Radisson Blu Resort Fiji Denarau Island

Beautiful resort , food amazing , staff fantastic and friendly , nice room . Only think missing was a beach area to sit .

This was the 2nd time at the Radisson Blu resort and 7th time at a Denarau resort. On arrival check in was reasonably prompt and we were allocated one of their newly renovated rooms pretty much as far from reception as it was possible to go. However, it was right next to the beach and the small balcony had a great view of the daily sunset. This resort has a really nice adult pool area, usually quiet and well serviced. Our rate did not include breakfast (FJD49/per person per day) but we were offered a discount on arrival but it seemed expensive at FJD35. We ended up eating at the al a carte restaurant (Chanterra) and it was always less than FJD30 /per person. The Spa massage for couples was good value. The vegetarian restaurant had nice food. Maid service was disappointing. Because we were at the end of the building we were always done last and on 3 or the 5 days were there it was wasn't done when we returned to our rooms after a full day at pool at 4:30-45pm. One day we returned as they were about start, we asked them to wait for 10 minutes but they disappeared and then we had to all to get the room serviced. Not very good at all. The mattresses in the room were very hard and both of us had difficulty sleeping. Refurbished room are nice and well done. On departure these were presented with 3 separate accounts. It took 15 minutes to get a manger to sort it out, not very good. Seems we weren't the only ones either.

Family friendly, busy pool area with lots of children around. Struggled to get a sunbed ... Nice Thai restaurant, and enjoyed the lunch menu at the beachfront. Not much of a beach - convenient to denaru Marina for trips to the islands.

We stayed at the hotel for 2 nights.The check in and check out process took very long. The hotel made a mistake with the bill and it took a while to have that corrected. The room was clean and spacious, but the garden view basically meant that we had a palm tree in front of our balcony. There is a sandy seating area around the pool, but this is fairly limited. When the resort is fully booked it will probably be impossible to get a chair at the pool. When it is high tide there is no beach access. The breakfast is overpriced (49 FJD per person). Not convinced that it really meets all 5 star hotel criteria.