Shangri-La Fijian Resort to Nadi Airport - Private Vehicle

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Wei-Yun M.

September 30, 2025

Fantastic place to stay with the most lovely and generous staff, working hard while children run around all over the place. A few things of extra info that you won't find online easily: - It's very child friendly, although most of the activities are for 4yo+ children (eg. waterpark 7yo+, kids club 4yo+ unless parent/babysitter present, daily games at the pool). There's also a playground that is mostly unused as everyone is at the pool! - For a child friendly place, there are no change tables anywhere. There's a Lounge area at the Italian restaurant (kids allowed) which has board games and somewhere to rest (esp good if waiting for your room or to leave). The only public shower is open poolside. - Rooms are well soundproofed from the walls. You can hear people if they walk outside the door, but considering how many children are in the resort, we heard nothing overnight. - Italian and Indian restaurants are adults only. - There are 3 breakfast buffets - Italian (adults only, didn't go), Takali (smaller, quieter, peaceful area, has a few extra Asian dishes) and Lagoon (large with everyone, multi-cuisine) - The restaurants have regular weekly themed nights (eg. Lagoon has middle eastern buffet on Tues, spice night Fri; or the Beach Grill does a big BBQ 2x/week but need to book in advance or go later eg. 7pm after many of the families have left), so there is still variety within the same buffet during the week. - I've never eaten so much at a buffet before. Buffet highlights were large pork ribs (Beach BBQ night), breakfast (bacon, chicken congee, smoked salmon, or nasi lemak and Laksa (Takali), or fresh dosas (Lagoon)) Lagoon dinner (freshly roasted whole chicken, lamb on rice for Middle Eastern Tues night) - Coffee is FJD6 (not included in buffets). They do have a machine included. Both of these are not good (Melbourne standards). - The closest restaurant off island is The Junction - book in advance for a lobster or crab. You can walk or the restaurant will pick you up/drop you off (or the hotel can drop you/pick you up to the bridge and you can walk across). Cash only. - There is a shopping area onsite including a Kapati icecream shop (and you can avoid the Lagoon pool icecream stand) and some expensive shops (snacks, drinks, icecream/icypole sticks, sunscreen, souvenirs etc) - The resort is fully card only. Cash is only for tips (if you want to) or if you go to The Junction. There are 2x ATMs onsite (Westpac FJD15 to withdraw, the other one is FJD10 to withdraw). - There's snorkelling off the beach (small fish and ok coral). - There's a watersports centre Hydro Sports onsite including SSI scuba that does boatdives straight from the resort (FJD207 for first dive) - Watersport centre you can also hire a snorkel for free 1h/person/day and FJD35/h after that. You can also buy snorkel gear including kid sizes. - Beaches are clean and water is lovely. Lagoon beach is sand and busy with clumps of reef as you get further out (there's music constantly playing from the pool area), Takali beach is very gradual and shallow and quiet, but lots of coral/rocks up to the beach so need reef shoes. Would definitely stay again.

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Tracey M.

September 28, 2025

16th trip to Fiji. We spent 3 nights here for a conference. If it were not for that we would not stay here. We originally booked an ocean view deluxe room. The room is dirty and old and the bathroom was so tiny and poorly designed. the amenities were lacking, ie 1 wine glass in the room, no bottle opener (took 3 requests to get one as we'd bought Asahi beer from the resort shop which aren't screw top and when they finally brought us one it was broken and we had to go buy a bottle opener to be able to consume the beer) The whole resort is actually getting very tired and in need of renovation. After putting up with 2 nights of stomping and running around from the children in the room above us we requested to go to the reef wing where there are no children. The rooms were so much better, cleaner and newer, the view was the same which was ocean front. Free cocktails and canapes between 5-6pm. If travelling with kids the Shangri-La would be an ok option, they have an inflatable water park in the lagoon, VR games area, kids club etc but if you aren't make sure you go to the Reef Wing otherwise the pools are just full of kids and when they aren't yours doesn't make for a relaxing holiday. Food was reasonable and not too overpriced. Buying snacks was an expensive experience $17FJD for 1 scoop of ice cream in a cone, you'll need a loan if you've got a few children!! It's an hours drive from the airport. There are better resorts at Denarau which is only 15 minutes from Denarau and for couples I'd recommend heading out to an island resort.

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Cath c.

September 26, 2025

I loved when NAPOLEON yelled BULA when we arrived. The waterpark has been many fun activities and there was so much to do. There were many lovely housekeepers, JOANNA was very warm and hospitable. LOTE was very kind and had a great, cheerful smile every morning at the buffet. We were lucky enough to learn how to make traditional Fijian dishes. Treat yourself and come to the Shangri-La.