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Mantaray Island Resort

3.0 star property
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On the beach, white sand, sun-loungers, beach towels

Reviews

8.6 out of 10

Excellent

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • Housekeeping
  • Free WiFi
  • Restaurant

Explore the area

Map
Yasawa Island, Naviti Group, Nanuya Balavu Island
  • Manta Ray Beach
    1 min walk
  • Sunrise Beach
    1 min walk
  • Naukacuvu Beach
  • Turtle Island (TTL)
    24 min drive

Room options

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Shared Dormitory (Paradise)

Shared Dormitory (Paradise)

  • 120 sq m
  • Ocean view
  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Twin Bunk Bed

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Reef Bure

Reef Bure

  • 32 sq m
  • Beach view
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Basic Tree House

Basic Tree House

  • 9 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed OR 2 Twin Beds

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Beachfront Villa

Beachfront Villa

  • 52 sq m
  • Ocean view
  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 Queen Bed

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Seaside Bure | View from room

Seaside Bure

  • 12 sq m
  • Sea view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

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Family Reef Bure

Family Reef Bure

  • 32 sq m
  • Beach view
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Queen Bed

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About the area

Nanuya Balavu Island

With a stay at Mantaray Island Resort in Nanuya Balavu Island, you'll be on the beach, and 8.3 mi (13.4 km) from Blue Lagoon Beach and 17.9 mi (28.7 km) from Tokoriki Island Beach. .This beach resort is within close proximity of Manta Ray Beach and Sunrise Beach.
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What's nearby

  • Manta Ray Beach - 1 min walk - 0.1 km
  • Sunrise Beach - 1 min walk - 0.1 km
  • Long Beach - 1 min drive - 0.3 km
  • Blue Lagoon Beach - 22 min drive - 13.5 km
  • Devil's Beach - 24 min drive - 13.5 km

Getting around

  • Nadi Intl. Airport (NAN) - 58 min drive

Restaurants

  • Black Rock
  • The Sandbar
  • Mantaray Resort Restaurant
  • Boat Bar

About this property

Mantaray Island Resort

Beachfront resort with calming spa services
Mantaray Island Resort offers 18 accommodations with ceiling fans and blackout drapes/curtains. Rooms open to balconies or patios. Housekeeping is provided daily.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
Make yourself at home in one of the 18 guestrooms. Rooms have private balconies or patios. Conveniences include ceiling fans and blackout drapes/curtains, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Pamper yourself with onsite massages or take in the view from a garden. Additional features at this resort include complimentary wireless internet access and tour/ticket assistance.
Satisfy your appetite at the resort's restaurant, which features a bar/lounge and an ocean view.
The front desk is staffed during limited hours.
Onsite venue - Overlooking the ocean, this restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.

Languages

English

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and public transport

  • No on-site parking available

Food and drink

  • 1 restaurant
  • 1 bar

Things to do

  • Boat tours
  • Ecotours
  • Fishing
  • Hiking/biking trails
  • Kayaking
  • Scuba diving
  • Snorkelling
  • Volleyball

Family friendly

  • Snack bar/deli

Guest services

  • Daily housekeeping
  • Front desk (limited hours)
  • Luggage storage
  • Tour/ticket assistance

Outdoors

  • Beach loungers
  • Beachfront location
  • Garden

Spa

  • Massages

Accessibility

  • This property does not have any lifts

More

  • Beach towels
  • Designated smoking areas

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bed sheets
  • Blackout drapes/curtains
  • Ceiling fan

Bathroom

  • Towels

More

  • Window screens

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 12:30 PM; Check-in end time: 6:00 PM
Late check-in subject to availability
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 10:00 AM

Special check-in instructions

Guests must transfer via boat to the property; guests must contact the property at least 72 hours before travel, using the contact information on the confirmation received after booking
The property charges 3.5 percent for credit card payments
The front desk is open daily from 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Front desk staffed during limited hours
If you are planning to arrive after 4:00 PM please contact the property in advance using the information on the booking confirmation
For more details, please contact the property using the information on the booking confirmation
Boat transfers depart from Port Denarau daily at 8:30 AM and are operated by South Sea Cruises.

Access methods

Front desk (limited hours)

Pets

No pets or service animals allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are available for FJD 75.0 per night

Payment types

Important information

Fees

You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property. Fees may include applicable taxes:

  • Additional fees: FJD 139 per person, per night for adults and FJD 69.50 per person, per night for children (from 3 years old to 12 years old)

We have included all charges provided to us by the property.

The additional mandatory fee covers a meal plan fee per guest.

Optional extras

  • Rollaway bed fee: FJD 75.0 per night
  • Credit card charges are subject to a surcharge of 3.5 percent

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards and cash
Cashless transactions are available
Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property; the policies listed are provided by the property

We should mention

This property does not have elevators
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms
No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property

Property is also known as

Mantaray Island Resort Nanuya Balavu Island
Mantaray Island Resort
Mantaray Resort
Mantaray Island Nanuya Balavu Island
Mantaray Nanuya Balavu

Mantaray Island Resort Reviews

Reviews

8.6

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 105 out of 216 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 76 out of 216 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 21 out of 216 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 9 out of 216 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 5 out of 216 reviews" "

8.8/10

Cleanliness

8.8/10

Staff & service

8.6/10

Amenities

8.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.2/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Sophie

Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Brian

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
A bit rustic but a charming island resort retreat. Food was great; reef Bure was right there a few steps from the ocean. Very welcoming.
Stayed 4 nights in May 2024

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Absolutely brilliant. The view from the reef bure down to the ocean is amazing and you are just a few steps away from being in the water from your bed. The staff are lovely and prompt to answer your requests. The activities are varied and all done to a very high standard - all in all a great stay.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Taylor

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
If you've done your homework and you know what to expect when you arrive, this place is excellent for a few days away. The staff are so friendly and helpful - they get to know you by name almost immediately. For a place with dozens of people coming and going every week, that's a really nice touch, so thank you Rosa, Mika, Ropate, Taveki, Save, and so many more. We stayed in the beachfront villa so I can't speak to the quality of other accommodations, but we were happy with the room. The shower was open to the sky but we didn't have problems with bugs in the room or anything. Just keep the door closed most of the time. Being able to sit in a beach hammock and watch the sunrise was fantastic. The main guest lounge near the beach has drinks and snacks, along with easy access to the dive shop, activity bure, and plenty of places to relax. The quality of the meals was one of our favourite things of all, and we always left the dining area feeling satisfied. Some things to note (not bad things, just good to know): - not all drinks are included with the meal plan. Water is drinkable around the resort and morning coffee/juice up in the dining area is free, but everything else ranges from $6.50-$25 depending on what you get. - the resort is built onto a hillside, so you'll be climbing up and down some paths and stairs a few times every day. - you can get cell data on site with a Fiji e-SIM. Overall we loved it. Go to disconnect, relax, eat well, and enjoy the sea around you.
Stayed 4 nights in Mar 2024

8/10 Good

Lucille

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Daniel

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I had an amazing week at Manta Ray Island Resort. The best thing about my experience was the Fijian people and Sunny. The Fijians who work there are some of the kindest, happy and most genuine humans I’ve met. My room was very comfortable. There was so many things to do there. If I wasn’t snorkeling I was walking on the beach, paddling on a stand up, fishing from the beach or offshore. The waters off the beach were incredible with sea life. I got dive certified there, and I highly recommend all the individuals as instructors and or dive buddies, especially Wise. I am looking forward to returning soon. My only constructive criticism is that I think the proteins tended to be overcooked…fish, chicken and beef. Otherwise, the food was good. Also, I think the resort should make all visitors aware before their trip that the resort doesn’t take any currency other than Fiji dollars. The paddleboards need some fins. I highly recommend this resort.
Stayed 7 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Amazing
Stayed 5 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Karen

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Staff are amazing and swimming with manta rays unforgettable. Great gluten free food options. Beautiful snorkelling right off beach.
Stayed 7 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Rebecca

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Welcome home- this resort was the highlight of my summer! Offers beautiful ocean-front stays, a lovely walkable beach, and easy access to snorkeling and diving. Food is delicious and the staff are friendly and helpful. Wish I could visit every month!
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2023

8/10 Good

William

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed right on the beach. They didn’t have water the day before we arrived so they were working hard on it while there and got it going. Owner was easy to talk with. Snorkeling was amazing, rained lots but had lots of fun!

8/10 Good

Neil, Dianne

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Coral and fish were amazing
Stayed 3 nights in May 2023

6/10 Okay

Miquel

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service
I liked that we had a direct view of the beach/ocean from our room. Pictures on the website needs to be updated. The food was not that great.
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Erin, Vancouver

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Mantra Ray Island resort was everything we could have asked for. There were always activities on offer, but you could also just lay in a hammock for hours. The snorkelling just steps from our bure was amazing, the best I’ve ever experienced. The staff were so friendly and kind.
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Amy, Hartland

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Mantaray Island Resort is unlike any commercial resort we’ve ever been to, but was very special in that way. This is a resort for social adventurers, and the staff are the key. They are social, kind, compassionate, funny, and full of life! Everything is organized around meals which are carefully planned & rotated with fresh ingredients & flavors! There is not a wide selection because of the remoteness, but they do their best to accommodate everyone’s special needs. We thought every meal was fabulous, but we are not picky. The resort is fronted with a beach on a shallow marine reserve, best snorkeled at high tide, but they offer paddle boards & kayaks to explore the bay and easily get out to deeper water or other nearby beaches. The opposite beach in the rear of the resort is a softer quiet beach with bigger waves, but is also shallow water & is not great for a swim. We took advantage of all the snorkeling in front of the resort as well as on guided morning tours, to about 5 different locations. The reefs & marine life are absolutely in abundance! We would have tried a dive if able. There are lots of other activities offered, and the staff are great fun in leading all! However, again, this is a remote island. Not all rooms have AC or a bathroom. Be careful in choosing, as there are limited availabilities of rooms. There is a central bath w/ shower stalls & sinks, and no-flush toilets - all community. We saw a lot of grumpy guests who had not read those details. Very clean tho.
Stayed 6 nights in Nov 2022

10/10 Excellent

Nancy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The snorkeling directly in front of this resorts beach front is great!
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

Marie

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We loved the beach front Jungle Burre. The outlook was superb. Staff were so good and friendly. Activities were great. Manta Ray and reef snorkelling were out of this world.
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Judith

Travelled with partner
Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Setting was lovely and staff were great. Such a relaxing and friendly environment. We hope to return again!!
Stayed 5 nights in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Angela

Stayed 3 nights in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Peter

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
You will never regret visiting this place.
every one is nice and the service is 200%. A nice place to stay and play in the water. When I say play in the water, that means its not only swimming in a clear water.Its full of full of life.under. I wish I have speargun. Thank you so much everyone specially to the owners. See you again
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2020

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 8 nights in Nov 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Mantaray Island - Fiji
We stayed in a 2 person private bure about 30 steps from the beach, it was very nice. the food in this hotel was EXCELLENT! Drinks seem overpriced at times. Overall a good experience. One tip: If booking this hotel to swim with Mantarays call the week before and see if they had any activity. Highly recommend the snorkel trip they offer. Make sure you have an underwater camera.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

2/10 Terrible

Chantelle

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Not staying a third time, almost ruined our trip
Unfortunately I don’t have a great deal to say for Mantaray anymore. The first time we came we absolutely loved it here, it’s why we came back. The reef is still absolutely amazing so if you want a good place to snorkel this is the place to be there is a abundance of life in that reef area. We stayed in a reef Bure and it has had a major renovation to it, it actually one of the good changes been made (although we did like the old ones just as much as it had a uniqueness to them in the jungle Bure). The welcome committee was 3 people which was sad to see as last time the whole of Mantaray staff came down to welcome us. The guest out number the staff as the resort has now added extra rooms, making it an impersonal. This was the only hotel we stayed that the staff didn’t learn our names or barely acknowledge us (last time they all managed to get to know us). The waiter staff did try to make a little effort but impossible due to the fact there isn’t enough staff and guests is over populated. One night they couldn’t even fit everyone in the dining area we had to share our table, we didn’t mind but others had to wait for seats. It’s also squished in together, chairs are touching back to back. Food is awful. Minestrone was watered down, I had no pasta in mine, my partner got 3 shells and neither of us got vegetables. It was more like tomato soup. The first night I ordered chicken... there’s was next to nothing (see my pic), more okra (no one ate it) and heaps of mashed potato
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2019

10/10 Excellent

Carl

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Hi i think there needs to be more educational talks with the people who come to stay about them standing on the reef when they are going for a snorkel. There was lots of gests standing all over the corals when stayed there and that was only for three days. May be there should only be one point of entry into the water from the beach so some of the reef can grow back. It was a shame to see alot of dead coral.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The property was beautiful and unique, set on the beach and extending up a lush tropical hillside. The staff was kind and friendly, the beachfront villas were amazing, and the scuba trips were great. Our only criticism would be in regards to the restaurant and the service provided. While we expected the pace of meals to be more relaxed in Fiji, we were disappointed with the sporadic delivery of food to our party, in every meal we had gaps of upwards of 45 minutes between the first and last person being served. It was very difficult to enjoy the great meals at Mantaray while the service to our party was so poor.
Stayed 4 nights in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Treehouse was beautiful and perfect walk right out onto the beach. The fan inside was a definite plus during the hottest hours. No bugs or mosquitos got through the protection on the windows and door. The only improvement would be to have a proper fitted sheet on the beds, as the sheets were regular not fitted and too small for the double bed, often coming off the mattress while sleeping.
Stayed 6 nights in Jun 2019