Apia Hotels - Reviews and Rates

An uneventful trip on the plane - the 4.5 hour flight went well. We gained a day as we crossed the International Date Line. So we left Brisbane on Monday night 6pm Brisbane Time and arrived in Samoa at 2am on Monday the 4th May. The most excitement was arriving into Faleolo International Airport (located on the island of Upolu [ah-pool-oo]) at 2...

And it was off to island time where we arrived at 11pm April 3 (strange as we left April 4th!). Anyhow, we took a taxi to 1848 Princess Tui Inn in Apia where we had a reservation for 2 nights. The place was OK but sleeping with the mosquito nets was very hot. It was also difficult to take a refreshing shower as the water pump was often turned of...

After a very long flight we arrived in Samoa in the middle of the night (30 degrees & 90% humidity). We were greeted at the airport by a Samoan quartet playing traditional music. In the heat the men sweated & the women glowed as we waited for our bags to come off the carousel. IN APIA,UPOLU - THE CAPITAL In Apia we had booked into a trad...

The first day we arrived in Auckland we went to several travel agencies to decide where to go in the South Pacific. They all tried to sell us Fiji. It's easy to get there, developed, the flights are cheaper than elsewhere and you can do plenty of water sports. For some reason we didn't like the sound of it. We wanted to see the real Polynesian c...

Some of you may think that I am living in a paradise over here. In some respects I am. I love this place. But I leave many things out of my journal entries. Why? I don't know. I thought you all would want to hear the good things going on over here. It's really difficult work sometimes though. I never wanted a 9-5 office job, and this has given m...