Great location. Best hotel in Apia. Very helpful attentive staff who go above and beyond to assist you.
It is short walk from the centre of town, government offices, bus station and colourful markets, yet quiet, set in beautiful tropical gardens opposite the harbour wall, a park and the ocean.
Hotel transfers to and from the airport were prompt and efficient. A taxi was always waiting to take you to town or a tour of the island.
The rooms were huge, well decorated, and with large immaculate bathrooms. Really good showers too. Very comfortable beds. Big TV's, but Samoa TV is not very interesting. WiFi worked well. Airconditioning worked very well. Rooms had either a verandah or balcony. Everything was kept really clean.
I had a very quietly located room at the end upstairs (only 2 levels) opposite the tennis courts looking inland to the magnificent hills with a frangipani tree right outside. Courts were not used much as Samoa was hot and humid this time of year. Sun came in on the balcony in the afternoons.
The pool area was very attractive, overlooked by the breakfast room and the bar/restaurant. The breakfast had everything, fruit, toast, cereal, coissants, cooked eggs and the best bacon I had ever tasted comes from Samoa. The restaurant had great cocktails and succulent sashimi.
The hotel style and decor was very attractive. Cultural domed building design and art everywhere. Beautiful well cared for tropical gardens full of orchids, bromiliads, hibiscus and frangipani.
On Wednesday they had a cultural FiaFia night put on by the lovely staff. A great and very personal dance and fire dance show, and local food such as sweet potato and young taro leaves cooked in coconut that tasted like spinach. It felt like the hotel was run by one big happy family.
As a solo traveller on vaction in Samoa for a week I rapidly ran out of things to do, but the incredibly helpful manager arranged for me to go to the southern coast beach for a couple of days on an inter-hotel exchange (I was otherwise locked into booking.com). to Seabreeze Hotel which was also fabulous. Thanks so much Jason!
(NB having checked out Apia, I would definately stay at Tanoa Tusitala rather than Aggie Greys when the rebuild is finished, because Aggie's is on the main road, a long walk from town, and low lying, beside a river that would attract mosquitos).