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The Farm at San Benito
€165.80/ Night
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A medical-wellness retreat on 52 hectares below the Malarayat mountains, 90 minutes from Manila, pairing integrative doctors with plant-based cuisine and deep-green calm.
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Award Winner 2017
Southeast Asia’s Best Romantic Retreat
Need To Know
- Around 70 villas and suites following the Marriott Autograph conversion, from one-bedroom villas to two- and four-bedroom pool villas.
- On 52 hectares in Lipa, Batangas, roughly a 90-minute drive south of Manila.
- A medical wellness centre with integrative doctors and diagnostics, a spa, hydrotherapy, five wellness restaurants and a fitness complex.
- Plant-based throughout; the kitchens are vegan, and ALIVE! is the signature restaurant.
- Our Favourite Rooms: a one-bedroom pool villa for privacy, or a suite near the spa for an intensive programme stay.
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The medicine. Integrative doctors, live diagnostics and structured programmes make this a genuine medical retreat, not a spa with a wellness label.
- The food. Entirely plant-based and properly good, grown on site and built around the programme rather than bolted on.
- The setting. 52 hectares of green below the Malarayat range, car-free at its core, 90 minutes from the city but a world apart in feel.
- The Tres Banyos ritual. The signature three-hour Filipino treatment draws on five healing elements, the spa's headline experience.
- The programmes. Reset, recovery and metabolic paths give a stay real structure and a reason to commit to the full week rather than a night.
Key Features
Book Your Stay at The Farm at San Benito
€165.80 for 1 Night
Location
Address
119 Barangay Tipakan 4217 Lipa City, Batangas Philippines
Travel Info
Most guests come from Manila, roughly a 90-minute to two-hour drive south depending on traffic; the resort arranges airport pick-ups on request. Mount Malarayat golf is about 15 minutes away. The core is car-free.
Nearby Places
Manila International Airport (MNL)
87700m
Last Updated: 2026-06-27
Expert Review
Origins
The Farm at San Benito began in the early 2000s, when a coconut plantation in the hills of Lipa was turned into a holistic health retreat built on a simple premise: that good food, clean air and proper medical attention, in the right setting, can reset a body. Over two decades it grew into one of Asia's best-known medical-wellness destinations, with a permanent team of integrative doctors and a plant-based kitchen that has been vegan from the start.
It is now part of CG Hospitality, the international group behind brands including Taj and Fairmont, and at the end of 2025 it converted to Marriott's Autograph Collection, the first in the Philippines. The change brought a renovation and Marriott's distribution, but the substance, the doctors, the diagnostics, the food and the 52-hectare green estate below the Malarayat mountains, was kept deliberately intact. This remains a working wellness retreat first and a hotel second.
Top Secret
Book the Tres Banyos, the three-hour Filipino ritual built on the five healing elements; it is the spa's signature and worth planning a day around.
The Review
Most wellness hotels sell the idea of health; The Farm sells the practice of it. This is a medical retreat with real clinical depth, a resident team of integrative doctors, live diagnostics, structured multi-day programmes spanning detox, recovery and metabolic reset, set on a 52-hectare green estate in the hills of Batangas, ninety minutes from Manila but a different world in feel. People come here to do something about their health, not merely to relax, and that intent shapes everything.
The setting does a lot of the work. The estate is dense, tropical and largely car-free, threaded with pools, gardens and meditation pavilions below the Malarayat range; peacocks wander the lawns. Accommodation, reconfigured in the Autograph conversion to around seventy villas and suites, runs from one-bedroom villas to private-pool villas, comfortable rather than flashy, which fits a place where the room is a base for a programme rather than the point of the trip.
The food is the surprise for many. Entirely plant-based, grown on site, and good enough that guests stop treating vegan as a compromise; the kitchens, led by the ALIVE! restaurant, build meals around the medical programme rather than apart from it. The spa is equally serious, with hydrotherapy and the signature three-hour Tres Banyos ritual, and the daily schedule of yoga, movement and workshops gives a stay a rhythm that makes early mornings feel natural rather than imposed.
It will not suit everyone. This is a retreat with a point of view, not a beach resort, and the medical framing means it suits those ready to commit, a full programme over a single night. But for anyone who wants a wellness stay with genuine clinical substance, excellent plant-based food and a setting that does half the healing on its own, The Farm is among the best in Asia, and the Marriott conversion has left what matters about it intact.
