Fiji advice for someone that isn't good with geography haha

[scubanicole]

Hello! Looking to book a last minute trip for Fiji in March. My husband and I are advanced open water certified. My daughter will be travelling with us and has done discovery scuba but wants to get open water certified. I would like to dive Beqa, Rainbow reef, and Bligh Waters. I have no idea if that is feasible on a 7 night stay and if so where would you stay? Beqa resort and Paradise Taveuni are both booked up. There are resorts that are offering packages of hotel and flights that are within budget on Denarau, Mamanuca, Pacific Harbour. (Thus the title of not good with geography). None of these resorts have a dive shop on premises so perhaps some dive shop recommendations to get us to where we want to dive. Any other advice you have to offer would be greatly appreciated.

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[runsongas]

pacific harbour is close to beqa, but the area is overrated imo. denarau/mamanuca is not recommended if you want to do diving in fiji. it is nowhere near any of the three areas you want.

taveuni will require an extra flight. if paradise taveuni is out, then check if nakia is operating (it was up for sale last I checked) or mataira and then diving with salt divers.

skipping an extra flight, you can do voli voli for bligh water, but its weather dependent.

for just one week, i would not bother to lose time trying to switch between voli voli and some place on taveuni.

 

[TostitoBandito]

Yeah just pick one of those three instead of trying to hop around. For Beqa there's obviously beqa resort down there, for bligh waters there's multiple choices but generally anything on the NE corner of Viti Levu or the islands offshore from there is good (but long boat rides), and for rainbow reef I'd suggest either Taveuni Dive Resort or Paradise on Taveuni (which requires a short flight from Nadi).