Apia Resort

... we bade our hosts a fond good-bye and began the journey back to 'Upolu, then across it's mountainous interior to the beach resort of Aleipata, Lalomanu in the far east of Samoa, where another fale and our final bathing opportunity, were waiting. Yet here ...

On Tuesday we arrived at Aganoa Beach Resort, run by a nice Samoan woman and her palagi husband. 'Palagi' (pronounced 'pa-lang-gee') is what Samoans call white people - apparently it means 'people who fall from the sky', as in fly in on planes. Anyways, ...

... (a display of traditional Samoan singing & dancing (including fire dancing) put on by the family that owned the resort). Our last day was spent in Apia & we took the opportunity to visit a popular local attraction - the Sliding Rock. This is a ...

... a 15m2 terrace out in the water approx. 20 m from land where from we can watch the fish action below and catch the sun in private. The resort itself is a jungle resort owned by Americans and although it is laid back (no TV in the room and no kids) they ...

... round New Zealand for six months had taken its toll and we were in need of a holiday. So we took a week at Coconuts Beach Resort & Spa in Samoa. It was pretty much what you might expect: a week of lazing by the pool, where the most energetic thing we ...

... a chair during our supper hoping for the best. I spent the next couple of days unable to wear shoes and limped my way around the resort.  I decided that if it wasn’t better by the time we got to the capital of Apia, I would go and get an ...

Got up at 8:59 a.m. at the Le Uaina Seaside Resort on our final day in Samoa. After showering and packing, Mom and I departed at 10:02 for the 37-minute drive to the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum near Apia. I did not have any interest in touring the ...

... to Savii the other island of Samoa. Once I arrived in Savii I was luckily picked up by an Aussie couple who took me to Asaga resort where I got a beach hut which was right next to the water. I spent a night their before meeting a load of Aussie medics who ...

... were carved.    After lunch you depart for the airport to board your private jet for Apia, Samoa, the heart of Polynesia.  Your attractive resort is nestled amongst acres of tropical gardens and tall, swaying palm trees.  It is ...

... in Samoa. There are worse things than being stranded on an island paradise - especially when they farm you out to a ridiculously posh resort where you have air conditioning (that you find too cold), a TV (that you don't turn on), four walls/no bugs (but ...

... in Apia (the capital) we caught the ferry to Savaii and spent four days there - three days on the beach at Siufaga Beach Resort (nice place) and one day on a guided tour of Savaii Island. On the guided tour provided by Green Turtle (recommended), we saw ...

... . Our final stop, further east along the south coast of Upolu, was Sa'anapu, an in particular a beautifully secluded eco resort called Virgin Cove. Our accommodation was in a traditional Samoan open fale, basically a mattress on the floor in a small open ...

... rock. Flutefish, pufferfish, squirrelfish, and vanilla-caramel-chocolate butterflyfish competed to eat the coral. A place named Salinai Reef Resort offered the best off-shore snorkeling I've ever done; waves broke, perilously far from the beach, and I ...

... on the island, well worth the two hour drive from Apia Airport. Sili the Samoan owner warmly greets all his guests as they arrive. The resort is built in the typical Samoan style, no air con here! but as you are right on the beach, with a constant breeze ...