Avarua Villas - Reviews and Rates

One Thursday morning, in the middle of the school holidays, I received a text from Jill. "Fancy going to Rarotonga on Saturday?" The reply took very little thought, and my answer is obvious (this would have been a boring blog if I'd said no!). We'd finished a very busy term, and I was still having trouble winding down. A week on a tropical islan...

Relax.......this is going to be just an overview of my week in The Cook Islands as I pretty much did nothing and loved every minute of it too!!! Arriving at Rarotonga's airport I got a taste of how this week was going to be.....a tiny airport with a little old man playing the ukulele to welcome us all to the Cook Islands and a lot of smiling fac...

7/12/2006 Thu 7am flight to Cook Islands Met @ airport by Marianne, our host @ Are Renga hotel. Got a free upgrade to a private chalet with patio for the princely sum of $20 (8squid) each. Went to an Island Night @ the Staircase restaurant & bar. An island nite is basically the locals dressing up in native kit and dancing around to drums. Good f...

i had an amzing time on rarotonga, i was really sad to leave, i met such a cool bunch of people, both travellers and locals. we saw whales while we were sitting on the beach and i did some diving which was great. we also did a cross-island walk which was great. everyone on rarotnga is so friendly, someone always says hello to you and it was gorg...

Kia Orana from the Cook Islands! So, after the damp squib that was Fiji, we were hoping for better in the Cook Islands. We'd heard good reports from people we'd met who had been there, but it didn't start well... We flew into the airport to be greeted by torrential rain, but that was the least of our problems. Prior to leaving Fiji we'd e-mailed...

Sun again! But the winds have followed us across the sea from nz!! We braved these however, to walk to the 'botanic gardens' - Cook Island style. There was a map explaining where everything was on the side of the cafe (which we looked at after our tea and pawpaw muffin!). The map said, item 1 volunteers quarters, (in reality a building that was ...

Day 106 - 29th July 2006 - Rarotonga, The Cook Islands Well it's officially Groundhog Day - but no Bill Murray to ease us through - merely torrential downpours, begging and public transport! But we're in Rarotonga right? Oh yes - the dry season, apparently. I'd hate to see it in the wet season - what about our tans - and it's 37 degrees in Londo...

Sunday 30th April Slept in for a change and finished reading 'Deception Point', before going diving in the afternoon We had bought a package of eight dives at $NZ400 each including equipment with The Dive Centre, which meant we would do two dives each day over four days either in the morning or afternoon. The dives were ok, but the coral is pret...

V. laid back place. got met at the airport, and into a nice hostel run by a New Zealander. Was made to feel at home as I was introduced to the other guests when they appeared (many were staying in their own chalets, which were more expensive than the dorm, so this was a nice touch as otherwise with that arrangement of accommodation you tend to s...

COOK ISLANDS Had an excellent 5 days here! I was a bit worried there wasn't going to be much to do, apart from sunbathing, but luckily we were able to get plastered every night and still 'do stuff' during the day... The first day the weather was a bit glum in the morning and it had just been raining, but by lunchtime it was roasting. We went to ...