UD Rating - 3 Stars

Year Round

16 Hours

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Solitude Acacia Resort

A stylish boutique retreat in Anilao, perfect for divers and ocean lovers seeking comfort and serenity

Solitude Acacia Resort is a modern boutique escape in Anilao, designed for divers and ocean lovers seeking comfort, style, and easy access to world-class marine life. Set along a peaceful coastline and centered around a historic acacia tree, the resort blends nature with contemporary design for a serene and refreshing getaway.

Guests enjoy well-appointed rooms, ocean-view dining at The Acacia Restaurant, and relaxing leisure spaces including a shaded pool and airy social areas. The resort’s fully equipped dive centre and professional team offer seamless access to Anilao’s vibrant reefs and famous macro critters, with excellent support for underwater photographers.

Whether diving, unwinding by the sea, or simply savoring the calming tropical atmosphere, Solitude Acacia Resort provides a warm, comfortable, and memorable retreat for both divers and non-divers.

Board Basis

Full Board Daily breakfast, lunch and dinner
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Deluxe Rooms

The Deluxe Room offers 27–37 m² of space and can be configured with a king bed, twin beds, or triple share option. It accommodates up to 3 adults and 1 child (10 yrs or below sharing adults’ bed), with easy access to the restaurant, bar, and pool area.

  • Mini Bar
  • Hairdryer
  • Air conditioning
  • Tea and Coffee Making Facilities
  • Safety Deposit Box
  • T.V.
  • 220 volt electrical points
  • Desk
  • Bathrobes
  • Bath Towels
  • Wi-Fi
  • Wardrobe
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Sea View Deluxe Room

The Sea View Deluxe Room features 31 m² of space with a king bed or twin beds, and comfortably fits up to 3 adults and 1 child (10 yrs or below sharing adults’ bed). Its west-facing balcony offers ocean and pool views.

  • Mini Bar
  • Hairdryer
  • Air conditioning
  • Tea and Coffee Making Facilities
  • Safety Deposit Box
  • T.V.
  • 220 volt electrical points
  • Desk
  • Bathrobes
  • Bath Towels
  • Wi-Fi
  • Wardrobe

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Solitude Acacia Dive Centre

Solitude Acacia Resort

Solitude Acacia Dive Centre is the dedicated dive centre at Solitude Acacia Resort in Anilao, Batangas, Philippines, an area renowned for its exceptional muck diving and marine biodiversity. The fully equipped centre caters to divers of all experience levels, with access to vibrant reefs, rare macro life and colourful nudibranchs. It maintains a maximum ratio of two divers to one guide, providing personalised attention and a strong focus on safety.

The centre offers a wide range of diving experiences, including guided boat and shore diving, night dives and Blackwater diving. Anilao’s waters are particularly well known for fascinating macro encounters, with divers able to search for nudibranchs, unusual critters and diverse reef species. The centre also features a spacious 28-station camera room with charging and rinsing facilities, making it particularly well suited to underwater photographers.

Solitude Acacia Dive Centre is the first official Avelo Dive Centre in the Philippines, offering Avelo courses, certification and equipment rental alongside traditional scuba diving. The Avelo System uses a Hydrotank and Jetpack to reduce equipment weight and provide more consistent buoyancy control. The centre also provides recreational scuba training, Enriched Air Nitrox, a Bauer membrane compressor and dedicated safety equipment, while Avelo-equipped diving is available at the resort and on selected Solitude One itineraries.

PADI Open Water Diver (Inc Equipment)

This is the most popular dive program in the world! And can be your chance to have a lifetime of intense adventures.

The PADI Open Water Diver course consists of three main phases:

Knowledge Development ( online, independent study or in a classroom) to understand basic principles of scuba diving
Confined Water Dives to learn basic scuba skills
Open Water Dives to use your skills and explore!

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver

The Advanced Open Water Diver program gives you the opportunity to take your diving skill to the next level through three new areas of diving.
You complete your Deep Dive, Underwater Navigation Dive, Night Dive and two other dives for a total of five to attain your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

This certification includes five dives, including the Deep Diver, the Underwater Navigation Diver and three of the following: You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives – Deep and Underwater Navigation – and you choose the other three, for a total of five dives. During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn how to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving. The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive refines your compass navigation skills and helps you better navigate using kick-cycles, visual landmarks and time.

The other knowledge and skills you get vary with your interest and the adventures you have – photography, buoyancy control, fish identification, exploring wrecks and many more.

PADI Discover Scuba Diving

This course is a subset of the PADI Open Water Diver course. If you're short on time but really want to become a diver, the PADI Scuba Diver rating might be right for you.

The PADI Scuba Diver course consists of three main phases:

PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver

The most popular PADI specialty course. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression time, especially on repetitive scuba dives.

You’ll learn why diving with air that has higher oxygen and lower nitrogen content gives you more bottom time, along with enriched air equipment considerations. During a practical session, and two optional (or required) scuba dives, you’ll: