Chivapuri Beach Resort

A beautiful setting and nice staff but leaving aside minor gripes...aircon broken, wifi intermittent, indifferent food and slightly damp rather gloomy ground floor rooms - the main problem was the large number of families with young children. For example the Infinity Pool looks fantastic on website but looks very different when full of kids with balls, inflatables etc. Not anti children but instead of quiet & relaxing got busy & noisy Disappointing. Room tips- avoid a1,3 & 5 as terrace under staircase

The Good: Great staff. Great managers. Great Housekeepers. Good food and bar at reasonable prices. Great location, right on beach - down a dirt road so you really feel that "get away, tropical escape" feeling. Huge rooms in the villas at a very reasonable cost. Nice clean, quiet small swimming pool - not infested with screaming children. Right ocean front on great looking beach. Typical shallow reef off shore so bring booties and swimming is better at high tide. Could improve: No furniture in huge room. Please. Some chests of drawers. Some real chairs. A couch. Everything is designed local style I guess to live on the floor. Bad smell, sewer gas in bathoom, weak on hot water. AC is weak - had to move the bed under the AC unit to sleep. Room is also too dark - needs some bright lights for when guest wants to work or see. Wifi was very poor. Mix: You will suffer a 30 minute often horrible drive down a road that is not wide enough to get to the resort. However, once there you will have a much better isolated, tropical paradise feeling than the big developments closer to the ferry port/town center.