single travelling, do i have to pay extra?

i'm travelling to fiji next month on a backpacker's budget to do some diving. i would love a package that includes diving or to stay at one of the dive resorts but all the deals i've found are priced for two and have bank breaking single supplements. can anyone recommend accomodation and/or dive resorts that are actually single friendly. by backpacker budget i'm looking at less than $75 per day NOT including diving, diving ideally less than $200/day (2 tanks + gear, guided). i'm looking at tavenui and kadavu for some more challenging dives.

thanks.

Here is a possibility It should be in your price range (don't know if by $ you mean US$ AUS$ or F$)

The resort is on Vanua Levu but you take flight/boat to Taveuni and they pick you up there.

I can't give a clear answer about the singles part. My experience with singles travel world-wide is that you always pay more than each person in a pair who (technically) split accom costs. For a Fiji resort, a guaranteed per bed price is in a dorm. You pay for the whole bure not for each bed in the bure.

I appreciate that if you book a package through a travel agent their prices are usually per person but ASSUME double occupancy. And that's the snag, because the single traveler then has to pay more to cover the cost of the double - thus, the so-called 'supplement'.

If you deal with a resort direct, you may have some luck depending on with how busy it is. On two separate occasions I rented a double bure and paid an 'adjusted' lower price because I was on my own. So, rather than paying a supplement, I was getting a discount from their point of view - depends on how you look at it. But, all you can do is inquire at specific resorts and see what they can offer.

One idea is to catch the free Port Denarau bus to the Marina and catch the boat ($30usd) out to Beachcomber island, they have a dormitory, which isn't cheap ($60 USD for a dorm bed rack rate) but the island has great diving with a reasonably priced dive shop- plus your meals are included. However your drinking water is not and you have to be careful about what you eat for dinner because they recycle lunch. But it is extremely popular with the younger crowd for partying.

http://wikitravel.org/en/Mamanuca_Islands

Or you can catch one of the mini-buses out to the coral coast, where the diving isn't magnificent but it is much cleaner and nicer and far away from Nadi. http://www.hostelz.com/hostels/Fiji/Viti-Levu/Coral-Coast

I don't know of any diving around Suva ( I didn't look for it) but the city isn't to be missed (especially for market saturday). I personally wouldn't stay in the city (because of night time crime) nor outside the city (because of mosquitos) but a day trip is worth your time.

its not busy anywhere in fiji so book it all when you hit the ground there, most accom places have share accm which is basic but cheap, just ask them i guess. enjoy, C.