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SAFETY DEPOSIT

For your convenience an in-room safe is available in your bungalow. The Resort also offers a Safety Deposit service at Front Desk. Please ensure you leave cash, traveller’s cheques, passports and other valuables in safe keeping whilst you are enjoying your South Seas vacation. The Resort can accept no responsibility for the loss of any valuables left unattended in your bungalow.

SPAPOLYNESIA AITUTAKI

There is only one SpaPolynesia Aitutaki, the place to ‘Relax your body Warm your heart Refresh your soul.’

The rattan-lined spa is an oasis of calm; airy and serene, and very distinctively, South Pacific in styling. Here your professional spa therapist offers an extensive menu of spa therapies to restore, revive and refresh a tired body, mind and spirit, including aromatherapy massage, body wraps, body scrubs, spa pedicures, deluxe manicures, and delicious facials to re-energize the skin.

In addition SpaPolynesia Aitutaki offers a wonderful Jacuzzi whirlpool spa, and a fabulous Couple’s Sauna. Couples in love enjoy the opportunity for romance and intimacy afforded by these unique private facilities within the haven of SpaPolynesia Aitutaki.

SpaPolynesia Aitutaki regularly offers Spa Specials for superb added-value to you as our valued guest. Please ask at Front Desk or at SpaPolynesia Aitutaki for our current great-value Spa Specials, book yourself in, relax and enjoy!

For your spa therapy or beauty treatment requirements, please contact your professional spa therapist at SpaPolynesia Aitutaki on extension “332”, or Front Desk, dial “0”. SpaPolynesia Aitutaki is opens Monday to Friday 9am to 7pm, and Sunday 10am to 7pm. Closed Saturdays.

SpaPolynesia Aitutaki is tucked away behind the Resort Lobby (please follow the signs, see our Resort Map or ask at Front Desk for directions).

SWIMMING POOL

The freshwater swimming pool is located overlooking the O’otu (Full Moon) Channel, beside the Bounty Restaurant. This is a pleasant place to while away a few hours in paradise, soaking up the warmth of the South Pacific sun on the expansive timber deck. Lie back on your lounger with a good book, order a long cool cocktail, a wine or a beer from the Bounty Bar, and enjoy! Ah, this is the life! You deserve it.
* Please be advised that there is no life guard on duty at the pool.

SWIMMING & SNORKELLING IN AITUTAKI LAGOON

A unique feature of The Aitutaki Lagoon Resort & Spa is that here, you as our guest is able to enjoy all-tide swimming at the best swimming beaches in Aitutaki.

Encircled by fine, champagne-sand beaches, the private island of Motu Akitua is a water-babies delight – for the young and young at heart alike! Slip into the warm inviting waters of Aitutaki Lagoon directly off prime Sunset Beach beside the Flying Boat Beach Bar & Grill, and immerse yourself in paradise. Or better yet, take a refreshing dip directly from the deck of your Overwater Bungalow – what luxury! Before you, drink in the profound blue expanse of the world’s most beautiful lagoon, and marvel at how easy it is to become one with it as you loll, float, dive and dip within it.

You can also snorkel along Sunset Beach; please see the Activities Hut for your complimentary mask and snorkel, and flippers or reef shoes. A good snorkelling route is that from the eastern side of Motu Akitua at Uritua Beach down along the O’otu (Full Moon) Channel and as far as Kuriri Point. Because of the flow of water this area can be a very rich and rewarding playground for the snorkeller, and is especially recommended for experienced snorkellers. Here you can play with a wide variety of colourful reef fish, and there are often morays to be seen as well. Please check with the Activities Team before embarking on this snorkelling route for up-to-the-minute advice regarding currents.

Whether swimming, snorkelling, kayaking, windsurfing or outrigger canoeing, we recommend that you wear reef shoes at all times for your safety and protection from coral cuts etc, whether in or on the lagoon.

The entire area surrounding Motu Akitua is a traditional Raui, a protected Lagoon Marine Reserve. This means it is a DO NOT TOUCH zone – no fishing, netting, killing, taking or disturbing of any fish or marine life is allowed, including shells, shellfish, clams, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, etc.

If you see anyone breaking this sacred taboo, we would be obliged if you would please report it immediately to Front Desk or Resort Manager.

The Resort however does have a special dispensation to spear any stonefish found anywhere around Motu Akitua, and our experienced staff regularly conduct stonefish sweeps. Stonefish can at times be found within the Channel due to the richness of the food supply there, also making it of course a rich playground for snorkellers. Any snorkeller obeying the golden rules of snorkelling will be in no danger from stonefish, even whilst snorkelling the Full Moon Channel.

The golden rules of both snorkelling and of the Raui Lagoon Marine Reserve are the same – do not touch. This includes not standing on coral, as coral are living organisms, and standing or brushing against them can damage the tiny, delicate animals which make up the coral outcrop. It also includes not poking, prodding or overturning any marine life, rocks, stones, corals or shells.

When snorkelling the Full Moon Channel, please note it is essential that you wear reef shoes. This way you avoid walking in or out of the channel barefoot, in order to put on flippers within the water. We would strongly advise you against snorkelling the Channel without wearing footwear.