The welcome is poured in Nadi. The day is out on the lagoon.
Which Mamanuca day boat feeds you properly. What the jet boat up the Sigatoka costs. Whether Cloud 9 is worth the ride out. Reviews of every tour, cruise and transfer you can book in Fiji.
The Fiji four: a boat day, a reef day, a river day, a village day.
Four bookings that anchor a first week out of Nadi — what each one costs, and what the travellers who took it made of it.
01Malamala, all dayMalamala Beach Club – Full DayA full day on Malamala’s deck — pool, buffet and the lagoon doing the entertaining. Book the full day, not the half.
02Out to the reefCaptain Cook Cruises Fiji – Island and Reef Day CruiseCaptain Cook’s island-and-reef run: snorkelling straight off a sandy islet with lunch handled. The gentlest way into the coral.
03Up the SigatokaJet Boat Safari on the Sigatoka RiverFlat out up the Sigatoka in a jet boat, green cliffs and villages going past. The adrenaline pick that still suits grandparents.
04Lovo and waterfallJewel Of Fiji incl Fijian Village, waterfall & Lunch(Nadi Hotels)The Jewel of Fiji: a village welcome, a waterfall swim and lunch inland. The day people measure the whole trip against.
Malamala, a sail to the reef, or dinner off Denarau.
The Mamanucas start forty minutes off Port Denarau, and the day boats out to them are the thing Fiji does best. Three kinds of island day, priced from the marina.
The ride from Nadi Airport is the first thing to book.
Fiji’s international airport sits at the top of the main island with the resorts strung out south of it. A booked car beats the arrivals-hall scrum, and the fares are small enough to sort from home.
The Sigatoka and the Navua run the wet way inland.
Jet boats flat-out past the dunes, tubes drifting the Navua gorge, and a sacred cave you enter with a guide and a story. Viti Levu’s interior is river country.
The days Fiji fills first.
Every Fiji review →The tours more travellers land on than anything else in the islands, and what each one asks of a day.
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Cruisin Fiji: Authentic Fijian Day Cruise – Best Day in Fiji
Cruise Fiji’s Mamanuca Islands, snorkel Mana and Monu, visit Cast Away’s Monuriki, and enjoy a Fijian buffet lunch.
From · $145
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Jet Boat Safari on the Sigatoka River
from $140
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River Tubing Fiji, Navua River
from $93
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Captain Cook Cruises Fiji – Island and Reef Day Cruise
from $124
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Malamala Beach Club – Full Day
from $89
6
South Sea Sailing Full Day Trip (5 years and above only)
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Jewel Of Fiji incl Fijian Village, waterfall & Lunch(Nadi Hotels)
from $111
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Full Day South Sea Island with Lunch & Drinks
from $98
The price of a Fiji day, from airport run to charter.
Every tour on the site lands in one of three price bands. The airport car is pocket change; the good days out mostly sit between sixty and a hundred and fifty dollars.
Airport runs, market mornings, mud-pool tickets and the short hops out of Denarau.
The full-day standard: island passes, reef sails, the jet boat and the village-and-waterfall runs.
Private charters, heli hops and the once-a-trip days that earn the splurge.
Meke drums, a lovo lunch and the first bowl of kava.
The village day is the one travellers keep talking about: a sevusevu at the door, dancing that means something, and food out of an earth oven. Book it early in the trip — it recalibrates the rest.
Every village and culture day →
The wet-season afternoon has its own plan.
November to April, the clouds stack up on the Sleeping Giant and let go about three o’clock. It matters less than you would think: the mud pools are already muddy, the caves are dry inside, and the jet boat runs in anything short of a cyclone. Go early, then go under cover.
Four bookings to make before the plane.
Most of Fiji can be arranged from a sun lounger the night before. These four run on capped decks, small hulls and show calendars that take no interest in your travel dates.
- 01Day Trip to Cloud 9 Floating Platform Including Food and BeveragesThe pontoon holds only so many people and the boats out run to a timetable. Sold-out days are normal in the dry season.
- 02Malamala Beach Club – Full DayDay passes are capped so the island never overfills. Full-day slots go first, and weekends go earliest.
- 03VOU Fiji Shows: Fiji Untold, From Fiji With Love & More! Dinner!Fiji’s flagship dance company performs on set nights, not every night. Land in the wrong window unbooked and you miss it.
- 04South Sea Sailing Full Day Trip (5 years and above only)The sailing catamarans carry a few dozen guests where the big boats carry hundreds. Small manifests fill early.
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The kind of day you are after
Nadi to Suva the long way round.
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