Dive Review of Oneta Resort in
Fiji and Tuvalu/Ono Island

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Oneta Resort: "most beatiful reefs I have ever seen in 40 years of diving", Jan, 2019, by Bill Palmer, CA, US ( 2 reports with 8 Helpful votes). Report 10832 has 8 Helpful votes.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling
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Comments	Everyone was genuinely going out of their way to make our trip the best trip we have ever been on, not just because it was their job, they wanted to. The first day was a 5 minute boat trip to the Manta Ray station, sure enough one was there and we swam with him for about an hour. The trip just got better and better from there on. The Great Astrolabe reef is great in everyway, on some dives I looked to find a piece of dead coral and could not find a single piece. Sea snakes, sharks just swimming by often, manta rays, every fish you could want to see was there. The house reef was just as good. The food was so good it would rate well in a Santa Barbara restaurant. All of this inspite of cyclone Mona, it was forcast to just about hit Ono island head on but at the last momment veered off and headed out towards Tonga. The resort completely shut down in preperation, took down the solar panels, stashed the boats, etc. They were still putting things back together when we showed up, so we did have some little problems with water for a couple of days. The reefs made up for any little inconveniences that we had. It is the rainy season there so it rained most nights but the sun always came out each day. GO THERE, we am going back.
Websites	Oneta Resort Oneta Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Papua New Guinea, Fiji twice, Thailand, Samoa, Hawai'i, Bonaire, Cayman, Roatan, Puerto Rico, Honduras, Florida Keys
Closest Airport	Kadavu	Getting There	LAX to Nadi, then Nadi to Kadavu, then boat trip to Ono Island.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	86-°F / 30-°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	50-80 Ft/ 15-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	none
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	no
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	Squadrons
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	a very small resort with small boats, there is room for improvement but they are hiring an instructor to run the dive program on site and I imagine improvements will be made. I chatted with the owner about a few things that could be better and she was receptive to my suggestions.

Report currently has 8 Helpful votes

Subscriber's Comments

By Greg Bruce in WA, US at Jan 28, 2019 13:21 EST

Thanks for taking the time to give a report. A couple of questions: It looks like the boat diving is 2 tanks per day. Is there also a house reef that you can dive in order to get 3 or 4 dives a day? Also, sounds like the food was very good. Was it mostly Fijian food? THX

By report author: Bill Palmer in CA, US at Feb 05, 2019 12:54 EST

it looks like most of my review got dropped or deleted. Yes the house reef is very good. I posted 5 stars for every category, fish, reef, coral, everything. The only thing that was missing was dunk tanks on the boats for camera gear, but the boats are very small. That was the only hardship and since we were in paradise I could over look that.

By Dominique NOIRE in Cannonvale , AU at Mar 13, 2019 18:37 EST

SOunds great thanks. I was wondering if it is feasible as a solo female diver, especially the accomodation. I live in Australia now but have run a dive shop in the Caribbean for numerous years, and have no dive partner for this trip, end of May beginning of June.

By Dave White in CA, US at Jul 29, 2019 21:19 EST

They now have two instructors on staff running the dive program and just opened a new dive shop and added a slightly larger dive boat. We did not dive the house reef, but it is a short swim offshore. The food was excellent and was mostly Fijian. Lots of fish when someone at the resort caught some. Check with them on how they would charge a single diver. If they are not full, they might work something out with you. If you e-mail them you will get Martin, the owner.

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Dive Review of Oneta Resort in Fiji and Tuvalu/Ono Island

Oneta Resort: "most beatiful reefs I have ever seen in 40 years of diving", Jan, 2019,

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Dive Review of Oneta Resort in
Fiji and Tuvalu/Ono Island