paradise taveuni or garden island

[ACHiPo]

Paradise Taveuni does night dives a few times a week on their house reef. They do not as far as I know offer anything beyond mid-late afternoon as a final dive on Rainbow or Vuna Reefs.

 

[PACKRMAN]

Just a few questions....
1. does it have a house reef? Yes.
2. if so, can you night dive daily on it? No. shore diving ends at 3:00pm wtf? Paradise has a similar policy, what is the deal with this? We ended up being able to night dive daily but it was an added cost having someone 'watch' from the shore, honestly.
3. how is the food. buffet style, variety? Looks like server style like paradise.
4. I assume you don't really have a reason to leave the resort?
5. It says up to 5 dives a day but if you have to end at 3pm I'm not sure how you get those in as the boat 'assumably' doesn't get back till 12 or 1 then lunch?

Edit: Looked at the website.

3. how is the food. buffet style, variety? Looks like server style like paradise.

breakfast and dinner are order off the menu and served by some great ladies. They will ask what you want for lunch at breakfast to speed up service.

4. I assume you don't really have a reason to leave the resort?

My first trip we left the resort for a luau. I don't recommend that.
Our second trip we commented on our poor experience and they did a show at the resort. It was amazing.
There are some small hikes to the date line and waterfalls that some people did. I choose to dive.

5. It says up to 5 dives a day but if you have to end at 3pm I'm not sure how you get those in as the boat 'assumably' doesn't get back till 12 or 1 then lunch?

Doing 4 dives a day they would send out a sack lunch with the boat picking up the morning only divers. It was very good and plenty to eat.

 

[wgw04024]

Well I hope whomever buys paradise (it's for sale) sets up a night dive routine like Cocoview does.

 

[Alison in Fiji]

I'd say Paradise Taveuni as it has an amazing house reef and offers free night diving - expect blue ribbon eels, lionfish, wads of macro, octopus, slipper lobster and decorator crabs. https://www.waterlustfiji.com/fiji-dive-resorts/paradise-taveuni-dive-resort

 

[wgw04024]

Paradise offers like 1 guided night dive a week, or per stay I believe. Doing night dives on your own daily are not part of the package. However, two of us were able for a cost, night dive every nite by ourselves without guides.

 

[ACHiPo]

Paradise offers like 1 guided night dive a week, or per stay I believe. Doing night dives on your own daily are not part of the package. However, two of us were able for a cost, night dive every nite by ourselves without guides.

The house reef is indeed nice. Unfortunately, when we were there, there was enough runoff to make visibility poor due to haloclines. As a result I didn't push for night diving.