Dive Review of Paradise Taveuni in
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Paradise Taveuni: "Remote Island with so-so diving", Oct, 2019, by Renee Ross, OR, US ( Sr. Reviewer 8 reports with 3 Helpful votes). Report 11238 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	1 week on Taveuni, Paradise Resort. A rural Fiji experience, truly a beautiful island and people. Prepare for over an hour on unpaved road to get to that end of the island where Paradise sits right on a lovely spot. Diving the Rainbow reef each day, tops of the reef were so pretty but most every dive had too much current to dive along the tops so we ended up down at the dead bottom edge of the reef for the good share of the dives then just when we would go up the the beauty the dives were over. Don’t know if it was just the dive crew plans or what but we were never allowed to ride a current and view the beauty (Like Wakatobi and the Philippines), the guide said we would just fly away. My impression was that they didn’t have it in their plans to follow a group on a drift dive. The white wall was a natural wonder , nice swim throughs, but we did that too without current so the white corals were mostly closed. One site that was very nice was Cabbage Patch. Very healthy, huge cabbage corals. The resort boat is very crowded but we were lucky because a big group of 23 divers had it full so they borrowed a smaller, fast boat from neighboring island Cousteau Resort, so our group of 5 had our small boat all to ourselves with 2 dive boat crew from Cousteau and 1 dive guide from Paradise. Food was so-so here, rooms were kept clean. Be sure you request NOT to be in the 3 Vale rooms near the dive shop because the compressors run off and on all day and it’s noisy in those rooms, VERY noisy. Not fair when you are paying for an Ocean View Vale. On the plus side, the staff in the resort and our dive guide Christine were delightful people. They made our stay a happy one. We probably won’t return to Taveuni unless we try a resort near the paved road by the airport such as Garden Island Resort. We looked at Garden Island Resort and aside from the fruit bats it may be more geared towards divers ( from past Undercurrent trip reports.)Perhaps their dive op leads drift dives along the reef so the amazing parts are not missed like they were with Paradise Taveuni.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Bequia, Bonaire, Curaçao, , Cayman Brac, Little Cayman, Bunaken Island, Fiji, Lembeh Straights and, Gangga Island Indonesia, Konrae, Puerta Galera Philippines, Palau, Wakatobi , Fiji and Yap.
Closest Airport	NAD	Getting There	SFO-NAN
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm, choppy, currents, no currents
Water Temp	79-81°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	5
Water Visibility	30-100 Ft/ 9-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	60 minutes or 500 psi
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
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Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Paradise Taveuni in Fiji and Tuvalu

Paradise Taveuni: "Remote Island with so-so diving", Oct, 2019,

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Dive Review of Paradise Taveuni in
Fiji and Tuvalu