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# Have you been to Yasawa Island "Hideout" Country forums / Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea / Fiji
brrrgrrrl 15:09 UTC 14 Jan 2012 | We found what looked like just the right fit for us online at www.hideoutfiji.com. Its a remote simlpe bure accommodation on the Northern tip of Yasawa Island. My emails to them haven't been answered in several weeks so I am thinking them out of business. Does anyone know if they are operating under another name? Or recommend another similar stay on actual Yasawa Island? ( the fancy $500 Yasawa Island Resort is well out of our budget and the only option my web searches turn up) Thanks in advance for your input. |
Taimarilyn 20:36 UTC 14 Jan 2012 | We stayed with them a few years back when they first opened. Since then I have tried a number of times to contact them, but no answer. It is extremely isolated - a trip on the Yasawa Flyer to their furthest point (Nacula Island), then picked up in an open boat - time depending on sea conditions - on the way there is was very rough, we got soaked with spray and over 2 hours, on our way out calm seas and around an hour. We were the only guests apart from a Russian family who spoke no English. Lovely spot, very friendly people. My thoughts at the time - expensive for what you got, I believe they were aiming for the lower end of the market but overpriced for that, and so difficult to get to. I think you will find they have gone out of business. We now stay at Blue Lagoon Beach Resort - not the same very simple place, but suits us fine. Edited by: TaiMarilyn | 1
lilau 20:50 UTC 14 Jan 2012 | I can recommend Blue Lagoon Beach Resort on Nacula Island in the Yasawas. No simple bures but fancy ones. If you're on a budget, they have very decent dorms (no bunks, clean facilities). Have a look at tripadvisor for Blue Lagoon Beach Resort, Fiji. Another good one is Octopus Resort on Waya Island. | 2
Laszlo 02:19 UTC 16 Jan 2012 | When I was there a year ago, the only budget place in that area (I guess it is the one you talk about) had closed down though the bures still looked habitable and someone may be able to open them up on request. 1 or 2 new upmarket places were due to open on a nearby beach. If still very keen to go there, and are ready to sacrifice privacy totally, ask around in the village for homestay accommodation. | 3
markjoy 03:18 UTC 20 Jan 2012 | Consider Octopus resort. May be a little pricey, but otherwise ticks all the boxes. Very good snorkeling. Nice food. Well run. | 4
kimm 20:35 UTC 20 Jan 2012 | Gosh its amazing how different we all are - I reckon Octupus is the worse place I have stayed at in Fiji!! Have stayed at Oarsmans Bay right next to Blue Lagoon (on Nacula Island) and loved it! More backpackerish than resorty | 5
markjoy 23:58 UTC 20 Jan 2012 | How long ago did you stay at Octopus? What didn't you like about it? It's been over 3 years since we were there. | 6
brrrgrrrl 19:17 UTC 22 Jan 2012 | Vinaka for all the replies. Blue Lagoon and Octopus were both our fall back option, if not able to find accommodations on actual Yasawa Island. This is our first visit to Fiji and not sure we're ready for village home stay. I am surprised how pricey it is to get to and stay in the Yasawas. About $200 usd for Yasawa Flyer, and then about $175 usd per night at both Blue Lagoon and Octopus. For the cost to get there we would like to stay longer, but it costs so much to stay each night. Granted we are looking for couples bure as it is our ten yr anniversary, so going a little on the luxe side of things. Any suggestions for really simple but clean accommodation in the Yasawas with privacy. Just so we can snorkel and swim for a few days more as we'll be all the way up there? | 7
hardnosethehighway 02:47 UTC 23 Jan 2012 | "I am surprised how pricey it is to get to and stay in the Yasawas. About $200 usd for Yasawa Flyer, and then about $175 usd per night at both Blue Lagoon and Octopus." That's the price for travelling the well trodden tourist track. | 8
Taimarilyn 19:53 UTC 23 Jan 2012 | re Yasawa Flyer - on a very rough calculation (had to change FJ$ to NZ$ to US$) the return fare to Blue Lagoon is around US$140. That's a 4 and half hour boat trip. Maybe my calculations are wrong - happy to be corrected - but it always seemed to be good value to me. Less to Octopus. | 9
thurstonhowell4th 02:31 UTC 26 Jan 2012 | whats the name of that fancy wuite expensive place a few stops above Beachcomber? it has a little island attached that guests can book for the day exclusively? this may be fancy for these guys and other honey monner types, too much money for me though as i live the rough edges found in most lil olde resorts up there | 10
thurstonhowell4th 02:33 UTC 26 Jan 2012 | Is the Hideout the little place down the beach from Otto and fannys just near the hill leading over to Coral View resort, if so those places have been have been shut for ages, and looked all spooky and delapidated | 11
Taimarilyn 04:25 UTC 26 Jan 2012 | Hideout is on Yasawa-i-rara at the northernmost tip of the Yasawa group. | 12