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Boracay Regency Beach Resort and Convention Center
If you want to stay at the epicenter of the Boracay action, you can’t get a much better location than the AAA-rated Boracay Regency Beach Resort and Convention Center. Having the widest frontage of any hotel on White Beach, it’s a stunning spot. Restaurants, shops and bars also surround the hotel, so it’s only a few sandy steps to whatever your heart desires.
The hotel comprises three phases, but the earliest rooms in the south wing have benefited from refurbishment in late 2007. Older-style rooms are bright with tropical décor. Each of the two early wings has its own courtyard swimming pool. However, the impressive new garden wing was unveiled in mid-2007 and, though furthest away from the beach, it offers the most elegant accommodation. Cool, dark woods, and marble and stone predominate to offer a contemporary backdrop to locally produced design accents, and all the rooms overlook a courtyard dominated by water, with two exceptional pools, a Jacuzzi and central swim-up bar. Book a stay on the ground floor and you’ll be able to swim directly from your terrace. The garden wing is also home to Boracay Regency’s spa – located on the top floor for utmost privacy.
The hotel has a selection of bars and restaurants fronting the footpath that runs the length of White Beach. Sit at a table at M02 Wave, Prince Hendrik Café or Café Christina, and Boracay life will pass you as you relax. Watch honeymooners show off their matching henna tattoos or barter for pearls with the street vendors.
The impressive carved and painted Oriental-style disc at the top of the flight of steps leading to the upper floors of the hotel from the beach seems to be the signature view and is a favorite place for happy souvenir snappers.
Step across the sandy thoroughfare onto the beach itself, where the hotel has massage tables during the day and a delicious buffet every evening. Turn north or south and it’s a 2.5 km stroll to either end of the beach.
(L. Bennett, Island Guide: Philippines, 2008)