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a small pool on the top floor. Rooms are tasteful and
comfortable (P1590), all with cable TV and fridge, although
the cheapest standard rooms are windowless. The hotel
has a well-stocked 24hr convenie
nce stor
e which also sells
local handicrafts and
pasalubong
.
P1400
Nisa Traveller's Inn
14 CPG Ave
T
038 412 3731,
W
nisatravellersinn.com.
One of the better budget places
in town, featuring good doubles with fan and clean bath-
room, as well as more
expen
sive a/c rooms (P1000). Rooms
at the front are noisy.
P500
EATING
Buzz Café
Island City Mall
T
038 510 1822,
W
bohol
beefarm.com.
Owned by Bohol Bee Farm (see below) and
featuring the same exquisite range of fresh dishes as the
hotel restaurant, including organic garden salads (P120)
and honey-glazed chicken (P160). They also have delicious
ginger lemonade (P50) and sell packaged local delicacies.
Free wi-fi.
Daily 8am-9pm.
★
Joving's Seafood
By the pier.
Immense menu that
includes grilled tuna, marlin and lapu-lapu, chilli crab and
king prawns. All dishes are served with a hefty mound of
steaming hot rice; two people can fill up here for around
P500. Next door
MR Seafood
offers similar fare.
Daily
10am-10pm.
The Prawn Farm
Island City Mall.
Surprisingly chic for
small-town mall dining,
The Prawn Farm
serves excellent
tilapia in lemon butter sauce (P155), and equally tasty
prawns in garlic and chilli (P215).
Daily 8am-9pm.
Shiang Ma Nou
Gallares St
T
038 501 0076.
Popular
and friendly Cantonese restaurant serving dim sum,
noodles (P75) and
siomai
(dumplings; P45). As well as the
menu items you can also choose from the live seafood
display. Meals can be enjoyed in the cool of the a/c interior,
or in the outdoor dining area.
Daily 10am-10pm.
6
The Garden Café
Plaza Rizal
T
038 411 3701.
Established by the Bohol Deaf Academy and providing
training for deaf students, this café has a menu mixing
Mexican and Filipino dishes (P150-300). You can communi-
cate with the staff in writing, or with sign language (a few
basic signs are listed in the menu). Downstairs, tasty mango
pies are on sale in the cake shop, and upstairs is a fun-filled
Wild West-themed restaurant with moose heads on the wall,
wooden booths and cowboy-booted staff.
Daily 7am-10pm.
DIRECTORY
Banks
There are plenty of banks with ATMs (including
BPI and Metrobank) to be found on CPG Ave. You can also
change money in Tagbilaran City Square Mall.
Hospitals
The Provincial Hospital (
T
038 411 4831) is on
M. Parras St.
Immigration
The Bureau of Immigration (
T
038 235
6084) is on CPG Ave.
Internet
access
To get online, try Cathedral Internet Café
on M.H. Del Pilar St, or Sidewalk Express around the corner
on CPG Ave. Many coffee shops have free wi-fi connection,
including Bo's Coffee and Buzz Café in Island City Mall.
Police
The police station is near City Hall, behind St
Joseph's Cathedral.
Post
The post o
ce is on CPG Ave.
Panglao Island
Across the bridge from Tagbilaran,
PANGLAO
boasts beautiful beaches, first-rate diving
and historic Spanish churches. The whole island is enjoying increasing popularity,
nowhere more so than
Alona Beach
, and while there is now a great choice of hotels and
restaurants, this also means higher room and food prices. The best quieter stretches of
white sand are
Bolod Beach
,
San Isidro Beach
,
Bikini Beach
, all on the south coast, and
Doljo Beach
, near the westernmost tip of the island.
Given the dive boats filling the coast along Alona, the best sea
swimming
on the island is
to be found at the exclusive resorts along the south coast, such as
Bohol Beach Club
(see
p.296). Alternatively you could head to one of the quieter north coast beaches at Doljo or
Momo
, both of which have good swimming at certain times of year.
Away from the reefs and beaches, Panglao has two main towns,
Dauis
and
Panglao
,
on the east and west sides of the island respectively, both of which hold pretty Spanish
churches. The rest of the interior presents a verdant rural pastiche of nipa huts and
towering palms, perfect for short walks, cycle rides or touring by motorbike.
Bohol Bee Farm
Dao, Dauis • Daily 8am-5pm •
T
038 510 1822,
W
boholbeefarm.com
Near Dao on the island's southern coast,
Bohol Bee Farm
offers the chance to tour an
organic bee and vegetable farm, and then sample the delicious produce at the restaurant
