The

Royal Hotel

Fiji’s Historic Hotel

The Royal Hotel (Heritage listed) is the oldest continuously run hotel in the South Pacific. Looking more like a roadhouse straight from the pages of W. Somerset Maugham and Robert L. Stevenson, the Royal Hotel is a national and regional treasure. Owned and operated by the Ashley Family for over 3 generations, the Royal Hotel, is your home away from home.

Built in the 1860s, by a sea captain, with coral limestone from reefs surrounding the island of Ovalau (the cement walls of the hotel are the original foundations), the Royal Hotel is the last of it's kind from Fiji's turbulent past.

The Royal was one of more than 60 pubs that lined Levuka's rowdy waterfront, catering to every imaginable traveller. There were frequent raids from warring tribes, violent altercations among the settlers, disease and blackbirders trading their human cargo. The Hotel's front steps were often the site of many slave auctions.

Times may have changed, but the Royal remains. Situated adjacent to the waterfront, in the heart of Levuka town (the Old Capital of Fiji), The Royal Hotel represents the finest embodiment of Levuka's Colonial past.

Old fashioned touches such as home-style cooking, polished hardwood floors, a century old billiard table, Fijian artefacts and historical photos all add to the character and atmosphere of the Royal Hotel, making your stay here a truly memorable and unique experience.