Your next home in Anilao.
Acacia Resort and Dive Center is situated in the middle of the Mabini-Tingloy Pensinsula, north of Puerto Galera and West of the Verde Island Passage.
This area is also more commonly referred to as simply 'Anilao'. Most of the popular dive sites in the area are accessible via the local boats (bangka) in 30 minutes or less.
The resort has 6 standard rooms, 4 Deluxe Rooms and 6 Deluxe Suites. We have our own buffet-style restaurant and bar that serves Filipino and international cuisine. We also operate a fully equipped dive center with a state of the art gas-filling facility on-site.
All rooms and facilities were built around a century-old Acacia tree that sits in the middle of the resort, shading the restaurant and pool area.
Our staff will take care of your any need- from diving arrangements to special food requests to make sure you get to focus on what you came to Anilao for--- diving.
Rooms & Rates
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STANDARD ROOM
Top-notch facilities comprise Acacia’s interior. A queen-size bed which will cradle you to sleep after a long day of adventure. The room’s soft, glowing atmosphere ensures our guests with optimal relaxation. it also provides a more spacious bathroom.
This is inclusive of full board meals and light afternoon snacks, unlimited coffee, tea, hot chocolate, juice and iced tea.
Rates:
- Single - USD 145/pax
- Twin sharing - USD 110/pax
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DELUXE ROOM
Top-notch facilities comprise Acacia’s interior. A queen-size bed which will cradle you to sleep after a long day of adventure. The room’s soft, glowing atmosphere ensures our guests with optimal relaxation. it also provides a more spacious bathroom.
This is inclusive of full board meals and light afternoon snacks, unlimited coffee, tea, hot chocolate, juice and iced tea.
Rates:
- Single - USD 155/pax
- Twin sharing - USD 120/pax
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DELUXE SUITE
Top-notch facilities comprise Acacia’s interior. A queen-size bed which will cradle you to sleep after a long day of adventure. The room’s soft, glowing atmosphere ensures our guests with optimal relaxation. it also provides a more spacious bathroom.
This is inclusive of full board meals and light afternoon snacks, unlimited coffee, tea, hot chocolate, juice and iced tea.
Rates:
- Single - USD 180/pax
- Twin sharing - USD 135/pax
The Dive Center
We pride ourselves with having some of the best dive crew in Anilao. We employ some of the best spotters specialized to assist underwater photographers find those rare critters. Our boat and land support crew were trained to handle all your equipment - cameras, tech gear, DPV's and even rebreathers with competency and utmost care.
For those wanting to learn to dive, we offer PADI and GUE courses with some of the best instructors from Manila.
For divers looking for more advanced adventures, we have twin (manifolded) cylinders available for rent, along with backplates, wings, deco/stage bottles and regulators available to rent.
Dive Equipment
Full Gear
Boat Rental
Aquatec BCD’s
Tanks & Air Fills
Apeks Regulators
Wetsuits
Dive Mask
Booties
Fins
Mabini, Philippines
Strictly speaking, calling the entire area Anilao is incorrect. The name of the municipality that encloses the entire dive area is called Mabini. Anilao is just one of the towns inside this municipality. However, in years past, the roads leading to the Mabini resorts had not existed, so if a diver wanted to dive in the area, he had to go through the Anilao port and then hail a boat which would then take them to their chosen resorts.
Years later, when modern roads have been built to allow easy access to all the resorts, this practice is no longer in effect, but the name Anilao had stuck, and it is the name that is remembered for some of the best diving in the world.
Anilao Dive Sites
Anilao definitely isn’t just for macro photography. The area also offers some great reef and wall dives, sea mounds and coral gardens. Some of these sites are best experienced when the currents are picking up. Though not guaranteed, there are also occasional sightings of sharks, manta rays and eagle rays.
Among the most popular sites in Anilao are the following:
Twin Rocks – Home to a great school of jackfish, this site is at an easy 20m with a vast coral garden.
Cathedral – One of the most famous of all Anilao’s dives, the site is so named because of a concrete cross that sits at 15m in between 2 huge boulders teeming with marine life. The cross was brought down in the 80’s after it was blessed by Pope John Paul II.
Secret Bay – At some point, Secret Bay may have defined the kind of diving one could expect to do in Anilao—muck, with the craziest assortment of rare critters to be found. Most of the critters can be found at around 5m, but you can go as deep as 30m and still find things of great interest.
Basura – Like Secret Bay, Basura (which means trash in Filipino), is a favorite among underwater photographers. Situated on the shore of one of the local communities, the site was so named after the trash that found its way there from the human inhabitants. This however, no longer holds true as the local community had taken a stand to protect the site. The trash is no longer there, but the critters remain.
Beatriz Rock - A sea mound beside Sombrero Island, the shallow reef starts a mere 6m with a sandy bottom at around 20m. Best with slight current and the bright sun.
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How to get here
- From Manila – go south on the South Expressway (SLEX) until the end of the toll gate.
- Go straight and travel 7.5km to the start of STAR Tollway.
- Enter STAR Tollway and go to the very end towards Batangas City (~40km).
- At the end of STAR Tollway, at the rotunda, cross Manila-Batangas Highway and go onto Diversion Road towards Batangas International Port, and travel 3.5km.
- RIGHT turn under over-pass onto Batangas-Balayan Highway towards Bauan, and travel 3.8km.
- LEFT turn after Manghinao Bridge, Bauan towards Mabini, and travel 9.5km.
- RIGHT turn on Mabini rotunda towards Anilao, and travel 1.7km.
- LEFT turn on coastal road in anilao towards Barrio Bagalangit, and travel 8.8km.
- RIGHT turn on Acacia Resort & Dive Center.
How to get here
- From Manila – go south on the South Expressway (SLEX) until the end of the toll gate.
- Go straight and travel 7.5km to the start of STAR Tollway.
- Enter STAR Tollway and go to the very end towards Batangas City (~40km).
- At the end of STAR Tollway, at the rotunda, cross Manila-Batangas Highway and go onto Diversion Road towards Batangas International Port, and travel 3.5km.
- RIGHT turn under over-pass onto Batangas-Balayan Highway towards Bauan, and travel 3.8km.
- LEFT turn after Manghinao Bridge, Bauan towards Mabini, and travel 9.5km.
- RIGHT turn on Mabini rotunda towards Anilao, and travel 1.7km.
- LEFT turn on coastal road in anilao towards Barrio Bagalangit, and travel 8.8km.
- RIGHT turn on Acacia Resort & Dive Center.
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