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Buena Vida Resort & Spa
Malapascua
Located on the beautiful and tropical island of Malapascua, Buena Vida Resort aims to bring modern style accommodation with a touch of revitalizing relaxation to your holiday. It doesn’t matter if you are here to dive, enjoy the climate or just escape the trappings of everyday life.
Accommodation
At Buena Vida, we make sure that all our rooms provide you with a welcoming and relaxing atmosphere. The style and furniture is chosen for a modern contemporary design, which will not only make you comfortable, but also blend in with the surroundings and fit everybody´s needs. Our rooms are all equipped with air-condition, fan, mini bar, safety box, and fresh towels. Tea, coffee and a bottle of water are complimentary. On top of this, we provide the guests with our homemade, all natural, mosquito repellent.
Every room has a spacious and private bathroom with hot and cold shower. Daily housekeeping and exchanging of towels, on your request, is our standard. All rooms have a beautiful view of the colorful, tropical gardens of Buena Vida.
Garden Room
The eight garden rooms are located in a nice two story building, with a spacious and private wooden terrace. The rooms have a maximum capacity of two adults.
Family Room
The family huts are located opposite the garden rooms and have the same room size. The difference is an additional smaller room, which can be used for extra guests. The maximum capacities of the family rooms are three adults or two adults with up to two children. The private wooden terrace is even bigger than in our garden rooms, which gives everybody enough space to sit and relax outside.
Diving
Buena Vida Resort & Spa has not his own dive center but we are partner with Sea Explorers, which is a PADI 5 Star Dive Center and has around 15 years experience in Malapascua Island itself and more than 25 years in the Philippines. Surely one of the leading dive centers in the Philippines. Recently in the beginning of 2015, the dive center was nominated by the German dive magazine “TAUCHEN” as one of the best 3 dive centers in the Indo-Pacific region.
In these days the dive center can accommodate around 40 divers and students who are willing to learn how to dive and divers which have passions to see amazing underwater critters or pelagics like Thresher Sharks, Mobula Rays, Manta Rays, Eagle or Mabul Rays and surely the White Tip Reef Sharks at Gato Island.
Beside a great office, a spacious equipment room for rental and personal equipment, air condition classroom the dive center operates 2 beautiful and newly renovated banka boats with which they do beautiful daytrips to different island like Calanggaman, Gato or Sambawan Island.