Spent 7 days at Navututu Stars Resort. I can only agree with the comments made by other guests. We had a perfectly peaceful, relaxing time, not organised to do anthing rather than just sit and read, sleep and eat.

As for eating, we always looked forward to getting the dinner menu brought to our bure to discuss the evenings meal, which with all meals were absolutely delicious. Ben you and your staff are exceptional, and as you perhaps remember Bernard really loved your pasta dishes.

The staff were always friendly, in fact friends, nothing was too much trouble, and even after I mentioned I loved coconut, within ten minutes Lydia came with a freshly cut cocunut for me. That is service and as always with those fantastic smiling faces.

Even though it was the time of the month when the tide was very low Giovanna arranged trips if wanted, but to tell the truth we were just as comfortable to be "home".

If you want somewhere completely relaxing, special service, excellent food I can really recommend Navutut for you.

we have just returned from 5 days in the paradise island of navutu, and are arranging our next visit, as this has been the best vacation of our life.
We had alreadt\y been to fiji a few times and we had decided this would have been the year of descovering yasawa on board of the Blue lagoon Cruise.
When we enquired with our travel agent she advised us of a new resort that offered an early morning pick up after the cruise, in that way we could have explored the yasawas and then we could have enjoyed a few more days in this secluded side of the world, we though why not and booked the blue lagoon combo with navutu island resort.
We had quite and enjoyable cruise although it was rainig and being a bit bored we had a few too many drinks, nevertheless we enjoyed the cruising and loved drinking kava bowls with the locals: fijans have a charm unique to them. Because of the weather we even considered going back home aearly skipping navutu. I still thank the Lord we didn t.
The very moment we approached the resort and desembarked in front of the stunning bar we knew we had entered a special land. We were greeted with flower leis and delicoius fruit punch, and a gentle giant by the name of Daniel wisked us to our Grand suite. The place simply speaks by itself, it is just beautiful, decorated with a taste that is more reminiscent of bohemian millionaire island homes than of a tourist enstablishment.
The attention to details is incredibly elegant.
The head chef, a magician, comes to your terrace to take the orders
the barman names a special cocktail after each guest every night+
Menus are made every day according to what s fresh from the land and sea, it rivals any top restaurant in asia
activities are arrranged just for you
you can choose to have your table laid around the resort s gardens at your preference
the staff is genuine, accomodating but at the same time extremely polite and let s you do your thing (very rare for fijan standards)
the garden is a blossom of all the tropical varitoes of indigenous ibisus, bouganvillea and frangipani
a small reefs sits infront of the bar and a coral gardener is forever adjusting the habitat reflourishing the corals and the fauna with fish houses
I could go on and on, but other reviewers have already pointed out all is just fantastic about this little slice of paradise. I just wished i had skipperd the cruise altoghether and just stayed in navutu island for the all vacation, thank the Lord I have found navutu and will be returnig there in September.
Navutu I love you

We are a couple from Spain in their late tirties and spent 10 days at the beautiful Navutu Stars Resort. Overall has been an amazing experience, very genuine place with incredible satff and service. The food has beeen fantatstic with a daily personalised menu for my vegeterian partner, quite incredible considering you re in the middle of the South Pacific.While the Resort is very private and very remote , we had the opportunity to meet a lot of very nice people , at cocktail time the whole resort seems to mingle at the bar where Noa and his staff prepare the most amazing Mohitos. It is interesting how the Resort attracts the most diverse crowd, we have met peple from the USA, Italy, Uk , Austarlia and New Zeland , it has been great to have our little group of new friends while taking part in the coral restration programme and the village visits. The school kids had prepared a suprise dance for us and it has been just increible and so genuine.We took part in most activities , we were surprised by the abbundance of new corals and small fishes just in front of the resort and Giovanna ( the young manager) expalined to us that they have been working with a group of marine biologists to monitor and improve their own reef. ( maybe they should mark their reef properly as it is a bit hard to find).
We found Navutu Stars to have an excellent combiantion of amazing location, remotness, privacy, great service , excellent food, very good selection of activities and tropical splendor.
We coud not have asked for a better resort in Fiji, our short experience in Denarau has been terrible, thousands of people with screaming kids by the hotel pool, terrible food , bad service and so on , as soon as we set foot at Navutu we knew we were at home in paradise.
Muchas Gracias to all Navut Staff and friends for showing us the real Fiji while enjoying pure bliss and luxury.
p.s: Anna at the small Spa has amazing hands and we higly reccomend that you enjoy at least a couple of treatments during your stay.

We stayed here for a week in both inclement and sunny weather so can report on most aspects of the resort. Overall, if you are seeking the genuine Fiji (staff are from the local village), are happy to be remote from everything (no shops, no other resorts), are not seeking to make close friends while staying (you are seated seperately for meals) and are content to amuse yourself of a nighttime (there are no organised activities), and are willing to pay for luxury and service (room and food is not cheap), this resort is for you.
On the other hand, if you want to meet other people, engage in exciting day trips every day, have plenty of organised things to do when the weather is bad or want to visit other resorts during your stay, then there are better choices.
The bures are pure luxury and the staff are keen to please (they are grateful for the employment offered by the resort which has been open for only 2 years). The resort offers very reasonably priced daytrips to snorkelling spots, Fijian villages and to the limestone caves. It has to be said however that the range of distractions the resort can offer won't last more than 2 or 3 inclement days and a 3rd rainy day will leave you to your own devices for entertainment. There is no TV, no DVD and barely 2 crackly radio stations on the receiver provided in the bure.

Based on our experience, recommended day trips are to the caves and to Liku Liku snorkelling, as well as at least one village visit. The hike up the hill to the west of the resort is worth it for the elevated view of the resort and its surrounds.

While the resort is extremely nice, quiet, pristine, well appointed and stylish, here are some minor disadvantages which you may like to be aware of:
1. There is nothing to see snorkelling in the bay on which the resort is situated. While the water is crystal clear, there is no coral worth viewing. It is good for a swim at anything more than half tide.
2. There is good snorkelling near the caves and at Liku Liku (a daytrip 20 min boat ride away). Wherever you go snorkelling, make sure you get clear instructions from the Fijian boatman who takes you as to where the reef is and how you are going to tackle it (starting point, direction of swim and how back to the beach) as they do not always put in the effort to inform you of these details and instead just leave people to their own devices, which leads to missed opportunities at best and lost snorkellers at worst.
3. the resort has NO washing machine and NO drier. It is best to stay at the resort with no need to do laundry as the housekeeping staff will do it by hand (they will not let you do it yourself and who would want to by hand!) and it has to dry out on a line even if it is raining. You can go 2 to 3 days before your laundry comes back if it is raining.
4. Bring everything you need. the resort has some basic supplies but prices are very high (eg. FJD20 for small tube of toothpast)
5. Even the light food package is very expensive and if you are both light eaters (like wouldn't have 3 courses for dinner and only 1 course for lunch) then you may be better off paying a la carte.
6. Drinks are expensive (FJD4 plus tax for a small juice, FJD5 + tax for a coke or lemonade) so bring as much drink as you can with you. The fridge in the bure is of a reasonable size so you can keep it on tap cold. There are no tea or coffe-making facilities in the bure.

The above are only minor drawbacks in the context of the overall plushness and paradise setting of the resort so don't let these put you off.

Some tips to make your stay at Navutu Stars more enjoyable:
1. Try the lobster if it is served in the shell. That was delicious but the lobster served out of the shell was not nearly as nice
2. Don't take sunny days for granted. We had only (in May) 3 out of 7 days sunny. If it is sunny, do a water thing. Leave the non-water ativities for a cloudy day.
3. Make the effort to get to know the staff. They are very genuine and if you are lucky will personally take you to their village for a look-see (pick a cloudy day).
4. If you plan on visiting a village school, arrive at the resort with some gifts for the school and for the children. The people are poor by our standards (happy by theirs) and the smallest of gifts are greatly appreciated. Pens, crayons, textas, exercise books, text books, encyclopedias are all useful. Simple small toys are received joyously by the children.
5. If you have too much "stuff" at the end of your stay, give it away to the resort staff rather then leave it in your hotel room in Nadi. The families of the resort staff need it more than the workers in Nadi.
6. You are probably going to get bitten by sea lice if you snorkel with a shirt on. I don't know if cream exists to prevent this but if you can find one before you leave, use it.
7. When you go snokelling, take some pieces of bread with you and if you are lucky you will be surrouned by fish eating the bread out of your hand (or if you don't like that idea, crumble the bread in your hand and let it sink and you will soon have a carpet of fish beneath you).
8. When you go on a daytrip out in the boat (5m tinny), take something warm to wear as it can be cold in the windy open ocean and colder coming back in a wet costume. I can assure you it is possible to catch a bad cold in the overall warm Fijian climate.
9. Take some antiseptic cream with you to the resort if you plan to snorkel. Even the slightest graze on live coral will become very red raw and infected unless treated promptly with the antiseptic.
10. If you don't like geting into wet costumes, take 2 swimming costumes with you as often you will swim in the morning and then again in the afternoon and the morning's swimmers will not always be dry in a short time even if you hang them outside.

In summary, if you want to see the non-commercialised under-developed prisitne and genuine side of Fiji, and seek a relaxing rather than thrill-a-minute resort stay, Navutu Stars is for you.