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# Samoa: accom near airport Country forums / Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea / Samoa
anonymous 06:54 UTC 24 Mar 2007 | Hi, we arrive in Samoa at 4am and want somewhere easy and close so we can snooze for what remains of the night. There are five of us and we're budget travellers, though no dormitories please because one of us is a baby. Any ideas gratefully appreciated! Cheers, Careyanne. |
wksamoa 07:34 UTC 24 Mar 2007 | The only budget style one I know of is the Airport Lodge http://www.samoahotels.ws/airportlodge.htm<BR><BR>Nice place, quite near and they offer free transfers. | 1
jade79 21:41 UTC 26 Mar 2007 | Try the Outrigger Hotel, the have fales in their back yard or you can rent a room in the main house. Since there are not many flights arriving in Samoa, even when you get there at 4am, the whole island will be awake and there is a bus that can take you to your accommodation. | 2
wksamoa 02:30 UTC 27 Mar 2007 | The Outrigger is a nice place, but in central Apia, 35 miles from the airport, not close in any way at all. There might be a bus, not always though. And nobody on the island notices an arriving flight; at 4am everybody is fast asleep except those travelers at the airport and their drop-off and pick-up parties. Samoans have seen planes before - this does not exite them anymore -:) | 3
pago 03:23 UTC 27 Mar 2007 | I've seen planes before and they still excite me after all these years... | 4
wksamoa 04:43 UTC 27 Mar 2007 | Yeah! That is certainly the same with me. Nevertheless neither me nor my neighbours get up at 4 am anymore to watch the plane -:) And I doubt that you would ... | 5