Heilala Holiday Lodge

After crossing the International Dateline, we arrived in Tonga on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 23rd – more than two days after we originally left San Francisco. We were met at the airport and traveled, along with another couple from England, to ...

... runtergekommen sind – auf die Mega Stereoanlage kann man sich allerdings in jedem Bus verlassen! Unser Unterkunft, die Heilala Holiday Lodge ist vor ca. einem Monat umgezogen, weswegen an einigen Stellen noch gebaut wurde. Trotzdem wurde man so gut ...

... of time during our stay at Heilala talking to a really nice Australian couple, Ramana and Wayne who were on a surfing holiday. Unfortunately, the surf was pretty much non-existent, so they mostly just enjoyed their three week holiday just relaxing on the ...

... Spice Girls numbers for example) and I particularly liked the Mr Tonga float whilst Mark got to see the winner of the Miss Heilala beauty pageant.  All in all a great party atmosphere. After a lovely lunch with our fellow guests in town, we headed ...

... surrounding it. The King's palace was extremely modest, and all the Tongans spoke very highly of him. We got a bus back to the lodge, it cost us T$2.50 and took 50 minutes, the windows had all be smashed, there was holes in the floor, the seats were ...

... man from China names Mike. He had just moved to Tonga after he fell in love with the country following a short three week holiday. He had been trained in Chinese medicinal massage and it was a much needed treat after the stressful weeks leading up to our ...

Arrived in Tonga fine and well, even if we pushed it with our check in time! Thinking our flight was actually 7.30 when it was 7.10!  Had a hour long trip to the resort when we was greeted by Sven. He informed us of having our own kitchen facilities ...

We were so excited to have a full day on the beach – just relaxing, resting, and reading our books. We got to socialize a lot more with the great people staying at our guesthouse; and, between naps and chapters of our books, we managed to get out ...