Villa Marmarine
Villa Marmarine Candanay Sur Siquijor, 6225 Philippines
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#1 of 132 Specialty lodging in Siquijor Island
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Free High Speed Internet (WiFi)
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Super friendly staff and owners. Picked us up from port. Clean spacious rooms. No tv. Relaxing beautiful views from our 2nd floor villa. Enjoyed free breakfast again facing beautiful views. On premises shuttle vans so you can arrange itineraries n drop offs for day trips
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Date of stay: February 2023Trip type: Traveled with family
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Last hotel stop before going back to Dumaguete, after staying on the island for 10 days. I cannot commend enough how excellent the service is, the lovely staff and the hands on owners who made sure we have everything we need. The serene beachside view, lovely dogs and of course the Japanese food. THANK YOU SO MUCH,MR HANADA for the warmest welcome! Highly recomemended hotel!
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Date of stay: February 2022Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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Great location, just by a sandy beach. The room was large, but it was quite hot and the ceiling fan did not work, instead we were provided with portable fans, but these are quite noisy. There is very good breakfast and the restaurant offers very good food, including Japanese. The staff was very helpful and have arranged for us a trip around the beautiful island and a transfer to the port. At the time of our visit wifi did not work at the rooms, only at the restaurant and its was very slow.
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Date of stay: February 2020
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Response from Toshito Harada, Owner at Villa Marmarine
Responded 29 Mar 2020
Hello Ms. Martina, Thank you for taking your time to give us your feedback during your stay with us. We are very sorry for your your uncomfortable experience. The management is now working on it. With regards to the WIFI connection, we are now in contact with the provider on how to solve this very slow connection in our area. Again thank you and have a good day.
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That's how they made me feel from the moment I arrived. Put me in an awful room that was nothing like the pictures on Booking.com. It was adjoining the staff quarters. When the staff got up before 6am, then I was up too. Worse there was no water for my bathroom. There was only 3/4 of a glass of red wine at dinner, they had run out. And the chicken they served was the cheapest cut possible. I have traveled SE Asia, stayed in homestays and been entertained in very poor people's houses and I can accept their way of life. But not this. Siquijor is a great island. West coast is good. East coast too. Pictures of staff quarters next to my room. Unimpressed.
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Date of stay: February 2020Trip type: Traveled solo
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Response from Toshito Harada, Owner at Villa Marmarine
Responded 19 Feb 2020
Hello Mr.Robert, Greeting's from Villa Marmarine! We, thank you so much for staying with us, as well as for dropping your experience during your 1 night stay with us. We, apologize for the inconvenience occurred and we are working hard for the improvement of our facilities and services. We are now working for renovation as well as, building room for our dear working student far from guest rooms. Enjoy your stay in the Island!
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Villa Marmarine offers comfortable rooms with wonderful ocean view and 7-star hospitality. The restaurant serves best Japanese cuisine in the Viscaya area, as well as local specialties and fresh local produce. The proprietor is Japanese with courteous Filipino staff, and so offers superior service and genuine gastronomic treats to a broad international clientele. The resort has its own dive shop and large boat that shares the pier with Coco Grove Beach Resort, so the set-up is excellent (Both provides transportation to the pier). The diving in Siquihol is superb and unspoiled. You can see Apo Island afar, so the rich underwater environment is no surprise. Schools of fish, some large turtles, barracuda and occasional dolphins. Motor bikes can be rented at the Villa too, providing convenient overland exploration. is also…
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Date of stay: January 2020
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Room Tip: Most of the rooms have excellent ocean view and spacious balcony with individual furnishings. You...
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Response from VillaMarmarineResort, Owner at Villa Marmarine
Responded 5 Feb 2020
Hello Ms.Aki, Greeting's from Villa Marmarine! We, thank you so much for dropping your experienced during your stay with us. Glad to know your satisfied by our services.We are so happy also for diving with us that reached your diving record unto 100 . We are hoping for more dive with you , our dive center staff are waiting for your return. Thank you so much!
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We spent 4 nights at Villa Marmarine and it was a very relaxing time. The first two nights we had a really nice queen size bed and sea-view room, with the AC. For the last two nights, due to availability (we booked late), we moved into a cheaper 3-single-bed room. While it was definitely a lower standard (hostel feel), the price was fair and we even got a small discount on it. There are lovely homes / suites at the resort too so worth calling them to check the options. A great breakfast is included in the price of the room. Additionally, for stays over 2 nights there’s a free laundry service. There is a port drop off for the ferry rides (and they booked our tickets as well). The place offers a motorcycle rental at a good price (300 pesos, cheaper than in town). The restaurant serves very good, locally sourced food at affordable places. We had only one meal outside of the resort, because we really enjoyed it. The beach is right in the front. There are hammocks outside and a few beach chairs (although not directly on the beach). The water is nice, but there are rocks and plants so worth having water shoes. As everything on the island is close, there are better beaches for swimming. Usually we were the only people on this beach, which feels very peaceful. The highlight of our stay was the kind and accommodating staff. The resort runs a working student program where university age students learn how the resort runs and do all tasks, from check-in, serving food through house keeping. In general, this place is involved and supportive of the local community which we really appreciate. The owner is Japanese and very nice. The staff came to say goodbye to us at the end of our visit, which was really sweet. …
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Date of stay: January 2020Trip type: Traveled with friends
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Response from VillaMarmarineResort, Owner at Villa Marmarine
Responded 5 Feb 2020
Hello Ms.Weronika, Greeting's from Villa Marmarine! We, thank you so much for sharing your experience during your 4 nights stay with us. Overwhelmed with your narration of experienced and energized enough to do our tasked eagerly. We will continuously apply and improve the facilities that need to maintain . We are looking forward for your next stay with us, hopefully with advance notice for us to book the room . Wishing you a healthy living and abundant blessings to savor.
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The Villa Marmarine is one of those places where the whole is more than the sum of its parts. It’s a uniquely satisfying beach resort for folks who desire a low-key change of pace. The staff is eager to please, the restaurant never disappoints, and a fine beach is just steps from your cottage. You can sleep soundly, knowing that just by enjoying Villa Marmarine's hospitality you are helping to fund improvements at local schools and vocational training for local youth. Villa Marmarine is a happy blend of Japanese and Filipino ideas about relaxation. It realizes the vision of the Haradas, who after many years of teaching at schools abroad, set out to build a very special resort on the north shore of Siquijor Island. Neither too big or too small, low-key and friendly, distant from the buzz of motorbikes, the resort has grown cottage by comfortable cottage over the years. No two are alike; each is an exemplar of local craftsmanship. The guests during our five nights at Villa Marmarine were a diverse group. We mixed easily, encouraged, I think, by consistently positive vibes from the resort staff and random wi-fi outages. My wife and I particularly enjoyed our meals. The restaurant is on a deck with a fine view of the sea. Service is attentive, the food fresh, and the cooking (both Japanese and Filipino) excellent. …
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Date of stay: January 2020
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Response from VillaMarmarineResort, Owner at Villa Marmarine
Responded 4 Feb 2020
Hello Mr.David, Greeting's from Villa Marmarine! We, thank you so much for sharing your 5 nights experience with us. Words ain't enough to express how blessed we are to received such. With the aim of providing good and unforgettable quality service towards our guest , we strive hard to continuously apply daily. You are a contributor to the people of the Island as well since you stay with us. We are looking forward for your next stay with us.See you!
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4 of us stayed at Marmarine over Christmas and had just such a lovely time. Daman and his team are the most friendly and lovely people and they welcomed us so warmly. We played tennis most days, and Daman organised a brilliant game of 'Gate ball' one evening (a kind of cross between croquet and golf). All felt so convivial and friendly! the resort is just beautiful - gorgeous green grounds, right next to a white sandy beach. We stayed in the Hero/Hifumi house which is beautifully designed and right by the sea. The food was super - we loved our Christmas dinner of sushi and coconut milkshakes! Went on a magical hunt for fireflies one evening and had a wonderful day out snorkelling too - just the 4 of us on our own boat with the crew who barbequed chicken out the back of the boat for lunch and led us to the best spots for tremendous snorkelling. Out of our 2 and a half week island hopping holiday, this is the place that will stay with me and that I would want to return to one day.…
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Date of stay: December 2019
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Room Tip: go for the Hero/Hifumi house if possible!
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Response from VillaMarmarineResort, Owner at Villa Marmarine
Responded 9 Jan 2020
Hello Ms.Jen, Greeting's from Villa Marmarine! We, thank you so much for sharing your experience during your stay with us.It is our pleasure to serve each of our guest with pure & heartily given Japanese Filipino service. We are looking forward for your next stay with us. Wishing the whole family with abundant blessings to receive. We, miss you here!
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It's good location with great view. This hotel is in front of awesome white sand beach. It's amazing. And you can eat delicious japanese food also. I really would like to recommend this hotel. Vila marmarine is best of hotel in siquijor.
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Date of stay: November 2019Trip type: Traveled with friends
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Response from VillaMarmarineResort, Owner at Villa Marmarine
Responded 10 Dec 2019
Hello Mr/Ms Yusuki, Greetings from Villa Marmarine! We, thank you so much for dropping by your experience during your stay with us. Your words of appreciations motivate us to do more . We are looking forward for your next stay with us. See you!
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Yes, book at Villa Marmarine … IF … … you want peace and quiet, though our stay was disturbed a bit by construction on the property beside the resort. But that’s not the fault of the resort. … you don’t mind being away from where the “action” is. San Juan town is where the bars, restaurants and resorts are located one after the other, and is a 30 minute tricycle ride away for P250 each way (the sunset there is better). … you want to be just a few steps down to a clean beach with fine white sand mixed with corals and small rocks (so best to wear aqua socks) and clear water, though there’s not much by way of marine life (you need to take a boat for a snorkeling trip in a marine sanctuary - ask the resort for the schedule and price). It's a mid-length stretch of public beach but almost private since there are very few neighbors (as of the date of our stay). Compare to the beach on San Juan (the area of Infinity Sands, Baha Bar, etc.) which has trash and dog poop (from lots of stray dogs) on the beach, and seaweed (I guess it’s the time of the year that seaweed goes to that area). The resort has a lot of things going for it: very nice staff, onsite Japanese owners (so things run smoothly), clean rooms, reasonably priced food for a resort/hotel that’s mostly OK (best to stick to the Japanese and Filipino dishes), a rustic comfort feel except for the 2 most expensive rooms, Hero and Hifumi which are in a separate concrete structure (check the photos on their website). We stayed in Fuji room which had many of what we look for in a beach room/cottage: balcony facing the sea, hot and cold shower, TV, both airconditioning and ceiling fan coupled with screen doors and screened window on 2 sides so the windows and the sliding door to the balcony can be left open to let fresh air in (helped by the ceiling fan). BUT … there are many small things that need improvement specially with Fuji room and which add up to lessening the quality of the stay, hence, the 3 stars instead of the 4 stars I think it deserves. These are: – thin towels. We were originally provided with really thin, small bath towels that were almost translucent. We found out they have beach towels that are a bit thicker but are still on the small side and are frayed on the edges. -- thin and rough toilet paper. -- thin curtains that don’t provide any room darkening. Best to bring eye masks if you don’t want to be woken up by the sunlight early in the morning. -- no paper or cloth napkins in the restaurant. Just a wet face towel which is typical in Japanese restaurants. -- water in the shower has a rust smell. And the wall shows black molds. The bathroom needs to be renovated badly. -- sink is in a separate room from the toilet. The toilet and bath are separate, almost across the room from each other. But the sink is beside the bath, so after using the toilet, one needs to walk across the room to the bathroom to wash. Again, renovation is in order. -- there's a tiny spot to put a soap in the shower but no other shelf or other place to put your own shampoo, etc. inside the shower stall so we end up putting our stuff on the shower floor (yuck). -- very limited and not very good wine and spirits selection. They only had 1 choice for red wine, a local gin and local rum (though Philippine rum is world class) but they had sake and shoju. We ended up walking to the bar several meters to the left of the resort (if facing the water) for proper cocktails and decent wine. I wish I had a better review because the people there are really nice and other than the but's, it met our goal of a relaxing, comfortable stay, but those little things really bothered us. I still recommend a stay at Villa Marmarine though as it ticks off the boxes for a serene, simple and friendly stay in Siquior with decent and reasonably priced food BUT only if you can book either of the 2 rooms in the separate concrete structure shown in the website called Hero and Hifumi which I was able to check out while they were being cleaned in-between guests so I know that they’re in better shape in terms of the condition of the in-room facilities. And I just checked the website of Villa Marmarine and they have raised their rates. Luckily, when we booked, the rate for Fuji room was still P2500 per night without breakfast. We didn’t spend more than P600 for 2 people for breakfast each day. But the new rate for Fuji is now P4500 with breakfast, or P2000 more per night. That’s more than 50% increase. With the condition of Fuji as of this writing, it isn’t reasonably priced even with breakfast and it’s not worth the higher rate. But the price for Hero and Hifumi didn’t seem to increase much. So really, stay in Villa Marmarine only if you can get either Hero or Hifumi unless they renovate Fuji (and keep the new rate).…
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Date of stay: August 2019
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Response from VillaMarmarineResort, General Manager at Villa Marmarine
Responded 2 Sep 2019
Hello Ms.Eileen, Greeting's from Villa Marmarine! We, thank you so much for dropping by your experiences during your stay with us & we apologize for the room amenities & facilities that is out of your expectation. The management are planning to take action to each one of it and hoping for it to be finish & solve as soon as possible for the next occupant. We will send you the finish outcome of our renovation in Fuji as soon as we finish. We, thank you as well for dropping your good feedback regarding the services being rendered by my staff. We are looking forward for your next stay with us! Have a good day & wishing you abundant blessings to receive especially good health .
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PRICE RANGE
US$62 - US$69 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
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PhilippinesVisayasSiquijor Island
NUMBER OF ROOMS
10
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Frequently Asked Questions about Villa Marmarine
Which popular attractions are close to Villa Marmarine?
Nearby attractions include Cantabon Cave (5.1 km), Kanheron Ranch (2.4 km), and Tulapos Marine Sanctuary (0.2 km).
What are some of the property amenities at Villa Marmarine?
Some of the more popular amenities offered include free wifi, an on-site restaurant, and free parking.
What food & drink options are available at Villa Marmarine?
Guests can enjoy an on-site restaurant and breakfast during their stay.
What are some restaurants close to Villa Marmarine?
Conveniently located restaurants include Toto's The Little Molmol, Villa Marmarine Restaurant, and Larena Triad Coffee Shop.
Does Villa Marmarine have airport transportation?
Yes, Villa Marmarine offers airport transportation for guests. We recommend calling ahead to confirm details.
Are there any historical sites close to Villa Marmarine?
Many travellers enjoy visiting Lazi Convent (15.2 km).
Does Villa Marmarine have any great views?
Yes, guests often enjoy the ocean view available here.