Crystal Beach Resort

The resort is very beautiful, quiet, picture-worthy, and of great value. For the price of the entrance fee and accommodation, I can say it is sulit na because they clearly care for their guests. They make sure that the restrooms are clean and equipped with soap and tissues. The staff are very accommodating and will surely help you all throughout your stay. You just gotta try it, overall a great experience for me and my family.

Everything is great. The place is a bit pricey but it is worth it to feel to be one with nature. The place is clean and quiet. This resort doesn’t have WiFi but it is ok for me because it makes you focus on the great view and the experience of being with nature. But for the guests’ convenience, they have a restaurant which serves delicious food from breakfast (6AM) to dinner (7:30 PM). Food prices ranges from around Php250 to Php500. There’s also a mini cafe stall near the beach. The air conditioned rooms have toiletries, hot/cold shower, towels, paper slippers & hair dryer. The room also has coffee cups, complimentary coffee, bottles of water, cable TV and plenty of power outlets so you can charge several gadgets all at once. Just outside the room is a faucet where you can wash off the sand. There is also a shower area near the beach, as well as a public toilet where guests using tents can shower or pee. The property also has an area, for a fee of course, dedicated for those who choose to set up camp with the guest’s own tents. Staff is super friendly and accommodating. For those without their own car, you can take the bus, get off at the national highway and take a short tricycle ride (less than 5 minutes) to the property. Highly recommended.

This place slaps! Food is great! Service is fantastic: they notify you for changes as soon as they come so you can respond to the changes immediately. Environment is very serene and helps you connect with nature and decompress from the hustle of city life. Would come back again. Place is also pet friendly!

Enjoyed spending the 1st day of January here at Crystal Beach, the place is spacious and not crowded enough privacy provided 😊 The place is clean and the staff are friendly. ❤️

Very good restaurant. Close to the beach. Quiet place during the afternoon. 350php the fee, but is deductible if you go to the restaurant. Lot of choices. The price is a little expensive for the quality of food. Private parking lot to park the car.

Great for Beach camping. Not good for who do not know how to swim 😁 natural na malakas waves

We had a wonderful stay at Crystal Beach Resort, Zambales for our prenup shoot. The weather wasn’t the best—it rained almost the entire week—but we still enjoyed every bit of it. We really appreciated that the team reached out ahead of time to let us know about the weather situation. That heads-up was such a thoughtful gesture. Even with the rain, there were sunny breaks that gave us time to shoot. The beach, the atmosphere, and the overall vibe of the resort made it all worthwhile. We’d also like to commend Ms. Lara from help desk, who warmly welcomed us with genuine respect and professionalism. Her kindness set the tone for the rest of our stay. All the staff were genuinely approachable and accommodating throughout our stay. All in all, it was a great experience. If you’re looking for a relaxing beach escape with great service and a laid-back vibe, Crystal Beach Resort is the place to go!

A beautiful destination with friendly staff. We visited in the off-season just for a day excursion so the restaurant menu was rather limited, but the meals were delicious. The beach was clean and the water was crystal clear. We couldn’t have asked for a better excursion.

Relaxing, hidden, and far away from the hustle and bustle of Manila. Despite the distance, this resort was worth the 3.5 hour drive from Metro Manila. Crystal Beach is in the town of San Narciso in the Province of Zambales. The resort features air-conditioned rooms, cottages, and beachside camping tents. They also have WiFi in the main area. There are a few bon fire pits and grilling stations for anyone to use. We opted for a day entrance just to experience the food, beach huts, and the sand. The admission fee, parking, and cost of food were very reasonable. The long journey from Manila definitely made us hungry. We decided to try out their restaurant located in the main common area. Seating was easy and we also chose the table closest to the fan for comfort. We ordered sisig, tuna salpicao, halo-halo, rice, and sinigang na hipon. The sisig has a nice mix of crunch with a citrus-pepper marinade. The tuna salpicao was tender and flavorful. The shrimp sinigang, which is a true Filipino favorite, was sour and savory. Halo-halo came last as a dessert. The bowl was filled with various sweet toppings and a generous scoop of ube ice cream. Post lunch coma started to kick-in and we decided to relax in one of the many beachside huts. Beach chairs were available along with the perfect view of the mountains and blue waters. The beach was almost empty and quiet. There are available surfboard rentals and surfing lessons for anyone seeking to ride the small waves. Showers are available near the common area. I would recommend this resort to anyone seeking a tranquil escape.

Very disappointed on this beach..first the sand of the beach is not that clean as you see on their website 2nd price of shake..120 pesos for melon and 100 pesos to mango!!! Any differnce? Cabin itself no restroom, lights need update, outlet for 15 person capacity have 3 electric fan!!! Food is so pricey..restroom is to far for the cabin ..not recommend this beach for my friend

Stop by for drink at the bar. They wanted to charge us 500.00 just entered to go to the bar. Very unsatisfactory, I wonder why they are still in business with a business model like that.

We went there on a Saturday, there was nowhere to park, lines were long and useless as they picked and chose whom to help next. When we finally got helped there were no more day huts available and you still had to pay to get in. Go to the smaller no name places right next door and you can go to Crystal Beach for surfing lessons like Prince JB resort which is just right next door.

Crystal Beach is 3-4 hours away from Manila. It's a remote place, far from the city, with no industrial noises to distract you from your well deserved vacation. The sands are smooth and the water is clear and not too cold. You can even opt to rent surfboards and get some reasonably priced beginner lessons! Most people who were in the area seemed to be either older families (with no kids) or couples looking to get some peace and quiet, so I wouldn't recommend bringing the especially young kids along for the ride. There are plenty of recreational activities to do, such as sunset/sunrise gazing (the latter is much more intimate), island tours, camping, and kayaking. The staff were polite and professional enough, if not exactly chipper. My mom's also a really forgetful person (much to our dismay in resorts) but the staff consistently and patiently reminded her of forgotten bags and even gadgets. I can't wait for summer to come by again so I can go back.

Huhu, best beach getaway I've had in a while! I've just come back from a 3-day Independence Day weekend spent at this resort, and wow, less than 24 hours later I miss it already! I feel like it had the perfect laidback beach vibe, having all the necessary comforts (so you can, you know, survive), but is not so "developed" that it takes away from the main attraction of the place -- the beach. It's so well-maintained, with lots of artsy wooden signs and other quirky stuff scattered throughout the property. And it's a really BIG property. Very photogenic; plenty of gorgeous trees strategically placed all over the area. You have air-conditioned rooms designed as tree houses & nipa huts all over, but there's also a camping site where you can really rough it with basic tents. You can bring your own raw food and grill at the many grilling stations. There are also water pumps all over. They've got common bathrooms too with decent showers & toilets. If you want a bit of an experience, you can try their "glamping" accommodations where you get a large classy tent complete with mattresses, pillows, blankets, towels & toiletries, light, fan, trash can, end table, etc. It's literally like a hotel room brought outdoors! It's pretty perfect. There's a good restaurant at the main dining hall as well, but you can get snacky food over at the sari-sari store style satellite resto. They serve all the same light meals. The water here is clean and calm, and you can go surfing during the surf season (the -ber months) when the waves come! They even give lessons here so you can properly try it yourself. There's a surf shack by the beach where you can get beers (both local & foreign) and some excellent fruit shakes (OH EM, BEST MANGO SHAKE EVER). At night, they set up a bonfire on the beach where you can hang around and lie on the (provided) banigs/cushions and stare at the gorgeous stars in the night sky. On our last night, some travelling musicians put on an impromptu set at the bar and got everyone jamming. Super nice. Sigh. At just 4 hours from Manila, this seems like a super ideal beach resort to me! And it's not terribly expensive either! You get good service & accommodations, good food and facilities, classy but still "beach-pure" surroundings! I think I have a new go-to place!

Let's admit it: not all beaches are made equal. Especially if we're talking about beaches that fall within a few hours outside Manila. With places like Batangas and Subic getting more and more crowded thanks to the growing number of destination weekenders from the Metro, I've found it increasingly difficult to book a nearby, and well-maintained beach resort with less than a month's notice. This was especially the case when some of my friends and I decided to travel to San Narciso, Zambales for a 2-day vacation. With the place being the primary alternative to La Union and Baler as a surfing destination, it was so hard to book a room in the area with so many surfers and self-proclaimed explorers as completion. Enter: tent life at Crystal Beach. When my fellow mermaid-friend Nica told me that this place was magical, I should have known that she was right! Aside from having the most number of WELL-KEPT rooms along the San Narciso shoreline, Crystal beach also offers tent accommodations for those of us who just can't beat other vacationers to regular reservations. And honestly it's not such a bad departure from the regular comfort of an air-con. YOU GEGT TO SLEEP ON THE BEACH! And that's always impetus enough for me to check a resort out. What's more is that the place is absolutely beautiful. Their soft bed of sand stretches into such a sprawling space. There's so much of the beach to enjoy! If you're a taong-dagat like me and my friends, you're going to love it here. Aside from lounging around, which is great in itself, you can also take surf lessons with their legit surfing teachers, play beach volleyball, gather and cook around a campfire, and check out the cuisine at their in-house restaurant. The food is delicious by the way, and I enjoyed it second only to the beach itself. I for one know that this will not be my last Crystal Beach summer.