My wife and I stayed at the Octopus resort from December 30 2011 to January 5 2012. We had a great time. The only excursion that we did was the night snorkel with the dive master. I think his name sounded like "Cookie". Anyway, he was great and we saw tonnes of neat animals. We didn't feel like doing the other excursions because the snorkeling off the resort beach was so good. There was loads to see in water from 2-3 meters deep to much deeper. I think I got down to about 10m and the reef was still going. We spent on average 3 hours a day in the water split into a morning session and an after-noon session.

My only complaint was the food. My wife and I had actually been at Octopus's sister resort Blue Lagoon Beach Resort for a week prior to arriving at Octopus, so in fairness we'd been eating off a very similar menu for a week already. In any case by the end of our week at Octopus we were getting pretty tired of the food. Especially when you consider that we were trying to avoid the Walu.

Walu seemed to be the catch-of-EVERY-day. It was on the lunch menu and it was served for dinner a couple of times in the week that we were there. Walu is actually very nice tasting, the problem lies in the fact that Walu fish has an oil (actually a wax ester) in it's flesh that most humans can't digest. If you can't digest it, it can give you diarrhea. It's okay if you eat only one small portion a day, and it's probably best not too eat it two days in row. The thing is nobody at the resort mentioned this. I know of at least 5 people at the resort when I was staying there who complained to the management about being sick. One lady wanted to charter a helicopter back to the mainland she was so miserable. I suppose it's possible that something else made everyone sick.

Maybe it was another resort, people move from island to island very fluidly. Maybe there was some contamination in the well. Maybe there was a small child with poor hygiene habits touching all the forks when no one was looking. All I know is, I didn't have a normal bowel movement untill about 2 days after the last piece of Walu passed my lips.

So yes, by all means go to Octopus, it's a wonderful place, but, for the love of god, don't eat too much (any?) Walu!!

Spent 5 nights at the resort and like most I'm sure..we didn't want to leave!! The Reef out our door was amazing. The best snorkeling we've ever done.. It was so relaxed and beautiful one day melted into the next. The dining room and bar were the central meeting places with great food and awesome sunsets.. If you like friendly people,great food,beautiful beach this is the place for U!!! We'll be back!! Vinaka Octopus.

We spent six nights at Octopus and had the most amazing adventure with so many great memories that we will cherish forever. We will definitely go back one day. We used the Yasawa flier to get there, which was the only negative experience we had, hot, uncomfortable and crowded - and it took three and and hours (not two and half as advertised).
We were greeted with a lovely drink and taken to our point 3 and 4 accomodation which was just out of this world. Spacious air conditioned bures with our own decking, hammock and sun loungers. And a lovely housekeeper called Salote who spoilt us with her smiles, friendliness and keeping our bures so clean for the whole time we were there.
We spent a lot of time snorkeling right in front of our bure. The coral was amazing and an abundance of different colored fish made it just wonderful. The sunsets from our decking were just amazing. All meals were great with so much variety, I particularly enjoyed the breakfasts as the pineapple and coconut was just so refreshing.
The highlight of the trip was an island safari we went on with Kenny and Amilio who took us to an uninhabited island with coral and fish that was just mind blowing. The water was crystal clear and calm. Octopus should run this safari more often as we only got to experience this once in our six days, although a couple days of bad weather meant they did cancel it on one day while we were there.
The village visit was another highlight, seeing the local Fijians and how they live gives ones a perspective that is difficult to comprehend in our very capitalistic world we live in. They were so grateful to receive gifts that we take for granted.
The night time entertainment was great, particularly the quiz night, Fraser was sensational getting the involment from all guests and I loved seeing my older teenagers get so involved in it.
We then went onto the Warwick on the coral coast and the difference in the two resorts was very big, we were so spoilt at the Octopus and it was so hard to enjoy the impersonal nature of the very crowded Warwick.

Operated by the same firm who run Blue Lagoon, this is the older sister, yet she's beautiful. The snorkelling is amongst the best in Fiji, with vibrantly coloured 'all manner of things' swimming immediately off the beach & the finest soft surf you've ever seen. The very best food in the Yasawas, good staff, tremendous but never booming IPod selection, relaxing everyone into Fiji time, with only the occasional feeling like it's a resort, not an experience, but a fantastic one, run ever so competently.
Dorm is utterly clean, chillingly aircon'd and ever so comfortable - Finest nifht's sleep yet!
Most certainly a place to visit