the best view. Well the thing that bothered me a lot were the boats but I know one can’t help it as there is a row of dive shops and they have all their small boats parked right in front of the resort. Hippocampus has a dive shop run by Luke, a person from UK, under the name of Devocean. They are professional and their local dive guides are amazing bunch of people. Well we all know that Filipinos are known for their hospitality. The island’s best bartender is also found in Hippocampus and…
Why people has given negative reviews don't know. But after reading negative reviews I had very low hopes with my stay. But it turned out to be outstanding stay. Rooms were average but nice and clean, wifi was weak this is a problem in a Malapascua that's okay. We booked a Aircon room and it turned out to be exceeding expectations. We were offered welcome drinks on arrival. Hotel has a live music on select days, nice bar to meet new people, nice restaurant with amazing beach view.
This was my third trip to Malapascau and every time I have stayed and Hippocampus. Hippocampus is centrally located in the middle of Bounty Beach. The rooms are clean and spacious with comfortable beds, which are thoroughly cleaned on a daily basis. Breakfast is included and with several choices on the menu there is something for everyone. The Hippocampus bar is another great feature of this place as it boast (and rightly so) the best cocktails on the island! Add in live music twice a week and you have an amazing place to stay and relax at. All the staff do an amazing job to make you feel welcome and they cannot do enough for you. I highly recomend staying here as it just keeps getting better and better! I will be back for sure!
"Hippo" as the resort is a affectionately know give bounty beach a soul. Caz when the Hippo is a rocking the people come flocking!!! The unplugged open mike music sessions are a highlight on the island. In addition, the food and drink (try a "Divers Spritz" and the "Bangers and Mash" dish) is top notch combined with the friendly staff and in touch management any visit is refreshing and revitalizing. Their professional in-house dive shop Devocean also offers quality diving courses and sub aqua adventures that are not to be missed!!!!
Hippocampus is probably the best place to stay in malapasqua Small resort, room are simple but there is the necessary Their huge strength come from their service attitude Everyone seems so happy to work here Reception, housekeeping, food and beverage, all the people there are so nice On top of it their food is great One of the best breakfast I got here In Philippines with few nice different option Please do not change anything, we will be back soon Thanks again for you hospitality
We stayed here over the weekend of 3/24/18 for 1 night, our experienced was wonderful the best experienced I had with any hotel in the Island. And I have been frequently visiting Malapascua yearly. We arrived in the island earlier than the check in time, upon registering in the front desk we were informed that the room we booked online is close to an on going contraction so to avoid all the noise we were upgraded to an Ocean View Room. Very big room, very clean, the linens were clean, towels were changed daily. The staff are very attentive, interactive it seems like they are enjoying there job. Food was okay, we enjoyed our Saturday Night in the resort, they had a live band and it played until 1am so it was kinda noisy from our room but it was fine.. above all I highly recommend…
Gary here second time here at hippocampus beach resort. Thanks Lee and Christen the rooms were great. Clean comfortable and cool. The staff is amazing, friendly helpful and nice. Dive shop is 5 star rated and I ws so impressed
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