The dive kadavu matana resort website is quite fictional, so here is a more accurate description. For starters, its a dive camp, not a resort, and this was my 7th visit to fiji, so I had many other resorts to compare it with. Firstly, the accommodation is basic 2 star. Because they only generate power for a few hours per day, there are no fridges or tea/coffee facilities in the room. Despite the website showing thatched rooves on the bures, they are actually steel , and it sounds like you are inside a drum when it rains.
You have to eat your meals at set times, and you must eat on a communal table with the other guests. Despite the website suggesting you can romantically dine anywhere on the property, one request by a couple to dine alone to celebrate a birthday was refused by the over bearing owners who joined the guests at every meal and dominated conversation. If there are people diving, breakfast must be started at 7.30 am by everyone, or you'll miss out. ( loud drumming announces each meal session). They only employ one cook, who does not stay any longer than 1 hr at any setting. Lunch is at 1pm and we were reprimanded for being late one day. Breakfast is eggs, with some days offering bacon or muffins or pancakes, plus cereal with powdered milk and fruit. Lunch is no choice, usually a salad, and occasionally fijian cooking based. Dinner is choice of a meat dish or fish. Soup was usually inedible and was the standard entree. Dessert was a home cooked cake. The meals were basic 70's home style cooking, (interpret no flavour) and the cooks aprons were usually filthy. There are no washing machines on the camp, and it shows. We were also given our drinks, everything from coca cola to cocktails, in used tomato paste jars. Apparently they didnt break as much as regular glasses.
The standard of cleaning of the bures was probably the worst aspect of the camp. Bins in the bathroom did not look like they had been cleaned in years and had not been fully emptied from previous guests. Ours was not emptied for at least 4 days. Towels were very old,scratchy and sometimes downright dirty. Pillows were of an equally low standard and looked and felt many years old. The whole resort felt tired, unkempt and lacking regular maintenance.
Given you pay US$150+ per night per person, you would expect a decent standard of accommodation and food. This was not the case. It felt like the owners were approaching retirement and trying to suck as much cash out of it as they could.
Now the diving. The diving is good and varied, but they only have 2 divemasters. One afternoon after lunch ( 1p.m) when the sun came out, we could not organise a dive because they couldnt find a dive master. ( I think he was asleep under a tree somewhere! ) The diving is expensive. Approx US$ 50 / dive, plus they hire every piece of equipment separately. So fins and wetsuit are separate rentals, and the BCD and Regs were also separate rentals. If you plan on diving , bring your own gear or a solid credit card. There is also no guarantee you can dive on the Astrolabe reef, or see the manta rays which they so obviously promote on their website. Those sites are on the windward side of the island and hence only accessible in certain weather conditions. We stayed a week and did not make it to those sites. If you are a non-diver, there is kayaking and some reasonable snorkelling around the local beaches, but not much else. They can take you to nearby beaches for picnics, but charge you FJ$ 30 / head for the service.
Sadly, the camp staff do not have the welcoming,friendly demeanour that is so typical of the fijiian culture and hospitality industry. There are few friendly greetings and no singing or laughing which is the norm on other islands. Perhaps the staff are not well treated by the owners, and it is obvious to guests that there is an uneasy tension there.
To conclude, if you are just going there to dive, don't mind a rigid daily routine and set yourself low standards, you will be fine. If you are looking to combine it with a relaxing holiday and a true fijiian experience, this is not the place. Its poor value for money and not indicative of the wider fijiian holiday experience.