Awesome Optional Travel & Tours, Port Denarau, are awesome! - Awesome Optional Travel & Tours, located at Booth 11 Port Denarau are fantastic. This is a truly Fijian family business. Rush is the tour guide, Kasa (his wife) is the booker with a wealth of knowledge on what to do and Simon (Kasa’s nephew) is the driver. We did two tours with Rush and Simon and they were both great. We customised both tours to suit our needs and budget. The first tour we visited the Sri Siva Subramaniya Hindu Temple in Nadi, then went to the Sleeping Giant zip line, visited First Landing (where the first Fijians landed in Vitu Levi) and lastly went to the Sabeto Hot Springs and Mud Pool. All were great and we returned to our hotel, tired but happy. The second tour we went to the Coral Coast and visited Biausevu village where we had a welcome kava ceremony and visited with the preschool children. We then hiked about 45 minutes to Savunamatelaya waterfall with a guide from the village, Saka. Saka is passionate about his village, very funny and told us stories along the hike about his culture and the plants in their area that can be eaten or used for medicinal purposes. After spending quite a few hours at the village and waterfall, we had a quick lunch and then visited the sand dunes where the Fijian rugby team train. As luck would have it, as we were driving out we saw the team and stopped to meet some of the players! Our final stop was a horse ride along the beach. What a way to end a fantastic day. I cannot recommend Rush and his tours. If you want a custom tour run by Fijians who are passionate about Fiji and their culture, you can’t go past Awesome Optional Travel & Tours, Port Denarau (phone +679 2499844).

Doesn't live upto promise of experience - Would be perfect IF we were not forced into shopping. No mention of shopping and produce market mentioned directly. Just Kava tasting cultural experience they just happen to ensure is at produce market where nothing I purchase I can take back on ship. Wasted like 40min with this 'experience' , then we were rushed thru Mud pool experience WHICH was the whole point of the experience.