The shoreline first
Nothing is built between the rooms and the water. The tallest thing on the property is a palm.
Our story
Twenty-eight years on the same stretch of sand
The Waterfront began as a weekend house. The rooms came later, one at a time.
About us
A resort that grew out of a family weekend house
What is now twenty-four rooms started as one house on a lot in Nagbalayong, bought because the sunset was better there than anywhere else on the bay.
The first four rooms were built for friends who kept asking to stay. The restaurant followed because there was nowhere nearby to eat, and the pool because the sea gets rough in the habagat months. Everything since has been added the same way — because a guest needed it, not because a plan called for it.
Most of the team lives within a few kilometres of the property. Several of them have been here longer than the pool has. If you have stayed before, someone at the front desk will remember which room you asked for.
How we run it
Three things we have not changed
Run by the family
The same household has managed the resort since 1998, and most of the team is from Nagbalayong.
Quiet by design
Twenty-four rooms, no function hall on the beach, and last call at midnight.
- 180 m
- of private shoreline
- 24
- rooms, suites and casitas
- 3 hrs
- from Metro Manila
- 1998
- welcoming guests since