We stayed at the Edgewater resort for 2 weeks on our honeymoon. we were upgraded (without even us mentioning anything to them) to a beachfront room, which was amazing.. we had a nice fruit basket and a bottle of wine waiting for us upon our arrival.
The room was nice. It had a balcony overlooking the beach, the swimming pool and the restaurant. It was clean and the A/C worked well (couldn't do without it). The room got cleaned everyday,with new towels everyday.

Breakfast was excellent, alot of variety. cereal, toasts,spreads and pastry.
Different dinner themes every night.. it was wonderful. we only ate out of the resort on 2 occasions when we decided to try the spaghitti house, and another place in Avarua town.

There were activities organised by the resort, but we didn't do any, we did our own touring on the scooter which we hired from the resort (a bonus). I woudl recommend the Reef2sea. it wasnt done through the resort, but externally, the boat take you outside the reef and you do the snorkelling in different spots, we were lucky enough to see an octupus.

Overall, loved the place,t he staff are really friendly. a nice cosey room overlooking the beach.. Although it's been nearly 3 years, but I still think of the view from our balcony out to sea.. Priceless.

We stayed at the Edgewater Resort after our plane was delayed leaving Rarotonga. We only stayed for the one night during the delay but I was so appauled by this place I thought it was worth reviewing.

The resort in general was pretty old and run down, it was in need of some significant maintanance and renovation. It was probably nice 10 years ago but looks quite shabby now.

We stayed in a basic unit as we were delayed which was one of the worst places I've stayed in years. The air con did not work and the ceiling fan was pretty old and slow. The toilet barely flushed, the towels smelt of sick and there was an unidentifiable brown liquid leaking from the fridge. The whole room which had apparently been cleaned was dirty and the furniture was in worse shape than in my old student flat.

The pool area is slightly better but the beach is one of the worst spots on the island. Much better to be further round nearer to Muri beach, away from the rocks and closer to better snorkeling.

The food in the resort was overpriced but the Spagetti House attached to the hotel was really good. Overall, a terrible place to stay, you can do much better on Rarotonga. The smaller hotels and villas are well looked after and are much better value for money. It may be cheap to stay at this place but you'll probably be dissapointed. I was relieved we only stayed for one night and it was paid for by Air NZ. We couldn't wait to leave!!

This was our first trip to the Cook Islands and we both loved it! Being that we had never been there before and not having much advice from people we were happy with our choice of the Edgewater. It was not as nice in appearance as some of the others, but I guess that is why it was cheaper in cost.
The price of food is extremely expense everywhere on the island. So the food at the hotel wasnt anymore or anyless in price then anywhere else. The pool area was small but nice overlooking the ocean it had BEAUTIFUL sunsets everynight!!
The rooms were average, very clean, air conditioning worked. We had a garden view room which was nice, the grounds weren't as lush and green as some of the other resorts, I dont think the ocean view rooms would have been worth the extra money.
The hotel's beach isnt the greatest on the island, it was very rocky and is near the shorter part of the lagoon. besides that though the snokeling was still good there, just make sure to have some water shoes!
It was really quiet while we were there which was nice but it is the largest resort on the island and if it was filled to capacity or even 3/4 full it would have been way too crowded for the kind of trip we were looking for. Thankfully we were there in their quiet time (feb-mar) I dont even think it was half full.
The hotel puts on an island night twice a week, with an amazing buffet dinner and great local island dancing.
They also offered scooter rentals on site which was the BEST thing we could have done!! We usually took the scooter out to a different beach everyday and hung out there for the day. Being that is only takes about 40 min to drive around the entire island in scooter we were able to check out all parts of the island.
I would recommend this hotel to people on a bit of a budget and willing to leave the resort to find a nicer beach.

My husband and I picked the edgewater resort for our first stay in the cook islands. The resort is huge which was good and the hotel staff were so friendly.

Our first night, we stayed in a studio unit, which is very average - the aircon hardly worked and the furniture was very old and not as flash as the photo suggested. The photo that shows the room is actually in fact a delux room so dont be fooled by that.

We were upgraded to a delux room for the rest of our stay which was fantastic. They have an amazing island night which is defintely recomended as a must see. They have heaps of activities on site and an excellant buffet breakfast of fresh fruit cereal toast etc.

Another bonus we found was that the the island activities can be booked on site through budget which is situated on the resort. We also hired out a car which I recomened is the easiest way to get around.

Overall I would give the edgewater a 4/5 for our stay. Definetly recomended for first timers.