Babu Backpackers inn

Really good location, exactly where you’d want to be staying right near lots of restaurants, cafes, and the beach. Also a food court nearby with many affordable vegetarian options. The room was clean and the shared facilities were okay.

The room was pretty small but this wasn’t an issue for us. The pool didn’t look clean enough to use but unsure if this was because of the rain.

Good location and provided water which is really good. They also waited up for us arriving at 1 from Cebu which was lovely

It rained a lot on one night and the roof leaked onto the bed. We also didn’t have a key to lock the room behind us

Friendly and helpful staff

The staff was friendly and helpful. But as we were there just old philippino men were staying in the room. The bed were just next to each other with not very much private space or separetion cause the mattress were literally just next to each other. The room was to cold and we had to start a big argument with the filipino roomate. Shower was cold. The dorm door is just outside near the street and you can not lock the doors. We knew we were just 3 in the room and then in the middle of the night a group of 2 men came in with a guy from the staff. I was scared as hell and you don’t feel safe.

lovely host, cheaper than other hostels, far enough away from the loud 'strip', great cheap food and drink right beside the property, free coffee and water.

air con was hit and miss, the room was very small (bunk beds for a twin room), the pool is a lot smaller than it looks in photos. no social vibe really.

Staff were amazing (a young boy & girl), helped us with anything that we needed. Really good location (1 min walk to a big food mall). They had free coffee and water, which was amazing and a lovely pool out front.

Nothing

Managment and staff were eager to help but the inn's water pipe and pressure needs serious upgrades. Also Coffee and free water.

Don't stay here and keep your sanity" Where to begin: on day two, the water in our room, private AC double with en suite shower, just weakened and trickled to a steady child's door #1. That means forgettaboutit of taking normal showers and we did jungle style by pouring buckets of water slowly and strategically over our bodies for 4 days. On day 5th, our final full day, water shut off was complete. NO WATER! Not even tiny drips. For good part of a day. To be fair, I did address it to Catherine, the agreeable lady manager, who was quite professional and courteous and suggested that we shower in a dorm room where water pressure was normal, which we did. But we didn't paid for a shared bath room. Just our sh***y luck that no water is pumped into our room with en suite bathroom. The big irony is that there's a kiddie pool, about 8x8, just half-a-step outside our room! Question is why bother with a small kiddie pool when spectacular P.B. is 10 mins walk away? Deal with the structural water pipes and pressure in restrooms for the guests 1st and avoid complaints and comments like this coming from guests! Noise pollution: our so-called private nice room, the last of room addition I suspect, is built inches away from the main thoroughfare - the Pagnasana Beach Blvd - (meandering its way to dusty, scrappy Pagnasana Beach for awesome sardine runs) that plagued us in our room with a rousing symphony and chaotic cacophony of occasional large trucks with "Egyptian Brakes" speeding thru, plentiful motorcycles on suicide missions, sputtering clankering trikes on their last wheels, chorus of noisy roosters in the neighborhood crowing early morning, and nightly wannabe hip disco dumps and shaggy bars just stone's throws away from Babu Backpacker's Inn just BASS-THUMPING away til very late, all assaulted us with noise pollutions no different from some dark alley in Manila and max decibels like some Swifties concerts on steroid!

The location was close to the centre and beach. Staff were friendly and always happy to help.

Very difficult to get to sleep. The air con in the room was extremely old and very noisey, even ear plugs could not drown it out and the entire room seemed to vibrate all night. Pillows were very poor and the bed uncomfortable.