Spent a wonderful Easter long weekend on this relaxed, tropical island which was the perfect solution for tired, slightly stressed adults like ourselves to have a relaxed time with our smaller children. The resort lies in a bay which makes it a safe and an easily visible area to let children wander around freely. The beachfront swimming pool and small waterslide, kayaks etc provided endless hours of a fun and safe entertainment for our children who soon met up with others there and had alot of fun which kept them out of our hair and able to enjoy a few hours to ourselves. The meal packages are reasonable and the serves are biggish. The food is not gourmet but tasty and prepared with care. The lovo buffet was great and we got to taste lots of Fijian delacies that aren't normally available on hotel buffets. It was great to get away from phones, mobiles, faxes, tv & video games. The staff are genuinely friendly and very helpful but are not in your face all the time. The snorkelling is wonderful and the whole atmosphere is laid back and low key - very unpretentious and suited to those who like barefoot, carefree holidays with lots to do if you choose. The main thing is you come away relaxed and rejuvinated which is what holidays are meant to be about...

Needed a week off work and decided Fiji for the snorkling was the place to go. The wife had recently got hooked on snorkling while recently in Cairns. Rci did all our booking and suggested Naigani was the place to go. Arrived in Suva , spent two nights at the Holiday Inn, great, and left for the jetty to pick up the boat transport to Naigani.
On a fully laden boat, ourselves and 15 others set off on our 30 min boat ride to the island.
Arrival at Niagani saw us allocated bures and briefing about the running of the isalnd.
After 1/2 an hour we were in the water enjoying the spectacles below.
This isalnd is fantastic, no shops, no papers no tv, no telephones although the mobile does work sometimes, no motorised anything except a whippersniper, no anything. Simply fantastic.
The snorkling and diving is simply superb and occupied most of our days. After the days activities an ice cold beer and chat with the other guests.
The isalnd also has some great rainforest walks to the summit, village and cannibal beach.
We wern"t on a food plan so could pick and choose what to eat which i think is the way to go. Food is great but the servings are a little large and a tad expensive.
The gardens and coconut palms were great and added to the deserted island feel.
Was fantastic to sit on veranda of bure, read the book and look out over the palm fringed beach to the reef beyond. Beach was only 30m from bure.
The nature of the island ensured all the guest struck up a rapport and contact numbers were exchanged.
The only down side was lack of matress protectors and the like which was a bit of a concern considering the sweating that went on.
Hired a car from Suva to Nadi to catch plane home after leaving Naigani. While travelling in the car we stopped into some of the other resorts, Warick, Naviti, Fijian and while these are wonderful, i couldnt help feeling how lucky we were to experience Niagani.

I was thrilled to read the bad reviews others have given this rare unspoiled haven of beautiful Fiji. This means ghastly tourists who expect plastic welcomes and internationalized everything will stay away, leaving this glorious, honest place alone. The people who live there love it; I for one respect those who do and am grateful that they are prepared to share it with visitors.
It really is a place to relax. No TV, emergency phone/fax only, no fawning staff (although genuinely friendly if given the opportunity). True, there's no power at times of the day and the beds are way too soft, but hey, sleep on the floor. The journey to and from the island certainly lets you know you're in a different way of life now.
We came away feeling relaxed, reinvigorated, and priveledged to have experienced a different, very special culture with its proud people and traditions. We will return.

We spent one week at Naigani with our children. And it was really terrible. The only good thing was the snorkelling at Picnic Beach which was real nice but the rest was very very disappointing

The transfer from Suva to the Island was not fun. No one to wait for us at the airport (Suva airport is a very small airport without any modern amenities). Fortunately we managed to buy the last phonecard available form the small newsstand, and after a few trials we reached the Naigani reservation desk where we were told to wait one hour for the taxi to come. After one hour and a half the taxi did come but with people inside waiting to go to Suva. After half an hour of discussion, the other people agreed to go to Suva with an ordinary taxi, and we finally got into the van. The one hour and a half trip to Naigani was quite difficult as much of the road is unpaved and the small wooden bridges are quite shaky. Besides the van doesn’t have aircon (but some cockroaches) and back passengers feel very hot. We reached a small jetty where a very small boat, so small that we couldn’t get into it with our luggage. 45 minutes later we reached the island (no jetty here you jump on directly in shallow water on sand or dead corals depending on tide). Very low key greeting: 1 guitarist, 2 minutes information at the island office and no one to offer us a simple glass of water. Then we had to wait 2 and a half hour for our luggage to come and waited in travel outfit.

What about food. To make a long story short, being on the meal plan, we all lost weight during this week! Don’t dream to drink fresh fruit juice or fresh coconuts. Only canned or dehydrated fruit juice (2 flavours on the first day orange and pineapple then after only orange), but plenty of sodas (which we don’t like to drink) and some beer. We were told that coconut were to be had only on Monday for the weekly coconut festival. On the next Monday there was nothing, no festival. We finally had coconuts two times on the next days. What is strange is that the resort is full of palm trees. So full, that you cannot rest on the beach at high tide because big coconuts keep falling regularly with a loud big thump everywhere.

What about the beach. The sand beach is very small, always full of algae deposited by tide and with no lounging chairs. At high tide beware of coconuts, but you can swim. At low tide you’re too close to the corals (we got some scratches). So the real neat thing is to take everyday the small boat to Picnic beach (15 F$ per person) whose slope is steeper and where there is some fantastic snorkelling to be done lots of corals (soft and hard) lots of fishes all size and colours. The resort is lending some bad and scarce snorkelling equipment (goggles seem to be missing at anytime) and towels (20 year old towels and in short quantities, on one morning we were told that we wouldn’t have one for the day – we got some after speaking loud). But if your idea is simply relaxing at the beach, sunbathe and swim a little forget about it.

There is small pool with a water slide that doesn’t work between 3 and 5 pm when the power is off on the entire island for saving purposes. After two days the water slide got broken and was not repaired during our stay. There is a small pool bar that doesn’t offer much apart from canned juices, sodas and beer.

What about accommodation. Family bures are big but the furniture is really old (paint is holding wood pieces together) and our bathroom was full of ants. Towels were changed 1 or 2 times during the week (and nothing really dry on the island). The bed was way too soft and any move would send waves and ripples! We had hot water for shower only on the first day.

What was really frustrating was knowing all what Fiji has to offer and being stranded on this tiny resort
(well, calling that a resort is really exaggerated) with not much to do. With only one phone at the reception desk and only the small boat of the resort it is quite impossible to organize some alternative plan.