Hideaway Island Resort

Breakfast was an excellent continental style. All you can eat buffet with a good range of options. Location is excellent. Hideaway Island is a wonderful haven for water sports. Snorkelling is very easy with a reef and abundant fish just a few metres of the beach.

We booked a Beach Lodge, which has shared facilities. The bathrooms were not particularly clean, seemed to only be cleaned once per day which is not enough when used by a number of lodges. Our lodge was in poor condition inside. They seem to be renovating them and we got the last one that has not been renovated yet. The one next to us was in much better condition and was empty for the whole of our stay. We booked the Melanesian Banquet evening on Thursday. Having done something similar in Hawaii, we expected a veritable feast and an entertainment extravaganza. We were disappointed on both counts. The food consisted of some strange dishes so were not sure what we were eating. Nothing on the buffet that we felt we wanted to go back for a second helping of. Which was just as well because they cleared it all away while we were eating. The entertainment consisted of the resort staff singing and dancing around a fire. The meal and entertainment were all over within an hour, which seemed quite brief given the cost of the event.