Rarotonga Hotels

True, it's across the road from a great beach. But it has no special charm, gardens, access, etc. you have to rent or take the bus to go anywhere. It's like a Motel 6.... A place to lay your head.

The Front desk and all staff were very helpful, polite and friendly. We had a few minor issues but they were dealt with immediately to our satisfaction. The location of this resort is excellent with a nice beach and great for snorkeling but the pool is very small and always filled with children. There were some couples, lots of friends celebrating different occasions, but I think this would be best described as family resort. \nWe went to Island Nite at the resort and the show and buffet food was excellent, however, when we went to have lunch the service was slow and the food was bad. How can you ruin a bacon/tomato sandwich? \nThe drink prices for cocktails were the most expensive we saw anywhere on the Cook Islands...twice as much as what we would pay in Vancouver. $20.00 NZ for a Pina Colada ??? \n \nThe standard prices for cocktails at other places was $12.50 . They did have a Happy Hour from 5:00 - 6:00 when the cocktails were $10.00, but we did not find we spent much time at...

We liked this resort for its simplicity but mostly its cost. We knew we would only be there at night to sleep, and out during the day doing activities so we did not require much of our room. The room was cleaned daily to a superb standard. Free breakfast daily was a decent amount of food with lovely fresh fruit. We met a lovely couple honeymooning the same time as we where there we became great friends with. The highlight of our stay at the resort was when managment asked us if we would consider moving into the honeymooners resort with them so that they could rent out our room to someone else!! We all laughed hysterically but replied that no, we would not be changing rooms. Cocktail hour was fantastic every night. We would sit on the deck and watch whales swim right by the resort - truly amazing. The room itself was quite sufficient. we had two single beds strapped together to make a king. unfortunately the bedstraps would not stay so by the middle of the night we were back into two...