Garden Island Resort
About this stay
Garden Island Resort sits on the west coast of Taveuni at Waiyevo, about twenty minutes from Matei airport, looking across the Somosomo Strait. It is known for its professional dive operation, close to the strait's celebrated soft-coral reefs, and sells multi-night dive packages that bundle the room, breakfast, diving and airport transfers. Rooms are ocean-view rooms with balconies and ocean-front suites with patios, some interconnecting for families. It suits divers and snorkelers first, and travelers who want a mid-priced base on Fiji's Garden Island.
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About Taveuni
Taveuni is Fiji's third-largest island, a long volcanic ridge east of Vanua Levu covered in rainforest and fringed by black and golden sand beaches. Often called the Garden Island, it gets plenty of rain, which feeds waterfalls, rivers and dense vegetation. It suits divers, hikers and birdwatchers more than beach loungers, and it feels far less developed than western Viti Levu or the Mamanucas.
Getting there
Matei Airport (TVU) in the north is served by Fiji Airways' domestic Fiji Link flights from Nadi and Suva, about 90 minutes from Nadi. Inter-island ferries from Suva call at Savusavu on Vanua Levu and continue to Taveuni. There are also small ferry crossings from Buca Bay on Vanua Levu.