We had spent our Fijian holiday on Navini, unfortunately due to the weather we needed to spend our final night in the Novotel at Nadi airport. The grounds of the hotel are very good but after that the standard falls down very quickly. No doubt a few years ago the accommodation was good but now the whole place needs a good overhaul.

The food in the restaurant can only be described as poor, the worst food on our world trip.

We recently returned from our vacation tour of Fiji, NZ & AU. Our first stop was Nadi, Fiji and a short stay with Novotel Nadi. Our package included a full breakfast buffet each morning plus our rooms. GREAT value on the Short stay package. Breakfast was outstanding!!! We ate dinner here also...the foods are fresh and of local dishes. Never a bad meal. Staff was wonderful, very friendly with a hint of a fun & joking added in. Just our style. Rooms are nice, simple with all the amenities. Had an interesting twist to our hot water in the shower. Had to turn the sink water on hot, THEN the shower.. otherwise the water didn't get hot. We have NO CLUE what that was about, but it made us chuckle and was the talk of the stay as we are pretty easy going. Over all.. a nice hotel to stay at while on the less populous & less modern side of the island.

We are not big fans of Nadi. The large hotels at Denarau are like some sort of artificial environment owned and managed by foreign interests, where the local employees do menial work and look sad. The best thing you can say about Nadi is that it's on the way to somewhere nice.

So from that point of view, what you really want in Nadi is a hotel for connecting flights, and the Novotel is the place to be. It's close to the airport. There's a regular shuttle, or the cab fair is an embarrassingly small amount. There's a pool. The rooms are clean and air-conditioned. There's a restaurant. Everything you need for a brief overnight stay, or even just day-use.