I went to Samal last year. I took a tricycle around looking for a nice place to stay. I never wanted to stay at the places that looked over to Davao, the tricycle driver kept taking me to some really bad looking places, in the end we got a boat to Talikud where there was a nice beach and resort, but they had no vacancies. So came back to Davao that same day. I should have taken some advice maybe of where to stay.