Full-Day Lagoon Safari with Lunch on a Motu

About This Experience

The day starts with a boat pickup at your resort or a nearby meeting point, about 20 minutes on the water to the first stop. That first stop is a marine sanctuary where you can watch, and swim with, stingrays and blacktip reef sharks in shallow water. The guide then takes the boat to a coral garden for a snorkel among reef fish and coral, and on to a second sanctuary where manta rays can sometimes be found, with no guarantee they will be there.

Lunch is a Polynesian-style picnic on a motu, a small islet with coconut palms and white sand, followed by free time to walk, swim or rest. On the Viator version of the same trip the lunch stop runs about two hours. Several recent reviewers mention ukulele or guitar music on the boat and at lunch. The boat then drops you back, again about 20 minutes. Water, juices, sodas, a towel and snorkel gear including fins are part of the price.

It suits first-time visitors who want the classic full lagoon day, sharks, rays, coral and a motu lunch, with pickup handled for them. It is not suitable for wheelchair users or pregnant women, and it needs favourable weather and a minimum number of travellers to run. The closest alternative on this site is the Lagoon Service full day (297962P1), also 6 hours with pickup, lunch and towels, from $174 per person.

In September 2026 this trip is from $171 per person on GetYourGuide, rated 4.9 from 774 reviews. The same Rohivai Tours day is also sold on Viator from $195 per person, rated 4.9 from 113 reviews there. Check the live price for your date on both before you book.

Highlights

• Six hours on the lagoon with Rohivai Tours, a family-run operator
• Stingrays and blacktip reef sharks at a marine sanctuary, the first stop of the day
• Snorkel stop at a coral garden with reef fish and coral formations
• A further sanctuary where manta rays can sometimes be found, not guaranteed
• Polynesian-style picnic lunch and free time on a motu, a small islet with coconut palms
• Pickup by boat from 18 listed resorts and meeting points, including Vaitape quay and Matira

What's Included

• ✓ Hotel pickup and drop-off by boat (about 20 minutes each way, per the itinerary)
• ✓ Snorkeling equipment, including fins (give your fin size when booking)
• ✓ Guide who stays with the group all day
• ✓ Polynesian-style picnic lunch on a motu
• ✓ Drinks: water, fruit juices and sodas
• ✓ Towel

Not Included

• Alcoholic drinks (listed as excluded on the Viator version of the same trip)
• Pickup from your own jetty or beach when there is no safe sea access (you are met at a nearby point instead)

What to Bring

• Swimwear to wear under your clothes
• Sunscreen, ideally a reef-safe one
• Water shoes for the motu and shallow stops
• A camera, ideally one that can go in the water
• A hat for the midday hours on the motu

Good to Know & Caveats

• The tour runs only in favourable weather; if it is cancelled for weather you are offered another date or a full refund.
• A minimum number of travellers is needed to run; the Viator version of the same trip sets it at 4. If it is not met you get another date or a full refund.
• Pickup is by boat at your accommodation only if there is safe sea access (enough depth, sandy bottom, no coral) and any jetty is big enough for the boat; otherwise you are met at a nearby point.
• Manta rays are not guaranteed at the manta stop.
• If you decide to leave after the tour has begun, there is no refund.
• Free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure, per the listing.

Meeting Point

Rohivai Tours collects you by boat from your resort or one of 18 listed pickup points (including Vaitape quay, Matira and the main resorts), or from a nearby meeting point if your accommodation has no safe sea access.