El Nido Coco Resort

- clean - friendly staff - great beach bar with pool - good breakfast - beautiful gardens

Very nice setting, fairly quiet, little place to sit in a mini pool, the swimming pool was clean, meals were good, staff was very friendly. I would visit again. Beach was really nice, ate at different places along the beach.

More birds, closer to the beach, but it wasn't a long walk, lots of biting bugs. Not much of anything really

El Nido Coco resort is an excellent place to stay. Four adults and two tweens traveling together, we stayed three nights. The street along Corong Corong beach is very busy, and not so peaceful, but the drop down to the resort’s entrance cuts most of the noise, and the grounds of the resort itself are very pleasant. You enter near a restaurant and pool area with stalls for massages nearby. The resort itself seems to be a large L shaped piece of land, we were in the short leg of the L up near the restaurant. At first I was a little disappointed, not to be closer to the beach, which is out near the tip of the long leg of the L. However, this part of the resort is more quiet and open, the lodgings closer to the beach don’t really have much of a “front yard” but then again they are close to the beach! We found our room/cabin?/bohai? To be very spacious and exactly what we were hoping for. A private space, well isolated from our neighbors, very pleasant. They put us next-door to the rest of our group, so that part was perfect. Facilities: lots of concrete and tile, pleasant artwork, everything was clean and worked correctly. AC was cold, shower has hot water. There was a little soaking tub on our front porch, which was awesome! Staff: the booking staff were great, we got massages and had laundry done, they also booked several vehicles for us. Everything was well done and very pleasant, easy to interact with. A couple of the folks in our group are fluent into Tagalog, I did most of the booking in English. Staff was fully comfortable either way. Serving staff at the restaurant were very friendly and helpful. They helped our kids make good choices that they ended up enjoying. Restaurant: food was excellent! Breakfast had a light buffet, and we had paid for included breakfast, so we were also able to order larger meals, the menu was a little bit limited, but each of the options was delicious and they had something for everyone.

I’m sure if we’d have stayed longer the menu at the restaurant might have gotten repetitive, but then again you’re staying right in the middle of a huge beach walk with tons and tons of restaurants, so that might be kind of the point!

location in a lovely beach

the cost of food was very expensive especially when we paid half to eat in town including taxi there