Coast and Beaches
Loloata Island Resort
Located just a 40 minute boat ride from Port Moresby, Loloata is a world away from its busy city neighbour with a quiet location, small white sand beach and doorstep snorkelling and diving. The island is located within Bootless Bay and offers some surprisingly good diving with over 29 dive sites spread over nearby reefs (including Nateara Reef and the Sunken Barrier Reef) plus a series of purposely-sunk wrecks.
First established in 1977, the property has been lovingly upgraded throughout to create an upmarket boutique resort with 68 tastefully appointed suites and villas, set overwater or on the oceanfront, overlooking the small private beach and house reef.
Facilities
Rooming options include 20 Waterfront Executive suites; 40 Hillside Oceanview rooms and six water view rooms. The rooms are nestled into the side of the island, with their contemporary design and white colour scheme creating a lovely contrast against the vegetation. The resort benefits for a dive school, spa, restaurant, outdoor swimming pool, bar and garden. A selection of PADI Dive Courses are available.
Optional Activities
Diving, snorkelling, swimming, spa treatments, water sports.
Claire Pote
Area Specialist
The best diving in the Port Moresby area is from late October to early December, although Loloata offers year round diving in many of its 29 dive sites.
If you have any questions regarding our Papua New Guinea tours, please feel free to contact me on +44 (0)1803 866965
We write to express our thanks for organising another highly successful special itinerary tour [to Papua new Guinea], despite the last minute changes to our tour schedule. We were very impressed with [your representatives]. They ran a highly professional service in all aspects. The three lodges, all with their own very special character, were well run with friendly staff, clean and with good facilities. The food at all three was excellent -including the vegetarian provision. The transfer arrangements…were excellent…The excursion opportunities at all the lodges were good.. .The three contrasting locations of the lodges…enabled us to sample three very different village cultures, and their remoteness and juxtaposition to primary rainforest. . .made for excellent wildlife viewing especially for birds.. .In all our world travels so far, we have never been able to match the very special experience that combined the comfort of these individually unique lodges.. .with the opportunities to explore some of the world’s dwindling rainforest and meet its ancient and charming peoples and witness its unique birdlife. To step outside our lodge cabin [at Tari] and observe three species of birds of paradise was just magic!