Alam Indah Beach Resort Busuanga

The view from the resort.

Extremely poorly managed resort, read the reviews, and was hoping for a wonderful resort away from town, but sadly, not even close. Reached around 7 pm, the guy who lives and takes care of the place didn't speak English, not a big deal. But it was certainly a challenge to check in to some extent. Taken to my room with part of the lights off, he then switched the lights which were behind my room. There is no lightting on the partway to get your vehicle down a 70-degree angle slope. Completely dangerous going down or up slope. See pictures, but it doesn't look much steep on the picture, but when you are there, you can experience it. It's in the middle of nature, lots of insects understandable, but when they are in your room and no precautions taken to prevent them from entering the room is not at all understandable. Basically, management doesn't really care, I had insects crawling all over the floor in my room and bed. One morning, I woke up to having a big insect walking on my pillow. Daily small insects crawling all over the bed and floor. You can see the gap between the floor and the door. Had dinner day 1 at the resort and took some chips for me to my room. The next morning, I woke up with a terrible stomach. It's day 3 now, and still my stomach is terrible. I've just been living the last 2 days on bread and beverages from outside the resort. Do not eat here at all, if you want to stay fit. No wonder day use guests get their own food too. Wifi is only in the restaurant, no wifi in the rooms at all. The booking posts free wifi, but no wifi in the room, so a big lie to marketing the place. See pictures. Booking says free airport shuttle service, when I told them that for my return I need airport shuttle, the girl the next morning said it would be charged 1500 pesos. Told them that it is said complementary, she kept quite then. When confirmed about my shuttle service, they said now 2500 pesos. They say it is an error from booking.

The sunset

Breakfast not included or available as said No aperitif as said Loud music by day visitors, cooking on the beach Make my room, then no show

Toller Ausblick aufs Meer. Toller Pool. Sehr sauber.

Essen bestand aus Tiefkühlkost. NaJa. Wir hatten einen Fisch mitgebracht. Der wurde ganz OK für uns zubereitet. Hohe Aufpreispolitik, z.B. für Upgrade. Der Bungalow wäre sehr schön, aber sehr teuer....

Prachtige lokatie aan het strand. Schitterend zwembad en heerlijk rustig.

Het resort ligt afgelegen, dichtstbijzijnde dorpje ligt 7 kilometer verderop. Wel makkelijk met een taxi scooter te bereiken. Maar ga je voor rust en goede prijs kwaliteit verhouding, laat je niet tegenhouden door het bovenstaande.

Mooie stille lokatie aan het strand met mooi huisje, prachtig zwembad.

De lokatie ligt wat afgelegen van winkels of een dorpje.

If one is looking for a place away from maddening crowd. A place to rest and recuperate Alam Indah is the ideal place with the beach villa overlooking the sea, a swimming pool to laze in. It’s a property that turns into a picnic spot for the locals over the weekend with loud karaoke, children running around from dawn till dusk. People barbecuing on the beach. There’s a different menu for the weekends where the rates vary from what was shared with us on our arrival. Since my trip was to rest and catch up on some much wanted reading, I enjoyed it to the T.

The property needs a lot of professional guidance on how things should look and feel in the villas. The description mentions a TV but there was none in the room. Although there are a lot of sockets provided to plug in devices in the room some of them do not work. We had to ask for help in getting the mini refrigerator working in the room. Also the menu is limited and there isn’t a bar menu that was shared with us so we had to source our own drinks except coke.

Waterfront location was lovely. There was one exceptional staff member who went out of his way to arrange a private boat tour for us.

The property and facilities were inaccurately promoted on booking.com. The room was literally rotting from the roof down. There was no bar stock - even beer ran out. No wine or cocktail; no fish or seafood available from the menu choices. Few staff spoke English. We were charged more than the booking quote with the manager and owner insisting we pay cash. This proved to be a day tripping hotel that charges for beach access. Beware!! This is not a boutique high service resort. Our days were swamped by large family groups over the weekend blaring music and karaoke.