There are lots of signs saying “hotel guests only”, but we still had a ball catching the Bula Bus around the 7 resorts it stopped at and jumping in the hotel pools. To feel less guilty, we made sure we enjoyed morning tea or lunch or afternoon tea while we were there.
The Sabeto Hot Springs and Mud Pool is a very family-bonding sort of experience. The kids loved getting coated in the thermal mud and we parents loved the hot baths to wash it off in.
You’ll get to take part in a traditional welcome kava ceremony and have a home-cooked Fijian lunch, and mingle with the friendly locals. It’s a great way to show your kids how other people live.
I love to relax as much as the next person, but I’m far too curious to stay put for long. Which is why I dragged the family around the markets and streets of Nadi, meeting the locals, taking pictures and generally trying to soak up what life in Fiji is really like.
The Coral Coast is arguably the point in which family-friendly meets surfer level, and has a few beaches with gentle waves, but is only a stone’s throw away from beaches with tougher waves.
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