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A simple motel about 20 minutes from Outdoor Samoa that is convenient for evening arrivals.

Meals: Breakfast included. For those on afternoon flights there is a basic dinner menu available for purchase. If arriving on the late flights ensure that you have eaten on the flight or have snacks with you.

Lauiula Beach Fales are on a white sand beach beside a clear lagoon. This is a great place to learn to snorkel or brush up on snorkelling confidence as the shallow, sandy lagoon has regular coral outcrops, but plenty of places to stand up. To see turtles - take your eyes off the coral and tropical fish and look out towards the reef. In the 28 degree water you can stay in as long as you want.

Lauiula occasionally organise a traditional umu demonstration which you then eat for dinner followed by a fiafia evening. The small surcharge is well worth paying.

Meals: Breakfast and Dinner are included

These well run fales beside the beach are the ideal place to relax.

Manase has the biggest collection of beach resorts on the island and nearby Fagamolo has Le lagoto and Savaii Lagoon Resorts. Leap in for a swim before settling down with a well-earned beer.

Swimming and snorkelling from the sandy beaches are the obvious attractions, but for better snorkelling take the 3-4 hour Dive Savaii trip out to the reef and wreck (tide dependent), walk/cycle west to the next rocky bay or swim out from Fagamolo.

There are usually turtles around the small rock islands beside Reginas.

Ride 8km to Mt Matavanu crater, the source of the 1905 lava field. Admission is 15 Tala. It’s a tough ride up, climbing 550m to the cloud forest, but a thrilling descent.

Explore the Dwarfs Cave (take a torch each). This is a pool and drop lava tube cave. To explore the final section involves swimming across a pool, and coming back involves a short, steep climb, so go only as far as you are equipped/experienced and allow most of the day.

Meals: Dinner and Breakfast Included

Va-i-moana is a popular seaside motel with good swimming from their private beach. Ride-on kayaks are available for guests to visit the nearby island and game fishing charters cn be arranged. The beachside rooms are often treated to a parade of turtles past their wooden balconies.

Those with enough energy to move beyond the beach and bar should arrange a tour of the cocoa processing factory that supplies Whittakers or ride to Vaisala to snorkel amongst the coral of their lagoon.

Meals: Continental Breakfast and Dinner are included

Falealupo Beach is a beautiful isolated white sand beach set beside a small private lagoon at the western end of Savaii. The weather is nearly always clear with stunning sunsets while the shallow lagoon is always safe and inviting with a good variety of fish and coral. The fales are basic and facilities are limited, but the setting and hosts make this a special spot.

It is sometimes possible to get an upgrade on the day to an ensuite fale.

Meals: Dinner and breakfast included

Satuiatua Beach Fales are located on a white sand beach in the shade of giant banyan trees.

A highlight is drift snorkelling through the marine reserve beside the Fales. Here you will see plenty of coral, a wide variety of tropical fish and the occasional turtle. The lagoon is only deep enough above half tide, so whale watch from the bar, swing from the banyans, or just laze and swim.

There is surfing at the reef entrance (the resort sometimes hires boards and paddle boards), but only attempt this if you are an experienced surfer.

Meals: Dinner and breakfast included

Florence's Place is about 3kms past the Afu Aau falls in the village of Palauli so you can check in and ride back to the falls, or stop on the way. Florence’s Place is a homestay run by Kelvin and Ruth who are rebuilding the old family plantation. They have many interesting stories to tell and a tour of the plantation is well worth while.

Meals: Dinner and breakfast included.