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Naqalia Lodge

2.5 star property
Beachfront hotel with a restaurant and a bar

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On the beach, snorkeling
Property grounds
Basic Bungalow, Balcony, Ocean View | Living area
Basic Bungalow, Balcony, Ocean View | Terrace/patio
Property grounds
Welcome to Naqalia Lodge, a beachfront gem where you can unwind with snorkeling and sun-kissed days. Enjoy a daily manager's reception, garden strolls, laundry facilities, and the on-site restaurant serving breakfast to dinner. Relax in your room with patios and ceiling fans or take care of work at the business center.

Reviews

9.2 out of 10
Wonderful

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • All inclusive
  • Housekeeping
  • Laundry
  • Restaurant
  • Business services

Room options

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Basic Bungalow, Balcony, Ocean View | 1 bedroom

Basic Bungalow, Balcony, Ocean View

Highlights

Balcony
Free rollaway/extra beds
Separate bedroom
Ceiling fan
Daily housekeeping
  • 40 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Ocean view
  • Sleeps 6
  • 1 Double Bed and 1 Twin Bed

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Basic Shared Dormitory, Mixed Dorm, Ocean View | 1 bedroom

Basic Shared Dormitory, Mixed Dorm, Ocean View

Highlights

Patio
Separate bedroom
Ceiling fan
2 bathrooms
Daily housekeeping
  • 50 sq m
  • Ocean view
  • Sleeps 12
  • 6 Twin Bunk Beds

About the neighborhood

Map
Naqalia Point, Wayasewa Island

Restaurants

  • Coconut Bar

About this property

Naqalia Lodge

Property highlights
Consider a stay at Naqalia Lodge and take advantage of a free daily manager's reception, a garden, and laundry facilities. With amenities like a beachfront location and snorkeling, this hotel is the perfect place to soak up the sun. The on-site restaurant offers breakfast, lunch, and dinner. WiFi in public areas (surcharge) is available to all guests, along with a bar and a business center.
You'll also enjoy perks such as:
  • Full breakfast (surcharge), babysitting (surcharge), and tour/ticket assistance
  • A front-desk safe
Other conveniences in all rooms include:
  • Showers and shampoo
  • Patios, ceiling fans, and daily housekeeping

All inclusive details

All-inclusive room rates at Naqalia Lodge are available. These rates are higher because they include onsite food and beverages in the room rate (some restrictions may apply).

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Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: WiFi (FJD 20 per 24-hour period)

Parking and transportation

  • No onsite parking available

Food and drink

  • A bar/lounge
  • A restaurant
  • Free daily manager's reception
  • Snack bar/deli

Things to do

  • Snorkeling
  • Volleyball

Family friendly

  • Babysitting (surcharge)
  • Laundry facilities
  • Snack bar/deli

Conveniences

  • Laundry facilities
  • Limited-hour front desk
  • Safe at front desk

Guest services

  • Housekeeping (daily)
  • Tour and ticket assistance

Business services

  • Business center

Outdoors

  • Garden
  • On the beach

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Lever door handles
  • No elevator (single-level property)
  • Raised toilet seat (20 inches high)
  • Well-lit path to entrance

More

  • Designated smoking areas

Room amenities

Bathroom

  • Shampoo
  • Shower
  • Soap
  • Toilet paper
  • Towels provided

More

  • Ceiling fan

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 11 AM; Check-in end time: 4:00 PM
Minimum check-in age: 15

Check-out

Check-out before 9 AM

Special check-in instructions

The property charges 4 percent for credit card payments
The front desk is open daily from 6:00 AM - midnight
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
Guests are required to download the property's Naqalia Lodge mobile app before check-in

Access methods

Front desk (limited hours), key retrieval

Pets

No pets or service animals allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Property payment types

Important information

Optional extras

  • Fee for wireless internet in public areas: FJD 20 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
  • Credit card charges are subject to a surcharge of 4 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; cash is not accepted
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher and a smoke detector
This property has outdoor spaces, such as balconies, patios, terraces which may not be suitable for children; if you have concerns, we recommend contacting the property prior to your arrival to confirm they can accommodate you in a suitable room

We should mention

This property does not have elevators
No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property

Property is also known as

Naqalia Lodge Wayasewa Island
Naqalia Wayasewa Island
Naqalia
Naqalia Lodge Hotel
Naqalia Lodge Wayasewa Island
Naqalia Lodge Hotel Wayasewa Island

Frequently asked questions

Is Naqalia Lodge pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much is parking at Naqalia Lodge?

Naqalia Lodge doesn't offer parking.

What time is check-in at Naqalia Lodge?

Check-in start time: 11 AM; Check-in end time: 4:00 PM.

What time is check-out at Naqalia Lodge?

Check-out is at 9 AM.

Are there all-inclusive benefits at Naqalia Lodge?

Some rate plans available at this hotel are all-inclusive.

Where is Naqalia Lodge located?

Nestled on the beach, this Wayasewa Island hotel is 17.9 mi (28.8 km) from Naukacuvu Beach and 28.8 mi (46.3 km) from North Beach.

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Reviews

Naqalia Lodge Reviews

9.2

Wonderful

8.2

Cleanliness

9.0

Location

9.4

Staff & service

8.8

Eco-friendliness

7.6

Property conditions & facilities
Rating 10 - Excellent. 44 out of 59 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 8 out of 59 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 3 out of 59 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 2 out of 59 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 2 out of 59 reviews

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Anna

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very friendly staff, very clean and organised. Staff would go above and beyond for you
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Erin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We absolutely loved our stay at Naqalia Lodge. The entire staff instantly made you feel welcome and cared for. Meals are lovingly prepared and the food is plentiful. The island is beautiful with great snorkeling out front and hiking nearby. We would absolutely come again.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2025

10/10 Excellent

Kaige

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Beautiful place, beautiful people, and the best food! Felt like part of the family from the moment we arrived. You can’t go wrong booking here.
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2025

10/10 Excellent

Jeffrey

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
It's an interesting cross between a homestay and a resort. The beautiful welcoming staff made it a memorable stay in spite of the rough by western standards facilities. I'd go back!
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

leon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very friendly people, make you feel very welcome, beautiful beach and snorkeling. Amazing and loads of food
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

Victoria

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
I asked ChatGPT to suggest a non resort, run by a village in the Yasawa Islands. Top choice. I had such a special experience. Beautiful people.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stunning location. Beautiful house reef for snorkelling. Not a 5 star resort but very friendly family environment. Food was good and plentiful and accommodated vegan and vegetarian needs. Wish we had stayed longer.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

Brandon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The best 5 days of my life. Originally booked for 3 nights but had to extend my stay because I didn’t want to leave. They truly welcome you into their family and make your experience an unforgettable one. Made some real deep connections with the staff and other guests that I’ll never forget. Truly a magical place.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2025

10/10 Excellent

Howard

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities
This is our third visit to Nacalia Lodge. it is special because of the friendly accommodating staff and real Fijian culture, Its safe and child friendly, really plentiful and good food, the best we had in the Yasawas, lots of activities, plenty of laughing and singing and great coral snorkelling off the beach The manager Akoo, will help with anything, he took us to the beautiful spit beach between the islands where the coral garden is magnificent, and provided a great picnic. You can arrange to swim with the sharks or you can simple relax and enjoy the beach. We will come again.
Stayed 5 nights in Jul 2025

8/10 Good

Alexander

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities
Really friendly and caring staff. They could provide a good array of activities on request. Really good food on offer too. Beautiful location to watch the beach from a hammock. Spotty roaming wifi connection but still able to connect to internet. Minor issues with the power occassionally cutting out at the lodges. More stable power available in the dining hall.
Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2025

10/10 Excellent

Elena

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Had an amazing time here in the dorm! Small, family run property with the best food I had in Fiji. Electricity during the day and decent phone service. Aku and his family went above and beyond making me feel like family. The hike and snorkeling are must dos!
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

Leslie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Wow! Amazing! Aka, Oni, Sia and Manu were amazing! I was fresh off the boat when I arrived here and they got me to Fiji time quickly! The most stressful part of the trip was choosing which hammock. Thank you for a great experience!!
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2025

10/10 Excellent

Nathan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
incredible welcome, simply magnificent place, team taking great care of you, very good food and good portion, nice activities and at good prices. Thank you for these two days spent with you
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2024

10/10 Excellent

Salome

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The stay at Naqalia Lodge was amazing. Great staff and best food we had in Fiji. The food is buffet style and also has veggie options. The staff were super friendly and shared a lot of stories after dinner and at kava sessions. There were a lot of different activities that could be booked.
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2024

10/10 Excellent

Bruno

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Amazing staff, lovely people and authentic fiji experience with locals. I definitely would recommend it.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024

10/10 Excellent

Laura

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Loved my stay

Perfect place to relax. The staff is fantastic and makes you feel like family. The hike and snorkelling is a must!
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2017

10/10 Excellent

Tom

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We stayed here for 3 nights, went to another (already booked) resort and after that came back in a hurry! We missed the place, the staff, the dogs, everything! Felt very at home here with our kids (7 & 9), had a lot of fun, delicious food and amazing trips. Made memories that will hopefully never fade.
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2024

10/10 Excellent

Lisa

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Loved that it is run by family. Only 4 bures so very personal. The food was delicious and plenty of it. The snorkelling right out front with beautiful coral.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2024

2/10 Terrible

Meg

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
1/10. Fake reviews online. Fake website photos. Villas were atrocious: bathrooms were disgusting with broken toilets, broken shower and basin, basically unusable. Activities were overpriced and didnt deliver what they said. NO snorkelling. Food was basically inedible and way over priced. Dont go!
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2025

10/10 Excellent

Sonia

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We have left a piece of our heart at Naqalia Lodge and at the Yasawa Island. The staff and Management at Naqalia went above and beyond to make our stay nothing short of amazing and they were always smiling and happy to help. We stayed in the garden Bure, a traditional Fijian house, which was a pretty authentic experience of the life on the island. The food was home cooked, traditional and always in very generous portions. We sat at the table with the other guests and were a "family -like" meal times while the staff and management was playing guitar and singing songs for us. The lodge is on the beach surrounded by nature at the feet of a mountain, you can enjoy a spectacular view of the other island when you wake up with the sounds of chicken and roosters roaming around the Bure. The coral reefs just off the beach are SPECTACULAR, we could see many tropical fish of every colour, size and shape. It definitely was one of the best snorkeling spots that we have been to. The lodge offers also paid activities such as shark feeding, fishing and village visit. We spent 4 days there but we really wished we could stay more. Vinaka.
Stayed 3 nights in May 2025

10/10 Excellent

Stefania

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We had an amazing experience at Naqalia Lodge, which is a family run lodge with a real feeling of Fiji, not only for the amazing place but for the people and food as well. All the staff, Aku, Tūī, Sia, Oni and Manu did everything possible to make our staying very special and made us feel part of the family. We did activities such as fishing, snorkelling, swimming, trekking and visiting the villa. We will definitely be back and highly recommend it to anyone interested in knowing and learning from the real Fijian life.
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2024

6/10 Okay

Helen

Liked: Staff & service

Amazing staff and snorkeling off the beach

Pluses: great staff, lovely family run authentic resort who thank you for coming and play guitar and sing thru every dinner. There's a reef in front of the lodge with the most diverse corals I've ever seen- snorkeled 3 days in a row and loved every minute (and it ended up being some of the best snorkeling we had in the country, and at no extra charge)! Food was great despite cooking for only 3 of us (low season), Fijians love onions and garlic! Negatives: the place is a bit grotty... upholstery on chairs and couches is very dirty. Bathrooms are a bit gross. No fan at night when power is off. No room cleaning in 3 days even after asking to have it swept due to sand tracking in. So take your not-so-nice clothes, mosquito spray and enjoy the snorkeling!
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2025

8/10 Good

Elise

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort

A great place to stay!

Highly recommend! This is a wonderful Homestay. The food is great and plentiful, feeding sharks was amazing, good snorkeling, and most prominent the family that runs it are truly lovely, wonderful people. They were super caring, helpful and fun people to stay with. Our best experience with Homestay on our holiday in Fiji. The facilities are like most homestays simple. Not always good reception, but possible to pay for internet there. We lived in dorms and had a good time, a bit run down, but quite clean. All in all, thank you for having us, we had a great time!
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Constance

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Paradise with an amazing my kind staff!

What a magic place in the world. Naqalia Lodge might be the best place I ever stayed and God knows I have been traveling! It is not a 5 star hotel and the accommodations are very simple but you have everything you need. Sleeping with the wind on your face and the sound of waves, mosquitoes nets everywhere for you to be well. This I will miss a lot. Showers are cold but you don’t really need hot showers as the temperature is quite warm even in the evenings. The spot in itself is for everyone else that stayed here while I was there including me, the best snorkeling spot we’ve seen so far with the most amazing plate corals with all types of colors. Incredible! The activities are great between fishing, hiking (steep climbs!), going to the village is also a must to meet the children. You never get bored and have time to relax during your day and snorkel all day! The meal plan is perfect, you are never hungry and the food is good. Breakfast is the best!! And finally, the kindness, the continuous efforts of the team to make you happy, to make you feel at home but also to get to know you and share their history and culture with you. Oni, Sia, Aku, Manu, Mana, Toui a very big THANK YOU. I will remember your kindness and generosity forever!
Stayed 5 nights in Apr 2025

8/10 Good

Mark

Liked: Staff & service
Beautiful island with great snorkeling directly in front of lodge. Whilst the area in front of the room was clean and well maintained there were piles of rubbish and disused materials spread across the grounds as well as rubbish on the beach. The room and bed were comfortable although the bathroom was in poor condition with cold water shower only which we didn’t mind. It felt quite awkward as the only guests at the lodge for 4 days especially at meals where the nice staff would all sit directly facing us singing and watching us eat including the cute hungry children all waiting for us to finish so they could eat only after we had finished I think it was a good option to stay here for a few days to support the local villagers and get to know some of the locals and its a great location with lots of activities and excellent snorkelling at your front door but it’s very basic, a bit dirty, and little awkward at times. Would recommend staying here for a few days but incorporating it with another resort option in the area.
Stayed 4 nights in Oct 2024

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