Sugarsea Inn & Dive Shop

I have stayed here for Island Dive Trip. They arrange a private dive guider when I told them I am not experience .I was welcomed by Miss Din in the front desk. The room is very comfortable that I just wanna stay all day in the room after diving . I love the natural designs and the well-equipped facilities of the room. Dante and Magarita were very accommodating, they've assisted me in everything I need. Miss Din made some recommendations what to do in Mactan Island, which was very helpful. And the place is near the dive sites 1 -2 minutes by boat. :)

When I was looking for accommodation for my diving trip, I noticed this homestay with exceptional ratings, ranging from very good to very bad! Curiosity drove me to choose it! I really enjoyed SugarSea and will definitely be coming back! First, the location is far away from the downtown, which is what I wanted, and second, the food is great and the value is good! Diving is very interesting, let me know diving is not only see big fish, the ocean still hides a lot of small creatures, feel the charm of macro! The most important thing is that the staff is very friendly and enthusiastic, although the English is not special standard, but I like it! I'm pretty sure the Owner is paying attention! Finally, I would like to say that I think this hotel meets all my needs and I will recommending!

Maybe I didn't read the description properly but this is a VERY basic place. I suppose the word 'inn' should have alerted me. It really is very much for scuba diving a nothing else. The room was very basic and it took me two minutes to decide I was out of there. I was told there was a restaurant but I didn't get that far. The approach road is very bad and is some way from any proper roads and runs through what is best described as a bit of a shanty town.

Everybody already said about the location...hard to access and the floating garbage at the sea and the road. For you to be able to surely come and go to/from the hotel, book their recommended drivers IN ADVANCE because they also have other tours and bookings! They are not only there for you so plan a day ahead! But if one is not available, they will call their friends whom they know can drive this "special road" to this small hotel. The owners are chinese and seemed nice and friendly. The hotel staffs are very friendly too. Food there is okey, nothing spectacular. Rooms are small and needs renovation specially the bathroom. I was expecting an upper room with a seaview but we were given 2nd floor room with a not a nice view but we were too tired to complain. We just needed a place to sleep after a long flight and before our next trip. Cleanliness , well the photos from others here says it all. The staffs tries but I believe the hotel also needs a lot of renovation which is important on tropic places otherwise the hotel will fall apart. The really thing that disturbs me is one can only pay cash. That means the hotel management is not paying the proper taxes to the government. They can always manipulate their sales to pay lower taxes or not at all. I don't like that. It happens everywhere, not only in this hotel or country. We booked an island tour with them. It was great but one can see everywhere that floating plastic and other garbage are everywhere. If Cebu will not do something about it, they will ruin their own existence. It is sad but we have seen the same thing when we were in Bali. Anyways, our boatman was so kind to come looking for me because I was swept away by the current while I was snorkeling. I was so excited taking videos of the fishes and enjoying their company that I did not noticed that I was already way too far from our boat! My husband was worried like hell when he did not see me and our boatman readily saw where I could be judging from the current. Thank you!

As this property is difficult to access we booked it on the express understanding that we would be “upper floor” and with the sea view advertised for all accommodation. We arrived to be allocated a ground floor room with a fully glass frontage on the access way to the other upstairs rooms and restaurant. To have any semblance of privacy the curtains (that didn’t completely close) had to be shut all time. The sea view was no existent. The room was adjacent to the pool which had no regulation and at 1 am I had to ask a group of young people to desist. Fortunately they did. The access lights were on all night and as the curtains did not completely close the room was light all night. The plumbing for the room above came through the ceiling and every sound of those occupants excreting could be clearly heard followed by the resounding sound of the flush. The bathroom in our room was at the foot of the bed separated by a sliding glass panel. What compounded the problem was that the person managing the check in was defiant and would not accept responsibility that they had taken our money under totally false and deceptive pretences. They accepted our booking and corresponded with me about the booking. We would have left but the property is isolated and it was late and would not have proceeded if I had known it was a ground floor room. The restaurant staff were delightful, the food was ok and the beer was cheap. As a padi advanced diver who has dived all around the world I would be cautious of any operation who are prepared to operate in a deceptive manner.

This is a dive school, so the room and food are really so so, small and smelly room without windows. Air con didn't always work well. Only 2-3 rooms have ocean view. The dive class was expensive, didn't worth it. The teacher didn't talk much, especially for the theory part. He said nothing basically. The diving facilities were really old, often broken. We changed 3 bcds during the 2 day class, all because they were broken. Not to say the shoes and wet suits, holes were everywhere. The Phillipino guides were kind, friendly, but they touched underwater creatures. They even catched a fish for tourists to take photos!!?? That's not tolerable as divers. We should protect the ocean!!! And they teached nothing about environmental protection during the class. PADI does a lot better than them in the field. I would never recommend this place.