2 Best Hotels in Yasawa Islands, Mamanuca and Yasawa Groups

A rare mid-range option in the Yasawas, Nanuya offers 17 spacious, comfortable accommodations, good food, and wonderfully personable staff. There is good snorkeling off the beach, and highly personalized diving, fishing, kayaking, and cave-swimming a 45-minute ride north. Yes, you're sharing the "Blue Lagoon" with the lavish Turtle Island resort for a fraction of the price. The 180-square-foot Deluxe Villas each have a queen- and two single beds and pretty stone-wall semi-outdoor showers, while the interconnecting Superior Villas have an aboveground spa. The cheaper Traditional Tree Houses are set into the hills and sleep two in a double or two single beds. Continental breakfast is included; there's an all-day dining menu and the numerous à la carte dinner options might include grilled-beef fillet with salad, fries, and hollandaise sauce or pan-seared hapuku on sun-dried tomatoes, bok choy, and green tea noodles.

A cosmopolitan Italian couple built this resort as an escape for the "stressed" and, with just nine romantically appointed bure fringing a quintessential Yasawa shore, couples are certain to recover the love lost during the daily grind. When guests aren't relaxing on their daybeds, lounge chairs, or hammocks (Beachfront bure have all three), they can take guided snorkeling tours, island-hop, dive with a local operator, visit a village, fish, take guided walks, kayak, or hike to hilltops. All bure have 26-foot ceilings, king-size beds, dual stone sinks, and outdoor daybeds. Beachfronts are well-spaced with high bamboo borders; each has a wall of French doors opening onto a thatch-covered deck just shy of the sand and the lagoon. The larger Grand Bure are built on rocky outcrops on a separate bay, have large tubs in their living rooms, and steps leading down to the beach. À la carte menus feature reasonably priced Mediterranean fare and a meal plan is also available.