"Pros: The view from the room was stunning! Staff were lovely. Breakfast was simple but great (those banana fritas). The room had everything you needed and was cool. Refillable water service was good. A few small works going on near the beach (looks like they’re expanding) and so was noisy at times in the day (hammering etc), but nothing major. Thanks to the team for a lovely stay!" ~Lilley

"Pros: (1) Perfect location: very quiet, on the other side of a hill so sounds from beach bars don't reach the rooms. It's especially apparent when you walk from the room to the beach in the evening: after you cross the summit you start hearing music from beach bars / restaurants, ones you didn't hear close to the room. (2) Quiet air conditioner: not very strong but sufficient for the room. (3) Decent-sized (not a small minibar type) and quiet (!) fridge, we for example bought fruits and stored them in it. (4) Basically nothing disturbs your sleep when in the room (except possibly your partner? ;-). (5) The real hidden gem is hotel's private beach, snorkeling on it you can see plenty of baby reef sharks!!! I saw maybe about 12 at the same time. Pro tip: don't swim too fast or too much, actually move your hands and feet as little as possible, otherwise you'll scare the sharks. Just get to the right place (a bit further out from the shore, near the rope) and wait a bit. Sharks will come. And don't swim in the area to the right of the entrance limited by rope, it's an area reserved only for the sharks. Instead, hold on to the rope so that you don't need to move and don't scare sharks away. (6) Nearby hotel Blanco Beach Resort has a very good restaurant next to the Tepanee's private beach, and this restaurant serves very tasty food and fresh juices. (7) Soft, comfortable beds (memory foam but it's fine). (8) Nice furnuture, room had a work table. (9) Good WiFi. (10) Hotel is built on a hill so you can save up on gym - just walking to / from your bungalow will burn enough calories ;-) (11) Views from this hill and the partner restaurant are breath-taking. Cons: None of these presented problems for us, but FYI: (1) Rooms have wooden floors and they are creaky! One person just walking in the room can wake up another person sleeping. Also people on the first floor in 2-floor bungalows can hear people walking on the second floor. (2) Air conditioner blows directly on to the bed, so it's often cold when turned on and hot when turned off. I dealt with this by almost closing the vent manually so that air goes directly down. (3) Strange policy: you need to show the credit card used to book the hotel, like they try to combat fraud. This is a thing some airlines (rarely) do, but I've never seen this in a hotel. The card I used was a virtual card so it doesn't exist in physical form, but they accepted seeing the card in my bank application. (4) Reception has a sign "water refill" but there is no water refill there actually, so if 1 liter of free drinking water per day is not enough you'll need to buy bottles of water from mini-bar at 80 PHP per bottle (inflated price obviously). (5) Hotel's partner restaurant used for breakfasts and dinners, called Amihana, is let's say below average, food is not very tasty. (6) If you (as most people) come there for diving, one important thing to consider is the distance from your hotel to the dive shop. You will need to walk to and from your chosen dive shop every day, often on sand (I don't think most dive shops offer pick ups), often early in the morning. This hotel is in one corner of the island, so distance to dive shops on the other side might be too large to be comfortable, make sure you check the distance when you make plans." ~Hurryscurry