Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020

Smugglers Cove

Country forums / Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea / Fiji

Bula,

Just spent several days at Smugglers Cove in Nadi. Nice accommodation but to much drama: Army raided the place looking for the owner who has been poisoning the local dogs. A Swedish gal was sexually abused by one of the bar staff and then he stole her Blackberry and Money. Everyday someone was having something stolen, mostly mobiles.. The staff hates the manager and spends their time complaining about her, well deserved from what I saw.. To many other nice places around to take deal with the drama and thievery at Smugglers... Try Mama's (Tropic Of Capricorn) brand new and very nice staff and facilities..

Oh no! I booked 3 nights here (stupidly) before I read any reviews and they've all been bad...might have to see if I can change :(

Thanks for your post!

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3 nights in Nadi-2 nights too many.

If you've used your Credit Card to guarantee the reservation and they won't cancel phone your CC company and tell them you've lost your card-they will cancel it immediately and when Smugglers Cove try to charge you for the nights you won't show up for they'll be SOL.

A dirty, dirty trick but if it's half as bad as Steve says-and I have no reason to disbelieve him-they they can all get stuffed.

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with the current coup still on (but still perfectly safe generally) all resorts are screaming for punters, theres probably no need to pre book anything

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