Ratu Kini Backpackers & Dive Resort, Mana Island, Fiji

Ratu Kini's is a must visit backpacker in Fiji. We have a great location right on the Beach of Mana Island and beautiful warm weather all year round. Our staff are known for their friendliness and their concern ensuring your stay is most enjoyable. The nice white sandy beaches and clear blue water makes for great snorkeling, fishing and scuba diving. Come to Fiji, Come to Mana Island, and stay at Ratu Kini's for a memorable South Sea Island experience. Book now or contact us soon.

The Resort is located on the south end of Mana, facing the sunset and our neighbors are Mana Island Resort and several other backpackers, whose guests are always visiting with us. Our facilities include a bar and restaurant, dive shop, Cable Television, a snack shop, high speed internet, WIFI, and lockers. We have available snorkeling trips to the sand bank, fishing trips, Castaway Movie trips, and Island hopping visiting other resorts in the Mamanutha group. Other activities include coconut jewelry making, watch our traditional cultural shows on Thursday, our traditions Fijian Nite.

We a fully equipped PADI Dive Shop offering a full range of courses from beginner to professional level, catering for divers of all ages, abilities and experience.

Our dive team will make sure you get the most out of your dive at our dive sites. Some of our dives locations are:

The Supermarket: Our world famous Shark Encounter. Dive with White Tip, Black Tip and Grey Reef Sharks plus thousands of colorful tropical reef fish. (Listed in "The World's Top 100 Dives" Guide Book)

Gotham City Home to schools of Bat fish and amazing array of colorful hard and soft corals. It’s not uncommon to sight moray eels, turtles and the odd shark or two.

Plantation Pinnacle: A single coral Bommie covered in a multitude of colorful soft corals and home to literally hundreds of "Nemos" (Anemone Fish) (Listed in "The World's Top 100 Dives" Guide Book)

Namotu Passage: Sharks, rays, tuna, turtles, you name it, and they all live here!

Yadua Pinnacles: Huge coral heads, covered with huge Gorgonian sea fans and huge schools of colorful tropical reef fish.

SS Salamanda: A 26m deep, 24m long triple deck ship wreck.

Besides the above, we have over twenty other dive sites, so there's not much chance of you getting bored. We also offer Reef Dives, Wall Dives, Shark Dives, Wreck Dives, Night Dives, Drift Dives etc. We have three scheduled dives per day and night dives are available on request.

Ratu Kini Backpackers & Dive Resort offers a great range of accommodation, from Dormitory to Luxury Bure (Traditional Fijian Cottage), to meet the needs of various divers, backpackers and budget travelers.

Exceptional value-for-money, Ratu Kini Backpackers is the place to be on Mana Island. All of our rooms are clean, spacious and of excellent standard.

Guests may choose from the following accommodation types:

* 5, 14 or 17 Bed Dorms

* Private Room with En-suite

* Triple Room with En-suite

* Twin Room with En-suite

* Deluxe Double Room with En-suite

* Family Bure (Fijian for house) – Sleeps 6

Room rates include breakfast and can be upgraded to include all meals.

Getting to Mana:

There are a few operators servicing Mana Island at various time and prices. Please contact our office to arrange your transfer (details will be provided when you confirm your booking.) We provide a daily shuttle to the island and it takes no more than an hour to get there. We leave at 10:30 am from Smugglers Cove Resort beach from Nadi Bay Beach and return to the mainland at 1:30 pm. Our transfer rate is $120 return per person.

We provide a regular courtesy bus to pick you up from the airport or any Nadi location and drop you off at the boat by the beach. On returning from Mana, we also provide free drop-off’s to the airport or your Nadi destination.

South Sea Cruises (Tiger 4) also services Mana Island from Port Denarau marina, and it departs at 9am, 12 noon, and 3pm. The marina is about 20 minutes away from the airport. And 10 minutes away from Nadi town. The ferry to Mana takes one and half hour.

To travel up to the beautiful Yasawa Islands, we simply connect you with the daily Yasawa Flyer at Beachcomber at 8.15am. Coming to Ratu Kini's from Yasawa, we can pick you from the Yasawa Flyer at Beachcomber at 530pm and be at Ratu Kini's by 6pm.