Country Info
- Avarua
- Capital
- New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
- Currency
- 20,611
- Population
- CK
- Country Code
Rarotonga Slideshow
Top Hotels in Rarotonga
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Muri Beach Club Hotel Rarotonga
112 reviews -
Manuia Beach Resort Rarotonga
74 reviews -
King's Beach Villas Rarotonga
14 reviews -
Moana Sands Beachfront Hotel Titikaveka
61 reviews
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Aquarius Pacific Hotels Rarotonga Limited Avarua
38 reviews
Rarotonga
Travel Blogs from Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Christmas Cook Island Style
This is a top pick! ... that there seems to be a very serious obesity problem on this island. Apparently, so we are informed, most of the pacific islands have such a problem. Portion sizes are enormous, maybe three times the size of back home. In the supermarkets there are the ...
Finding like minded people
This is a top pick! ... a very quick blog to update you all on what's been going on over the past few days. After another night at the Rarotonga Backpackers we were getting absolutely no sleep from the cockerels crowing at 2am!! We decided to hire the bike...(in the end Kevin ...
Rarotonga!!!
This is a top pick! ... so all is well. Our flight to Rarotonga, or Raro for short, was delayed by nearly three hours, but when we finally arrived in The Cook Islands a car was still waiting for us to take us to our hostel. We finally crashed into bed just before 3am, and then a ...
Rarotonga
This is a top pick! Kia Orana everyone... (Written May 29th delayed in sending due to no interner access) We arrived in the Rarotonga (Cook Islands) safe and sound, after a tedious night flight from LA, which included a stop in Tahiti for a few hours. With the time ...
Kia Orana Everyone!!
This is a top pick! ... much less filled diary of our last two weeks!! Monday 1st September We got off the plane at 6.30am in Rarotonga the largest of The Cook Islands which were discovered by (amongst others) yes you guessed it Captain Cook! We passed through immigration to ...
Birthday madness
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 223 Temperature : 30 degrees Weather : Sunny at last I can't quite believe it’s Christmas in a couple of days. It doesn’t feel remotely Christmassy…no lights or decorations anywhere. Well, the owner of our guest ...
Having a Gale of a Time on Rarotonga
This is a top pick! ... to the airport we bid farewell to Jone and checked in at a nice empty counter for flight NZ44 to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. At the airport's Italian restaurant we sliced through pizza slices in record time before negotiating our way through security ...
Roosters Should Wear Muzzles
This is a top pick! ... of 4A-7A. By the way, the myth that roosters crow at dawn has been shattered - daily. We are now back in Rarotonga after taking a short island hop to Aitutaki, a gem in the Rarotongan chain. We suffered beautiful beaches, clear lagoon waters perfect ...
Happy talkin' talkin' happy talk
This is a top pick! ... two villages, and listened to speeches given in English for our benefit instead of Maori. We also got to chat with the Cook Islands national coach - a passionate man with the unlikely name of George George - who told us about him playing against England ...
Merry Christmas to Everyone!!!!
This is a top pick! ... a flight to the Galapagos from Guayaquil where we will spend a couple of weeks and hopefully catch a cruise around the islands, swimming with seals, dive with hammerheads, watch the blue footed boobies and iguanas and tortoises...wildlife fest! Return ...
Jumping ship and being deported
This is a top pick! ... ;do you get to visit this part of the world? So we told Borat, packed our bags and jumped ship. THE COOK ISLANDS Arrival in Rarotonga airport was interesting. "We're putting you back on that plane to Tahiti" said the police and customs as they were ...
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
This is a top pick! Kia Orana from Rarotonga, Cook Islands!!! If there is one place on Earth you need to go it is here. We fell in love with the island straight away. The people are so friendly and its natural beauty is breathtaking!! Rarotonga is the main island in ...
Just hanging out in the South Pacific...
This is a top pick! ... you updated on that aspect of my life. P.S. Keep those emails coming, it's so wonderful to hear from you!! Anyway....Cook Islands. After action-packed weeks in Ecuador, we were really looking forward to just relaxing in the tropics for a couple of ...
Deep Blue Sea
This is a top pick! ... Islanders. As an alternative consolation I did get to see another sunrise having to be up early enough for my 7:30am pick-up. Dive Rarotonga was the outfit I had chose to get wet with along with 3 other guys, one about to start work here, one who had ...
Paradise?
This is a top pick! ... have the same day twice- although I think I'll time it for my birthday in the future! The first thing you notice about the Cook Islands is how quiet it is. The Islands have a population of 18,000 and spread out over 15 tiny islands spread out over an ...
Kia Orana
This is a top pick! ... them. With the film The Guardian providing the on board cheese we were soon descending into Rarotonga last night. Weird. A lone guitarist formed the Cook Islands welcome committee in the airport before I bumped into a few others planning to stay at ...
COOK ISLANDS : RAROTONGA
This is a top pick! ... again, as we soon discover that absolutely everything is closed on a Sunday, here in laid back Rarotonga. Rarotonga is the largest of the Cook Islands, a group of fairly isolated and sparsely populated islands in the South Pacific, with strong links to ...
Ground hog day.....
This is a top pick! ... home..... ah well.... our budget had already gone out of the window so it was take aways and restaurants all the way!! Cook Islands certainly gave us the tranquility and peace that we so desired...... more so as there is no mobile phone coverage and ...
Chapter 4: I become very lazy.
This is a top pick! ... me. Muri Beach is incredible. The lagoon is seldom more than waist deep, and you can wade out to a few beautiful tropical islands for some private beach time under swaying palms. The only catch is that it's mating season for the triggerfish, so ...
We're behind you!
This is a top pick! ... international dateline on our way to the Cook Islands and so are now 10 hours behind GMT. We're staying on Rarotonga, the largest of the 13 Cook Islands. It is pretty much how you'd imagine a South Pacific island, with lovely beaches and very laid back ...
Chapter 3: "I was caught in the rain..."
This is a top pick! Kia Orana! Greetings from Muri Beach on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands! I can't tell you how happy I am to be back to using a standard keyboard again! When I last left off (Thursday), I was wrapping things up on Mo'orea; the ferry ride back to Papeete, ...
Groundhog Day
This is a top pick! ... made the bus routes simpler, all two of them, clockwise or anti-clockwise. Wandering around the Saturday morning market the Cook Islands seemed better off than Fiji with a better overall infrastructure though not sure whether that is to do with more ...
Leaving Paradise
This is a top pick! Can you overdose on mangoes? Leaving Aitutaki behind this morning the flight back to Rarotonga was full but still getting a window seat to gaze out of at the lagoon below as we took off. Left my bag at the airport once we had touched down to take a ...
Cyclones, Cyclones and more Cyclones
This is a top pick! ... the plane from Auckland to here it seemed a little odd that we were getting on a Jumbo Jet just for the short trip to the Cook Islands. It was only during the flight that we found out why. The guy sitting next to Liz on the flight explained that that all ...
Cook Islands
This is a top pick! ... are rare now. Don't buy them !! Ok enough preaching. A few days later we flew to Aitutaki the most photographed of the Cook islands ( it's the island that most of the holiday brochures show, with the huge lagoon ) we landed on the brand new runway to ...
Rainy Rarotonga
This is a top pick! They wouldn't let me stay any longer in Fiji so here I am in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands staying in Vara's Beach House right on the sea front overlooking the lagoon. There's quite a lot of islands in the Cooks but Rarotonga is the administrative centre ...
Next Pacific Island Group = Next Dive Site!
This is a top pick! ... depart and miss the chance to get talking somehow. Ron from Canada, was a diver with some history of diving the islands. Oivand was a journalist (amonst a long varied history of other professions), from Norway, and was starting his open water dive ...
Wicked Island Time
This is a top pick! Nine and a half hour flight from LA and we found ourselves in the idyllic Cook Islands. Unfortunately it was cyclone season so our sunshine was brief and fleeting, but we had a comfortable place to sit our rucksacks and kick up our feet for five days at ...
Kia Orana (Hello, welcome)
... the weather is close to 30C above freezing). I've got the (thankfully minor) sunburn to prove it. We're sitting down to a traditional Cook Island dinner and show. Hula dancers or close to it. I'll video the swinging hips for you ...