You land at Nadi. The good part leaves from a jetty.
Which island cruise stops long enough to actually swim. What a car from Nadi Airport to the Coral Coast costs. Whether the mud pools earn a morning. Reviews of every tour you can book in Fiji.
1The one everybody takesCruisin Fiji: Authentic Fijian Day Cruise – Best Day in Fijifrom $145A whole day on the water with lunch cooked on board and a swim stop that lasts.
2The island oneFull Day South Sea Island with Lunch & Drinksfrom $98Twenty minutes out of Denarau and you are on a palm island the size of a football pitch.
3The one after darkCultural Night Tourfrom $82Kava, a meke and a fire show, then back to the hotel before the kids give up.
4Up the riverJewel Of Fiji incl Fijian Village, waterfall & Lunch(Nadi Hotels)from $111A bamboo raft on a river, a village welcome and a waterfall you can stand under.
Every good Fijian day starts on a Denarau jetty.
The boats leave the marina between eight and nine and come back at four. Three kinds of day on the water, what it costs to get on each one, and how far out it takes you.
Nadi is more than the runway you landed on.
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The town sits ten minutes from the airport, with the biggest Hindu temple in the southern hemisphere at one end and hot springs in the hills behind it. Most people write the place off and drive straight to Denarau. These three are the reason not to.
- 1Best of Nadi Highlightsfrom $78
- 2Cultural Night Tourfrom $82
- 3Largest Zipline in South Pacific & Cave Exploration in Nadifrom $115
A village, and the kava that comes with it
You are received before you are shown anything. The kava bowl comes out, somebody speaks for the group, and only then does anyone walk you to the river or the waterfall. Wear something over your knees and shoulders.
Sri Siva Subramaniya, and the hills behind it
The temple is the loudest colour in Nadi and takes twenty minutes to walk. Most tours pin it to the hot springs and the Garden of the Sleeping Giant, which is what makes it a morning rather than a stop.
Mud first, then three hot pools
Grey mud first, then three hot pools to rinse it off in, each one hotter than the last. It is a genuinely good soak and everybody comes out looking the same. Do not wear anything you like.
The days out more travellers book than anything else in Fiji.
Every Fijian tour we have reviewed →One boat trip carries more travellers than the next four put together. Here is the order, and what earns each of them the slot.
1
Cruisin Fiji: Authentic Fijian Day Cruise – Best Day in Fiji
Review of Cruisin Fiji’s 8-hour island cruise to Mana, Monu, and Monuriki, with snorkeling, Fijian lunch, drinks, and Cast Away sights.
From · $145
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2
Jet Boat Safari on the Sigatoka River
from $140
3
River Tubing Fiji, Navua River
from $93
4
Captain Cook Cruises Fiji – Island and Reef Day Cruise
from $124
5
Malamala Beach Club – Full Day
from $89
6
South Sea Sailing Full Day Trip (5 years and above only)
7
Jewel Of Fiji incl Fijian Village, waterfall & Lunch(Nadi Hotels)
from $111
8
Full Day South Sea Island with Lunch & Drinks
from $98
A Fijian village visit is a welcome, not a viewing.
Sevusevu comes first: a bundle of kava root handed over, a speech, a bowl passed round the mat. After that the waterfall, the lunch and the meke are somebody showing you their home rather than a scheduled stop.
Nadi Airport to your resort, and what the drive really costs.
Denarau is twenty minutes. The Coral Coast is closer to two hours, Suva is four, and the last leg of some resort transfers is a boat that only runs in daylight. Book the car before you fly and none of that is your problem at one in the morning.
Nadi and Denarau, the Coral Coast, or Suva if you want a city.
Almost everything bookable in Fiji sits on the western side of Viti Levu, within a couple of hours of the airport. Three bases, and the best days out from each.
What a day out in Fiji actually costs.
Every tour on the site, grouped by price. Fiji has a reputation for being expensive and the boat days earn it, but plenty of the good mornings come in under the price of a resort lunch.
Airport runs, temple mornings, market walks and the short hops around Nadi.
The standard full day: island cruises, village and waterfall trips, mud pools, jet boats.
Private drivers for the day, the far islands, and the once-a-trip splurges that earn it.
Three Fijian days you cannot have anywhere else.
Beaches and buffets exist everywhere. A hot mud pool in a sugarcane valley, an orchid garden a Hollywood actor planted, and the biggest beach club in the South Pacific do not.
The mud pools and hot springs
Twenty minutes inland from Nadi the ground runs hot. You wade into grey clay, plaster it on, stand about in the sun until it cracks, then work through three pools that get hotter as you go. Local families use them at the weekend and the whole thing costs less than a cocktail on Denarau.
- 1Garden Village Hot Spring & Temple Highlights Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 339 reviews
- 2CFC Hot Spring Mud Pool,Garden Of Sleeping Giant And Village Visit Half Day Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 302 reviews
- 3ATV Quad Bike Adventure Tour Inc Hot Springs & Mud Pool (Departs Nadi)★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 177 reviews
The Garden of the Sleeping Giant
Raymond Burr bought the land in the seventies to keep his orchids somewhere warm, and the collection is still there under the ridge that gives the garden its name. Boardwalks run through the jungle, there is a lily pond at the top, and it takes about an hour. Most tours pair it with the mud pools next door.
- 1CFC Hot Spring Mud Pool,Garden Of Sleeping Giant And Village Visit Half Day Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 302 reviews
- 2Vuda Lookout, Vesisei Village, Market, Temple & Garden of Sleeping Giant Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 97 reviews
- 3Garden of Sleeping Giant with Tifajek Mudpool Hotspring Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 35 reviews
Malamala Beach Club
An entire small island turned into one beach club, twenty-five minutes by catamaran off Denarau. There is a pool set into the sand, a long bar, loungers under thatch, and no village or resort to share it with. Day passes only, and the last boat back is the last boat back.
- 1Malamala Beach Club – Full Day★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 684 reviews
- 2Malamala Beach Club Private Island Day Pass & Transfer★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 413 reviews
- 3Malamala Beach Club – Half Day Pass★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 123 reviews
Four Fijian bookings that do not wait for you.
Most of this island can be sorted from a hotel desk the night before. These four cannot. Every one of them sits offshore, reached by one operator boat, on a timetable set long before your flight landed.
- 01Day Trip to Cloud 9 Floating Platform Including Food and BeveragesA floating platform moored out in the Mamanuca reef. The only way onto it is the operator boat, which leaves the marina once in the morning.
- 02Malamala Beach Club – Full DayDay passes only, on a fixed catamaran timetable, with a cap on how many people are on the island at once.
- 03Seventh Heaven Fiji 6 Hour Experience on a Floating PlatformAnother moored platform with its own boat and its own departure time. Miss it and there is no second run.
- 04Full Day South Sea Island with Lunch & DrinksA small island with one jetty and one scheduled crossing. The day is built around the boat, not the other way round.
By place - the coast, the capital and the islands off it
By kind of day - boat, village, mud or minibus
Denarau, an island, the mud pools, then south to the Coral Coast.
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