Incredible recent trip to Fiji.

(77 Reviews)
99% Recommended

Tree Schmidt

Lakewood, CO
Bucket List Travel

I have been blessed to have traveled the world extensively and can't wait to assist you in making your travel dreams a reality. 

My specialties are Tahiti and her islands including Bora Bora, Fiji, Cook Islands.

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Horseshoe Bay, Matangi Island, Fiji

On our 4th visit to Matangi Island, Fiji, a dry eye is hard to find as you depart!


The warmth, kindness, and genuine nature of the Fijians come through in their voices and will captivate you!  Many of the staff remembered us from our visit 10 years ago.  The family that owns Matangi, lives on the resort.  Nothing is remotely “corporate'' on this pristine volcanic island above or below the surface of the sea.  Everyone wants you to feel as at home as they do.  


Foodies beware!  There are mouth-watering choices to be made at every meal.  Pick just one? Absolute torture!  Today’s Fresh catch, NZ beef and lamb, Fijian Curry, lobster, etc., etc. The saving grace is the wine list.  Let’s face it, a real vintage wine list is rare as whales teeth in most tropical destinations.  Not so at Matangi! Their wine list will bring out the enophile in you.   Plenty of home-baked choices for starting breakfast on the continental buffet, but read my lips.“YES! Eggs Benedict today again Please!” 


The breakfast menu is long and all delicious for those who can inexplicably pass on the lovingly and perfectly poached Benedict's.   Did someone say “champagne breakfast in bed”? Just ask.  Go back to skipping breakfast when you get home. 


Divers!  Do you prefer crowded dive sites?  Do you like a full dive boat with several dive groups? Two divers left just before me and two more showed up the following week when we left.  It was just me and the dive master all week!  Bose was attentive and had an incredible ability to find all manner of large and small reef critters, most of which I’d never seen before. 


Matangi is a “Private Island Resort”.  We joked every day about our “private ocean”.  We never spotted another dive boat, or diver all week.   The spa is well appointed and definitely worth your time.  Maybe sometime Every Day!  Water people like me simply should not pass on my favorite, what I call the “shower table”.  Absolute wet indulgence, followed by the hot stone massage.   A master brewer was asked, “what makes a good beer”? His answer, “one that makes me want another.”  Matangi is the one resort we want to revisit again

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