Located on the beautiful island of Espiritu Santo is an architect designed, absolute Beachfront Resort waiting for you. Barrier Beach Resort promises a luxurious relaxed atmosphere to use as your base for exploring the many delights that Santo has to offer or for relaxing on the Beach with a Cocktail listening to the soothing sounds of the ocean.

Spacious Fare's look out over the sea, where offshore islands and a coral reef create a natural barrier to the ocean. Sundecks stretch over the sand and provide plenty of places to take in the view, relax in the sun or leave your towels while enjoying year round swimming.

Experience Rarotonga's best beach resort. Slip off your watch, your shoes, your cares and immerse yourself in paradise at the renowned Rarotongan Beach Resort & Lagoonarium on the island's best beach and crystal clear lagoon. Here you'll discover the Aro'a Lagoon Marine Reserve, a snorkeller's paradise and Rarotonga's best snorkelling spot where you can play with the jewel-coloured reef fish to your heart's content.

Join the resort's friendly Activities Team to hand-feed the fish, go on a Night Snorkelling Safari, paddle a vaka (outrigger), husk a coconut, dance the aura (hula), or make an ei (lei) all as part of the resort's wealth of complimentary activities.

When you're yearning for a true tropical island escape complete with warm sun, sand, sea, and the incomparable spirit of the South Seas the iconic Rarotongan Beach Resort & Lagoonarium awaits you.

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Journey to Aitutaki, and discover why screen luminaries such as Marlon Brando, Cary Grant and John Wayne were all drawn here by such incomparable beauty. As the ONLY resort directly on the world's most beautiful lagoon, Aitutaki Lagoon Private Island Resort is truly blessed.

This exclusive all-bungalow resort is also the ONLY private island resort in the Cook Islands and is the ONLY one to offer that invention of incurable romantics - the Overwater Bungalow. And it is the only resort on Aitutaki with a truly Polynesian flavour, so you can truly savour what the South Pacific is famous for.

Drink in the panoramic views of super-natural Aitutaki Lagoon from your own personal paradise, on your own private island, here at Aitutaki Lagoon Private Island Resort.

Truly, deeply, madly breathtaking. And that indeed is the measure of a life well lived.

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Talofa and Welcome to Coconuts

Coconuts Beach Club Resort & Spa truly embodies all that is unique and wonderful about culturally-rich Samoa. Coconuts offers Samoan-inspired accommodation, including Samoa's only Over-the-Water Fales, and is ideally situated on Upolu's southern coast, boasting amazing sunrise and sunset views. There are no high rises, no phones, and no TV's. Perfectly located to explore all of the island's sites and experiences, Coconuts offers many of the facilities and services you would expect from a much larger resort, with the heart and soul of a small, intimate retreat. With a warm and friendly staff, and surrounded by a traditional village, Coconuts provides a true taste of Samoa.

Whether you are visiting for a Wedding or Honeymoon, a surf or dive adventure, a look into the ancient and exotic local culture, or a simple sun and sand holiday, Coconuts delivers a distinctive, relaxing, and casually elegant experience.

Coconuts truly is Samoa!

A scattered archipelago of some 900-odd richly forested mountainous islands and lowlying coral atolls, the Solomon Islands has been attracting international tourism since 1568 when Spanish explorer Alvaro de Mendana first sailed into this tucked away corner of the South Pacific.

Mendana's legacy can still be found in the Solomon Islands today with many of the islands still bearing the Spanish names he gave them - Santa Isabel, San Cristobal and perhaps the most famous of all, Guadalcanal, the name synonymous with World War II which takes its name from a small township in Andalucia in southern Spain.

But for the most part the Solomon Islands and their quiet, reserved people a mix of Melanesian, Micronesian and Polynesian cultures - were left pretty much alone after Mendana's visit until 300 years later when Great Britain was given control of the entire territory.

Things changed dramatically during World War II and the Solomon Islands became a household name when the forces of Imperial Japan invaded, the region becoming the scene for some of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific theatre and most famously the battle of Guadalcanal when thousands of Japanese and US servicemen lost their lives.

The British re-gained control in 1945 and in 1976, the Solomon Islands became self-governing before gaining full independence in 1978.

Little has changed in the Solomon Islands since then and it's thanks to this that the Solomon Islands have become such a breath takingly fresh destination for those international travellers hardy enough to get off the beaten track and look for a new and very different experience.

Today World War II buff's and veterans and their families mostly American and Japanese SCUBA divers and surfers looking for the ultimate uncrowded wave, make up the bulk of the 25,000 or so international travellers who visit every year.

But the destination is fast attracting a brand new breed of travellers from around the world - family groups, honeymooners, sports fishermen, yachties, culture-lovers and simply those looking to make their own tracks.

The newly emerging, multi-faceted Solomon Islands can pretty much cater to every taste, desire and budget with its myriad choice of accommodation from the 'big gun' hotels of the capital Honiara to boutique resort accommodation, eco-lodges and home-stays dotted across the entire archipelago.

Best of all, and quite a surprise for many travellers, the Solomon Islands are very easy to reach it takes less than three hours to reach the Solomon Islands capital Honiara from Brisbane flying a sleek Solomon Airlines Airbus A-320 complete with full on-board service.

Welkam to the Solomon Islands. www.visitsolomons.com.sb