Dining

With its open-air dining area, the clubhouse provides an excellent venue for dining, where one can feel the fresh sea breeze and watch the sun set while sampling the exquisite meals prepared by the in-house chefs.

Accommodations

Elegantly designed to blend perfectly with its natural landscape, there are sixteen rooms spread over two floors, that provide an awe-inspiring sea view.

The warmly-lit rooms provide an inviting atmosphere for that well-deserved rest, complemented by soft pillows and high thread count sheets for a good night’s sleep. All rooms are well-furnished with all the amenities typical of a modern resort. Each room is also adorned with its own balcony area offering sea views over the sprawling manicured lawn below.

Poolside

With a clear view of the sea and surrounded by a lush garden, the Aiyanar infinity pool is the perfect place to soak up the sun or just to wind down after an activity-filled day. Enjoy a smoothie or an ice cold cocktail while watching the sun setting on the Anilao coastline to end a perfect Aiyanar day. For those that wish to take up some dive courses at Aiyanar Beach and Dive Resort, the infinity pool is a two-sided pool with one side having a depth of 15 feet, where you can practice and train.

Dive Center

Aiyanar Beach & Dive Resort has every tool to make a diver’s and underwater photographer’s stay a pleasant and seamless experience. The boats have been custom-designed to be longer and wider to become better-suited for carrying UW photographers and their equipment. In addition, Aiyanar has 4 fast boats of different sizes to make dive trips to farther destinations, such as Verde Island and Puerto Galera, more accessible.

The Dive Center is complete with gear and tools to suit all diving needs. It sits on more than 120 sq. of a well-designed space that assists in the efficient flow of divers departing and arriving at the resort during peak operations.

Underwater Camera Room

The camera room can comfortably house 18 Photographers actively working on their cameras with provisions for double the number, if needed. It has been dubbed as one of the best equipped camera rooms in Anilao, Batangas.

Details such as air hoses are in place, ready for blasting and drying wet cameras. Camera tables are covered in a non-slip rubber material that helps keep all of your parts in place while you prepare for your dive. The Aiyanar camera room is truly a space designed by underwater photographers to service photographers.

Anilao

Over the years, Anilao remains to be one of the most popular diving destinations in the Philippines. Strategically located in Mabini, Batangas, only 2-3 hours’ drive from Metro Manila, Anilao is known to be home to the beginnings of majority of the diving population of the Philippines. Divers who take their open water course in Manila or in any location within Luzon most likely have their first taste of real open water in Anilao. In addition, it’s accessibility to Manila makes it a favorite amongst weekend warriors and excursionists.

Decades ago, Anilao was merely a secret haven for locals. Today, resorts line the coast of Mabini catering to a myriad of clientele. It is a town built upon the love of diving. As such, development in Anilao strictly abides by the rules of conservation and sustainability. Locals proudly hold that Anilao has been a protected marine area since the 70’s and are determined to maintain it as such.

Today, there is an international boom in the interest in the Philippine diving industry, highlighting Anilao and its many diving opportunities. It is a haven that caters to divers of all skill levels and interests.

For example, those who like bigger animals will find that Anilao has no shortage of sharks, rays, and other good-sized schooling fish like trivially barracuda. It is also not unlikely to spot the occasional whale shark or other bigger animals while diving. These can be found at the more advanced sights with good currents and some deeper reefs (e.g. mainit point, bahura kanto, mapating larry’s garden and twin rocks).

In turn, those who prefer nice easy diving and colorful soft and hard corals will be fully-satisfied in Anilao. Located right in the middle of the coral triangle, Anilao boasts of some of the widest diversity of coral life that can be found on a dive. Good-sized hard corals such as brain, table and staghorn corals are on almost every dive. Combined with an array of soft corals, large sponges and gorgonian fans, you can have the most picturesque dive.

Lastly, for those with a keen eye and a love for critter photography, Anilao delivers critter diving that rivals the best critter diving in the world. Sites such as the more recently discovered “Secret Bay”, and the Anilao classic “Basura” offer critter diving that equals the shores of Dauin, and even Lembeh in Indonesia. Critters such as the frogfish (the giant, the clown and the hairy), wonderpus, flamboyant cuttlefish, and, lately, even the pinnacle of critter diving, the rhinopias, have been spotted on a regular basis off the shores of Anilao and have been photographed on a regular basis.

With a rich marine biodiversity within an environment maintained and protected by the local communities, Anilao proves to be one of the foremost marine conservation and diving destinations of the Philippines.