Kavieng accommodation & food

I stayed at the Kavieng Club

K132 per night - you want to get fan cooled room No 5 - it has windows on 2 sides & en suite & fridge & tea & coffee & a TV

You could stay at the Peter To Rot centre which was K40 & a bit of a stroll out of town. But would do the job without the frills of Kavieng Club.

There's also a smaller new lodge on that road to the Torot centre - they have a price for locals & a price for tourists - tourist price is around K100 per night - but there's kitchen & lounge facilities there & it looked great - but only a few rooms.

FOOD - The Kaieng Club has a cafe BILAS CAFE which is run by 2 Filippinos called Tess & Ricky. They open from 6pm - 8pm every day except Sunday. Mains start from about K13 - they'll also add baked beans if you go to the supermarket & buy them & say 'Tess, do us a favour - heat these up & stick them with my fish & chips, love'

They were brilliant. Lovely, lovely people. I ate there every night. Tess even ran me back to the airport.

Malagan Beach Resort - I really wouldn't. Went to eat there first night I got in. Chef hadn't arrived. Waited 15 minutes - chef still hadn't arrived but a rat did - went to Bilas cafe & never went back to Malagan. Apparently even when you order at Maagan the food takes about an hour to turn up & I heard that from several independent sources....

The Kai bar set in the supermarket across the road from the Kavieng Club was fine - a battered sausage was K2.20 - lunch you could have chicken & chips for K10

Edited by: globaltourist

You can get them to do laundry a Kavieng club. I think a bag cost me about K8

By far the best meal in Kavieng is made by Sumitra, the Sri Lankan woman who runs the pretty ordinary looking snack bar at the new Hamamas shop (the one near the Air Niugini office, not the one across from the post office). The food on display is just a slightly better version of what you get anywhere, but if you talk with her, she will make any one of a number of Sri Lankan meals, including a great vegetarian curry with chapatis. It helps if you see her a couple hours before mealtime so she gets it ready. She'll also do takeouts -- good for the evening or a picnic out of town. She can recommend good dishes that won't spoil quickly in thhe heat, too. Prices not very expensive.
Unfortunately, the Bamboo Restaurant, which was also really good, has closed down recently. Sigh.
For a hamburger or fish and chips, the Kavieng Hotel is ok.
The Malagan is pathetic, but it's the only place in town with a decent place to sit down and a good view. A good place for a coffee or drink on the beach, but don't count on anything great to eat.