When you stay at Puataukanave International Hotel in Neiafu, you'll be by the ocean, just steps from St. Joseph's Cathedral and 4 minutes by foot from Vava'u Harbor. .This hotel is 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from Mt. Talau National Park and 7.8 mi (12.6 km) from Ene'io Botanical Garden.
What's nearby
St. Joseph's Cathedral - 2 min walk - 0.2 miles
Vava'u Harbor - 4 min walk - 0.3 miles
Mt. Talau National Park - 4 min drive - 1.5 miles
Ene'io Botanical Garden - 15 min drive - 7.9 miles
Getting around
Vava'u (VAV) - 23 min drive
Restaurants
Tropicana Cafe - 3 min walk
Mango - 4 min walk
Panda Restaurant - 1 min walk
Aquarium Cafe - 5 min walk
Bellavista - 4 min walk
About this property
Puataukanave International Hotel
Hotel with a marina, steps from St. Joseph's Cathedral
Puataukanave International Hotel offers 43 accommodations with irons/ironing boards. In-room wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. Guests can make use of the in-room refrigerators and coffee/tea makers. Bathrooms include showers. Housekeeping is provided daily.
Make yourself at home in one of the 43 guestrooms featuring refrigerators. Wireless internet access (surcharge) is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms with showers are provided. Conveniences include phones, as well as coffee/tea makers and irons/ironing boards.
Take in the views from a terrace and a garden.
Take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Continental breakfasts are available daily from 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM for a fee.
Featured amenities include complimentary newspapers in the lobby, luggage storage, and laundry facilities. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge during limited hours, and free self parking is available onsite.
Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Languages
English
Property amenities
Internet
Available in all rooms: WiFi (USD 5 per hour)
Parking and transportation
Roundtrip airport shuttle (surcharge) from 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM
Free self parking on site
Food and drink
Daily continental breakfast available 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM for a fee: USD 10 for adults and USD 5 for children
Family friendly
In-room refrigerator
Laundry facilities
Soundproofed rooms
Conveniences
Free newspapers in lobby
Laundry facilities
Limited-hour front desk
Luggage storage
Guest services
Housekeeping (daily)
Business services
Meeting rooms
Outdoors
Garden
Marina
Terrace
Accessibility
Elevator
More
Designated smoking areas
Room amenities
Bedroom
Bedsheets provided
Bathroom
Shower
Towels provided
Food and drink
Coffee/tea maker
Limited room service
Refrigerator
More
Iron/ironing board
Laptop workspace
Phone
Soundproofed rooms
Policies
Check-in
Check-in start time: 11 AM; Check-in end time: 11 PM
Early check-in subject to availability
Minimum check-in age: 16
Check-out
Check-out before 10 AM
Special check-in instructions
This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply); guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation
The front desk is open daily from 7:30 AM - 11:30 PM
Front desk staffed during limited hours
This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in
Access methods
Front desk (limited hours)
Pets
Pets not allowed
Children and extra beds
Children are welcome
Cribs (infant beds) are not available
Property payment types
Important information
Fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property. Fees may include applicable taxes:
Deposit: USD 100.0 per stay
We have included all charges provided to us by the property.
Optional extras
Fee for continental breakfast: approximately USD 10 for adults and USD 5 for children
Fee for in-room wireless internet: USD 5.00 per hour (rates may vary)
Airport shuttle fee: USD 10.00 per person (one-way)
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
Property is also known as
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Puataukanave International Hotel Reviews
Reviews
5.4
All reviews shown are from real guest experiences. Only travelers who have booked a stay with us can submit a review. We verify reviews according to our guidelines and publish all reviews, positive or negative.
This place is stata world behind, the room had no fridge, no wi-fi air conditioning doesn’t works, have to change rooms after second night but it was still the same problem, we pay for four adults and we only have one toilet roll a day. Service was very poor. I will not go back there again or recommend anyone to this poor service place like this.
Not clean and facility quality not good broken toilet seat, kitchen bench no stove in the kitchen, fridge not working , no dishes in the kitchen and set up is not good at all.
They did not have rooms available despite the booking and did not have the advertised number of beds in the rooms. They found rooms eventually, but floors were dusty with furniture falling apart. Only cold water the first night, tepid the second, and water that only dripped the third. The A/C shut off after 30 minutes no matter what setting was used, which they seemed to know and did nothing about. Credit card machine was not working, and they said they would try again on Monday. Instead, they banged on the door at 9 PM and made us go to an ATM across the street to pull the full amount in the dark. Cockroaches on the floor, pool was completely green and slimy, no effort to maintain. They did not offer meals and did not provide accurate advice on where and when we could get food for the family on Sunday, when almost everything in town was closed (I could have prepared if I’d known nothing was available until 11:00).
The staff were incredibly kind and welcoming, check in was quick and easy, comfortable bed. Great location, close to shops and restaurants. Would definitely stay here again.
We made our reservation to this hotel by looking the advertisment.
-Restaurant looked nice, in fact it was closed
-Swimming pool and pool bar looked nice, they were also closed
-With help of local citizen we managed to find a person who showed us our room. The whole hotel had no other quests, spooky.
We did not stay there, but chose another place to stay.
This property is nothing like the photos! No reception! No restaurant! Rooms dirty, bedding unchanged, excessive mould in the shower, cockroaches everywhere!! Avoid at all costs.
Kiwitraveller
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019
2/10 Terrible
Michael, North Carolina
Traveled with group
Sep 16, 2019
I booked this property (and pre-paid) on Expedia. I got to the hotel around noon and was told that check-in time was 2pm. No problem I said and sat in the "lobby" area and checked some emails. After an hour and a half the girl at the front desk came and said I had a phone call from her boss. She put me on the phone with him and he proceeded to tell me that they didn't actually have any rooms and that they would have to put me up somewhere else. They put me in a bed and breakfast with a shared living area with 3 other people. No apologies were made.
A large light room with balcony and uninterrupted sea views, right on the waterfront in town. Air conditioner didn’t work, pedestal fan sounded like a train until I fixed it, got electric shock off fan and fridge, lights above beds didn’t work, shower door didn’t close so the floor was flooded each time. Mattresses were worn. One dining chair and two tables were the only furniture. No chairs to sit out on balcony. It was hard to sleep at night due to being uncomfortably hot. This hotel has seen much better days. We stayed there for two nights because it was the only one available. The staff tried hard, room cleaning was good.
My reservation made months ago was cancelled by the owner so he could take on a big Chinese group. He moved me to one place one night, but wouldn't let me stay there and made me stay at his place the second night so I had to waste time my second day moving from hotel to hotel. When I got to the Puatakanave, there was dirty soap with pubic hair in the shower, as well as roaches and beetles in the room. it had not been cleaned, as there were used towels and blood on the sheets.
The staff here is absolutely wonderful. Everyone was very friendly and remembered my name. The people were the only upside - I would not stay here again.
1. You have to pay a cash deposit of $100. This is frustrating because you get back $100 on your last day in Vava'u and have no time to spend it.
2. My first room was very barren and had a broken toilet (couldn't flush) and ceiling that leaked rain. I was given another room which was better. The second room was a little cleaner and had more furniture and a fridge. I wondered why my first room didn't have these basic amenities.
3. There was no chef during half my stay. I was told the chef isn't working but there's a kitchen I can use. I bought spaghetti and asked the receptionist where I could cook it but she said there was no stove.
4. Men who did not speak english banged on my door one day very loudly. I didn't let them in so they kept banging (not knocking, banging loudly on the door). As a solo traveler, I was really uncomfortable. They wanted to come in my room but I couldn't tell why so I didn't let them in. Later one of the English-speaking workers explained they wanted to take one of my room fans to bring to another room. That was perfectly fine but I wish it was done in a less scary manner, or while I was out for the day.
5. My room was so unclean I wore shoes inside for my 6 nights here.
The view is amazing but the resort could step up on cleanliness.
1) do not use the spray soap on floor. It caused the floor to be very sticky. The dirt on floor even after 1 mop is beyond. I bring my own bedroom slippers and it looks like it just walked on mud puddle. Suggest just mop the floor with clean water. In this way, the room could be cleaner.
2) room cleaning is just taking out rubbish and giving u fresh towels. The beds are not made and my single bed doesnt even has a blanket. It is just the bedsheet and pretend to be blanket. Lucky we got the fan room and not aircon room
3) fan room. Pls buy a bigger fan. The fan is small and so mild that it is useless on hot day. Good we are next to ocean and with breeze, it is bearable
4) restaurant staff are extremely friendly that made up the condition of room.
Sincerely hoping this feedback is taken so more people will be coming back...
The room was spacious and comfortable but not all the lights worked and it wasn't very clean. Also they often failed to complete tasks they promised to do for us.
The hotel was quite run down and overall I was disappointed given the price and in comparison to other places I have stayed nearby in Vava'u and in Tonga. There was no wifi, contrary to the property description. Not temporarily down, not available. My room was not serviced on one of the three days I was there.